To the Doctor
So Jacob still has been having some yucky diapers recently so I took him to the doctor's yesterday. Turns out he has a little ear infection in one ear. I am not sure if that is causing all of the other, but he is on some medication now. He got weighed as well and now is a hefty 18 pounds, 7 ounces. That was with his diaper on, so it is probably a little less than that, but at 9 months he only weighed 17 pounds, 2 ounces. I am glad he seems to be getting bigger now.

We got sent home from the YMCA today because Nathan had 2 yucky diapers, so it is another day at home tomorrow. If he isn't better tomorrow, I'll take him to the doctor. Ugh!

Visitors
Last weekend we had our friends, Chris and Angie, come in town for a visit. We went to Purdue with them and then we went to Seminary with them and then Chris and Daryl worked at LifeChurch.tv together. So, we have known them for a while. They have a son who is a few weeks older than Nathan. The boys had fun playing together and we enjoyed visiting as well.


FUN Week
We had an interesting last week. I have figured out that I have cleaned up every sort of body liquid possible. Here are the gory details...

1. pee - Nathan had some wardrobe malfunctions this week. Several mornings when he woke up one of the tabs on his diaper was broken so he peed all over the bed and himself. Pretty gross in itself, but it gets quite worse.

2. spit up - Of course Jacob is a pro at this and it required some cleaning on my part.

3. blood - We went to the park when our friends were in town and Nathan ended up taking a tumble and his lip and the step became friends. He bled all over his shirt.

4. vomit - All of us in the house, except for Nathan, have had a bug this past week which resulted in vomiting. The worse was probably when Jacob got sick in bed. I went in to get him and he was swimming in a lake of poo and vomit. Ugh!

5. poo - Jacob has had a good case of diarrhea along with the vomit.

6. snot - Jacob and Nathan have a runny nose now.

Needless to say, my washing machine has been running overtime this past week. I am hoping that all of our bodily fluids will stay where they belong for a while. I am sure you didn't come to read the blog to hear about all of this, but that is what is new with us. I was out of work for 4 days last week with it.

New Jacob Milestone
Today Jacob went from a lying down position to sitting up. He did it twice. We'll see if he got lucky or if this is a new skill for him. He is getting a lot better at getting up on his knees as well. He'll get up and rock from time to time. He is trying to pull up, too!

Well, we are doing well. Not too much new happening. Jacob has been honing his crawling skills and is pretty good now. He still does the army crawl. He loves to crawl over to where Nathan is and mess with what he is up to. I guess it will be that way for a long time now. Nathan does pretty well with it and thinks he is pretty funny. At least so far.

This past weekend we went to a community festival and Nathan and Jacob experienced their first parade. The firetrucks were his favorite... and the candy.

Here is a fun picture of the boys tonight in the bath together...

Reunion
This past weekend we were able to visit with a lot of family from my dad's side at the Weir family reunion. Daryl played golf on Saturday morning and his team won, Jacob and I went to a BBQ on Saturday evening, and then today (Sunday) we had the actual reunion. There was a good turnout this year and it was great to see everyone. Most people there we get to see just once a year. Nathan and Jacob both did very well. There were lots of boys for Nathan to play with. They definitely outnumber the girls.

Funny....
So I found this video tonight and I think it sums up life with kids pretty well.