Thursday: 1 month

Joshua is one month old today!  Usually I expect to combine the weekly and monthly photos together, but this time they were rather far apart (week-wise) and one month is a big milestone.

Joshua's puzzle has been started.  I like his tongue sticking out in the top picture.

And his largest stuffed animal is a bunny, so that's what we will be taking pictures with.  Isaac proceeded to run to his room and get his monkeys, but I thought I'd wait a few days to post them.  (Really, I need to figure out how many months he is and don't feel like doing it now.)

This morning we went to the beach.  Well, we went to the sand by the beach.  It was rather cool, but I took advantage of the temperature and dressed Joshua in a sleeper that I really like but might not fit for long.  Although if the weather stays this cool we will see more of the long sleeved items.

Isaac and Ethan took a while to warm up to each other, but then they were off running all over the place.  It is hilarious to see them playing together as they think they're so funny.  One person will do something so then the other person will do it too and they'll both laugh.

Extra: headache

Isaac: I have a headache.
Amanda: oh yeah? Where?
Isaac: on my toe.

Apparently I've had a lot of headaches lately and Isaac picked up on it.

Wednesday brotherly love

Isaac, unprompted: I love my baby brother
Isaac gives Joshua a hug.
Isaac pokes Joshua repeatedly.

Tuesday: and now for something totally unrelated...

...to children.  I know, hard to believe.

Ben and I were talking the other day and it turns out that he really likes the inside part of apples and only eats the skin because it's good for you.  I, on the other hand, love the skin and eat the inside because it's there.  (I love cooking with apples because I can just eat the skin.)

1. How did we not know this before?
2. We should really be taking advantage of this.
3. What part do you like best?

Monday: 4 weeks

Joshua is four weeks old!

I turned him over for some tummy time and he happily stayed like that. :)

We saw Nathan and Liz downtown for a bit this morning.  We walked around Hope, but then it got hot.  We also stopped at the bookstore, but the line was super crazy long, so we didn't get anything.  We took naps (well, the kids at least took naps at my house) and then we went to Dad and Pat's for dinner.

Saturday/Sunday: visits!

Nathan, Liz, and Evelyn are in the area, so they've come over for dinner (along with Dad and Pat).  It's been nice to see them...and see how big Evelyn has grown!

Isaac did great with Evelyn and even remembered her and her name this morning.  I have a feeling that once Joshua gets to the exersaucer we're going to have so many toys out.

Addendum: trapped

It's 5am, I just started feeding Joshua and I'm out of mindless things to do. So I'll talk about one of the things on my to-blog-about list.

Since Isaac has been out of his crib, it's easier to give him good night hugs after he's in bed. It started out with him saying, "do this thing?" with his arms extended to me for a big hug. And a long hug. I loved it.

But then it morphed. To being trapped. To being trapped twice and it being a struggle to have him let me go. I don't like it.

I did manage to escape being trapped last night though because he had a train book that he wanted to read. The book is luckily from the library because the story makes no sense. They're based on the Thomas videos and use pictures from the videos, but seem to leave out key details in the text.