Monday: Grand Haven and Boxes

Today Isaac and I went to Grand Haven to have lunch with some of my old co-workers.  Isaac charmed them.  He also charmed some of the tables next to us...it was a good time.

Sunday: Plate

Scene: Dinner time, the food is ready to eat but still in the kitchen, waiting to be served.  Ben is wondering what size plate Amanda would like.


Ben: Big plate?  Little plate?
Amanda: What begins with plate?

Sigh.  Children's books are getting stuck in my head. (If you aren't familiar with the book, every letter starts with "Big A...Little a.  What begins with A?"  Or whatever letter it's on.)

(photo from Amazon)

Saturday: not much

I don't have much to say for today.  Isaac was still not excited about his afternoon naps, but did manage to take two short ones.  He also wore some 9 month pants.  They're a little long, but fit fine due to the huge cloth diapers.  He was wearing 3mo and 6mo pants, but the 3mo pants are now too small.  He didn't have enough 6mo pants and since he's going to outgrown them soon I decided to just go for 9mo.  I know, exciting times, right?

Friday: uff

Today didn't really go all that well.  The morning was ok, but afternoon then rolled around.  I was tired and wanted a nap.  I thought Isaac was acting tired, so I put him in the swing.

Isaac: I don't want to be here.
Amanda: Let's try the crib.
Isaac: That's ok, but I don't want to sleep here.
Amanda: Ok, you're not tired.
Isaac: No, I'm tired.
Amanda: Let's try the swing.
Isaac: I don't want to be here.
Amanda: Ok, let's join Flurry and we'll both nap on my bed.
Isaac: No
Amanda: How many want to sleep on my bed?  Three.  How many are sleeping on my bed?  Zero.
Isaac: I still don't want to sleep.
Flurry: I'm out of here.
Amanda: So are we.  Let's try the swing.  (And follow Flurry)
Isaac: NO SWING
Amanda: Ben, dinner change.  Let's order pizza.
Isaac: Fine, I'll sleep on your lap.
Amanda: Ben's home early!  Hooray!

He is also 18 weeks.  His cranky and happy extremes seem to be getting more extreme.  Which is lots of fun when he's happy, and significantly less fun when he isn't.

Everything goes in his mouth.

We play with blocks during tummy time.  Er, I play with them.  Isaac watches.  The goal is to make the highest or coolest tower without it falling over.  Since all the blocks are the same size cubes, I have to be rather creative when making new configurations.  I've recently been rotating some blocks 45 degrees.  The photo below isn't a great example, but some of the blocks are like that on purpose.

Thursday: my day

Today started out with me startling awake to Ben's alarm.  (And by starting, I mean anything that happens after 6am).  Before I knew what was happening I was sitting up with my glasses on.  Ben told me to lay back down, so I did.  It was nice that Isaac was sleeping in a bit, although it was only because he woke up twice during the night.

We had our doctor appointments today.  I'm healthy.  My weight actually came in a few pounds under my pre-pregnancy weight, which shocked me.  I thought I was about a pound over.  I think it was because it was a different time than normal and I hadn't eaten anything.  But it was still nice to see.

Isaac is also healthy.  He weighed 14 pounds even (31%) and was 25.25" long (60%).  He is doing everything that he should be doing.  He also got his shots.  He did pretty well for a few hours, and then had a few hours where he was really cranky.  If I moved him he started screaming.  So I didn't move him too much, but he wasn't very happy sitting still either.

We talked to some neighbors by the lake because it was a very nice day out.  I also cleaned under the deck (there is a walkout area).  There were a ton of fishing lures scattered about.  Some with large rusty hooks that scare me.  I hope I got all of them, but I probably didn't.

For our dinner side I made some cornbread from a mix (like muffin mix) in an effort to get rid of food that we've had for a while and haven't eaten.  It was disgusting!  Now I know why it was on clearance when we bought it.

Wednesday: pots and burps

Today I planted some beans and lettuce.  Yesterday I quizzed Nathan on growing stuff in some pot on our porch, and he ended up suggesting lettuce.  It is currently planting season, and since it was a beautiful day I ended up just doing it.  (It meant that I took out all of the growing stuff from Exhibit F, but something bloomed in Exhibit E and everyone agreed that Exhibit G wasn't a weed.)

(Insert imaginary picture of dirt here.  It is currently rather boring so I didn't take picture.)

We had dinner with Dad and Pat.  Pat was teaching Isaac to fake burp and Isaac seemed to be doing it.  Now I'm slightly scared that his first word is going to be burp.

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.