josiah’s ear infections are better. there’s a little fluid behind his right ear that she said to make sure we keep an eye on (if he starts to act fussy about it, like pulling on it, call). please pray for josiah. he finally got his 6 month vaccs today and he’s been out of sorts all night. very grumpy and sensitive to everything. 
pray that he is safe and ok.
jeremiah didn’t get any vaccs today, but i took BOTH BOYS to the dr BY MYSELF. i don’t know if i’ve done this without losing my mind. i decided to take the double stroller in. it worked fabulously. jeremiah was SO GOOD! he usually cries and just hates the nurses and drs. but today he was a perfect angel. a total gentleman. he did everything he was asked, and when he was told ‘good job’ on something, he said ‘thank you’. LOL!
when we were waiting for the nurse and dr, he played with the toys that were in there. there were five letters and five dinosaurs. he loves letters and he loves dinosaurs. he asked me, ‘what yedder dis?’ and i’d tell him. he’d repeat it, then go to the next one. when five were done, he’d say, ‘where more yedders?’ and i’d tell him there weren’t any more in that room. he’d go around the room, calling, ‘yedders, yedders, whayre ahhhh youuuuu yedders?’ it was adorable!!!!!!!!!!! oh and there was a lone number – the number three. i couldn’t for the life of me get him to say number three though – he kept saying ‘yedder fwee’. LOL! as for the dinosaurs, he played with them for a while too. he had fun just PLAYING. he is such a little boy! he just played on his own, having his dinosaurs talk to each other! i told him today he needs to start naming things. he always calls animals by their names. so he was holding one in each hand, ‘hi dysore, i dysore!’ just like he says, ‘hi, i me, mi-mi!’ 
we are trying to get him to say ‘hi, my name is jeremiah’ or at the very least, ‘hi, my name is mi-mi’. but so far it’s not working.
another quickie about josiah – he is still trying to pull himself up bigtime. but now once he’s on his knees, he forgets how to get back down! he thinks he’s trapped and he cries. of course, it COULD be that his legs hurt. it’s gotten much worse today since his shots. so i’m not counting that possibility out!
as for ME – i have lost 7.5 lbs in my biggest loser competition. my pants are feeling loose. people are noticing that i’m losing weight. i am feeling better. my goal is still a long way away, but i’m making it! slow and steady wins the race, right?!?!?!
each friday we have a challenge. it usually involves exercise. today it is trunk crunchers. they are HARD, but i’m enjoying them so much that i am going to add them to my daily routine. the other ones i’ve kept doing are the arm circles. i do at least 100 in the shower every morning.
i am loosely following weight watchers. some days i do better than others. but obviously something is working because i’ve lost at least half a pound every week. (note, this is on MY SCALE amanda, not yours LOL.)
one more thing before i get back to my crunches – jerry is going to open his own blog! he’s looking into the name right now, but i’m excited for him. oh, and he has been working on http://www.lifeisprecious.org. let us know what you think. 
