Bella, Gabe and Josiah

We went camping last weekend. It was way more pleasant than last time, for three reason. One, it didn’t rain the whole time. Two, we had a cabin. And three, Josy learned how to walk so we didn’t have a baby crawling through the mud all day. Don’t get me wrong, I still enjoyed our last camping trip, but not every member of the family thought that was the best way to spend the weekend. But moving on... We got out to the cabin Friday night. It was dark, but we managed to get out there and get situated without too much drama. Then we ate dinner and put the boys to bed. Unfortunately, Josy doesn’t do a good job of sleeping in a new place when there are other people in the room with him. This became a theme for the weekend... Pat and I stayed up playing games for a bit before heading to bed. There were a couple of problems with sleeping. The air mattresses were super noisy. This meant that either time Pat or I rolled over it was super noisy. Also, we’d lit the stove, which meant that it was ...

Since no one in the house was sick and I was going stir crazy, we decided to get out of the house. I wanted to get a run in, so we decided that the best thing to do was to run to the park to play, and then run back.  The way there was great. As obnoxious as it is to run while pushing a double stroller, I felt good and had a pretty good time. (Oh, and Gabe asked if we could visit the cemetery when we ran past, but he doesn’t remember what it’s called and asked if we could visit the military... I refuse to correct him!) We had the park to ourselves, which was good as Gabe was in quarantine (but also definitely not sick...). Also, both boys wanted me to push them on two different toys, so I got a little extra running in, back and forth between the two. Gabe then decided that he wanted to sneak up on a duck and catch it. I think he wanted to bring it home? Thankfully he is not as sneaky as he thinks he is... He ended up just collecting feathers, which are now among his prized possessio...

Taking selfies is much more difficult now that Josy has figured out how to be the center of attention...

I have been home the majority of the last three weeks. The Tuesday after Labor Day, daycare called me and said that both boys had a fever. I took them home and they were fine. Neither one seemed sick in the least, but daycare rules meant that I had to keep them home for three days. I got to take them back on Friday. On Saturday Pat left to go moose hunting for a week. Thursday morning I had been at work for 15 minutes when school called to tell me that Gabe had a fever. I took both boys home and while he was slightly more emotional than normal, my thermometer never did say that he had a fever. Nonetheless, he was out of school for three days. Two days later, I had a sore throat. I consulted with my public health nurse friend and she told me that was covid-test worthy, so I got a covid test while Pat (finally!) came home. On Tuesday Josy was starting to get a runny nose, so I called daycare to find out what the policy on runny noses was. She told me that he needed a negative test if he ...

Somehow, this little guy is big enough to be stomping around in puddles. I’m not okay with this. He was supposed to be my baby forever and this is definitely not baby behavior. This is big boy behavior. But he did come running to me because he was scared of the mailman, so clearly he’s not completely grown up...

We’ve had a pretty crazy week around here. The weather was beautiful and sometimes it’s hard to balance getting out and enjoying all the fun things but also doing things like sleeping and laundry. Plus, definitely revolves around naptime, so there’s that. On Sunday, by the time that everyone was up from their naps, we had very little time left to enjoy the sunshine, so we hiked a little way down a trail that I haven’t been on in a a very long time. We didn’t make it very far, but I didn’t expect us to, given the fact that it was beautiful but definitely cold. Also, certainly people were very hungry because I told them to grab a snack and they packed for Pringles and then couldn’t figure out why they were still hungry. Also, Gabe informed me that we didn’t have cell service (we did) “because of the wildness.” We decided to have pirate dinner with Kelly. Basically, we just dressed up like pirates and ate dinner, but Gabe was super excited to carry his pirate flag around. He decided to he...