Thursday: last day

Today was the last day of classes.  Exams are next week and then summer!  I'll miss it and I won't.  It's probably a good place to be.  I will be teaching again next semester, so I can look forward to that.

Tonight Isaac starting putting this bag on everyone's head and called it a party hat.  It seemed appropriate!

Wednesday: snow

It was snowing today.  I tried to get a picture of it because there were huge flakes.

It didn't work.  So I had an impromtu photo session with Joshua instead.

Then it was time for Isaac to get off the Ipad, so he joined us.

But he didn't want to look at me so I turned Joshua around too.

And Joshua wasn't thrilled with that.

In other news, Joshua slept all night last night!  I woke up once as I heard the pitter patter of little feet go to the bathroom at 4am, but luckily he was dressed in easy pjs and so a few minutes later I heard the pitter patter go back to their bed.  I didn't have to get up!  But I was still sleepy in the morning.  I probably need a few more good nights.  I'm also not sure how tonight is going to go as he woke up early for his 11pm feeding.

Tuesday: male conversations

Joshua: mamadadaba
Isaac: Are you telling us a story, Josh-E-a?
Joshua: dadmabraamm
Isaac: I'm not a broom!

Ben: I'm going to give you a hug.
Isaac: I don't want a hug!  I'm going to give it back to you!
Isaac then hugs Ben to give it back.

Also, Joshua only cried for 15 minutes last night before going back to sleep.  I only had to go in once to tell him that he needed to go back to sleep.

Monday: 38 weeks

Joshua hits a milestone this week...he has been alive longer outside the womb than inside.  Hooray for not being pregnant.

Last night we started having Joshua not eat during the middle of the night.  He was rather unhappy for about 40 minutes.  But it was a good night to decide to start...he woke up really early (about 1:30) and he doesn't need to eat then, so it helped my will power.

He also seems to have discovered that he can make loud noises and get attention or food.   It makes being quiet in the morning a bit hard.

Joshua also ate sweet potato pieces by himself today. He did a really good job with them.

Sunday: Isaac speak - video game edition

If Isaac wants to play a computer game, he asks for it by name.  However, the names aren't very conventional...

Up game: a flash game where you play soccer
Down game: a flash game like whack-a-mole
Boring game: I forget the name of the class of games, but basically it's only numbers on the screen.  One that you do a little bit and then have to wait for a while before you can do anything else.
Time Clickers: this is the only one he gets right.
Stair game: Diablo 3 (no, he doesn't get to play or watch very much.)
Farm game: World of Warcraft
New Farm game: Brawler's guild in World of Warcraft

Saturday: outside

It was a beautiful day today.  Isaac took advantage of it to its fullest.  Part of it might have been his shirt; it gets color on it outside but is only black and white inside.

He started by riding his bike on the deck, followed by breakfast.  (We hadn't gotten any chairs out yet.)

Ben left mid-morning for the day and Aunt C came over.  I needed to get a lot of cleaning done as people are coming over tomorrow and the house has been a disaster all week.  They, along with Joshua, went outside and an hour later the house looked so much better.

Isaac also convinced me to have dinner on the deck, but it was rather short lived.  It was windy and since we were sitting in the shade not all that warm.  He did go back out a bit after dinner to ride his truck though.

Then it was bath time.  Joshua has been getting baths in the normal tub, but he freaked out today.  Wowzers.  So his bath was all of about thirty seconds.  Maybe we'll go back to the infant tub for a bit longer.

Friday: green alarm clock

Joshua has been waking up rather early the last few days.  He's been waking up earlier and earlier ever since he was born.  I know, 6:30 isn't that early.  But it feels so early.  However, if he does it again this weekend his schedule is going to change; I'm not going to get up to feed him in the middle of the night and wake up early with him.

Anyway, I probably said something to Isaac about getting up too early with Joshua, who realized that the problem was that Joshua didn't have a green alarm clock.  (Isaac's turns green when he can get out of bed.)  A little bit later he said, "We should call grandma and see if she has a little green car for Joshua."  What?  Um, ok.  "Which Grandma?"  "Grandma Pat."

So we did.  It took me most of the conversation to realize that he wasn't saying car, he was saying clock.  And that we had called the wrong grandma as Grandma Cheryl had gotten the alarm clock for Isaac as a Christmas present.

That little boy sure is putting a lot of pieces of information together though!