Sunday: made it again

Phew...made it through another day.  I found myself getting so frustrated trying to get to church.  Isaac would get stuck (on nothing).  It's a problem when I'm done for the day and it's only 9am.  But luckily there was church, Dad came over to babysit, and Isaac played well the rest of the day.  So we survived.

Saturday: made it

Phew...we made it through the day.  Isaac and I made a few freezer meals and that occupied a fair amount of time.  Especially since I didn't have all the necessary ingredients and we had to make a quick trip to the store.

In leaving, here is Isaac reading his book through the monitors.  He actually woke up and read for a bit, which let me sleep in.

Thursday: a hard thing

One of the hardest things I've had to do as a mom is try to get a hair out of Isaac's mouth.

Wednesday: War

I just started playing War with Isaac.  Ben kindly pointed out the night before we started that I should maybe remove the facecards since they don't have numbers.  It was a good idea (and makes the game shorter).

We've play three games so far.  One that Isaac won, one that I was going to win so he quit, and one that we just stopped.  But this is starting to feel like I'm playing a real game with him, so that's fun.  And maybe he's learning how numbers relate to each other.  I had been thinking it would just be a nice easy game that he could probably grasp the rules of, but there is actually a lot of learning in it too.

Tuesday: 14 weeks and what we hear

I forgot to post Joshua's 14 week pictures yesterday.   It was a "Go Hope!" kind of day and Isaac even ended up in orange and blue.

And then listening to Isaac...it still takes a bit to understand him if you're not around him.  Here's what was said (and understood) today.

"Dag, you can take it when you're ogre."  meant "Dad, you can take it when you're older."  (Somewhere along the way "when you're older" became a reason to not do something.  Sometimes Isaac uses it as the reasoning when Ben or I say no, such as why he can't have more candy and sometimes he uses it as an excuse to not do something.)

"We're going to go boat?" meant "we're going to go vote?"

Monday: doctor

So I've been having my weird headaches (again).  (As a reminder, they're about 2 seconds worth of shooting pain in the back of my head about five times a day, happening around certain activities.  There are no other symptoms, so once the two seconds are over I'm fine again.  But they're getting annoying.)  The doctor had an opening tonight, so I went in.

He said that it wasn't a normal set of symptoms, but could possibly be a pinched nerve in my neck.  So we're going to try some medicine.  This possible diagnosis actually makes a lot of sense to me, so here's hoping.

Sunday: Grandma Julie

I: who is this rock for?
A: you said it was for great grandma.
I: who is this rock for?
A: you said it was for grandma.
I: who is this rock for?
A: you said it was for other grandma
I: no, it is for grandma up-up.  With wings.  Angel.
A: grandma Julie?
I: yeah.  That grandma.  (Points to picture of Grandma Julie on the fridge.)
A: that's nice of you.  (Getting a bit choked up.)
I: can I play play-doh?

It should be noted that we rarely talk about Mom.  If it comes up we talk about her, but it really doesn't come up very often which made the conversation a bit odd.


And matching brothers!  It was hard to get both of them both looking ok.