Monday: 30 weeks

Joshua is 30 weeks now!  Sitting very well and loving to jump.

I tried to get a picture of the tooth but the cute little tongue kept getting in the way.

We had some interesting "pictures of all of us" today.

Sunday: surprise

This morning Isaac and I were talking about teeth and how Joshua doesn't have any.  (Maybe he had his fingers in his mouth and Isaac thought he was hurting himself?)  Then I realized that this was around the time that Isaac got his first tooth and wondered when Joshua would get his.  He had been pretty out-of-sorts yesterday and had the pacifier in for most of the day, although I hadn't really thought about it much with all the commotion going on.

Surprise!  Joshua already has a tooth.  It's all the way through.  It especially surprised me because Friday and Saturday nights he slept really well.  So either he's had the tooth for a few days or it really just didn't bother him that much.  I'm guessing that the last two days has been the other tooth coming in.

Saturday: kid pictures

My nieces were over for the afternoon.  So I let them use my camera...I wondered if there'd be any interesting pictures.  I should have had the flash on, but was afraid that would have gotten rather annoying.  Here's the best what we ended up with...

Two of us.

Playing baby marbles.

Me.  Isaac is actually getting pretty good at taking pictures.

Isaac hiding.

Artistic shot of baby marbles.

More baby marbles.

Isaac's legs.  He looks tall.

Ben reading a book to all the kids.

Isaac and Joshua

Setting up a train track.

Joshua looking silly

Holding Joshua.  It's a favorite activity.

Friday: timing

This morning we had an 11:30 appointment at the car fix-it shop.  I wanted to get some groceries before then and then realized I needed to get Joshua his vaccinations too.  So we left to do the other errands too and I wondered how off I'd be with getting to the 11:30 appointment.

I was almost done with groceries and looked at the clock.  Ug.  10:15.  The last bit must have taken longer than I realized because when we were in the car it was 10:45.  (Also, it was super cold out today.)

We go to the doctor's office and sat down to wait.  11:05...hmm, now we might be running late and it looked like there was someone in front of us.  Blah.  Well, if it takes too long we could always come back.  Luckily, the other people were waiting for something else so Joshua was called within about five minutes.  He didn't cry for his first shot, surprisingly, but couldn't make it through the second.  He did calm down quickly though.

So we made it to the fix it shop right on time.  Amazing.

Thursday: how to get your son to eat more carrots

To get your son to eat more carrots, tell him he can get them from the refrigerator by himself.  He ate three times as many as normal for dinner tonight.

Really, it's a win-win for everyone.

In other news, there was a crazy snow storm today with surprisingly little accumulation.  It probably snowed all day (and driving was terrible) and we only ended up with about three inches.

Tuesday: blah

It was just a blah day today.  Nothing went wrong, but nothing really seemed to go right either.  And I'm tired.

I guess I'll try again tomorrow.

Monday: 29 weeks and stuff

Joshua is 29 weeks old today.

For his birthday, the car got a flat tire at Joann's.  Luckily, I recalled the lessons of my youth and was able to fix it.  (Well, someone came over to help when I was about half way done.  But I could have done it all on my own...I was doing fine.)  Dad made me change a tire before I could drive by myself.  (There's a picture of me jumping on the lug wrench, but apparently I don't have a copy of it.)  I never felt like it was a silly thing to do, but today I was extra glad that I did it.  The picture probably helped because I was reminded of it once in a while.

He also almost got to ride in the seat of the shopping cart, but Isaac decided he didn't want to walk after all.  I was a little sad, but oh well.  Once it warms up Isaac might not have as much of a choice because I won't have to take the carrier in the store to keep Joshua warm.

We had a short picture session.

And made a new "baby marble" track.  Joshua practiced sitting and knocking over block towers while we did it.  (Do you see the camel?  It causes traffic jams by plugging the hole because my arm was getting tired.)