Sunday: debate

I started to watch the debate (ten minutes after it started).  Ten minutes later I turned it off as I didn't need to hear two people talk about how bad the other was.

I did turn it back on here and there but am really interested to see the response over the next few days.

Saturday: Joshua

Joshua made this tower last night and tonight.  Sure, I helped stabilize it while he put the pieces on and put the segments together, but he put all the little pieces on.  He did not want to smile for the picture.

Ben and Joshua do this every night...


Amanda: can you give Dad a bear hug?
Joshua: grrr.
Joshua: grrr.
Ben: grrr.
Joshua, with a smile: I'm scared.

Friday: today

Today I had the morning off!  I got a hot chocolate and did some computer stuff.  I tried to give blood, but due to a cold earlier this week it was decided that I should wait.  I was bummed because donation schedules and my availability don't line up very often, but also don't want to give dangerous blood.  So I read for a while and working on some quilting.

By then it was lunch time.  I ate rather quickly and started getting dinner in the crock pot.  While I was doing this Isaac decided that Joshua needed to eat his crunchy beans and started feeding them to Joshua.  Joshua loved it.

Around this time Isaac also made a bunch of balls for Flurry.  The tape one was her favorite because her tail is closest to it.  She looks thrilled, don't you think?

And finally, Joshua was perturbed that the wall was stuck.   He kept saying "Wall.  Stuck.  Turtle."  Maybe he thought his turtle was on the other side?  He was trying to dig it away.  I showed him the closet and that you could see the other side of the wall from it, but it didn't seem to help much.

Thursday: conversations

Isaac: Mom, what number should I put in [this toy remote] for your movie?
Amanda: 34
Isaac: how about one more?
Amanda: No!  Don't change the channel!
Isaac: what's a channel?
Amanda:...

Amanda: when there's actually TV on TV.  Um, when you have to watch what's on that channel.  Um...when I was a kid I could only watch my show at 4pm and if I missed it that day then I didn't get to see it.
Isaac: oh.

In other news, Joshua had his first accident free day!!

Wednesday: playing

I'm not sure how it happened, but Isaac and Joshua played together a ton today...and it was awesome.  They played in Isaac's room (and normally Joshua gets kicked out right away if an adult isn't in there too), they ran and jumped on their chairs, and they played with soapy water outside, and they did more running and...I'm not really sure what was going on, to be honest.  But I was able to get a ton of work done for once and it was good.


Since it was a beautiful day out, we also went to the Nature Center for a while.  It was the first time Joshua walked instead of strollered, and it was nice to go on some of the smaller trails.  I also heard Joshua more or less count from five to thirteen.  Most of the time was just six to nine, but I was rather impressed.  There tended to be a "run!" after the sequence was done, so he may have been imitating Isaac.

The small trails had traps, but we managed to disarm them.

Tuesday: that bleachy smell

I got to Joshua's room this afternoon and it smelled like bleach.  Oh boy, that's never a good sign.

Apparently, there's a good chance that one of the kids has lice.  (The story was a bit hard to understand...the workers were a bit frazzled.  Her sister did (or might have) had it over the weekend without realizing it so the girl in the class probably had it and they didn't find out until the afternoon so all the kids could have it.)

So we made an emergency stop at Meijer to get some lice treatment.  We also picked up some buns because dinner would "need" to be fast (at Joshua's insistence) and some donuts (because what's a Meijer run without donuts?)

I didn't see anything in Joshua's hair, but we applied the treatment as directed.  He was rather grumpy all night...except when eating crunchy beans or watching TV, so he also got an early bedtime.

Several days ago: 57 months, 26 months

Isaac turned 57 months several days ago.

He is becoming quite the "project" maker.  Some tape, some paper, and assorted other things and he's a happy camper.  He's started saving bit of this and that for his projects.

His real name is Puppy Dog and his last name is Isaac.

Oh, I feel like I had all sorts of things I wanted to talk about this month, and now can't remember any.  He is able to get in and out of the car and do his seat belt all by himself.  It might take a bit, but he can get it.

This month is marked by an increase in tears.  Ben was talking to him about stuff and he started crying and remarked, "I'm crying and I'm not even trying to!"  It was actually an appropriate time to cry; having to walk over the grass in my flipflops is not a good time.

He's becoming more independent but still loves to have us around.  He and Joshua have started playing together a lot more too, so that's been nice.

Joshua turned 26 months.

He didn't really want to pose for pictures today.  The mark on his forehead is from a marker; he enjoys coloring still.

It's been a rough month for Joshua.  Sleeping issues were more or less solved by leaving the door open, but he still confirms with me all the time that I'll leave it open.  (So I guess the wall really was the problem.)  He just seems a bit grumpier than normal.  He is still happy often, but not as often as normal.

We started potty training more and it's been going very well.  Daycare said he could be in underwear, and Thursday went very well.  (Of course, once he got home it didn't go so well.)  Some days are better than others.  He still likes to get his treats from Isaac, who is inventive in what he calls them and in the delivery of them.

Joshua cares a lot about his food, especially the lack of food near dinner time, but still doesn't eat all that much.  Bother - I feel like I had a lot to say for Joshua too, but have forgotten it.  I'll try to put in little bits at a time instead of all at once.