Friday: normal

Today was a rather normal day, all things considered.

Thursday: black, vinegar, beach ball

Black: we all know that Isaac loves black.  Today he picked out black pants with a black T-shirt...not all that abnormal.  And he put his name tag sticker on from the gym yesterday.  Why?  Because his name was written in black.

Vinegar: I got a large jug of apple cider vinegar to kill fruit flies.  I thought they were dying fairly well, but then I ran out of vinegar about 36 hours ago.  Now we're back to where we started, but I have more vinegar.

Beach ball: Joshua kept trying to play beach ball with Isaac after school today.  Isaac would push the beach ball away and say "no", but I think that is kind of what Joshua wanted.  So Joshua would walk to the beach ball, pick it up, and bring it back.  (Walk!  So much walking this evening!)

I know, I need more pictures.  Maybe tomorrow.

Wednesday: tired

Oh, today I was tired.  A I-need-coffee-when-I-don't-even-drink-coffee tired.  We ended up in the basement to play for a little bit and I laid down on the carpet and gave comatose responses to Isaac's questions for a while.  Joshua put a toy wagon on me.  I left it there.  Isaac then came over and told me I was the best mom ever and I was so sweet.  It was nice to hear that, even as I was actually being a terrible mom.

Luckily, Betsy had wondered if we wanted to go to the park so we went there soon after.  And Joshua went back to sleep after his 3pm nap wake up, so I got a slightly longer nap than normal.

I feel like it is a bit funny to be so tired now, as Joshua is starting to sleep a bit better.  However, I'm still recovering from the weekend sickness and probably still from the lack of sleep last week.

Tuesday: in videos

Amanda: So Isaac, what are you doing?
Isaac: making electricity

Thanks to Dad for the wire coils and magnets!  (If you couldn't tell, everytime the magnet hit the bolt the LED flashed.)  Yay for the magic school bus.

Monday: nice day

The weather today looked like it might be the last really nice day for a while, so we went to a playground in the morning.  Playgrounds, when by ourselves, aren't always my favorite places to go.  There's so much ducking and squishing and angling around because I'm not the size of a child.  Anyway, we went to a different one from normal today.  We've been to it before but I think it is one of my favorites because most things are all on one level.

Joshua did a lot of good walking, although by the end he was tired and not doing as much.

By the end of the day though I was done.  Joshua was being clingy so I had him in the carrier and Isaac was being so loud and I was trying to make dinner while not letting the fruit flies get to it.  (side note: I think there is only one house fly left and the fruit flies are going down, but still definitely around.)  Isaac isn't a fan of the show we've been watching with dinner, and so lately has asked to sit somewhere where he doesn't have to watch.  This would be fine if he actually didn't watch, but he does.  So today he elected to sit in the corner by our bedroom where he couldn't see the TV.  This lasted about thirty seconds...but now there will be no more sitting in odd places.

Sunday

Last night I'm not sure how well Joshua slept.  I know what you're thinking, "how odd!"  However, it's because when I first heard Joshua cry the Orange Mist told me that it would take care of him.  This made perfect sense to me in my dream state so I went back to sleep.  When I woke back up, (two minutes later?  thirty minutes later?) I sadly realized that the Orange Mist hadn't kept its promise and found Joshua standing in the crib.  Usually he's just sitting, so I think it might have been a while.  As I cuddled him back to sleep he awoke with a scream a few times so I'm wondering if he's having nightmares.

Let's see...today I felt mostly better.  Isaac has enjoyed playing with some of Ben's old toys that came home with us on Wednesday; yesterday they found the micro-machines.  Joshua really, really wants to play with them and we've had several tantrums when he hasn't been able to.  He's had several tantrums lately, but today we had some of the bigger ones.  Joshua did get to play with Ben's trophies and that was pretty fun.

Isaac was an eating machine today.  Joshua did some excellent walking.

We recently got some sateen sheets and were having lots of issues with the sheets coming untucked during the night.  So I sewed a piece of elastic from one side to the other, about 15" up from the bottom.  We'll see if it helps.

Saturday: sleep 3

Well, Joshua slept a bit better last night.  My plan was to make sure to cuddle him until he was really asleep.  Maybe if he had a good night of sleep then following nights would be better.

However, I had a fever in the middle of the night so I didn't sleep well.  Sigh.  I have no idea why I had a fever and was rather surprised by it.

The day was ok, but I was a bit sick and tired.  I pretty much threw the kids at Ben as soon as he woke up and told him I needed a nap.  I didn't do much the rest of the day...some relaxing, a little bit of working.

Hmm.  I have a low grade fever again.  I took medicine.  Here's hoping.