Saturday, January 31, 2015
Saturday: brothers
I took some pictures of the boys together yesterday. I wish I had thought about their clothes a little bit more, but oh well. It still turned out fun.
Friday, January 30, 2015
Friday: Isaac and Joshua
Isaac is another month older!
Eating - he went from loving peanut butter jelly to loving nutella. "ella," as he says it. Besides that eating is hit and miss. Sometimes he eats a lot, sometimes he barely touches anything. Eating on his carpet square and tray has worked pretty well. The rule is that his butt has to be over the carpet square, but besides that we pretty much let him move as much as he wants. We'll see if we need to implement another rule later, such as your head can't be on the carpet.
Talking - he talks all the time. The other day I think he talked without ceasing and it is a little hard to deal with. But normal, I'm sure. He often has EEs (monkeys) that do stuff with him lately, so he tells me all about them. Brown EEs have beds at home. Black EEs need little cups. Etc. He also has stopped listening very well and will often say "what?" to get us to repeat something. One evening I told him he couldn't ask any more questions until Ben got home, but besides that it hasn't been overly bad. (By the way, today I found out that the Holy Spirit sometimes has a mouth and likes to drink chocolate milk from big glasses. EEs like to drink from medium glasses. They don't have any baby ones.)
Toilet training - still working on it. I think things are still improving.
Movies - Isaac loves to watch his movie after rest time. He often will watch the same thing for several weeks in a row...lately he's watched Mickey Mouse Road Raley, a Thomas one, and just today Wall-E came back.
Expressions - Isaac has a very funny "serious" face. It gets a little scrunched up.
Ok...now on to Joshua! He ate "real food" for the first time today. He started to open his mouth by the end, so we'll consider it a win. I'm not sure how much actually got in him, but I think a little bit at least.
He kept falling. I might try the bumbo tomorrow instead.
Eating - he went from loving peanut butter jelly to loving nutella. "ella," as he says it. Besides that eating is hit and miss. Sometimes he eats a lot, sometimes he barely touches anything. Eating on his carpet square and tray has worked pretty well. The rule is that his butt has to be over the carpet square, but besides that we pretty much let him move as much as he wants. We'll see if we need to implement another rule later, such as your head can't be on the carpet.
Talking - he talks all the time. The other day I think he talked without ceasing and it is a little hard to deal with. But normal, I'm sure. He often has EEs (monkeys) that do stuff with him lately, so he tells me all about them. Brown EEs have beds at home. Black EEs need little cups. Etc. He also has stopped listening very well and will often say "what?" to get us to repeat something. One evening I told him he couldn't ask any more questions until Ben got home, but besides that it hasn't been overly bad. (By the way, today I found out that the Holy Spirit sometimes has a mouth and likes to drink chocolate milk from big glasses. EEs like to drink from medium glasses. They don't have any baby ones.)
Toilet training - still working on it. I think things are still improving.
Movies - Isaac loves to watch his movie after rest time. He often will watch the same thing for several weeks in a row...lately he's watched Mickey Mouse Road Raley, a Thomas one, and just today Wall-E came back.
Expressions - Isaac has a very funny "serious" face. It gets a little scrunched up.
Ok...now on to Joshua! He ate "real food" for the first time today. He started to open his mouth by the end, so we'll consider it a win. I'm not sure how much actually got in him, but I think a little bit at least.
He kept falling. I might try the bumbo tomorrow instead.
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Thursday: 6 months again
Joshua was so smiley for the camera yesterday. I got so many good shots...and these are only about half of them. I couldn't pick a favorite.
(You can compare to Isaac's six month pictures. They two boys look different. Isaac's expressions were all over the place, but Joshua was just happy. The few above that aren't smiles were the exception.)
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Wednesday: six months
Joshua turned six months today! How time flies.
We got some of the standard pictures and took a few extra six month pictures, but those will probably be saved for another blog post.
Sleeping - about this same as previously. We've gone through a small but long cold, which didn't help. He is also out of his sleep sack at night. I still send it to day care to help him get to sleep with all the noise there. He usually sleeps about 12 hours at night and then has a short morning nap, long early afternoon nap, and short early evening nap. Usually.
Tongue - he's started to stick his tongue out and it's pretty cute. You can see it in some of the pictures.
Motor control - I feel like his fine motor control has increased a lot in the last month. He was grabbing things before, but now he is grabbing things all the time. Gross motor control is improving too...he hasn't rolled over again, but I expect it will happen soon. And stomach to back rolling easily happens now. He can sit for many seconds at a time. He also seems to be happy in the exersaucer for longer periods of time, probably because grabbing and playing with the toys is more possible now.
