Wednesday: 19 weeks

Oops...I forgot to get Joshua's 19 week pictures.  So I did it this morning and forgot to take his bib off.  Oh well.

Joshua had his four month checkup this week and didn't grow quite as much as expected.  He weighs 13.3 pounds (dropping from 18% to 9%) and is 25 inches tall (50% to 25%).  However, his weight to height ratio was on a good curve, so the doctor wasn't too worried.

He also started talking a ton this week!  Wow, it is like a switch turned on.

Isaac got his blanket out too.

I tried getting some pictures by the Christmas tree in our first round of pictures.  Trying to get both boys looking at the camera with their eyes open and Isaac having a good smile and having it not be blurry is impossible.  Impossible!

And the "all of us" picture of the day.

Tuesday: conversations with Isaac

Isaac: Do you want to go this way [left, toward nothing in particular] or this way [right, toward the Christmas tree]?
Ben: left
Isaac: Which way do I want to go?
Amanda: right
Isaac: What way do you want to go?
Amanda: right, like you
Isaac: No, you want to go with Dad.

Isaac, this time with his hands pointing up and down: Which way do you want to go?
Amanda: Up (as I think, finally, an easy question.  I know I want to go up.)
Isaac: No, you don't have wings.  You can go down.

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Isaac, coming to find us around 9pm: It's wake up time!  There's no one.
Amanda: no one?  What do you mean?
Isaac: no one.  Time to wake up.
Ben: What are you talking about?
Isaac: There's no one.
Isaac finally pointed at a clock.
Amanda: oh!  No, that's only for nap time.  This is big sleep time.  You need to go back to bed.

It took Isaac about five more minutes to go back to bed as he got stuck several times.  Lately his rest time has started around 1pm or a bit earlier, so I've told him he can get out of bed when there's no 1 on the clock.  He picked it up very quickly.  Very quickly.

Monday: snowmen and holes

Isaac colored this snowman at the library.  It's probably his best drawing yet.  The snowman has two eyes (although they're hard to see) that are circles and in the right spot, a mouth in the right spot, and he mostly colored in the lines.  And he did the I all by himself.

After the library, we went to the doctor's office and, as Isaac says, "Joshua got a little hole."  As normal people would say, Joshua got a shot.  I'm a little annoyed because the records got all messed up and so instead of getting two shots he was only able to get one and we'll have to go back.  Joshua did pretty well for the rest of the day, but once early evening came around he was done.

Sunday: this and that

Here is Isaac making one of his many phone calls.  He often will also talk about his location, but forgot to do so this time.


Amanda: Who's on the phone?
Isaac: Other CC
A: Ok.
I: This one is loud, k?
A: Ok, we'll be quiet.
I: Hello! Whose [there]?  Oh other CC.  How are you [to]day CC?  Uh, pretty good CC.  Bye-bye.  [Hang] up.

I tried to get Joshua talking too, but he was rather silent when the video was on.

We're borrowing some boxes for pictures...Flurry likes them too.

I gave Joshua a bath tonight and Isaac "helped".  Usually he stays by the bathtub and just plays with the toys, but this time he kept bringing more and more toys into the kitchen and now it is a disaster area.  Joshua also splashed a ton more than usual; I bet about a quarter of the water ended up outside the bathtub.  However, both boys were happy for the time, so I went with it.

Saturday: P

Amanda: we're going to your cousins' house for pizza tonight.
Isaac has a look of great delight!
Issac: I love pretzels!

Friday: Leah and Ethan

We visited our friends again today!  It's so fun to have two boys that can somewhat play by themselves.

Today they played outside with their lawnmowers.

Leah and Joshua spent all of lunch time looking at each other.  Leah left for a few moments and Joshua was so sad.  He was also in a bouncy seat and had things to kick with his feet which he seemed to love.

Thursday: noggin bops

Noggin bops (wind-up toys) have been a big hit in the house...for both boys.  Although Isaac calls them robots.  I suppose they do sort of look like robots.

Joshua tried really hard to grab them.  He succeeded once.  (This was also the time I realized that someone had changed the exposure settings on my camera, which could contribute to why I've been having a hard time getting good pictures without the flash.)

Isaac's two pictures of the day were "of all of us and the robots."

Also, the exersaucer has been great for having the boys play "together" a bit more.  Isaac likes to run around it and play with the toys, and Joshua watches.