Right now, I'm listening to Josiah over the monitor--he should be
napping--yelling, "BUBBLES! BUBBLES!" I went in there to tell him that
we couldn't do anything fun until he took his nap---his
response---"BUBBLES!" He is being absolutely cute, but I have to keep
my tough mommy face on! Sophie amazingly napped when she was supposed
to, so that is good. I think there is a conspiracy around here that
Mommy is no longer going to have a nap in the afternoon!!!!Last week, we had a fun family outing to the Frying Pan Park. It's a local working farm, so we got to see lots of baby animals. Josiah had fun making all the animal noises. It was hard keeping him in his stroller. Sophie did what she does best--took a nap. It was a lot of fun and we are enjoying our "weekends" which are now Mondays and Tuesdays.
Well, it's time to share what is new with the kiddos. I'll start with Josiah.
*Josiah has started his 2nd swimming class. He is still in the guppies group, but is doing a fantastic job! He has no problem blowing bubbles, putting his face in the water, turning his head side to side so his ears are in the water (this is preparing him for the breathing motion), and floating on his back. He LOVES to show us his skills in the bath tub at night. He should be able to move on to the next level the next time around.
*Josiah has been such a big boy eater lately. He has been eating the same things Chris and I are eating. The other night he had honey mustard chicken, mashed potatoes and peas. The next night he had ham, rice and mixed veggies. He has also been eating pears, peaches and pineapples along with fresh berries. I think he has turned a corner when it comes to eating!!!!
*The other morning, I was getting our breakfast ready. I told Josiah it was time to head over to the table. He goes over to the table and pulls out my chair and says, "Sit, Momma, Sit!" Chris has started pulling my chair out for me--well, most of the time! So I guess Josiah thought it was his job to do it since Chris wasn't home. It isn't anything that we expect him to do, but he is obviously watching us.
*He did make Chris and I laugh--after the fact---the other night during his bath. He was being a little difficult in the bath tub. Chris told him if he didn't stop and start listening that he was going to get a spanking. Josiah proceeded to turn his bottom towards Chris and spanked it a couple of times. Where he got that from, I don't know!?!? It was rather funny though, but we didn't laugh at him because if we did that would have been it for us!
*Josiah has been enjoying "doing" the Wii with Mommy. He definitely inspires me to work out. He gets his own remote and will march in place next to me as I do the exercises. When we head down to the basement, he wants to do the Wii, so like I said before he is inspiring me to loose these last few baby pounds.
*Josiah used his potty for the first time this week!!! Ok, so I did a little bribing to get him to do it, but I think he was having performance anxiety. I gave him an extra juice box, a snack and sat him in front of the TV to watch Elmo. Usually, he needs to have water after his nap and TV is a rarity for him. Sure enough, he ended up going pee pee in the potty!!!!
*He has started learning the different types of weather. Each morning we come downstairs and open up the blind. I say, "Good morning, God! Thank you for the beautiful _________ (sunshine, rain, etc.)! Now, he has started saying, "Sunshine, sunshine!" on sunny days.
*He has also started bowing his head when we pray. When we sit down at the table he makes sure we say our blessing by saying, "Bes, Bes!" No food is going in his mouth until he has said it. It is so sweet to see him bow his head!
*Now for our little girl. She has been doing a much better job going to bed at night. We have figured out that she needs a pre-bed time nap. She gets up for a little bit, takes a bottle and then nurses before she goes down. She is sleeping about 7 hours straight! Naps on the other hand are an entirely different story, but we will eventually get there!
*She has started "holding" her bottle when we feed her. There is a picture in the April album of her holding her bottle.
*She has started holding her toys, but now will shake her rattle.
*The other day she was having some tummy time and was looking in her mirror. I guess she liked what she saw because she kept smiling at herself.
Not much else is going on here. Chris will be out of town again next Friday and Saturday for presbytery, so I will be hanging out here with the kiddos. Please say some prayers that we will have another great weekend!
PS--Josiah has finally gone to sleep--I guess he gave up on the "BUBBLES!"
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