Monday: 12 weeks

 Joshua is 12 weeks!

He has a cold. :(  So he's been a bit grumpier, but we've still gotten some smiles.

He also got the next size of diaper today.  It was badly needed.

Isaac was doing Joshua's puzzle and put the S in upside-down (i.e. rotated 180).  It is very stuck.  So it's being returned to Grandpa's Garage to get unstuck and sanded.

Isaac wanted his puzzle to be stuck too.  His "I" sticks a little bit when put in upside-down, but I can get it out.  Nevertheless, his puzzle is next to Joshua's, ready for pick up.

Changing subjects, Isaac also played catch with a tree today.  He threw the ball at the truck and the tree threw it back.

Sunday: Happy Baptism!

Joshua was baptized today!  Our pastor always does a little talking about the name of the baby immediately after the baptism.  I was expecting something about the character of the Biblical Joshua, but he went a completely different way.  How Joshua is a version of the name Jesus, how it means savior.  How our prayer is that Joshua will come to know Jesus as his Savior.  There was more too but I've forgotten...luckily we get a DVD again.  I'll try to upload the portion.

There were three families in our small group that all had children baptized today, so we had a party.  It was a slightly crazy party, but fun.  Way too much food.  But lots of people were there and I didn't have to plan it alone or have it in my house. :)

Before the party...we completely filled the tables.  We had estimated 100 people and I'm not sure that many showed up, but there were at least 70-80.

The cake.  Most of the cakes were eaten. :)

Family picture.  Too bad Joshua had spit up and so has a very wet portion on his shirt.

The three couples with their babies.

Saturday: ducks

Joshua and I both wore ducks on our feet today.

Friday: wipes

Isaac's comfort objects are currently his "wipes". (They're burp cloths. But when Isaac we sick we separated Isaac's wipes from Joshua's and it quickly stuck.)

He was crying this evening and I suggested a song...Isaac knows it sometimes works for Joshua. The first song didn't help. Isaac asked for the wipe song and I thought, "great. Like I know a song about burp cloths." So instead I sang, "the WIPErs on the bus go swish, swish, swish." It snapped him out of his bad mood. Phew.

Thursday: sick

Urg.  I'm sick again...this time with a bad cold.  Yesterday I had a sore throat and a little bit of a runny nose.  At 9pm that's still where it was.  At 11pm I had lost my voice.  At 12am I couldn't sleep and was cold.  Throughout the night it felt like I would finally fall asleep, just to be awakened by Joshua: more my fault than his.

So Ben stayed home.  I probably could have handled it by myself, but it sure was nice to have extra help.  I took a morning nap.  Isaac loved getting extra Dad time.  We all also took really good afternoon naps, going down by 1:30 and sleeping at least two hours.

And now...I feel like it has morphed into just a normal bad cold.  Annoying and draining, but I can still function.

Someone really needs to invent a cold remedy that can be taken while nursing/pregnant.  Not being able to take the good medicine is super annoying.

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.