Thursday: pictures continued

It turns out that while swiffering with a one year old is fun, he doesn't understand that we're trying to collect all the dirt in one place.  Isaac kept picking the swiffer up just enough to let the dirt escape.

We went outside again.  I needed to shovel the end of the driveway, but Isaac seems to enjoy going out too.

I was hoping that we'd also be able to make a snowman, but the snow wasn't sticky enough.  I made him some snowballs and we made a snow angel.

And...we had a lot of fun with Ben tonight.

Self-portrait

Wednesday: pictures

I realized that it's been a while since I added some pictures, so I tried to take some throughout the day.

It's been snowing!  We shoveled several inches again this morning and I expect we'll have to do it again tomorrow morning.

Lunch time...there are peas in the bowl which I had given Isaac while I finished making the rest of lunch.  It didn't help, he still didn't eat them.  He does like to squish them though.  Also on the menu: peanut butter on toast, peaches, and mozzarella cheese.

Isaac's upstairs play area

Another view of the play area...but here he's pointing at Flurry, who is always fun to chase.

He said Ooo a lot today.  Everything was so exciting.

Tuesday: racquetball

We all braved the cold and snow today to play racquetball.  It was open rball night and so we ended up playing with another person.  (We play 2v1 because I am not good enough to put up a fight in cutthroat.)  Anyway, we were pretty closely matched and it was fun.

Racquetball seems to have a lot of left handed players.  Of the last four people I've played with, three of them have been lefties.

I also shoveled the snow twice today, so I definitively got my exercise   It wasn't too deep either time though (average of maybe 2"), so it was still fast.

Monday: snow

We finally got some real snow.  Not a ton, but enough to cover everything.  We decided to do a quick shovel this morning and so dressed Isaac in his snowsuit to come out with us.  The thing is so bulky that he can't do much except sit, but that did make it easier to watch him.

And it's cold!

Sunday: alphaberry

Bee 1: R U A B?
Bee 2: I M A B.
Bee 1: I M KT, A B.
Bee 2: OK. EZ.
Bee 1: Y?
Bee 2: I C U R A B

How many conversations can you have by just saying letters of the alphabet?

Thursday: content

Isaac didn't nap well today (again).  It makes it hard for me to get a good nap when he does that, but oh well.  Even though he didn't have enough sleep he was really good at entertaining himself today...better than normal.  He went for over thirty minutes in the basement (without even going to the TV to push its buttons) and spent quite a bit of time upstairs playing by himself.

So I thought of a new creed...

"Don't interrupt a contently playing toddler."

I kind of wanted to because I was hungry for lunch, but decided it was more fun to quilt instead.

Wednesday: hmm

Hmm.  Nothing all that special happened today, although it was kind of busy.

I've decided to leave the toaster out on the counter instead of putting it away because I've been using it so much.  (I'll put it away when I want the kitchen to be extra clean, but will consider the kitchen clean even if it is out.)

I started to put a lamp together.

I felt smart and not smart during lab today.  (Sometimes that program is just crazy.)

I didn't take a nap but instead graded homework.  This was probably a smart move since Isaac didn't sleep very long anyway...that was a little annoying.