Sunday: a list

I've thought of three milestones for Isaac that I feel are important but people don't talk about as much.

1. Grabbing...he does this now and it makes him so much more independent.
2. Returning the pacifier to his mouth...and then letting go of it. Alternatively, not taking it out in the first place.
3. Temperature control, such as moving to a new spot in the crib to cool off or putting a blanket over himself. (I know...I have a ways for that one. But I can still look forward to it.)

In other news, we swam in the lake for the first time. Cool but enjoyable.

Friday: Happy Birthday

For Isaac's 23rd week birthday, we'll start with a funny face.  But at least he isn't moving much.

He really wanted to show everyone his feet today.  They kept popping up.

He is getting better at sitting.

Happy Birthday to Dad too!!  Everyone got together to celebrate.

Wednesday: a nice day

Today was a lovely day.  Isaac and I went over to Cheryl's to pull weeds.  There were a lot of weeds, but it looked so much better when we were done.  After lunch Isaac and I both took a nap.  And it was a good one. Close to two hours, and Isaac only woke up once.  Sometimes he wakes up in the middle and has trouble getting back to sleep...and by the time he does, I'm too awake to go back to sleep.

The surprise of the day came at 5pm when I pulled the chicken out of the fridge where it had been thawing.  I thought I had pulled out strips, but got some cubed chicken instead.  I had been planning on putting on a "Roman Rub" that I recently got and grilling the chicken strips.  After much debate, and not being able to figure out anything else to do with the cubes at such late notice, I decided to put them on foil and grill them anyway.  They tasted delicious.

Side note

I just took off comment verification.  I had put it on because I was getting a lot of spam, but it's been a while so I'm going to try having it off again.

This means it's easier to post comments!  (Nudge, nudge.)

Tuesday: typing

Tonight Isaac got some typing practice in.  Hopefully it was a good story.  It looks like it was a serious tale.

Monday: theme day - stripes

Today we talked about stripes.

With a very short foray into camouflage.

Here you can see that not only are we both wearing striped shirts, we have striped socks.

Then we fertilized the lawn in stripes.  Hopefully.

And Ben joined in on the fun too!  (And, in case you're wondering, that is my third pair of pants for the day. The blue jeans got wet while fertilizing.  My brown pants split...and there is no repairing them.  I'm really sad, but they've been with me for a while now.  I haven't worn these green jeans in a while, but I was running out of pants since it was wash day.  They're really comfortable; I'm not sure why I haven't worn them.)

Cowboys and Aliens

Last night Ben and I watched Cowboys and Aliens (or Cowboys vs Aliens?) and had some chocolate fondue.  The fondue was excellent.  The movie was not.  We were expecting something funny or at least a light-hearted action flick.  Instead it was depressing with some really dumb contradictions.  (Like a gun not killing an alien but hitting it with a spear did.)

I would not recommend it.