Wednesday: the day

Everyone slept in until 8:45 today...crazy!  Isaac is usually the first one up, promptly when his alarm clock turns green and is ready to go.  This morning Joshua was the one that got me up.  I had finished feeding him and was getting him dressed when I heard I weird noise...it sounded like a squeak from when you rub your finger on plastic.  Then another noise...this time I thought the cat was about to throw up.  Then another noise...oh...they were all Isaac coughing.

Once he sat up and cuddled a bit he improved a ton, but I still ended up bringing him to the doctor and he's on some steroids for croup.  I feel like I've seen our new doctor more in the last 6 months than I saw our other doctor in total since we moved back to Michigan.

So we took it easy at home.  Joshua fell over while he and Isaac were playing and I had stepped out of the room.  When I got to the room Isaac was about to try and help Joshua up and was trying to calm him down.  It was super sweet.  Isaac went out and found a pacifier after I picked Joshua back up.

I had been looking through old blog posts to see if I could get a "compare Isaac to Joshua at the same age" outfit and came upon this video, where Ben threw up a swimsuit and clapped and Isaac found it funny.  I tried it today to see if Joshua would find it funny.  Isaac again found it very funny, but Joshua looked at me as though I was crazy.

We finished Isaac's valentines.  I'm glad they're done.  It might have been good trying to spell his name over and over, but I'm not really sure it helped at all.

Tuesday: Break

Today was winter break.  I was eagerly awaiting an afternoon all too myself...but what would I do?  Nap?  That sounded lovely but it could also eat up most of my afternoon?  Chores that are hard with children?  That sounded ok as they would at least be interesting chores.  Fun things?  That sounded nice.

Surprisingly, I didn't end up napping.  I did a combination of easy chores (things that didn't really matter but I've wanted to do them for a while) and fun things.  It was nice.

Monday: 28 weeks

Joshua turned 28 weeks old today.  Over the last two weeks he's gotten a ton better at sitting up by himself.  I can now leave him for short periods of time.

He's also figured out how to buzz his lips.  So he makes that sound all the time.

Saturday: Cuddles

Joshua is an excellent cuddler.

Friday: hmmm

It's early in the morning and Isaac was looking for "soft" pants.  I helped him find some and then crawled back into bed while he finished getting dressed and going to the bathroom.  Sometimes when I do this he gets to watch TV...so we had the following conversation while I was in bed.

"Can I watch SuperWhy?"
"No."
"Yes?"
"No"
"What?"
"No."
"I can watch TV?"
"No"
"What?"
"No"
"Yes?"
"No"
"It was a little sleep?"  [He usually gets to watch TV after his nap.]
"No"
"Why?"
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I got Isaac up from his nap only to find that he had threaded his sheet between his T-shirt and his zip, so that half of it came out the top of his zip.  Why?
"To make my tummy soft.  And healthy.  So it doesn't break.

Obviously.
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I was tickling Joshua and he was laughing and I was excited that he was ticklish now.  I tried to show Ben later and he wasn't ticklish anymore.  I felt tricked.

Thursday: doctor visits

The boys had their well child checkups yesterday.

Isaac is 31 pounds (40%) and 36.5" (~20%).  I'm a little surprised at the percentiles here because I feel as though his pants have been too big for his height, unless there's elastic.  But it's an increase in both percentiles, so he's "catching up" with his peers, although I doubt that he'll ever really catch up.

Joshua is 15lb, 3oz (8%) and 26.5" (8%).  This is very similar to Isaac at this age.  He's still following a proper growth curve though, so all is good.

Everything else looked good.  Joshua has a bit of fluid in his ears from the cold, but no ear infection.  Joshua slept more like normal last night, so I'm hoping he's getting over it.

Wednesday: corn bread

I've decided that I really like corn bread muffins to go with soup.  1) They taste delicious.  2) I can make them on demand.  3) One box makes just the right amount.