Monday

Today I didn't really accomplish much.  At least not much on my to-do list.  I did one load of laundry.  That's it.

I also took two naps, visited Cheryl and picked up some blue fabric scraps, and fed my children.  Joshua didn't sleep well last night and so we both slept a lot.  (His arms!!  They are problematic.  I tried a new swaddle technique and while I think it improved how quickly he went to sleep, it didn't help him stay asleep.)

Saturday: apple cake

We tried a new recipe today...apple cake.  It turned out very good.  Isaac did all the apple slicing/coring/peeling.

Friday: Crane's

Ben had the day off (hooray!) and so we went to Crane's Apple Orchard.  Isaac was pretty excited about it.

Isaac's first apple pick.

He ate most of the apple...he had been so excited to go to the orchard that he didn't eat most of his lunch in the car.  He's never eaten a whole apple before, and did a very good job.

Joshua slept through most of it.  Isaac started eating a second apple.

The Golden Delicious (the first picture) were really hard to pick.  But the McIntosh apples just came off in Isaac's hands and he enjoyed it a bit more.

Then we went to the corn maze.  Joshua slept again.  Isaac disarmed lots of traps for us.  It looked as though he was opening doors.

We went to the restaurant afterwards and it was surprisingly not busy.  We got a table right away, and I'm not sure that has ever happened.  It was a nice day for the orchard...sunny and not too cold and not busy,

Thursday: pacifiers

Isaac is somewhat enthralled by Joshua's pacifiers.  Today he wanted to take a picture of them. (There were two on the counter.)

Then, after dinner, Isaac wanted to play with Joshua in Joshua's room, where Joshua was hanging out under his play thingy.  Sure!  (As though I'd ever say no to that.)  When I checked back 15 minutes later, I saw this:

The play thing moved, three pacifiers ("he might cry"...Joshua gets multiple ones often), and several rattles.  But no one was upset, so it was a great play time.

While they were playing, Hilldore Hospital ("Fixing toys that should have been thrown out since 2011") was in full force.  We were melting a crayon back together.  And yes, it was quite fun.

For the record, Hilldore Hospital has only had two recordable fatalities: a chicken (whose foot would not go back on) and a bubble wand.

Isaac also took this picture:

Wednesday: today

I put Joshua in the bouncy seat by Isaac during breakfast.  Isaac leaned over and said, "Hi Baby Joshua.  How are you doing today?"  (Exact words, but not exact pronunciation.)  Isaac actually did a really good job with Joshua today.

We went to the playground today and it was rather cold and windy.  Luckily, it was sunny so it was still nice.  As always, we had a fun time.

Isaac saw some football player miniatures from a kids' meal that were in our bedroom.  Ben said, "What are those?"  Isaac confidently said, "Golf clubs!"

Lastly, we have a cute one of Joshua.  Ironically, I was reading a book about how to get him to sleep better.

Tuesday

Joshua slept very well in his crib last night, only waking once between 11 and 6 to eat.  We were up at 6:15 which is rather early for us, but not really that early when I remember the schedule that Isaac was on.  Isaac woke up not much later anyway, so it wasn't a big deal.

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We had just parked in the church parking lot when Isaac got a call on his pretend phone.
"Hi.  CC.  Grandma.  At church.  Grandma's house.  CC's house.  {pause}  Grandma.  CC.  Ok.  Bye-bye.  Ok Mom, you can talk now."  I had waited for him to get off the phone, because I'd really like to impress upon him that you don't talk to people when they're on the phone.  While he obviously understands the rule, he doesn't put it into practice.

Monday: 10 weeks

Joshua is 10 weeks old today.

He moved to his own bedroom tonight.  We'll see how it goes.  I'm actually most worried about the monitor...it likes to unlink when it is in the basement and proceeds to beep.  I tried it out for most of the day in our bedroom and it was fine.

Cheryl and I went shopping for some more clothes for the boys today.  I felt like I was more picky than normal...but I've figured out what I like and don't like a bit more.  I don't like hoods for babies.  I don't like fleece.  Isaac does need elastic pants.  Isaac does like zipper sweatshirts.  Isaac does need fleece pajamas though because he throws off his covers.  But we still found plenty that fit all those criteria.  Isaac is rather excited about his new monster pajamas.  They were still in the drier when Ben put him to bed, and I was expecting to hear something about them while I gave Joshua his bath.  I didn't, but figured Ben just did a good job persuading Isaac to wear something else.  When I went in the room to turn off the light later I noticed that Ben had forgotten to change Isaac into pajamas.  I would have left him in his clothes but I knew his pull-up wouldn't last the night. :(

But lest you think Ben's the only crazy one in the family, I realized that I held an entire conversation with Cheryl about robots only referring to them as "Ee-oos," Isaac's term for robots.  I didn't realize this until several hours later and was a bit embarrassed.