Tuesday: 47 weeks, spider webs

Joshua is 47 weeks!  Moving all over the place, pulling up all the time (but then getting stuck there), and babbling a lot.

I told him it was time for pictures, so he moved over to the quilt and sat on it.

During swimming lessons today the instructor was really impressed that all four limbs seemed to be moving independently.   Score.

This morning we made spider webs.  We started with a baby one for Joshua, but he really was too big for it.

Then we made a big one.  I have some cute pictures and Isaac had a great time with it.  However, Joshua had a really hard time with it so we took it down sooner than I had been planning on.

Monday: up up

Making a gliding robot was today's fun activity.  Isaac thought it was cool, although it went a little faster than I was hoping.

And Joshua has been pulling up on all sorts of things.  Today it was under the table...he barely fits.  He was crying until I came to find him, so he might have bonked his head a bit.

Sunday: Father's Day

I was grumpy today.  I felt rather selfish about it since it was Father's Day, but yeah.  It happened anyway.

I got one bad picture of them today.  It was really cute, but there was a window in the background and I wasn't about to ask them to move.

Saturday: random things to remember

*Isaac requested peanut butter and nutella for his birthday dinner.  So now every time we talk about peanut butter and nutella he reminds me that it's his birthday dinner.  (And we're going to have a sandwich bar so that not everyone has to have peanut butter and nutella.)

*Joshua has found his loud scream.  It's loud.

*Isaac has been stuffing his car seat strap into the holder.  The first time he did it I was a little annoyed because I just saw the loop and thought he had changed the settings...then I pulled it and realized it was a trick.  A good trick.  But now he does it all the time and still thinks it's tricky even though it isn't.

*Joshua likes playing in Isaac's room.  He scoots over there with purpose.  To be fair, the balloons and duplos are there and they are super fun.

Saturday: racquetball and sand

Ben and I played racquetball today.  We changed it up a bit - instead of having the hard serve game first, we had the hard serve game second.  It worked nicely, at least today.  I played better for all the games today.

I brought the boys outside to play in the sand this afternoon.  Isaac swam across our cove several times; he loved it.  It's fun to see him grow.  And Joshua played a lot better than I expected.  He sat on the sand for a while and then loved playing in the shallow water. 

Thursday belated: funny but embarassing

Yesterday Ben and I were playing racquetball and I had an itch on my non-dominant hand.  A bad itch.  I couldn't itch it well because my other hand was gloved and holding a racket, so I used my teeth.  It hurt, and I decided that there probably could have been a better way to do it.

Later last night I found a bruise on my hand.  Important lesson learned: don't bite yourself.

Friday: what we did today

So yeah, today didn't work quite as well as yesterday.  But we survived.  We really only had to survive until 11am, at which point activities started.

We went to TimberTown with Betsy and family.  The boys really liked it.  It is a playground geared for slightly older kids, but Isaac and Ethan did well.

Joshua and Leah did well too.

Joshua really likes the swings, even though you can't tell from the picture.  Isaac was banned from the baby swings as of today because he got a little too stuck.

The boys loved going back and forth on the black thing, although it took them several times to realize that they liked it.

Our fun thing was to get ice cream.  Isaac was looking forward to it all day.

Joshua didn't get any.  Hmm.  I look cute in the picture.

But he did get a spoon!