Monday: 5 months

Joshua turned 5 months yesterday!

He is still a happy baby, although it is hard to capture smiles on camera.  The last few days he's been more upset than normal, but it is probably due to a cold or teething.

The best way to calm him is to rub his head...kind of like you're itching it but with the finger pads.  I'm always surprised at how effective it is.

He's still on the same sleeping schedule as last month: sleeping pretty well at night, a longer nap early afternoon, and some very short naps as needed.

He can roll over from stomach to back, but only when he feels like it.  Joshua is starting to get more easily distracted when eating, but luckily he's still pretty fast so we just go with it.

Sunday: today

Well, we were going to go to church today, but then I slept through it.  I went down for a nap at about the same time Ben was getting up (almost) because I was again so tired.  I'll be calling the doctor tomorrow as this is just not working.  It didn't help that Joshua was up a ton last night again.  I'm not sure if it was a stuffy nose or if he's teething already or what.

I'm trying to figure out how I can legitimately keep Christmas lights up until about April...around the time it doesn't get dark until 8pm.  I suppose I could just leave them there and my excuse could be that I'm "too busy," but it wouldn't be true.

Saturday: drowsy

Joshua has a runny nose and was up more than normal last night and I increased the dosage on my medicine, which has a drowsy side-effect.  So this morning Isaac got up.  Joshua went down for his first nap of the day and Isaac wanted to play trains.  I did for a bit.  Then I went to the couch and said he could bring me books if he wanted to.  I made it through the first one, but I think I fell asleep while he was getting the second one.  That's ok...the second one is simple and I thought I could read it in my sleep.  (Turns out, I can't.)  I'm pretty sure I fell asleep between pages.  Isaac got another one and I was determined to keep my eyes open for the book.  They shut on every page and I think I started talking about what was going on in my dreams.

I finally gave up and let Isaac watch TV so I could sleep.  If it doesn't get better by Monday I'll probably call the doctor and get the dosage lowered.

Last weekend: my family

Last weekend Nathan, Liz, and Evelyn came up to visit!

Saturday morning we made cookies.  It was serious business.

 

Evelyn was wide awake and happy to be here.  Her parents, while happy, were more tired after the long drive.

Dad and Pat came over in the afternoon for dinner.

On Sunday Isaac and Evelyn matched for breakfast.  They had the same bib and both ate oatmeal.

Nathan and Isaac made some chex mix...

...while Evelyn played with magnets...

...and Joshua watched.

Then we decorated the cookies!

Isaac chose the largest one to eat, but only ate about half of it.

The next day we opened presents!

Getting ready.

Delivering a present.

Playing with other peoples' presents.

Playing with a present for Joshua.

Isaac and Nathan rocked out on guitars in the evening.

Friday: Merry Christmas 2x

I have a few more pictures...some from yesterday, some from us playing with more toys today.

Joshua's new hangout.

Playing baby marbles.  (Ben got something with marbles in it, so Isaac remembered that he loves to play baby marbles.  It's been a few weeks since they'be been out.)

Isaac loves the crawl space at his grandparents' house.  It's nice that he's big enough that I don't really worry about what he's doing anymore.  Really nice.

While Joshua and I napped this morning, Ben and Isaac set up a train track.

Later Joshua tried out a rocking horse.  Really though, he just wanted to eat the steering wheel.

After rest time Isaac and I played with the train track.  The train would put food and animals on it and deliver them to the zoo.  The animals would eat the food and put the yucky parts back on the train.  Baby Bear likes to eat ketchup.

If we're missing something I'll often tell Isaac that "we'll keep our eyes out for it" because I deem it not too important to take the house apart for it.  The boys were maybe missing a piece this evening so Isaac told Ben, "We'll have to take out all our eyes and look for it."  So close and yet so far.

Thursday: Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!  We discovered last night that there was extra Christmas magic and all the barnyard animals in the house came to worship Baby Jesus.

In the morning we opened a few presents with just our family.

Isaac got percussion instruments.  I might regret that choice later, but he really liked them.

We celebrated with Ben's family later in the afternoon.  Isaac loved helping us unwrap presents.

Joshua was super excited about his blender, but rather scared about his tiger humidifier.  (I think I ripped the paper too close to him.)

Isaac played with his new clock a lot while waiting.

The gears were a big hit for Isaac...so much so that he declined going to open his stocking in order to play with them.

Joshua played with a lot of decorations.

Monday: 21 weeks

Joshua turned 21 weeks today!  How time flies.

Isaac, not wanting to be left out of the picture taking, also turned a week older.  But since he isn't changing as much each week, I decided not to tell you how many weeks old he is.  (Nor did I really want to do the math, although it is probably super easy right now.  Ok, ok.  52*3-1=155 weeks.  There, are you happy now?)