Monday: 3 weeks

Joshua is 3 weeks old today!

With much regret, I'm getting ready to put away the newborn clothes.  Although I really like them, so I might try to keep them around for a little bit longer.  (The cloth diapers just add so much bulk.)  Joshua has helped the past few days by getting several outfits dirty so that he could make sure to wear them all at least one more time.  And here is Joshua with Frog...I got it so he and Isaac could have something in common.

The standard three week picture.

He fell asleep.  He is still sleeping a ton, but it does make the transition to two children much easier.

Isaac covered his Duplo table in Duplos.  I helped...and he kept telling me that I was a good helper. :D  It made me feel useful.

Although it looks like Isaac is squishing Joshua here, he's actually giving him a very gentle hug.  (Although I took it with burst mode and the last picture made it look like Joshua was punching Isaac.)

And lastly, Isaac wanted to take a picture of the wall.  Rather boring, but he accomplished his goal well.

I also got a ton of things checked off my to do list today!  A lot of them were very small things (under five minutes), but Dad and Pat came over this afternoon to help out and so the house looks very clean too!

Sunday: sleeping

Joshua slept very well last night...so much so that we took out a feeding.  (To be fair though, you don't have to sleep much longer in every stretch when you're eating every 2.5 hours to cut one out.)

Was it his first real bath right before bed?
Was it the "Evelyn swaddle"?

Was it getting him on a 2 hour stretch between feedings during the day?
Or...was I just lucky?

Saturday: tickle monster

Yesterday I talked about Isaac's longest game; today I;ll talk about his newest.  It's tickle monster.  Tickle monster is an imaginary monster that isn't too scary, but when it's getting Isaac he clenches his whole body and makes a scared face.  So we've been practicing ways to get the tickle monster to leave us alone, which mainly mans saying, "Tickle monster, go away.  Go far, far away!"  It usually doesn't work, but I figure it might be good practice for real life.



Isaac's been drinking the bottom of my spice tea lately, so today, as a treat, he got his own small cup.

Joshua slept a lot today. He also rolled over, but I expect it's the "I have muscles?" roll and will stop in a few weeks.

Friday: eating

Isaac:
One of Isaac's longest lasting games has been Nummies.  It's basically a game where he gets something to eat from someplace (any place, really), and eats it.  Or gives it to you to eat.  Sometimes it keeps him well occupied, sometimes it's super annoying, and sometimes it just is.  But in a given day, we probably talk about nummies 10-20 times.

Lately he's also been getting yucky nummies.  He'll eat them, but won't let anyone else eat them.

So nap time rolls around today.  He has been doing a lot of fake crying in bed since Joshua came home; we don't know if it is a 2.5 year thing or a Joshua thing.  Anyway, he starts crying because I only gave him one big hug instead of two, so I open the door again.  He wants a pretend cookie.  I don't really want to get trapped in a big hug again, so I throw it to him.  Apparently I miss.  I throw another one, saying it's the last one.  I miss again, but close the door anyway.  Five minutes later he's still crying so I open the door.  Lo and behold, there is a nummy in my hand that I didn't give to him.  I sit and give him a hug, and the nummy.  (It's a yucky one by the way, so he's going to eat it later.)  I can't help but laugh even though he's crying...he's crying over a pretend yucky treat.  Luckily, Isaac laughs too.  Eventually I escape.

Joshua:
We're starting to work on eating every two hours instead of 1.5 hours.  If he eats every 1.5 hours the breakdown goes like this: 15-20 minutes for eating a diaper change, 15 minutes of being awake, 15-20 minutes of getting to sleep and making sure he's asleep, and 10 minutes of waking up early.  This gives me a whole thirty minutes to calm down and take my own nap, and that just isn't working for me.  With both of the boys I came home from the hospital thinking that feeding every 2-3 hours as suggested seemed fine (4 hours at night!).  But the boys didn't listen to the hospital recommendations.

Joshua did do a few three hour stretches last night; I'm hoping for the same thing again tonight. :)

Thursday: Hope for the future

Today I got Joshua dressed.  A bit later I got dressed.  Then Ben came out and said, "did you match on purpose?"  I stared at him blankly for a second before I realized - we were both wearing Hope shirts.  So I got Isaac dressed in his Hope shirt too.

Joshua had a doctor's appointment today as I had some questions.  The doctor said that he's doing great...he weighs 8 lb 9 oz, up a pound from when we left the hospital, which was amazing for two weeks.  He has a little bit of acid reflux, so we'll try to prop him up a bit at night, but otherwise there are no issues.  Isaac was rather cute and kept checking to make sure "Baby not hurt."

(As a side note, since we're talking about growth, I think Isaac has thinned out a bit.  Shorts that were fine at the beginning of the summer are now falling down when he runs.  I've been thinking about getting the 18 month shorts out, but will probably just put it off.  It's a cold summer and he still has several pairs that fit fine.)

Isaac also got a gift in the mail and was super excited about it.  It included a note, and he can recognize his name.  And it had a smiley face at the end which thrilled him.  So he ran around the table with them several times.  (I'm rather happy with this picture since Isaac is clear and everything else is blurry.)

Wednesday

Today went much better than yesterday; there were other people around and we went outside for a bit.

Dad watched Joshua while Isaac and I went grocery shopping.  I haven't figured out how to take both boys and get a week's worth of groceries yet.  Isaac enjoyed zooming up and down the aisles.  As long as it isn't too busy, I'm happy to let him do that.  We're working on stopping at the end of the aisles though.

Joshua had a small bout of big cries this afternoon.  His cry sounds slightly different from Isaac's.

Break time.  Dad played with Isaac for a few hours while I rested.  Last night wasn't a great night and I had a really hard time waking up.  Before this I may have not really wanted to wake up, but last night it felt like I was always in a deep sleep when Joshua needed me.

Tuesday: today

Joshua took several naps.

We were going to go to the church for playgroup, but we got there too late and it had been canceled due to only one family showing up.  We played on the playground for about 10 minutes, but it was rather cold (63 deg F) and drizzly, so we went home.  We broke out the baby marbles today.  I'm not sure if they're called baby marbles because they're in Joshua's room (probably) or because they're smaller.

Since it was cool and rainy we stayed inside all day.  It was kind of annoying.  But everyone had slept in and I did get a bit of a nap, so we all survived.