Thursday: giraffes, Flurry, and socks

Today we learned about giraffes.  Did you know that Isaac is only slightly longer than a giraffe's tongue?  We also played with his two giraffes, Mabel and Geoff.  Mabel is in love with Isaac.  You can see it in her eyes.

Flurry had a good day exploring boxes.  It's always fun to suddenly find her in a new box.

And lastly, I decided I needed to get rid of some of my socks.  My problem is that I've only gotten rid of them if there is a hole.  But if they don't fit right or there is almost a hole, I tend not to wear them.  So I decided I would document them and then get rid of them.  Isaac helped show them off.

(I think the black socks look like a colonial hat.)

(He wasn't as helpful of a model for the second set.)

I was working on getting pictures for the picture wall, and was having a very hard time capturing Isaac smiling (he doesn't do it very long or very often).  Then I thought I'd grab a still image from a movie, only to realize that the movie quality pictures are rather bad.  But I joined them all together so you too can see what Isaac looks like.


In other news, yesterday Isaac and I finished reading Song of Songs for our devotions.  I know he doesn't understand anything yet, but it was still weird to read it to him.  Really weird.

Also, I have come to truly loathe a lot of packaging.  I didn't take most of Isaac's toys and clothes apart until the last week, and those silly little white ...uh, bands?  the things that hold tags to clothing...are my new nemesis. Companies used them very liberally and they are annoying and sometimes hard to get out.  Not only do you end up with one little end that falls on the floor half the time, sometimes it was hard to remove them without cutting the thing of interest.  One company that didn't use them was Gerber; they used tape.  While it felt really odd to untape the clothes (and they used tape liberally too) it was a lot better than the white things.

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!