My little fishy

joshua is in his very first "all by myself" swim class. no more mommy and me, so next session i can get jacob started in lessons too. he is doing pretty good, josh is learning to tread water, "walk" the side of the pool, climb out of the pool, how to kick his legs, and the arm motions needed for a forward stroke. he is doing really well and seems to be enjoying it.

joshua is also doing good in preschool, he knows most of his colors and he was telling me some of his shapes today, he has even managed to gain himself a little girlfriend. she (according to her mom) talks about josh constantly and wants josh to be involved in everything she does, too bad we don't get together with them more often.

joshua is proving to be musically inclined. if he isn't dancing to the beat, he is banging on his drums set and singing. we have friends who own "rock bank" and he plays the drums practically to the beat of whatever song is playing that time around. i can't waiting until he is old enough to get into some sort of music class and see if the interest peaks or fades.

josh is starting a "my first sports" class in a couple of weeks, he will learn about basketball, soccer and baseball. it is right after preschool, wee hee, so on tuesday mornings i have from 9-12 to me and jake, what will i do with all that time? i am hoping that this sports class will help get some of the winter wiggles out of his system.

On the Move

Jacob is now crawling! YAY! he gets around like a champ now and follows Joshua everywhere. He is also very interested in EVERYTHING that joshua does, so josh is now understanding the true meaning of sharing and "get out of my space"

I don't think I ever updated everyone on the lazy eye situation. the eye doctor couldn't make the eye go lazy, so that was good, but it made me look like a goof ball. she said that because she didn't see the "lazy" eye, that there was nothing she should do for it and made it sound like he will adjust it all himself. We are going to have a follow-up visit in June, at that time we will discuss if there is a treatment even needed. If he does need treatment, it may be a very low prescription eyeglass (i hope not!) but all is well for now.

jake turns one next week! holy cow..... he has started clapping and waving at those who are interesting to him. he is pulling up to his knees then gets scared and drops down to sitting. jake is loving solid foods too. he really enjoys all types of fruit, bananas, mandarin oranges, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, apple sauce, you name it he eats it. jake also is a carb-aholic, he inhales it and we have graduated to cheese and yogurt. YAY! belly problems are disappearing, next week we can start adding a bit of milk into his formula.

I have also gotten jacob to drink water out of a sippy (if i take the stopper out for him) he seems to be enjoying that also.

JACOB's old posts

1.1.09 milestones

jacob has had a busy week! we have reached several milestones that i have been anxiously awaiting. we cut our first tooth..... which is awesome in itself, but makes for a crabby jake. jake is also going from his tummy to sitting up, he started this a week ago, from there he has started "inch worming" i can't even call it a true army crawl, he is literally sticking his butt up in the air and pushing forward with his feet, a true inch worm crawl.

we are so relieved that there is finally a motivation to move across the room. jake is still very impatient though and tends to get frustrated easily, so the hard part is to let him work through it on his own, and not help out so much.

jake enjoyed christmas, the chaos intrigued him and he was excited that lots of new things kept appearing in front of him, all in all he made out like a bandit, as kids usually do and now has many new toys to "inch worm" to.

12.6.08 lazy eye

poor jacob has a lazy eye, we are going to the doctor's to get it all checked out on december 15. i will keep you updated on the form of treatment, i am hoping that it is not eye glasses. whew, that would be a toughy.

11.25.08 crawling

when exactly is he going to crawl? not just crawl, but be remotely interested in moving? jake is just very interested in his big brother, or watching the dogs. crawling is absolutely out of the question because he must be on his tummy to crawl, and we all know how he hates that.

we went to the doctor's because jake was waking up in the middle of the night, i thought maybe he had not been feeling well, turns out, his ailment is a stubborn personality. i have never met a baby that liked to be held sooo much. i am sure that they exist, just not in "my" world, well until now.

