Sunday: birthday

Well, it was a major milestone birthday for me.  However, it was a pretty low key day, which was nice.

Ben made me a delicious cake.  It was even better than it looks.

Isaac slept in a little bit, played contentedly on the floor while Ben and I were getting stuff ready to have people over tonight, and had a half hour conversation with a chair while we ate dinner.  The conversation was actually quite funny...and when we tried to pick him up because we were done eating Isaac got mad.  So we put him back down so he could continue his conversation.

Saturday: a new rhyme

Eenie feeney finey fail
Catch a lion by its tail
If he hollers let him flail
Eenie feeney finey fail


The making of this rhyme caused a lot of laughter. No one was permanently hurt.

Thursday: rain, food

There was a lovely thunderstorm today.  Ahh.  I do love the rain and am glad we've been getting more of it.

I also spent a lot of time in the kitchen today.  I made some baby food and some curry.  The curry is probably the meal that takes the longest for me to make.  There's a good hour of active cooking plus some simmering time.  This time I started it an hour earlier than normal so I wasn't feeling rushed and it was probably one of the best batches I've made.  (It might also help that I remembered to put in the salt.)  Luckily, it also makes 3.5 meals so even though it takes a while I now have two very fast meals to pull out of the freezer.

VA pictures

Here are a few of the pictures from our Virginia trip.

Veterans Crisis Line: it's for everyone.

Goats!

More goats!  (These were the small ones.)

Feeding the goats.

Petting the goats.

At the zoo

Yay!

There was an exhibit that you could go into and see birds.  I think this was Isaac's favorite exhibit.  The birds were easy to see and moved a lot.  The otters were fun to watch, but there was glass between us so I think he just watched his reflection.  He also enjoyed checking out the wood fence around some exhibits if the animal wasn't moving or was far away.

Let's feed the goats again!

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.