He really DOES do other things

A few days ago, I commented to Philip that the garbage disposal wasn't working and would he please take a look. He looked under the sink to make sure that it was still plugged in (I could have told him that) and then stuck his hand down there to make sure that something like a rag wasn't in the way. He then announced that it was beyond him to fix and I needed to call the landlord. I was not to that point however. I stuck my hand down the drain and fiddled around with the blades and stuff until I found it. A piece of plastic was wedged underneath the blade and up against the side. When I told Philip this- he decided that maybe he really could fix it. He started taking out screws and such trying to get the disposal off. After a phone call to my dad and a phone call to the home teachers he got it off. I quickly called our home teacher back to tell him we figured it out, and that he didn't need to come rescue us. After tugging and prying and grunting he finally got the plastic unstuck. It was a piece of measuring cup. And yes, it was my fault it was down there. I thought I got all the pieces out. Unfortunately we didn't have all the right stuff to put it all back together last night. So this morning Philip ran to the hardware store and got the needed materials to finish the job. I am happy to report that my garbage disposal works good as new!!!

This afternoon we went to Stewart park for a picnic and to find some rocks.
Philip is in charge of Sharing Time tomorrow, and wants the kids to make "rock families". We washed them all, and then drew smiley faces on them. The primary kids will then glue eyes, hair and a nose on them. Should be pretty fun.
Here is Phil with his example rock family.

Also today, I got my first picture with William smiling. He has smiled at me lots, but this is the first one caught on camera.

Ok, so I should have posted a week ago- but I didn't. So last Tuesday William had his 2 month check up. He weighs 16 pounds 12 ounces and is 26 inches tall. I am so sad that he is growing so fast. It is hard to believe that he is already 2 months old! I feel like in no time at all he is going to be sleeping in the crib- in Orions room. I have to admit, I am not ready for this at all! But he is almost too tall for the bassinet so crib- here we come. While we were at the doctors office, Dr. Egglash (our wonderful pediatrician and family doctor) looked at Orion. Turns out that Orion has a strep infection on his bottom. She was so mad that the other doctor we saw didn't even look at Orions bottom. Anyway, we started the antibiotics and Orion is improving daily. The blisters are finally gone, and he is sleeping through the night again. Hooray!!
Lately Orion has been playing a lot with a red block that has a face on it. He calls it "mommy". There are lots of time when he will come up to me and ask "Mommy- wheres my mommy?" It can get quite confusing sometimes. Especially when he does it with the daddy block. It always takes me a couple of seconds to figure out if he is talking about his daddy or the toy. Anyway, the other day he dropped "mommy" down the laundry shoot and this is him trying to reach it.

And here is William. He has learned how to bounce himself in the bouncer, and I just think it is adorable. I love my boys!!!

Blue Bananas

This has been a pretty busy yet pretty relaxed week for us. About a week ago- we discovered Orion has pin worms. NASTY little things. I won't go into detail about them- because I am kind and don't want all of you to be sick after reading this. But because of these little worms, Orion has not been sleeping well, which translates into Mom and Dad not sleeping well. William on the other hand has been sleeping GREAT!

The last few days, Orion has been asking for a "blue banana". I keep telling him I don't have any blue bananas. Today he asked for a blue sandwich. So I called Alice and asked her how to make my sons normal everyday food blue. She suggested I make "An octopus in seaweed". I made blue seaweed.

William is doing well. He sleeps great at night and is pretty happy most of the time during the day. He likes to snuggle and look at people. He has also started batting at toys if Orion will leave them alone long enough for him to bat at.

My garden is doing great. Well, kinda. The bunnies won't leave my green bean be- so I am not getting any of those, but I have squash and zucchini galore! I would have a lot more but for some reason about half of what should turn into beautiful produce, starts rotting on the vine. I haven't quite figured out why yet.