Wednesday: decipus

This afternoon, in the middle of a bunch of crying, I thought I'd see if Isaac's diaper needed to be changed. I got him on the changing table with his diaper off and noticed he was enthralled with my shadow on the wall. After putting a wipe over him to contain any mess, I made a shadow dog. I quickly realized how limited my shadow puppet knowledge is.

Next I made rabbit ears. Then a decipus. (like an octopus, but with all ten fingers.). When Isaac felt like it, he provided the seaweed for the decipus to eat. (you can see the start of one the picture.)

Isaac was also visited by Haroldette the mouse, daughter of Harold and Haroldina. That went over well also.

After the diaper went back on, Isaac continued to be rather fussy the rest of the evening. (not the whole time, but not his easy-going daytime self either.) I tried to get Flurry to deal with him at one point. She looked at him, he hit her twice, and she left disgustedly. He did go to bed tonight very easily though, so it might have been worth it.

Tuesday: a conundrum

This morning I was going to quickly vacuum the master bath because Flurry made a mess initial while she was stuck there. However, the motor sounded terrible! So I took the vacuum apart so I could look at the motor.

It was full of dirt and cat hair. But here is the conundrum: how do you vacuum the dirt from your only vacuum?

(Isaac was no help in solving that question)

I ended up taking a lot of clumps out by hand. Then I turned on the vacuum to see if it sounded better, and dust flew everywhere! Not really what I wanted, but it did help clean the vacuum.

Isaac was rather fussy in the late afternoon and evening. We moved some clothes out of boxes during this time. It may not have emptied the boxes quickly, but at least there was some progress. The picture looks uncomfortable, but it was the only way he'd be quiet.

Tuesday: getting up

Sometimes I think Isaac mainly gets me up because he has to poop. He might snack, but the main event is the poop.

Monday: relaxing

Today was a relaxing day. I did get a few things done, but not because I had to. I think I only emptied one box, although several other things got done too (the laundry never stops!)

I started a puzzle last night because I've really wanted to do one for a while but it just didn't work out.

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.)