Last weekend: my family

Last weekend Nathan, Liz, and Evelyn came up to visit!

Saturday morning we made cookies.  It was serious business.

 

Evelyn was wide awake and happy to be here.  Her parents, while happy, were more tired after the long drive.

Dad and Pat came over in the afternoon for dinner.

On Sunday Isaac and Evelyn matched for breakfast.  They had the same bib and both ate oatmeal.

Nathan and Isaac made some chex mix...

...while Evelyn played with magnets...

...and Joshua watched.

Then we decorated the cookies!

Isaac chose the largest one to eat, but only ate about half of it.

The next day we opened presents!

Getting ready.

Delivering a present.

Playing with other peoples' presents.

Playing with a present for Joshua.

Isaac and Nathan rocked out on guitars in the evening.

Friday: Merry Christmas 2x

I have a few more pictures...some from yesterday, some from us playing with more toys today.

Joshua's new hangout.

Playing baby marbles.  (Ben got something with marbles in it, so Isaac remembered that he loves to play baby marbles.  It's been a few weeks since they'be been out.)

Isaac loves the crawl space at his grandparents' house.  It's nice that he's big enough that I don't really worry about what he's doing anymore.  Really nice.

While Joshua and I napped this morning, Ben and Isaac set up a train track.

Later Joshua tried out a rocking horse.  Really though, he just wanted to eat the steering wheel.

After rest time Isaac and I played with the train track.  The train would put food and animals on it and deliver them to the zoo.  The animals would eat the food and put the yucky parts back on the train.  Baby Bear likes to eat ketchup.

If we're missing something I'll often tell Isaac that "we'll keep our eyes out for it" because I deem it not too important to take the house apart for it.  The boys were maybe missing a piece this evening so Isaac told Ben, "We'll have to take out all our eyes and look for it."  So close and yet so far.

Thursday: Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!  We discovered last night that there was extra Christmas magic and all the barnyard animals in the house came to worship Baby Jesus.

In the morning we opened a few presents with just our family.

Isaac got percussion instruments.  I might regret that choice later, but he really liked them.

We celebrated with Ben's family later in the afternoon.  Isaac loved helping us unwrap presents.

Joshua was super excited about his blender, but rather scared about his tiger humidifier.  (I think I ripped the paper too close to him.)

Isaac played with his new clock a lot while waiting.

The gears were a big hit for Isaac...so much so that he declined going to open his stocking in order to play with them.

Joshua played with a lot of decorations.

Monday: 21 weeks

Joshua turned 21 weeks today!  How time flies.

Isaac, not wanting to be left out of the picture taking, also turned a week older.  But since he isn't changing as much each week, I decided not to tell you how many weeks old he is.  (Nor did I really want to do the math, although it is probably super easy right now.  Ok, ok.  52*3-1=155 weeks.  There, are you happy now?)

Wednesday: sitting

Joshua has gotten pretty good at sitting!

I kind of feel with Isaac I noticed little parts of milestones (like when he could sit for 2 seconds and for 10 seconds and for 30 seconds).  With Joshua the little milestones might get noticed, but then when he hits a big one, like sitting for 30 seconds today, I'm so surprised.

But...we'll try to get more sitting practice in the rotation now too. :)  (And he isn't wearing shorts.  They're just overalls that ride up when he sits.)

Tuesday: grumpy

I was grumpy today.  About many unrelated things.  I just couldn't completely snap out of it, although the short afternoon nap did help a bit.

Tomorrow's a new day.  Hooray.  I also plan on posting about the weekend as my brother and his family was here and we did many fun things, but dealing with the pictures is just too much for tonight.

Friday: cleaning, rolling, smiles

Today was the cleaning day.  It went about like I expected...rather annoying.  But I'm done now, so that's wonderful.  The house isn't in excellent order, but it is sufficient.  The toilets are cleaned, it is mostly picked up, all the presents are wrapped and I pretended to work on the floors.  Also, I got a delivery while I was going outside to bring in the trash can.  The guy said that he was with FedEx and I said ok.  It made sense.  But then as he was coming up to give me the package I realized he was in a Budget rental truck.  "Oh boy," I thought.  But it was too late to hide behind the door.  Luckily, it was a FedEx delivery.  I was surprised that they were so behind on deliveries that they needed to rent trucks, but I guess whatever works!

Joshua started doing a wonderful job rolling over yesterday; a real roll from starting with his hands by his sides.  So I thought that I'd get a video of him doing it.  The first video starts with him halfway rolled over.  The second one goes for a minute without him rolling over.  So...no video today.  Also, after his evening nap he woke up and gave the longest smiles that I've seen.  They just stayed on his face.  It was wonderful.