Thursday: Wacky Day

It was wacky day at school today.  Ben was in charge of the hair, but it was a bit long to make it spiky.

Isaac wore stripes on stripes.  We tried to wear plaid shorts over the pants, but that wasn't comfortable.  It was hard to find clothes that clashed when his pants are all neutral.

Joshua's colors clashed.  He had mismatched socks too.

This evening Isaac kept saying his forehead hurt.  But then he would laugh and run so it was hard to figure out if he just wanted medicine or really had a headache.  I ended up giving him a syringe full of water.  It was "bedtime medicine."  And the flavor was "clear."  As I was leaving his room he told me that he was feeling a little better already.

Wednesday: 15 months

Joshua turned 15 months today.  To celebrate, he started saying "hi."

So let's see...

Eating: he's still eating medium well.  He eats table food fine, but I still have a hard time with vegetables.  Bread and graham crackers are a favorite.  He's nursing about three times a day.

Sleeping: He usually only takes one nap, but taking two isn't odd.  Even if he only takes one nap it is often only about an hour and a half.  He goes down for bed around 8pm, wakes up around 6am to nurse, and then goes back to sleep until about 7:30am.  He does a creaky door impression around midnight most nights, but often will go back to sleep.  I still get up with him an additional time at least twice a week.

Moving: He is now a full walker.  He's doing a great job and it's fun to see him wobbling around.  He has fewer and fewer falls every day though.

Talking: "ni-ni" (night-night) is probably one of the most common, although I'm pretty sure he also started saying "hi" tonight.  He can sign "more" and "all done" and "pick me up".  Those four words cover a lot of communication.

(It was orange day today.)

Interpersonal interactions: he still likes the immediate family, and sometimes prefers me and sometimes Ben.  Isaac can make him smile often, but Isaac also has odd rules that Joshua doesn't understand.  Maybe not so odd...things like Isaac can touch Joshua but Joshua can't touch Isaac.  Joshua is getting better with other people too.  Slowly but surely.

Playing: Joshua is a great player.  As mentioned before, he can stack things and likes to look at books and just amuses himself well.  A new favorite is to play with the bowls in the kitchen...I eat our animal magnets with a spoon.  But it always gets such a big grin from him that I happily have another boy who likes to feed me pretend food.(ok, ok...mostly happily. Isaac still feeds me pretend food all the time and I just don't get it.)  He has discovered the IPad and gets a little bit of time every week.

Uses: Joshua is starting to understand what things are used for...bowls and spoons for eating, quilts for pictures, phones for talking, combs for hair.  Above he had gotten off the quilt and then came back to it for more pictures.

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.