Tuesday: a momentous day

Today was momentous.

This morning Isaac (finally) rolled over from his back to his stomach for the first time.  If you've seen him recently, you'll know that he has been so close so many times.  I was actually a little surprised since I was expecting him to just flop back onto his back.

Then he went to the bathroom in the toilet!  During his pre-bath playtime he's been getting his towel a little wet lately.  So I thought I'd hold him up and see if we could avoid a mess.  He ended up standing on the seat, but most of it still got in.  Three cheers!


And here he is playing with his toy with his feet.  We had to put it against the wall so that within the span of 60 seconds he doesn't move it three feet away from him.

Monday: forks

I found out yesterday that not everyone cuts their meat like I do.  I stab the meat with my fork and then put my knife through the tines to cut it.  Everyone else at the table stabs the meat and then cuts parallel to the tines.

We found this out because I had a three-tined fork and couldn't put my knife through the middle hole.  I felt off balance.

Anyway,  I put a poll on the side.  How do you cut your meat?

Sunday: Happy Father's Day!

After church we went on a boat ride for lunch.  It was delicious.

Isaac is really starting to like Flurry.  Flurry is still tolerant of Isaac.

For Father's Day, Isaac took a wonderful nap for Ben while Ben was on-duty.  (I was taking a nap.)  Isaac started screaming once, so Ben put the pacifier back in.  I didn't hear a thing.  It was awesome.  I hate being woken up from my naps to put the paci back in.

Saturday: a wedding

Today we went to a wedding for Ben's cousin.  It was beautiful and fun.

We also fixed the sprinklers with the help of Larry and Cheryl.  It was neither beautiful nor fun, but their help was much appreciated as several of the heads were buried and/or needed to be replaced.

Friday: 24 weeks

Today Jacob and Ashlyn spent some time with us.  Isaac really enjoyed playing with them, especially since it meant he got to watch a video game for a little bit.

And we have some 24 week pictures!  I played around with some of the camera settings and could easily see that some were better than others, but now I don't know which are which.  Maybe next week I'll write down what they are.

We also had some pictures taken of the immediate family taken.  The two smallest kids were doing ok until the last picture of just the grandchildren.  They were both done by then.  We'll probably end up with one or two decent shots thanks to Photoshop, but we had to work hard for them.  :)

Thursday: salad

Today we ate a salad from lettuce we grew ourselves!  It was another first for me.

The lettuce

The pickers

The salad spinner

The baby and a pile of greens.

(The picture is really blurry, but I thought it was a clever play on "a pile of baby greens."  But now I'm not so sure that's a phrase.  Maybe that makes it funnier.)

Wednesday: Roar

Isaac was having a rather happy day; he was laughing more easily than normal.  Then I read a book to him and it kept saying "shhh, listen for the lion."  So I was reading it rather quickly.  Then ROAR!!  I scared him so much he started crying.  It took him a while to settle back down.

Oops.