Saturday: 6 months

How time flies.  To celebrate his half year birthday, Isaac slept for nine hours straight (11 hours in between eating!)  The only problem was that I kept expecting him to get up, so I didn't sleep well.  He then proceeded to dirty three clean diapers in the space of an hour.  I changed them promptly, but not right away...he could have had better timing.

I took a gazillion pictures for his six month birthday, but still need to edit them.  So that post will be for another time.  Maybe tonight.  (Also, I took over 2000 pictures this month.  I feel like that is about 1800 too many.  But, I delete most of them because I use burst mode to try and get one good one out of 20 pictures.  However, I have an uncomplaining subject and it gives us something to do.)

We accidentely brought a chip clip home with us from vacation, and then Isaac found it and it is his new favorite toy.  I was a little worried that it would pinch his fingers, but he doesn't seem to be strong enough for that.  It is the perfect size for grabbing, putting in his mouth, and it is a little floppy.

Ben was on Isaac duty this afternoon (Isaac would not sleep!) and I came upstairs to find both of them sleeping in the chair.  It was super cute, but Ben woke up before I could take his picture.

Friday: 26 weeks and wedding

We're going to start having Isaac nap in his crib.  He is resisting the swing and moving around a lot more.  (However, we aren't putting the swing away yet.)  He still had some short naps, but then took a nice long one in the afternoon.

The normal weekly pictures.

I was going through the pose above, trying to find the best one (I take them on burst mode and delete a lot) and then ran into this one.  It's a preview of part of tomorrow's post.

We also went to the wedding of a college friend.  It was a beautiful wedding, probably one of the best I've been to.  The bride and groom were in love with each other and with God and it was so obvious.

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.