Thursday: feeling better

I love feeling better!  I woke up with a different headache this morning.  (Lack of sleep?  Joshua fidgeted and cried with both arms in the swaddle.  And with one arm in the swaddle.  And with zero arms in the swaddle.  And in the backup sleeping location.  Turning the light on for a few minutes finally calmed him down once.)  But it left within a few hours and then I had more patience.

Isaac and I started a big puzzle (500 pieces).  My challenge is finding pieces that go together fast enough so he has something to put together.  Tomorrow he wants to work on the trees. :p

Isaac also learned the excellent skill of putting the pacifier back in Joshua's mouth.  Of course, it was often accompanied by "Open up, Baby" in the sweetest little voice.  (We're still working on calling him Joshua instead of Baby.  Guess that's what we get for calling him Baby for so many months.)

Wednesday: sick

I was sick today.  I had a low grade fever and headache for most of the day.  (Tylenol did help at the end of the day though.)

Luckily, Joshua took some good naps, Isaac was willing to watch some extra TV, and Ben was working from home.  So I was able to take two naps and now I'm feeling much better.

We also got our pictures back...here are some of my favorites

Tuesday: happy birthday

Isaac slept in today.  I actually tried to wake him up and it didnt work.

These tears came from the following: "I need to get my hair wet to go downstairs."  "No."

We went to the park with some friends.  We almost went to the inside playground because we knew rain was on the way.  We ended up going to the outside playground and Isaac was enjoying playing in the rain so we stayed after the others left.  We ran in puddles for about another 15 minutes and got soaking wet.  But it was worth it.

Isaac gave me some marbles for my birthday.  He's been into birthdays lately and has also given me assorted puzzle pieces (but not a whole puzzle).

Ben brought dinner home.  I was having a hormonal afternoon and if he asked me what I wanted to do for dinner I was going to cry.  (I cried anyway.)  I told him that for my birthday I wanted him to just figure it out.

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. :)