Eating: He enjoys his fruits, Cheerios, cottage cheese, yogurt, and sweet potato. He does not like green vegetables. While I'm trying to get him to sign, it is pretty obvious when he doesn't want anything because his hands go in front of his face and intercept the spoon. He still nurses well and we're still at six times per day. Some of those get interrupted if he finds anything else interesting.
Sleep: He sleeps at night from 7:30/8 until about 6am (with one feeding before I go to bed). I feed him once and he will sleep for another hour. He seems almost ready to drop his morning nap, but I usually encourage at least a short one. He then naps from about 1:30-3, although a bit longer if he didn't take a morning nap.
Playing: He loves balls and balloons (well, really anything that rolls). He also likes playing with anything in Isaac's room, especially the percussion instruments and the duplos.
Moving: His scoot has gotten pretty fast. He stood up (using my arm) two days ago and then let go, and stood for a few seconds all by himself. When he wants to be picked up he'll wiggle both arms and legs.
Attitude: he's still pretty serious with other people. He laughs regularly, but not all that frequently. He has a shriek that he's found recently to get attention. He is happy to play by himself.
Language: he clearly understands his name. (This might be old news. I can't remember). He also understands "no" and will often obey after one or two.
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Isaac is 42 months!
Attitude: Isaac is still excitable and laughs at everything. He loves playing. He getting teary when things don't go his way, but getting his wipe usually calms him down.
Playing: his favorite things right now are play-doh and duplos, but he also really likes playing in the sand and running around. Reading is considered a playing activity...some days there is a lot of reading and some days there is not.
Potty training: continues to go pretty well. There are still some accidents. For a while he was wearing underwear to bed, but he's been back in a pull-up lately. (Mainly because I don't do laundry fast enough and don't want an accident with no clean sheets.)
Choosing: When I give him options, he will often say, "I don't know, you choose." After I choose, he always chooses the opposite thing. This came back to bite him this afternoon when he didn't choose a vegetable for lunch. So I did. It was the wrong one, but had already been plated. Maybe he'll learn.
He was so excited about his paints yesterday. So he painted the fire engine today. Surprisingly, it wasn't all black, his favorite color.
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We popped the balloons today since we have guests coming this weekend.
Isaac fell asleep at about 10:45. At 6:30 we heard him, "My clock isn't green yet!" Sigh. Three more times he hollered until his clock turned green.
He went to the bathroom and immediately started playing Play-doh.
He played a few other things throughout the day, but hours were spent with the playdoh. And he took a nap.
Swimming lessons went really well for Joshua again. He is so calm. He kicks. He floats in his life jacket.
Isaac was having a hard time falling asleep again. So after about 30 minutes he called out "I can't fall asleep" and meant "I want some duplos!" He yelled a few times while trying to get to sleep and managed to wake up Joshua too. Yeah, I was not thrilled with that. He won't be having any special duplos in bed in the near future.
Isaac had his birthday party today! He was rather excited, especially by the time the party came around. Luckily, getting ready for the party went much better than I expected. Usually I feel like I'm prepping and cleaning all day, but this time the boys played well for a bit in the morning and I got everything done pretty quickly. So Isaac's room and the sink even got cleaned. :D
Flurry's been escaping into the garage lately. She likes the tops of cars.
Isaac decorated his cake with sprinkles. There are a lot of sprinkles.
We had a sandwich bar. I thought it worked rather well, as everything could be set out at once.
We had a sandwich bar because Isaac wanted peanut butter and nutella for his birthday dinner. Then he barely touched his sandwich.
The kids' table. Joshua was a bit clingy today, but was ok for the first half while he could still see me.
Presents!
Pinwheel!
Opening marbles.
Opening a craft that you paint.
The cake!
And ice cream in a cone, as requested. But then he barely ate either of them.
Ben showing Isaac how to use his new flashlight. It doesn't have batteries, because I'm sick of changing batteries. And I thought he might like the winding feature.
Duplos!
After all of that, he was still so excited. He really wants to play with his new play-doh things. I went up around 10 because it had gotten dark in his room and he was still wide awake. He had barely had any sugar, so it must have just been excitement. I was feeling kind of bad for him, so we gave him his new duplos to play with for a bit. I figured it was a compromise - he still got to play with his new toys but still had to stay in bed. And he often falls asleep while playing with Duplos, so it isn't out of the question that he'll fall asleep. However, with the amount of noise that is coming through the monitor right now, it might not be soon.
The company gave Ben (and family) passes to Michigan's Adventure, an amusement park, as the company picnic this year. Ben and I decided to capitalize on it and also got a babysitter for both boys.
We had an excellent time. I've decided I don't love roller coasters with the things that come down over your head; I feel like my head get pounded back and forth! But they're still fun and I did like the wooden roller coasters. Although I was scared a bit; I'm pretty sure I wore a face that looks just like the one Isaac makes when he's really scared.
We also spent some time at the water park; this was my favorite part. I really like intertubing through dark tunnels. It's scary but not too scary. The big funnel ride that had a big drop and then sent you through a tunnel was fun...and Ben had to go backwards in the ride, so it was extra scary for him.
I'll admit, we didn't have a bunch to talk about this trip. But I enjoyed not talking and not listening. I don't get to do that very much any more.
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.
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.
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.
