Tuesday: our day

Last night Isaac did sleep well and almost even woke up one less time. (he woke up at 6:30, but happily he went down to sleep right away until 8am). We'll see if it works again.

Isaac's room is almost unpacked and put together. There are a few more things to do and then I'll be ready to post pictures.

I went and played Bunco with some women from the church tonight. The game itself is completely based on luck and really, rather boring. But at the same time it was nice to get out and do something.

I returned home just in time to give Isaac his dip. A dip is similar to a bath, but there is no soap. We do our dips in the sink, and I finally had the idea to put that no-slip rubber matting stuff under him and that helped a ton! Oh, he did get his gums rinsed out too as we're trying to improve Isaac's breath quality.

Monday: misc

Here is the baptism video.  I wasn't able to combine them without losing significant image quality, so you have two videos.  And the second one you may want to skip the middle section of the other babies being baptized.


3:15-6:04 are the other baptisms...while important, maybe skippable for the purposes of this blog.


Today our goal was to keep Isaac awake for an hour in between naps during the day.  The reason is that he has started waking up around 4am quite awake.  Ben and I usually go give him a pacifier once and that does the trick, but it is still not what we want to be doing.  This was a little hard, but we did it...and it seemed to work rather well even.  The real test will be tonight.  Oh, except for right before dinner, when even tummy time couldn't wake him up.

Flurry has found a new hiding spot under Isaac's crib, although it looks like she's in jail.

I set Isaac down in the non-swinging swing for five minutes to go move around some furniture and he fell asleep.  But he had been awake for a while, so it was rather understandable

Sunday: isaac's problem, furniture

Isaac: waah
Amanda: you don't have any problems. What are you crying about?
Isaac: waah
Amanda: are you crying because your problem is that you don't have any problems?
Isaac scratches his face. There's a small drop of blood.
Isaac: WAAH
Amanda: there was no need to go and give yourself an actual problem for my sake.

I also spent quite a bit of time putting furniture together. The crib is all done and he is sleeping in it tonight.

The dresser is almost finished. I really like how everything looks and it is good quality stuff, but the assembly instructions could use a bit of work. One thing was labeled incorrectly, some bars didn't have labels, and there were not unique identifiers between the pieces of furniture. Hence, I put on two "C" pieces and then couldn't find the rest. It turned out they were unlabeled and I had to undo work that I had done.

Isaac's good idea, bad idea

Good idea: eating when you are hungry

Bad idea: yelling at the food in front of you when you are hungry

Saturday: a surprise and cousins

This morning my cousin and her daughter stopped by to see Isaac and me...it was fun.

Then this afternoon I started putting the crib together and ran into a large surprise...it is really a crib, changing table, and small dresser. This actually stressed me out a little bit because I was happy with the expected layout of isaac's room and now I need to choose what furniture I don't want. I know, it was a silly thing to be stressed about, but at least I identified it.

At night we went to Dad and Pat's and saw Kate and Oliver!

Friday: seven weeks

Isaac is seven weeks old!

. Last night Ben took the first night feeding with a bottle. Isaac also decided to skip his midnight feeding again, so I only had to get up once during the night!
Today we learned about helicopters. He wore helicopters and Ben flew his RC helicopter around a bit

We also learned about a few of the tools used to fix helicopters. We did this while Ben put together my new desk chair.

This photo was taken a few days ago, but it shows such a happy Isaac!

hmm, I thought I had a ton of other things to say, but I can't remember.

Thursday: green, kitchen, going out

Today was green day. It all started when Isaac wore a green shirt, pants with green on them, and green socks. Then since Ben wasn't dressed yet, Isaac thought it would be good for him to wear his green shirt. I threw on a green shirt, grabbed Flurry (who has green eyes) for a family picture.

Isaac was exhausted from organizing all that, so took his first nap of the day. I finished unpacking and cleaning the kitchen, and it looks awesome. Now to keep it that clean...

Finally, we had several errands to do this morning. This leads to a question...Isaac often seems to overheat in his car seat. So we used the bjorn at the library because he was awake and screaming (and hot). Then we used the stroller at Barnes & Noble because he was asleep (he got pretty warm, but not sweaty). What do other people do when going out to make everything go smoothly? Are there any tricks? I know he might get too hot because he screams, but then I think he screams because he is too hot.