We got some of the standard pictures and took a few extra six month pictures, but those will probably be saved for another blog post.
Sleeping - about this same as previously. We've gone through a small but long cold, which didn't help. He is also out of his sleep sack at night. I still send it to day care to help him get to sleep with all the noise there. He usually sleeps about 12 hours at night and then has a short morning nap, long early afternoon nap, and short early evening nap. Usually.
Tongue - he's started to stick his tongue out and it's pretty cute. You can see it in some of the pictures.
Motor control - I feel like his fine motor control has increased a lot in the last month. He was grabbing things before, but now he is grabbing things all the time. Gross motor control is improving too...he hasn't rolled over again, but I expect it will happen soon. And stomach to back rolling easily happens now. He can sit for many seconds at a time. He also seems to be happy in the exersaucer for longer periods of time, probably because grabbing and playing with the toys is more possible now.
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Tuesday: meat
Today I did a bulk buy of chicken strips through Zaycon. I've slowly been hearing their name more and more...so I finally decided to try some.
I was happy with the service. Pick up was at a kind of weird time (4-5pm), but it also only took about one minute. It did feel a bit sketchy though, going up to a white truck in the middle of the parking lot with no other cars around. But since they were half the price of normal strips and tasted good, I expect we'll be getting more in the future.
(Here's the referral link if you're interested.)
Monday, January 26, 2015
Monday: pacifier and towel water
I put a happy Joshua into the exersaucer this morning. He was playing contentedly, and when I looked back a few minutes later he had a pacifier in his mouth. Surprise! He had managed to get it from the exersaucer to his mouth and I was rather proud of him. He was also looking rather cute today, but the picture doesn't do a great job of showing that.
This morning Isaac also came into the bathroom and announced "Towel water helps me not be sick." Hmm...I must have heard that wrong. Bottled water? Tap water? Lemon water? He runs to get it. Yup, I heard correctly. Towel water.
Do you see the towel? It's that white rectangle on the water bottle. The other side is called mountain water. (At least it's not water rung from a towel. That was passing through my head and I was a bit scared.)
This morning Isaac also came into the bathroom and announced "Towel water helps me not be sick." Hmm...I must have heard that wrong. Bottled water? Tap water? Lemon water? He runs to get it. Yup, I heard correctly. Towel water.
Do you see the towel? It's that white rectangle on the water bottle. The other side is called mountain water. (At least it's not water rung from a towel. That was passing through my head and I was a bit scared.)
Sunday, January 25, 2015
Sunday: roll over
Joshua rolled over (from back to front) for the first time today! He did it during Bible Study after chasing an orange ring all over the floor. He was on the move for someone that could only wiggle and finally managed to get all the way over. (Clay and Jess, I fondly remembered another Bible Study when Hugh rolled for the first time too. :D)
This evening Ben and I were talking about what to watch with dinner next. Over the last few days we've tried Modern Marvels, a making Fish Tanks, and some internet ones. As we were discussing, Isaac piped up with his opinion..."I like Marble Marbles." Although it took us a bit to figure out that he was say Modern Marvels, we laughed. At this point I think he just likes it because it has the word Marbles in it...or something like that.
Then he proceeded to play a squirt gun game for the next...45 or so minutes. Usually the game is get something wet, get it dry. We added several elements over 45 minutes though. I had my own squirters to get him back. His drier kept breaking and he had to go to Ben for new ones. Ben charged him money for the new ones. He had to bring dishes to the kitchen to earn more money. It was a bit boring, really, but kept him entertained and laughing and I was able to get some work done.
This evening Ben and I were talking about what to watch with dinner next. Over the last few days we've tried Modern Marvels, a making Fish Tanks, and some internet ones. As we were discussing, Isaac piped up with his opinion..."I like Marble Marbles." Although it took us a bit to figure out that he was say Modern Marvels, we laughed. At this point I think he just likes it because it has the word Marbles in it...or something like that.
Then he proceeded to play a squirt gun game for the next...45 or so minutes. Usually the game is get something wet, get it dry. We added several elements over 45 minutes though. I had my own squirters to get him back. His drier kept breaking and he had to go to Ben for new ones. Ben charged him money for the new ones. He had to bring dishes to the kitchen to earn more money. It was a bit boring, really, but kept him entertained and laughing and I was able to get some work done.
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