Friday: running

I found Joshua standing up for the first time in his crib.  (Ben found him once, but this is the first time I've found him.)

Today's activity was to move the furniture and run around.

We got the balloons out right before Ben came home.  It was surprisingly fun.

Today Isaac also kindly gave me a two minute warning.  I told him I'd watch the second episode of Super Why with him.  Near the end of the first episode he called out, "Mom, it's almost done!"  It felt a bit weird to get the warning from my kid, but I do it to him all the time.  And it worked well; I had just enough time to change Joshua's diaper before it started.

Thursday: life

Life was up and down today.  The boys played well in the morning.  Isaac has to get dressed, feed Flurry, and squirt the flowers.  He played with his train track while getting dressed and squirted everything on the deck during watering time...the flowers (hopefully), every deck rail, most deck boards.

I wasn't feeling great around lunch.  Joshua was a bit grumpy all day.  We took longer naps and Isaac just got some extra Ipad time.  We weren't able to do our fun activity due to someone tuning up the A/C in the morning, but our work activity was a car wash (and clean out the car).  Since we all love car washes, it was a fun thing.  And I had recently cleaned out the car, so there were only a few extra things to take out of it.

Wednesday: through the day

The day started with bagel toast.  It's really just toast, but Isaac has been enjoying bagels for breakfast and we were out of bagels.

We went to meet the dinosaur at the Fire Station.  It was fine.  Significantly less busy than last year with Curious George, but there also weren't any extra crafts to do.

Our fun thing to do today was take a scooter ride.

That's right.  We were going to take a scooter ride to the close beach.  Isaac got about two inches, not even out of the garage, and said he wanted to walk.  It surprised me because he's been enjoying riding the scooter across the driveway.  I was disappointed, but decided not to push it.

The close beach.  I brought our new umbrella and it was awesome.  It made the beach enjoyable.

Joshua slept through most of it, but it was good since he wasn't feeling like feeling the sand today.

He's also been working on keeping his bowls in the correct position.  Plates aren't working so well though, as we found out at dinner.

And I cleaned the inside of the Subaru, which is finally back in our possession.

Something funny happened in racquetball, but I don't remember what it was.

Isaac might be going through a growth spurt based on how much he's eating.  He was on his second helping of peanut chicken (which I think he has barely touched in the past) when he decided he was done.  Ben took the bowl and got about two steps away when Isaac cried, "I'm hungry again!"  It sounded like it was close to tears.  So he got his food back to finish.

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.