Thursday: dressing up

Ethan and Isaac both decided to get their Dutch costumes on so that they could have have their picture taken.  Getting both boys to look at the camera at the same time was close to impossible.  Ethan wanted a nap and Isaac kept looking at Ethan.  Thankfully the boys put up with their mothers pretty well.

Then at night we went to watch Jacob's baseball game.  He made it to third base, and their team won by seven.  Woo-hoo!  Isaac dressed up in his baseball shirt for the event.  (White with red stitching.)

Wednesday: firsts

It seems like every day Isaac has some sort of first.  Or at least an improvement.  Sometimes it is just being to do something better than before, sometimes it is something that Ben and I decide to do with him, and sometimes it is something really cool.

Today I have several new things to report.

He found his toes.

He sat in a high chair (to eat his fruit).  The only reason he sat in this is because I found it at a garage sale last weekend and cleaned it up today.  It was $8...and I'm pretty proud of my find.  He's pretty small in it.  His feet just barely reach over the seat.

He sat up for a rather long period of time by himself.  Ok, Ok, about a minute.  Ben and I can both see that he is self-stabilizing better.

He reached out for a toy during tummy time!  Before he's always just laid and watched me.

Tuesday: Eight years

Today is our eight year anniversary!

Ben took the day off of work and Cheryl babysat Isaac.  We played some computer games, went to see The Avengers, played Frisbee golf, and read in a park.  It was a very nice day.

After dinner we got Isaac and then went to Jamie's birthday party.  Hurray!

Monday: guest room

Last week I finished up the guest room.

I'm sure you're wondering what's on the wall...It's frogs.  I'm not sure why there are frogs on the wall.  It isn't really my favorite, but I also don't dislike it enough to change it.

Sunday: Mother's Day

Today was my first Mother's Day...and it was a very nice one.  Ben got up with Isaac during the night.  And they got me donuts and flowers.  What more could I want?

We also had a delicious brunch.  Cold peach soup, orange bread, fruit, cheese, waffles...yum.

(If you look closely, you can see our lettuce growing in the pot.  All the vegetables are starting to come up!)

Saturday: diagrams

I found this fun creator at http://www.wordle.net.  You know, the thing that takes the words that you most often write and makes a picture out of them?  I downloaded the blog again.

I find it interesting that Isaac made the list even though he's only been around for 9% of the posts.  I probably need to stop starting the posts with "today".  There are several words that don't really surprise me, but I'm not sure how they got there, such was two, three, minutes, small, and Amanda.  (I don't refer to myself in the third person that often.)

Today I went to the quilt show with a friend.  This was my favorite.  Afterwards we saw the flower arrangements...they were really cool too.  And we watched the Dutch Dancers.

Isaac is eating his elephant's ear; he is sad he didn't get to last night with Ben and I.

19 weeks!

I took a lot of photos from this angle.  It was hard to narrow it down to one, but there are already a lot of photos in this post.  I do like the single finger in his mouth...that started about two weeks ago.

Ben liked the picture of Isaac in the box, but said it was too blurry.  So we tried again.