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We can finally, officially, say that Ethan is 2 1/2 as of a week ago.  It’s kind of nice for me since people would look at me a little weird when I would say that Ethan was 2 and Isaac is 9 months.  They really are about 2 years apart!    A few changes have come about with the extra half year tacked on.  Ethan’s started talking back a little more and became even more bossy, if that was even possible.   He told me this morning that the tv was “too loud tb momma” and actually told Ryan “don’t freak out” after he bit him on the neck.  Not sure where he learned that one!  And he now says “stop talking momma” when he doesn’t want to hear whatever it is I’m saying.  All these things are so funny and so hard not to laugh at, but he has gotten in trouble for them.    We’ve put a hold on potty training for now, he was getting frustrated with me asking if he needed to go and I was getting sick of  going through 3-4 pairs of pants a day.  So I’ll take him if he asks to go but otherwise we’re going to wait until we get back from a trip next month to really resume it and we’ll see how it goes with another month of maturity under his belt.  He actually did ask to go this morning at church when he was in the nursery, which was a little surprising since neither Ryan or I were there.

Isaac is doing well too, he’ll be 10 months old at the end of the week!  He hasn’t fulfilled Ryan’s prediction of walking within three weeks, though to be fair he still has a week left.  He is still hesitant to let go of things to stand on his own, but he has been tricked into standing on his own briefly.  I have a feeling once he learns how to really let go that he won’t stay just standing for long.  He still adores his big brother and they holler back and forth quite regularly.   It makes dinner time pretty loud around here.

Isaac had his 9 month appointment yesterday, as if we hadn’t been to the doctor enough lately, and it went just fine.  He’s still recovered from his pneumonia, provided he didn’t pick anything up while we were there.  He now is 28 1/2 inches tall, which puts him in about the 60th percentile, and weighs 15 lbs 7.5 ounces, which dropped him off the bottom of the weight chart.  Yep, that’s right, he’s not even on the curve.  I’m not entirely sure how I ended up with tall skinny kids, it certainly wasn’t from me.  His doctor isn’t that worried, especially since he was just sick and we know he dropped some weight then, and because his activity level is really high.  And I mean really high.  He’s just a very high energy kid.  So where some people’s calories may have a chance to sit around and turn into some weight, his calories don’t have a chance to do anything but let him move.

In Ethan news, we’ve started potty training.  So far so good, but it’s only been two days.  I know some people think I’m starting late, but he’s not even two and a half yet, which is about when you want to start with boys.  We all know boys mature slower than girls and potty training is no exception.  I still don’t know that he’s entirely ready because he could care less when he’s dirty, but he likes going on the potty.  We got two little froggy potties for up and downstairs and he really likes them, especially since they are green.  And we got some cool big kid underwear that he got to wear for a little while today.  We’ll see how it goes, I’ll keep you updated. 

Before having Isaac, I didn’t really believe moms who said they had trouble getting their kids to sit still to change their diapers.  I figured it was somehow their failing to get the child to be still.  I mean, how could a little 15# kid best a full grown adult?  Well, I admit it.  I was wrong.  I never had a problem with Ethan, yeah he squirmed sometimes but overall he sat pretty still for that and I could control him.  Isaac is an entirely different child.  He is just about the squirmiest kid I have ever seen in my life!  He rarely sits still for more than a few seconds at a time, and since he has recently started pulling himself up on furniture and cruising around it, he sits even less than before.  So he makes diaper changing time, let’s just say it’s more interesting.  I usually can keep him still long enough to undo his diaper and get it partway off before he starts flipping himself over, not fun when most diapers contain at least some #2 (he also does this more than most kids I’ve ever met!).  The kid only weighs just over 15# (he actually lost about half a pound while he was sick last week, not the best for an already small peanut) but he has the strength of, well, almost of me.  I feel like I’m going to wrench his poor little hip out of socket while I’m trying to keep his legs still to wipe him down!  And of course any sort of restraint just infuriates him.  He doesn’t get it yet that if he would just hold still for a few seconds he would be done and could get down in about half the time.  Instead we spend twice as long trying to hold him still enough to get the job done.  Of course, we knew his squirminess would be an issue from the moment I first felt him move, a full month before his brother, and the intensity of the kicks.   It is fun to watch him get around though, he started crawling around 6 months and has only gotten faster since.  Ryan predicts he’ll be walking within the next 3 weeks, we’ll see!  His health is doing much better now, the final diagnosis was pneumonia.  And he actually did really well for all the nebulizer treatments.  I didn’t think he would sit still for those since they took about 20 minutes each, but he sat still the whole time.  And it wasn’t because he wasn’t feeling well, because except for his cough you couldn’t even tell he was sick!  But now, 6 visits to the pediatrician later, he has been declared well.  Until he picks up another virus, probably tomorrow.