Friday: children's musuem

Today Isaac and I went with Dad and Landon to the children's museum in GR.  We had fun. :)  Isaac might still be a little young to get how to play with the stuff (correctly), but he's old enough to enjoy being in a new environment.  And he loved being able to walk around!  He kept walking in and out of a tree house that they had on the second floor.


Making a bridge out of Lincoln logs for the train.

Playing with what are basically giant building blocks.

Looking in a square mirror.

Balls!  This is the one that Isaac played with the best.

Thursday: uncles

Today we ended up with all of Ben's siblings and there was a big nerf gun war going on.  Well, as big of a war as you can get with two nerf guns and some babies running around.  Anyway, Travis was trying to get Jacob.  Ben got the gun from Travis.  Travis ran out into the open.  Jacob came out from his hiding place, and started aiming.

POW.

Ben got him in the shoulder.  The look on his face was hilarious since he completely wasn't expecting it.

The moral of the story: you've got to watch out for your uncles.

Wednesday: spring break

After never expecting a true spring break again, I'm happy to announce that I'm on spring break.  I had a class this morning...I'm sitting in on a class that I'm going to teach next semester on Excel and Access.  There's some stuff that I don't know, but nothing that I can't pick up.  And I'm really sitting in on the class just a few times to see how it is run.

I also had my Wednesday section of CAD this afternoon.  There's only 10 people, compared to Tuesday's 22, so it always feels a more laid back.

Isaac is still walking by himself all over the place.  We went to the library and he realized that he could bounce the metal bookends and that they would make a clanging noise.  After that I basically just skimmed for a few books that looked ok as I followed him around, trying to muffle the noise.

Tuesday: baby-adult

Kitty-cat.
Puppy-dog.
Bunny-rabbit.


Ok, I'm going to admit, this post suddenly derailed.  I was going to say how weird it is that so many animals are called by their baby-adult names, but you never hear of a baby-adult (for humans).  But then I could only think of three examples so maybe it isn't so weird that you never hear of baby-adults.

Monday: there he goes!

So...walking.  As you may remember, Isaac took his first solo steps about a month ago.  I had figured that it wouldn't be long before the walker was just a memory, but that didn't really happen.  In fact, there was about a week were he would only walk with the walker.  (I think it was due to teething.)  And even when he did walk, it was because Ben or I put him on his feet with a goal not too far away.

But then this evening he decided to walk.  By himself, just for fun.  He went across the house and back, and then a few other times throughout the night.  He exhausted himself out.  Balancing is hard work.

(Hopefully it keeps up tomorrow!)
(Quote of the day: Isaac, don't bite the couch.)

Sunday: daylight savings

When Isaac woke up this morning, I looked at the clock and it said 5:45.  Ugg.  Before his wake-up time.  I made him wait 15 minutes hoping he'd go back to sleep, but he didn't.

Then I was looking at my I-pad after getting Isaac up, and it said 7:11.  Whoo-hoo!  It was time for breakfast!  I gained an hour.  Isaac may have thought he was waking up early, but really he remembered DST and got up at the right time.

In other news, I said the following today: "Isaac, don't lick the floor."  I'm sure it will be the first of many supposedly obvious things.

Cousins