Sunday: happy Easter

He is Risen!  He is risen indeed!

We didn't go to church due to colds, but still had a family devotion time.

Thursday: cold

I got a cold today.  Just enough to make me annoyed and not feeling great.

I also got a new iron!  And some crackers.  I thought that I had purchased two boxes, but I cannot find them.

See...I'm a little loopy.

Tuesday: this and that

I remembered to go to work this morning. :)

Isaac carried around his sleeping buddies a bit today.  Sometimes he is more willing to give them hugs than me.

He also seemed a little bit under the weather this evening.  So we didn't go play racquetball.  It was one of those things were I wasn't sure he was feeling bad enough to cancel, but then it was a good choice.  After dinner and some medicine Isaac seemed much better.

Monday: coming home

We made it home.

Phew.

Isaac started with a rough time on the airplane...he wouldn't sit still.  We finally took off and so I gave him some baby food in a juicebox type container.  It was really clean the last two times we used it.

It was not clean this time.  But...Isaac finally contented himself by playing with the burp cloth I got out to blot things off.  And then Ben finally got him to sleep and he slept most of the way.

See all the orange?

Although Florida was really nice, it's also nice to be home.  Isaac and I took good naps this afternoon.  Flurry was happy to see all of us.

Too bad we have to go back to work tomorrow.  I'm really afraid I'm going to forget to set my alarm and Isaac will decide to sleep in.

More Florida

I got so into relaxing during Florida I didn't do a very good job of posting.  But here are a few more photos that were taken...

On the boat.

Besides going in the hot tub, Isaac's favorite activity was going in and out of the door.  Seriously.  He did it for hours whenever the door was open.  And it was really funny to watch, because in order to not hurt himself he had to take a giant step/crawl over the bottom.

And splashing.

Saturday: Florida

We've been having a good time down here relaxing. Isaac has spent quite a bit of time playing with the ducks in the pool. Although seen here in the big pool, we've often warmed up the hot tub and played in there. Isaac can walk on the seat and play with the ducks, and it seems to work a little bit better. And I don't get cold.



Today we also went on a boat ride to the Bubble room. They have delicious desserts!

Wednesday: made it

Today we made it to Florida! The plane ride wasn't terrible, but it was far from great. Isaac was tired but couldn't get comfortable to sleep for the first three-quarters of the trip.

But we made it! We played in the pool and ate some gelato and played with the ducks.

My quote of the day: "You didn't finish eating your breakfast banana so you can't eat your book."

Tuesday: hair and video games

Here's the conversation I had with Isaac this morning:

"Isaac, don't pull mom's hair."
Isaac points to his hair.
"Good job, that's your hair!
You can pull your hair."
Isaac points to his hair.
"Good job!  That's your hair.
But you can't pull mom's."

I'm not sure that I got the point across very effectively.

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Isaac found a new video game to play.

(It's the baby monitor.  The screen lights up when he pushes some buttons and there are several buttons to push.  It was THE game of the afternoon.)

Monday: Last night

Last night was a little rough.  Isaac's been fighting a runny nose for a while now, and last night it just seemed to get the better of him.

Of course, I had a hard time falling to sleep in between.  And then I was almost asleep and I smelled something burning.  Instantly I was awake, and decided that nothing was burning...I had just had a dream smell.  But that was another 20 minutes before I could get to sleep again...periodically smelling the air, making sure that nothing was burning.  (Does anyone else ever have that?  It has happened to me a few times now...and it sure seems real.)

And the conversation of the day:
Amanda: "Isaac, your tag is sticking out of your pants."
Isaac: "WWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!"
Isaac runs to Amanda for a hug.

Hi

Autumn and I say hi from outside the nursery door. It turns out that I have no apps for kids on my phone right now, but she is enjoying watching me type. What else shall we talk about right now? The wall we are looking at is purple. Autumn thinks the wall is blue. Her boots are pink, but she thinks they're green.


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Friday: children's musuem

Today Isaac and I went with Dad and Landon to the children's museum in GR.  We had fun. :)  Isaac might still be a little young to get how to play with the stuff (correctly), but he's old enough to enjoy being in a new environment.  And he loved being able to walk around!  He kept walking in and out of a tree house that they had on the second floor.


Making a bridge out of Lincoln logs for the train.

Playing with what are basically giant building blocks.

Looking in a square mirror.

Balls!  This is the one that Isaac played with the best.

Thursday: uncles

Today we ended up with all of Ben's siblings and there was a big nerf gun war going on.  Well, as big of a war as you can get with two nerf guns and some babies running around.  Anyway, Travis was trying to get Jacob.  Ben got the gun from Travis.  Travis ran out into the open.  Jacob came out from his hiding place, and started aiming.

POW.

Ben got him in the shoulder.  The look on his face was hilarious since he completely wasn't expecting it.

