Tuesday: home

We made it home!  We took a tad bit longer than going down, but we also ran into an accident on the highway and needed to make a detour.

Isaac again did great on the drive and slept the whole time.  But he was awake a lot today.  I think we took three half hour naps.  I might have been trying to get him to take a nap on the early side of when he normally does, but by the last one I really figured he'd take a slightly longer one.  I was doing ok until about 2:30, when I started to crash.  I got my second wind after the subsequent short nap at 4:30, but I'm really starting to drag as I write this.  I'm not complaining too much though...Dad did a lot of the driving and it is a lot easier to entertain him at home than in the car.

Hopefully there will be pictures tomorrow.

Saturday: a hike

The weather was beautiful today, so we went for a hike. In true family tradition, we went to look for a waterfall. And we found it!

Thursday/Friday: Virginia

Last night dad, Isaac and I left for Virginia to visit Nathan and Liz. Dad and I were excited, but rather nervous about traveling that far with Isaac.

We traveled through the night and Isaac was great. He woke up when we stopped, but promptly went back to sleep. I think he cried for about two minutes at one point because it was a normal feeding time, but he went back to sleep once he realized he wasn't going to be fed.

Then today we looked at the goats and the cows and took naps. It's been a nice day.

Wednesday: my nap

Today my nap of the day was finished before Ben got out of the shower this morning.  He was running about fifteen minutes late, but that doesn't change the fact that Isaac was awake before the crack of dawn.

Honestly, this is a little worse than having to get up a few times every night to put the pacifier back in, because I could do that while mostly asleep.  It seems like it should be better, but fighting with Isaac at 5:20 for forty minutes about the fact that it is still night time is no fun.

Monday: library

The library is unpacked!  It contains our books, games, and puzzles.  It also has the bassinet that Isaac used right now...we might move that to the basement once everything else is put away.

We added a bookshelf and with that I told myself that all the books had to fit on the shelves.  So I ended up going through and getting rid of about two boxes of books.  It was a little painful, but I told myself that they are books that we won't be reading again, so why keep them?  (I had to quiet the voice that said "but you might read them again!")

I made a graph of the books by author's last name and my subdivision.  I haven't made a graph in a while and missed it.  C wins the gold (thanks to Christie and Crichton), S wins the silver (thanks to Salvatore), and L wins the bronze (thanks to Lackey).  U, X, and Z didn't manage to have any. :(

Sunday: a dream that made me laugh

I was at a birthday party and some friends were going on and on about what they got her, telling her what it was in very fancy words.

She called them out saying, "so you got me construction paper."

I laughed out loud...for real. Ben asked if everything was all right. I don't ever remember doing that before.

Saturday: work picnic

Tonight we went to Ben's work picnic.  It was rather amazing.  They rented the Whitecaps baseball stadium and the next door fun center (go-carts, arcade, mini-golf, etc.).  In the stadium parking lot were bouncy things, carnival games, and a few other misc activities.

Ben won two stuffed animals for Isaac.  We don't need anymore stuffed animals, but they sure were fun to win.  It's pretty awesome to be able to just sit down at the carnival station and play a few times in a row without having to worry about tickets or anything like that.  And while there were a ton of people there, there were enough things to do that we didn't have to wait too long to do anything.

The only problem was that it was hot.  Isaac did great though.  He really seems to enjoy being around people, so I think that helped.