Monday: stacking

A week or two ago Joshua started stacking blocks.  Yay!  Milestone!

We got groceries today, and half of the groceries were just sitting in the bags on the ground.  Joshua found them and started to play with them.  He was only playing with the cans, so I let him enjoy.  Then I saw this.

Hmm.  He's stacking cans.  That doesn't look super safe, but I decided it was ok-ish.  A few minutes later I saw this.

And that was the end of stacking cans.  But hooray for stacking!

Sunday: coloring

Isaac was looking for something to do this afternoon, so I suggested that he finish coloring his paper from Sunday school.  Then I figured Joshua may as well try to color too.  It went better than I expected, actually.  He made marks on the paper and didn't try to eat the crayons.

Saturday: the Martian

Ben and I went to see the Martian today.  It was good.  Not quite as good as the book, of course, but still very good.  I think it helped that I had read the book though as I was able to fit a few things together to have them make more sense.

In other news, I picked out books for Isaac at the library yesterday since he was doing Legos.  One of them I got just because it was black, and we are told several times a day that "I like black."  Unsurprisingly, it is the new favorite book.  Luckily, it's a pretty good one.  Only the first page has words, but the rest of it is a Rube-Goldberg machine.

And Joshua...he's just been super cute.  After he does something that he's proud of he claps for himself.  So he'll stack two block and clap.  Then another block.  And clap.  And another block.  And clap.

Friday: library

We had our dishwasher fixed today.  They said they would come between 10 and 2.  To me, this means that they would be finished by 2...although I guess that's not technically what they said.  The guy showed up at 2:03, without making the call saying that he was on the way.  Sigh.  Not really a big deal, but it did mean that we didn't go anywhere in the morning and that can sometimes make for a long morning.  Especially since I didn't want the kitchen to get dirty.  (Side note: I put the gate up so that the boys couldn't throw things all over the floor.  It kind of bothered them and at one point Joshua tried lifting his foot so he could step over the gate.  All he managed to do was get his foot caught in the cross-bar.)

We did have to return some books to the library, so we did that after nap time.  And we ended up going at Lego play time.  It worked well; Isaac made a creation and Joshua brought me board books, one or two at a time.

They display the creations for a week.

Thursday: updates

Nothing of note really happened today, so I thought I'd give some updates...

House flies: probably gone.  They were gone for about a week and then one showed up yesterday, but I got rid of it.

Fruit flies: going down but still present.  The traps aren't working as well, but I think it's because there are just fewer to trap.

Bed sheet elastic: worked very well.  The bottom of the sheet didn't move and happiness was restored to our marriage.  It felt slightly odd a few times, but overall not very noticeable.  The top quilt still moved around, but it also wasn't as bad as before.

Phone: I just started using a new phone.  I had to look a bit for an email app that I liked...but I haven't used it enough yet to know if I really like the app.  So far so good though.

Wednesday: naps

Joshua didn't sleep well last night.  The saddest part about this was that he decided to wake up just as I was going to go to sleep, so it meant that I was still able to think.  While thinking is good, I couldn't just crawl back in bed, turn the monitor off, and hope that would solve the problem as I was too awake.

Joshua then took a short nap in the carrier this morning while we were outside.  It was a beautiful day and Aunt C came by to help (err, do all of) the fall clean up.  Isaac and I putzed around, spray painting his Halloween costume, bringing some summer stuff into the garage, and just enjoying being outside.

Then, for nap time, everyone slept well.  Really well.  Joshua, who normally does 1-1.5 hours, slept for three!  Isaac took a nap too.  So that meant I also got a very nice nap and was actually the first one awake.

Tuesday: paper

We got a package in the mail today.  Isaac and Joshua proceeded to play with the paper.  This is probably one of the first times that they've played so much together.  And it is a good example of Joshua's walking...I've been wanting to get a video for a while.



In other news, it has been decided that Joshua is going to stay in the infant room at daycare for the rest of the year.  I'll admit that I was hoping they would move him to the older classroom, but it also seems as though they've thought about it.  He's not bored in the current classroom and there is someone else his age.  One reason they don't want to transition him is that we're only there for another two months.  While this seems like a lot of time to me, I also don't know how long it takes the kids to settle.  (I just hope that in a month they don't say, "oops!  He really needs to be moved now because of _____.")