Tuesday: rattles and naps

Today I made a rattle for Isaac.  I was rather impressed by how the rattle thingy on the play thingy made him stop fussing every time I rolled it...but it isn't very mobile.  It involved putting seven pennies in a small water bottle.  It worked wonderfully.

I also have had a terrible time getting any sort of decent nap since Isaac has been born.  Often Isaac will wake up (it will be the time he decides to take a short nap).  Sometimes the phone will wake me up.  Sometimes I can't get to sleep.  Sometimes the toilet doesn't stop running.  It doesn't seem to matter though...something always manages to interrupt my nap. :(

Here Isaac is sitting on the couch.  Right before this he was sitting all by himself and looked like a very tiny adult. 

Today was much better than yesterday...things were back to normal.  For example, Isaac showed us how he really feels about tummy time.

But he also listened to Alice's advice and got his head up nicely.

We tried a different configuration at the play gym so that Isaac could sit up while playing.  It doesn't work quite as well, but I figured I should at least try because he has a slight flat spot on the back of his head.  We played with the yellow spinney thing with balls in it for about 20 minutes.  Any time he started to get fussy I just started rolling it again...I think he is intrigued by the sound.

Oh, and I finished the master bedroom and bathroom today!  No pictures yet because we're waiting for two lamps to show up.  But Isaac helped to model the last of the socks I'm getting rid of.

The whole day exhausted him.

Sunday: uff

Today didn't really work quite right. It started last night...I'm not sure if I was sleeping more soundly or if Isaac woke up an extra time, but I did not want to get out of bed at all. He almost missed getting fed at 2:30 because I was throughly convinced I had fed him around 2.

Anyway, Isaac didn't nap well all day, Ben and I had headaches, I was super tired, and Isaac was crankier than normal. The good news is that even though Isaac didn't nap well, he was still content to be in his swing...maybe not as long as a normal nap, but it was still very helpful.

We'll try again tomorrow.

Saturday: dice and dips

Ben rented a game kind of like shuffleboard (but with dice) for the week.  Isaac can play!  We played two games as a family.  Ben won one and Isaac won the other.


Also, Isaac pooped during his evening dip.  I was wondering how long it would take until that happened.  We used the kitchen sprayer to rinse him off and then Ben got him ready for bed while I cleaned the sink.  Speaking of dips, Isaac has three toys...a whale, a cowboy duck, and a normal duck.  Here is the normal conversation...

Amanda: what sound does a whale make?
Amanda: (whale noise.  I think I'm pretty good, actually)
Amanda: what sound does a duck make?
Amanda: quack quack
Amanda: what sound does a cowboy duck make?
Amanda: quack quack

I always feel like that last line should be a punch line, but I can't come up with anything.  Any thoughts?

Friday: eight weeks!

Isaac is eight weeks old today!  I even managed to capture a smile.  (It is a smile.  It's hard to tell sometimes in single photos).  However, I didn't get a lot of non-blurry shots...he kept moving!

The nursery is all put together!  Here it is from all four corners going counter-clockwise from the door.  (Don't miss the solar system hanging from the ceiling in the first one!)

 I have a print that I want to hang up, probably on top of the white cubes, but I couldn't easily find it.  So it is on the list of missing things, along with the hammer, a DVD of pictures, some hand-me-down-and-possibly-imaginary clothes for Isaac, and our other bedspread.  The drill was found today.

It was star day (he was wearing stars and there are so many stars in his bedroom) so we read Twinkle Twinkle Little Star for the camera.  It's a really cute book.  And read might be exaggerating a little bit.  We briefly looked at the first page this time.

Isaac realized that he wanted a head shot like Alice.  Of course, the only one with his head high like that was blurry.  But it looks like he's smiling!

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.