Joshua's PREVIOUS

1.10.09 - {almost} three-year old torture

so i have been telling joshua all week, we get to go swimming on saturday. all by yourself, like a big boy! he has been so excited, we get up this morning, josh is asking if today is when he gets to swim, yes sweetie, we get to go swim! we pack our new "speed racer" backpack with our swim trunks and our new fireman hooded towel and away we go to swim lessons.

what a pain! we get josh all undressed and into his swim trunck to find out that, the class is going over safety and pool rules. what!?!?!?! he was very good at sitting and listening, but then i have the fit when josh realizes that we are NOT swimming today.

what a form of torture to an {almost} three year old, sit him in front a a pool, in his swimsuit nonetheless, to watch other kids swimming, fail to mention to mom and dad about the safety talk, and not even let them dip their toes in!

so instead we went out and played in the snow.......

1.1.09 - santa came to visit?

we woke up christmas morning having to explain to josh that santa comes to visit while he is sleeping, and not to stay and play. josh seemed disappointed that he didn't actually get to see him, but had his eye on all the goodies that santa brought him.

josh was actually excited this year and got way into the opening of the gifts, exclaiming at every new package. "look a new shirt! look a new monster truck! look a new puzzle!" being just as excited as the previous gift, now that the gist opening has ended, josh has lots of new things to divert him from his usual play of "cars".

he is really enjoying the games that he received and all his new puzzles. plus, it gives mom and dad something to with him that is more interesting than lining cars up side by side.

for new years, we invited some friends over for our second annual "noon year's eve" party. the kids had fun hanging out, blowing their noisemakers and pulling the strings on the poppers with confetti hidden inside. it was a nice break in our week.

josh starts school back up next week, good bye sleeping in and staying up late.

11.25.08 - preschool

josh is still loving school. we had to miss this week though because he is still feeling under the weather from his double ear infections. i can tell a difference with his conceptualization now that he is routinely going to the sitters/school. he is becoming more imaginative.

we have the gigantic floor puzzles and he put one together all himself yesterday. i am so amazed at how much they pick up on when they are so little.

OLD POSTS

1.1.09 - christmas/new year

we had the pleasure of hosting christmas for mark's family this year, all in all, i would call it a success. the food was good, the kids were happy and it was nice to have all the family over. mark's cousins came in from san diego and florida, so we had a full house. we then traveled up to see my parents and had a quiet dinner with her fabulous lasagna dinner, yum yum. after all the hub bub of the holidays, we have been laying low and trying to kick all the germs we picked up from family.

mark had an ear infection, yow! and jake has something nasty.... he will be going to the doc's tomorrow (hopefully) josh seems to be suffering from cabin fever and i am hating this cold weather.

we had friends over for new year's eve, and had a competitive night of taboo and risk..... we watched all the partying on tv and hit the hay. we all have enjoyed our couple of weeks off and are sad to see it ending so soon and getting back to the normal schedule of work and school.

happy new years to all..... cheers to 2009.

12.6.08 - santa

so we go to visit santa and mrs. claus today and josh had a freak out. he got really shy and refused to sit on santa's lap. i felt kind of bad for the guy, so we get some cute pics of jacob and we go to leave and josh bursts into tears because he wanted his monster truck. (before we left to see santa i told josh that we can tell him what to bring us for christmas, he was really excited) apparently what he thought i meant was that we will go see santa, tell him what we want and he would deliver at that exact moment...... so josh was very said that he not only didn't get a present, but he did not get his really big big big monster truck either.

11.25.08 - new kitchen

i am so proud of mark. we have a new kitchen, he installed an over the range microwave and a dishwasher. plus we have a new fridge. we are finally dent free and ave handles where handles belong. we did it on the cheap, if you haven't heard of craigslist.com, you should utilize it, people sell all sorts of stuff for practically nothing and you can get some great finds. mark and i are finding out that naperville is a city that loved to upgrade. our fridge is only 3 years old and we got it for $125, can't beat that. hello side by side. goodbye food shoved all the way in the back which gets forgotten about on the bottom shelf.

anyone need a garage fridge?
a microwave?
or a dishwasher that works alright?