Wednesday/Thursday: CD player

Aunt CC brought the boys an old CD player.  It has lots of buttons and the kids are thoroughly enjoying it.  Isaac was so excited when he discovered the handle and the antenna.  They've also put socks in the tape player part...

Tuesday: back to work

Or back to school, with new backpacks, as the case may be.  They were both rather excited about their backpacks.  Joshua puts his own hat on.  He gets it on, so that's what I care about.

Work went well too.  It was the first day and I was pretty prepared, so I didn't feel too rushed.  Thursday will be a bit harder as I have a class in the morning too.

Monday: things I never thought I'd say

Here's the next installment of things I never thought I'd say...

Amanda: If we agree on something, we're not allowed to fight about it.

(Joshua didn't want me to cut his sandwich.  I agreed and put the knife on the other side of the kitchen.  He screamed at me not to cut it.)

Amanda: I got a bad ticket because I called you Isaac instead of Puppy Dog?

(I got three bad tickets today and one good ticket...)

Sunday: busy day

Today was a rather busy day as we hosted Life Group (aka Bible Study) at our house.  The kids played together very well in the morning though as food was prepped and the house cleaning finished.  They spent about 20 minutes playing with the exersauser, taking all the toys out, putting them in upside-down, and spinning each other around.

Saturday: growing up

A few days ago Joshua got a tray like Isaac's.  He's been doing a good job staying on it until he's done eating.  And he was able to get his own treat after lunch!  He is just as wiggly as Isaac is, but as long as their torso is on/over the carpet square they can wiggle away.

He's also still in his pajamas because he loves his pajamas.  He seems to take after Ben that way. :)

Oh!  And he was in underwear last night.  That's one of the reasons he was in pajamas all day...we didn't need to change him out of his pull-up.  I think he's only been wet once or twice in the last month, so it seemed like time.  I think he kind of realizes that if he doesn't have accidents then he gets to keep his pajamas on longer.

Friday: early riser

Last night I checked Isaac right before going to bed. I was a bit noisy, due to a messy room, but didn't think much of it as he is a good sleeper.

I looked at the monitor about fifteen minutes later and notice that Isaac isn't there any more. I scan the camera and find a fully dressed boy.

He thought his clock had turned green and that it was time to wake up. He was awake, but still a bit out of it. I helped him back into his pajamas and put him back to bed.

I love this boy.

Thursday: serious business

In other news, Joshua's still doing great with the toilet so we ordered him some new underwear.  If this trend does continue it would be interesting, because then both boys would have gone from semi-toilet trained to almost fully toilet trained in the month of January.  Perhaps they have (had) some New Year's resolutions that they didn't tell us about.

Isaac still enjoyed his puppy treats today.  I also played more fetch than I have in a long time.  It's an easy game though, so I went with it.

We went to Meijer today for groceries.  It was rather cold, but it made the store rather empty!  We were the only ones returning pop cans, so we could use three machines and do it faster.  The checkout lines were also wonderfully empty.