The moral of the story: you've got to watch out for your uncles.

Wednesday: spring break

After never expecting a true spring break again, I'm happy to announce that I'm on spring break.  I had a class this morning...I'm sitting in on a class that I'm going to teach next semester on Excel and Access.  There's some stuff that I don't know, but nothing that I can't pick up.  And I'm really sitting in on the class just a few times to see how it is run.

I also had my Wednesday section of CAD this afternoon.  There's only 10 people, compared to Tuesday's 22, so it always feels a more laid back.

Isaac is still walking by himself all over the place.  We went to the library and he realized that he could bounce the metal bookends and that they would make a clanging noise.  After that I basically just skimmed for a few books that looked ok as I followed him around, trying to muffle the noise.

Tuesday: baby-adult

Kitty-cat.
Puppy-dog.
Bunny-rabbit.


Ok, I'm going to admit, this post suddenly derailed.  I was going to say how weird it is that so many animals are called by their baby-adult names, but you never hear of a baby-adult (for humans).  But then I could only think of three examples so maybe it isn't so weird that you never hear of baby-adults.

Monday: there he goes!

So...walking.  As you may remember, Isaac took his first solo steps about a month ago.  I had figured that it wouldn't be long before the walker was just a memory, but that didn't really happen.  In fact, there was about a week were he would only walk with the walker.  (I think it was due to teething.)  And even when he did walk, it was because Ben or I put him on his feet with a goal not too far away.

But then this evening he decided to walk.  By himself, just for fun.  He went across the house and back, and then a few other times throughout the night.  He exhausted himself out.  Balancing is hard work.

(Hopefully it keeps up tomorrow!)
(Quote of the day: Isaac, don't bite the couch.)

Sunday: daylight savings

When Isaac woke up this morning, I looked at the clock and it said 5:45.  Ugg.  Before his wake-up time.  I made him wait 15 minutes hoping he'd go back to sleep, but he didn't.

Then I was looking at my I-pad after getting Isaac up, and it said 7:11.  Whoo-hoo!  It was time for breakfast!  I gained an hour.  Isaac may have thought he was waking up early, but really he remembered DST and got up at the right time.

In other news, I said the following today: "Isaac, don't lick the floor."  I'm sure it will be the first of many supposedly obvious things.

Cousins

Friday: nap

My to-do list feels like it is exploding. But housework is so boring. So today, after the gym, I took a nap instead of getting things done.

As always, I was in a better mood afterwards. I got a few things done, but was mostly happy to ignore it. :D

Thursday: groceries

We went to Meijer to get groceries today.  As we were walking in Isaac pointed to the horse several times.  I told him we had to wait until we had the groceries.

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As we got groceries I felt that everything was on sale.  It was rather crazy, actually.  I ended up stocking the pantry a little bit since some of the deals were so good.

As we were checking out Isaac started pointing to the horse and making his excited noise again.  (We were pretty far away from Sandy at that point.  I was surprised that Isaac noticed the horse.)  We finally finished checking out and Isaac got his ride.  I'm sure it was all he was hoping for.

(Now I just need to make sure that I have pennies with me when we go to the store.  (The ride costs 1 cent.)  It's one of those things that it seems like you never run out of, but if I'm actually using them they might disappear quickly.)

Tuesday: OT 2x

Isaac and I made it through the Old Testament in his Bible today.

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It's been interesting because each story is about eight to ten sentences long.  It gets the main point across, but skips over many of the details that the Bible has.  It makes me wonder how many details the Bible has left out that are not crucial but would still be interesting.  And how many stories got left out.

Interestingly, this is the one book that Isaac has a problem letting me read to him.  It started out fine, but recently he wants to hold it alone.  Usually I hold the books and he turns the pages (at least for once through the book), but for this book he just screams.  So while we've made it through the Old Testament, I'm not sure he's getting anything.  Oh well, I'll keep persevering.  And he likes holding it himself, so that's good at least.

Monday: 14 months

I took Isaac's 14 month pictures a few days ago.

Some with the quilt

(I know he looks really sad here, but I have limited pictures on his back.)

And that was the end of the photo shoot...

Isaac loves his walker so much that he has a hard time letting go.

Sunday: napping

Today Ben and I both napped longer than Isaac did.  Isaac slept for a short 30 minutes, Ben had a long 30 minutes, and I had 120 minutes.

While I'm ok with Isaac switching to only one nap per day (he's still on the fence), I'm not really ready for them to be that short.  I've decided that part of the reason babies sleep so much in the beginning is so the parents can slowly get used to having another child.

Saturday: Happy Birthday!

This afternoon we went to a surprise birthday party for Pat.  She was surprised!  And it was nice to see everyone.

Here's the woman of the hour and Isaac.

Friday: goal

One of my goals today was to not take a nap. I failed.

Flurry's goal was to take several naps and she succeeded.