Tuesday: decal

The people that owned the house before us put a few decals on the walls.  Two of them I really like.  But this one...not so much.  The main reason is that the orange doesn't stand out well against the green.  (It says "the essence of life".)  I'm also not sure I love the words.  So we decided to take it down.

At that point Isaac woke up.  I thought, well, I'll try doing it with him.  All the online sites say to warm it up with a hair dryer and then peel it off.  Shouldn't be too bad.

15 minutes later, guess how far I was?



Did you guess?


































I was all done.  While holding Isaac.  It pretty much just peeled off without the hair dryer.  (And the orange was really brown.)  I would be up for putting more decals on the walls in the future.

Monday: 4 months

Guess who is 4 months old?!?

Everything is delicious these days.

I hadn't put a bib on him and during the course of the 10 minutes that I was taking pictures he drenched his shirt.

We were trying for a head up picture

Try 2.  He only rolls over if you've set him up just right.  I'm not exactly sure what that setting is though.

He stared at this elephant for about three minutes straight today.

Sunday: water bottles

We reuse our water bottles.  It results in filling up several per day, and we've been lax about it the last two days.  So almost all the water bottles are empty.  I grabbed the remaining ones from the fridge and had a water bottle family photo shoot.  (Although I lost one at church this morning. :( )

It's kind of funny, but several of the water bottles have stories behind them.

*The middle Nalgene and the Nalgene on the right were a Christmas present to Ben a few years back because Flurry kept contaminating our water by drinking it from our glasses.

*The Metal ones (3rd and 5th from right) were a Christmas present from Mom and Dad Hilldore.

*The two Gaterade ones in the middle were the ones that started the "disposable" plastic water bottle collection.  Ben got them for me when I was sick.

*The one that says Freedom Village (in the middle) was from Aunt C last year when we went up to Cadillac.

*The one with dots on it (6th from left) was from a spa in Las Vegas.

*The one 3rd from left was from a Ladies Night out at Crowne Motors last year.

*The other Gaterade (2nd from left) was from Grandma Hilldore...I think at Easter last year because Ben needed something to drink as we were heading out.

Hurrary for water bottle memories!

Saturday: hi

Hi.

Thursday: time to sleep

3:00am: I woke up and got out of bed, put on my robe, and realized that there wasn't a half baby in the living room that needed my attention.  (Don't ask for details...that's all I know.)  I wondered if Isaac had still woken me up without realizing it, so I went to the bathroom and got some water.  He was still quiet so I went back to sleep.

4:00am: Isaac wakes up hungry.  I was so proud of him...he had slept for 4.5 hours!  While I was changing him the first time he smiled at me...oh no, bad sign.  He's awake.  Well, maybe he'll fall asleep while eating some more.

4:20am: Isaac is awake and wants to tell Ben and I a story.  We don't want to hear it, so we open his door and turn off the monitor.  He just tells us the story more loudly.

4:40am: He finally goes to sleep.

6:00am: Isaac thinks it's time to wake up again.  It takes 20 minutes of convincing, but he changes his mind.

I hope tonight is better.  It's been rather rough so far.  Oddly rough, actually.  Usually he goes down with no problems.

Edit: He's also 17 weeks old!

Thursday: around the house

Yesterday while photographing weeds (or not weeds) I noticed that we can see under the fake roof under the deck.  It is not very well made and Ben and I are hoping to take it down sometime this summer.  Anyway, can you see the wooden boards in the middle of the photo?  And how much they've warped?  If that can even be considered warping.  It might be too severe.

My clothes line!  It sunned for a few minutes in the morning so I put some diaper covers out.  It proceeded to be not sunny and not windy, so they only dried a little bit.

I have a drinking problem.  Or a cleaning up problem.  It looks a little better now.

Isaac wore matching shirt and socks today.  He put the hat on for the photo, but it was a bit small.

The laundry is all unpacked!  Dad came and helped us take the folding doors off today.  While they nicely kept it hidden within the room, one of them blocks the "outer" door from closing if it is open.  So it was a pain because I always had to open and close two doors to get to the dryer.  Or if they were open I didn't have much room to get in and out.

I got a check for one cent.  I will be depositing it, but only because I have another check to deposit too.

Wednesday: weed or not weed?

So with moving into a new house, a lot of green things are popping up and I don't know what they are.  So we're going to play a game of "Weed or not weed".  I put some polls on the side of the blog for easy voting.

Exhibit A

Exhibit B

Exhibit C

Exhibit D

 Exhibit E

 

Exhibit F

Exhibit G

This isn't a weed (well, the long leafed thing).  But we have a ton of it.  Do you know what it is?

 

Finally, Exhibit H