Wednesday: brothers and napping

We borrowed a Baby Brother shirt for a picture.  You can't tell, but they were both wearing monkey socks too.

Then at nap/rest time I took a look in the monitor before getting in bed and didn't see Isaac.  We have two rules for this time: 1)stay in bed and 2)play with duplos, read a book, or take a nap.  I came to his room to chastise him and get him in bed and found this.

To be fair, he was in bed and he was playing with duplos.  I found it hilarious and left him to it.  Probably a mistake since he then didn't take a nap and feel asleep with Ben just before dinner.  We woke him up this time, but it was a hard choice.

Tuesday: 11 weeks

 Joshua was 11 weeks old yesterday.  (Remember I said that I didn't get anything done yesterday??  I didn't even take his pictures.  Which takes about one minute.)

We're starting to get drool and bubbles.  He's been holding his head up much better.

He's often happy to play on the floor or in the bouncy seat watching Isaac and me.  This afternoon I put him in the infant thing we have in the basement but finally put the dangly things on it.  He loved it!  I was actually rather surprised.  He really wanted the keys and I saw a few smiles from him.  Sometimes I wonder if I put him down and leave him too much, but today I definitely wasn't feeling that.

Monday

Today I didn't really accomplish much.  At least not much on my to-do list.  I did one load of laundry.  That's it.

I also took two naps, visited Cheryl and picked up some blue fabric scraps, and fed my children.  Joshua didn't sleep well last night and so we both slept a lot.  (His arms!!  They are problematic.  I tried a new swaddle technique and while I think it improved how quickly he went to sleep, it didn't help him stay asleep.)

Saturday: apple cake

We tried a new recipe today...apple cake.  It turned out very good.  Isaac did all the apple slicing/coring/peeling.

Friday: Crane's

Ben had the day off (hooray!) and so we went to Crane's Apple Orchard.  Isaac was pretty excited about it.

Isaac's first apple pick.

He ate most of the apple...he had been so excited to go to the orchard that he didn't eat most of his lunch in the car.  He's never eaten a whole apple before, and did a very good job.

Joshua slept through most of it.  Isaac started eating a second apple.

The Golden Delicious (the first picture) were really hard to pick.  But the McIntosh apples just came off in Isaac's hands and he enjoyed it a bit more.

Then we went to the corn maze.  Joshua slept again.  Isaac disarmed lots of traps for us.  It looked as though he was opening doors.

We went to the restaurant afterwards and it was surprisingly not busy.  We got a table right away, and I'm not sure that has ever happened.  It was a nice day for the orchard...sunny and not too cold and not busy,

Thursday: pacifiers

Isaac is somewhat enthralled by Joshua's pacifiers.  Today he wanted to take a picture of them. (There were two on the counter.)

Then, after dinner, Isaac wanted to play with Joshua in Joshua's room, where Joshua was hanging out under his play thingy.  Sure!  (As though I'd ever say no to that.)  When I checked back 15 minutes later, I saw this:

The play thing moved, three pacifiers ("he might cry"...Joshua gets multiple ones often), and several rattles.  But no one was upset, so it was a great play time.

While they were playing, Hilldore Hospital ("Fixing toys that should have been thrown out since 2011") was in full force.  We were melting a crayon back together.  And yes, it was quite fun.

For the record, Hilldore Hospital has only had two recordable fatalities: a chicken (whose foot would not go back on) and a bubble wand.

Isaac also took this picture:

Wednesday: today

I put Joshua in the bouncy seat by Isaac during breakfast.  Isaac leaned over and said, "Hi Baby Joshua.  How are you doing today?"  (Exact words, but not exact pronunciation.)  Isaac actually did a really good job with Joshua today.

We went to the playground today and it was rather cold and windy.  Luckily, it was sunny so it was still nice.  As always, we had a fun time.

Isaac saw some football player miniatures from a kids' meal that were in our bedroom.  Ben said, "What are those?"  Isaac confidently said, "Golf clubs!"

Lastly, we have a cute one of Joshua.  Ironically, I was reading a book about how to get him to sleep better.