Sunday: baptism

This morning Isaac was baptized. It is a commitment on our part to raise Isaac to love God as well as we can along with being a seal that Isaac is one of God's children. The pastor also always takes a moment to talk about each childs' name. With Issac he talked about how the Biblical Isaac was one the the great three patriarchs of the faith, passing the faith from generation to generation. (I'll admit, I forgot what else he said but I ordered a DVD so I will remember later.)

Here's Isaac in the back of church after being baptized and having a super wet and dirty diaper. It was really nice to be back at church, even if we were not in the sanctuary.

Afterwards family came over to our house for sandwiches.

The caption on this picture is a) how do we have no furniture but so many empty chairs or b) why didn't anyone come to our super bowl party?

Saturday: moving

Today we moved!

Here is Isaac in his moving outfit. Unfortunately, he didn't wear it while moving. I was trying to bring him to Allison's where she was going to watch him, but I got a late start nursing him before bringing him over. Then he peed on the outfit. Then he pooped in the clean diaper. Then I realized I didn't have a second spare outfit in the diaper bag, so had to go find the box with clean laundry in it.

Fortunately, things went much better after this. The uhaul did fill up, but everything got on in one trip. Then everyone pitched in to help clean the house, and around 12:45 we were pulling out of the driveway with everything completed at the house.

I picked up Isaac so that Allison and the girls could join us for pizza. Then we unpacked the uhaul, put together some furniture, brought in some stuff that was just sitting in the garage, and folded the furniture pads by 2:45. Isaac kind enough to sleep the whole time.

The rest of the day we slowly unpacked some things and relaxed. Isaac got his second real bath...this time we were successful in getting an entire bath in, but I'm not sure I like how it was done, so the procedure will have to change next time.

Friday: (mostly) packed

Today started out with Isaac's five week picture! The quilt also got finished this week. And we're wearing red and hearts to Raise awareness of women's heart disease

Most of the rest of the day was spent packing, although we did take a break for lunch and to buy some fabric. The good news is that pretty much everything is packed though. We forgot the microwave and there are some clean and dirty clothes still in baskets and a few random things are out, but everything else is in a box. It's rather amazing how many boxes it takes to get all the stuff that we had here. (my guess, though, is that everything will fill up about two-thirds of the u-haul.)

Thursday: packing

Today a lot of packing got done. And some unpacking got done. It is kind of like Christmas to open up boxes that were packed up last April and sitting in storage since then.

Isaac took his first pacifier today (twice even). It seemed to come out of his mouth fairly quickly, but still stayed in long enough to calm him down.

(I know it's dark, but it is what you get at 4am)

Wednesday 2: well child visit

Can you believe I forgot to report the results of our doctors visit?

Isaac weighs 10 pounds (up 3 lb since birth), grew an inch, has good color, and is very aware. The doctor was very happy with how he's doing!

Wednesday: a night conversation

3am
Ben: i'm afraid
Amanda: what are you afraid of?
B: oceans
A: why are you afraid of oceans?
B: they make my books wet.
A: are you afraid of hoses?
B: some
A: are you afraid of glasses of water...
B: and babies. Babies make everything wet
A: true

We had dinner with Ben's family...everyone was able to be there and so it was a little crazy, but in a very good way. Autumn tried teaching Isaac how to laugh, it didn't work. :(

Hunger Monster

Hunger Monster has been one of my nicknames for Isaac. Today it worked for us and against us.

Once again it was every two hours between feedings last night.

But...he also took his first bottle from Ben without any problems. Hurray! (Of course, there also wasn't enough in the bottle so he was hungry again 15 minutes later.)