A long week!

This week has been long and extremely challenging for me. Our family has all been sick, icky sick (puking, diareah, etc.). I was the first one to get sick and with no time to recover my strength and energy, each of the kids took their turn with the sickness and we are still going.

Busy, Busy, Busy

Well, what can I say but sorry for being gone so long. We have been very busy with family and friends and to top it off the hardrive on our computer went bad so we had to get a new one (thank goodness for the extended warranty that we almost didn't buy!?!?!). But we are back and I plan to get back into my semi regular blog updates. So today is not going to include any pictures because I need to reload our picture program onto the new hardrive, So next time I will post the pictures.
So what have we been up to? Well 3 weeks ago Craig's parents came to visit for a little over a week. This was so great because we hadn't seen them in about 9 months and obviously this means they had never met Josiah. We had a fun filled first couple of days. We went to a birthday party, the zoo, and a beautiful hike to Wallace Falls. After that we slowed down as we all got sick. It was a bummer to be sick but we still really enjoyed our time together. A couple of days after they left we went on a trip to Palm Desert, CA to see Papa and Nana Ushler. This was a lot of fun and we were all finally recovering from our colds. We went to the pool every day and enjoyed wearing sandals, shorts, and swim suits. I think the temperature averaged low to mid 90's while we weer there. Hot! Hot! Hot! A couple of days after returning from CA we had our good friend Jake Beaty visit us for a couple days. We had a lot of fun catching up. Isaac absolutely adores Jake and became his permanent shadow while he was staying with us. Last weekend we got to celebrate Mother's day with my (Jennifer) mom in Anacortes. Things seemed like they were slowing down to a normal pace and routine but we have one more weekend with guests. we have some great friends from the ministry we were in who are going to come up and stay with us for a few days. It will be good to catch up. And Isaac loves to play with their 5 boys. Yes, I did say 5 boys, which will bring the total occupancy in our house to 7 boys under the age of 9 and 4 adults. 13 people in a 2 bedroom house. WOW! Don't ask how it works but it does and we love it! We love having friends over. We are blessed with great friends that are like family to us and are excited at any chance we get to spend with them. Well that is all for now. I will try and post some pictures from our latest adventures soon!

Extreme Blowout #1

Oh boy, Josiah had his first extreme blowout today. We have had leaky diapers, but none this extreme. All I can say is I am glad I was at home and Craig was there to help me with clean up. It took all 4 hands to strip him down while containing the mess as much as possible. The poop went all the way up to his neck and actually got in his hair in the back (his hair is quite long so that doesn't help). With a blowout this big a bath is required. Isaac had a good time helping to bathe his brother in the sink!

Happy Boys!

Isaac loves to lick the beater! But what kid doesn't, right!

Here is Josiah's first smile that I caught on camera. It is even cuter in person if you can believe it! He now is 7 weeks old and weighs 12lbs 14oz (which is exactly what Isaac weighed at 7 weeks) and is starting to make adorable cooing sounds to go along with his adorable smile!

Sleepy boys

Josiah in his snow suit. Yes, it is still cold enough in Mid March to need this. We even had snow this last weekend believe it or not.

Isaac was so excited to have Josiah in his bed while we were doing our bedtime stories. He wanted Josiah to stay in bed with him the whole night. We told him that when Josiah was bigger he could stay with him. We have to tell him that about a lot of things because he wants Josiah to be a part of everything (which is super sweet), but Josiah doen't know how to play with toys yet, etc. So Isaac now tells us he is getting "bigger bigger every day mom". And instead of Isaac trying to get Josiah to play with him all the time Isaac now wants us to just tell Josiah everything he is doing and hold Josiah so that he can watch Isaac play.

So little and so big. Every morning both of the boys get in bed with me and we snuggle. Sometimes they fall back asleep like they did in this picture. I have to be in the middle and they both have to be close enough to touch me. I love these boys!

So sweet! Josiah asleep in his bassinet.

Bedtime stories. Craig always reads Isaac books before bed and now Josiah has joined this routine.

Boy toys

What boy doesn'y love a big cardboard box to play in?

Isaac LOVES Thomas the train as you can see!

Curly hair?

When Josiah's hair is wet it is curly. Maybe he will have curly/wavy hair like me?!?!? We will have to wait and see I guess.