Thursday: a huge surprise

Isaac and I came home from Charlevoiux today.  He again did pretty well in the car, although the last little bit wasn't great.  We went around getting some pictures yesterday and hopefully I'll make a collage of them shortly.

We got home and Ben said he had something to show me in the basement.  I figured it was something on the computer.  As we walked down the stairs, I noticed some of the boxes had been moved; maybe he did a ton of unpacking.  Nope!

He got me a quilter.  I'm not sure if this is officially a long-arm quilter since I think those are computerized, but this is something very similar.  I can load the quilt into the frame and then move the sewing machine around in order to put the quilt all together.  And Ben spent all three nights that we were gone putting it together!

I've been in shock all night.  I had been thinking it would be really cool to have, but couldn't justify the expense and it takes up a lot of room.  But since it's a gift I don't have to justify anything; I just have to enjoy it!  And I will do that!  I'm so excited to use it, although I need to make a few attachment pieces first.  I was not expecting to find this in the basement at all!!

Wednesday: dreams

I just finished feeding Isaac and was being a little slow in putting him back in the crib and what do I see? Some great big smiles. I wish I knew what he was dreaming about, but at least they're good ones.

Monday/Tuesday: Charlevoix

Isaac and I are spending a few days up north with Cheryl. Isaac did really well on the way up; he slept for about three hours. The last half hour was pretty rough, but I kept handing him pacifiers and he kept playing with them for a minute and then losing them. I had to stop once to get all of them back in the front seat with me.

We've had a very nice time here, although Isaac was having some serious nap problems today. This meant I was having some serious nap problems too; I do love my naps. (can you believe I just used two semicolons in this post?). But finally he took a two hour nap next to me on the bed. This meant I got a two hour nap also and was very happy about that.

In other observations, I always take my contacts out before finding my glasses when I travel. After they're out I realized I should have found my glasses first. Does anyone else have this problem?

Sunday: Church

This morning we got to church and the chairs were arranged differently than normal.  It turned out that the sermon was on the Israelite camp layout while they were in the desert, and the sanctuary was arranged in the same layout.  For something that I've always found rather tedious reading the the Bible, the pastor did a really nice job of making it interesting.  Why is it laid out like that?  1) Defense  2) Unity and 3) to remind us that God should always be in the center.

In case you're wondering, we were sitting in the North, under the tribe of Dan.  We probably should have sat under the tribe of Benjamin, but we were running a little late and Benjamin was in the front.

Saturday: crying and solids

This morning Isaac was awake before it was time to wake up.   I heard a cry that I haven't heard before.  I was pretty sure it meant that he was stuck since I knew he was awake, but I moved faster than normal anyway.  He was stuck in a corner of the crib.  If he had tried to roll over the other way he could have escaped, but that doesn't always work yet.

Then we decided to start him on solids.  A few days early, but we pretty much made it to the 6 month mark. And really, it can barely be considered solids yet.  It was 1 tbsp cereal to 4.5 tbsp milk...it seemed like he was really just learning how to use the spoon.  The video is below.  About two minutes after the video stopped Isaac got super mad.  So I nursed him to finish up his lunch and he could barely stay awake.  Both of us then took wonderful naps.  I hope it happens again.

Friday: 25 weeks

Today Isaac rolled over again.  I was even sitting in the chair and he was on the ground and he stayed there for a minute with both arms forward, so it was a definite roll-over.  He had a few earlier today were I wondered if I accidentely helped by pulling the toy he was holding onto or where he was over for a second before going back.  But this one was a absolutely for sure roll over.  Horray!

Standard shoots:

Bundle of Energy pose:

"Oh you're taking my picture?  Then I won't roll over"

Sleeping...he's started moving around in his sleep.  I haven't seen him roll over, but he does sleep on his side occasionally and I often see him rotated in the morning.

Thursday: flowers

This morning Isaac and I went to the mall.  The main reason was to pick up a hat from the lost and found.  We lost it, someone found it, the lost and found lost it, and then the lost and found found it.  It was a bit odd because we had lost a few other things at the same time but the lost and found didn't lose those.

I also looked for some brown shoes.  I had a problem with the shoes I wanted not being in sizes larger than 7.5.  This happened twice.  I ended up not getting shoes.

We met Ben for lunch!  Isaac decided that today was laugh with Dad day, so Ben only had to look at Isaac to make him laugh.

We picked some flowers in the afternoon.  I was hoping that Isaac would take a longer nap.  I was not done with my nap when he decided he was done with his.