Tuesday: Today! (again)

Here are a few things from today...

Isaac trying to play with Flurry.  It didn't work very well.

Isaac has some tea bags that he gets to play with, and they were all over the floor today.  He also got to go barefoot.  This meant that the tea bags often were sticking to the bottoms of this feet (yes, it was rather funny).  Once he bent over to try and get one off, tumbled forward, and started crying.  He kept crying, so I said, "Maybe you need some M&Ms as get better pills."  The crying instantly stopped.

We went downtown to eat vendor food with the family.  It was nice to see everyone.

Monday: Today!

To start with, Isaac is definetly enjoying being able to open the closet door.  He spent quite a bit of time opening the door, taking out one shoe, closing the door, and bringing the shoe...somewhere.  Happily, this entertained him for quite a while.  Sadly, shoes are now all over the house.

I had a dentist appointment today.  It went fine.  Isaac was awesome and quietly played with his pig for forty-five minutes.  They put a stain on my teeth to show me where I wasn't brushing well.  I have one tooth that I manage to miss a lot...I found it very interesting.

Then we got to have lunch with Ben!  Whoo-hoo!

Oh, I wanted to give you an update on the Roomba and the ants.  The Roomba is working well.  I think we are past the initial cleaning by now and it is still picking up a lot of dirt.  Not a ton, but a lot.  The ant population has been relegated to "small".  While still unacceptable (I'm going for "none"), it is nice to not see a steady stream of ants going up my counter wall.  They seem to be most active in the afternoon.  I often get my hopes up in the morning when I only see one or two, but by the afternoon there are many more.  I have three of the preferred traps sitting out.  There is bait in all three, but they only seem to prefer one each day.  I thought it would be split more evenly (they're not very far apart) but I'm sure there is a method to their madness.

Sunday: sleep

We put Isaac to bed early tonight because he seemed really tired.  He went right to sleep, but I always feel a little guilty when we put him to bed early.  I'm not really sure why.  I mean, I usually get tired plus or minus an hour of my normal bedtime, so why shouldn't he?

Saturday: outside

Today was a beautiful day outside.

This morning I brought Isaac outside.  I was going to try and move some sod pieces, but Isaac wasn't having any of that.  Apparently I was too far away and he doesn't like walking on the grass.  So we did some weeding of the front area.

After Ben woke up I went back outside to do the sod.  Luckily, the neighbor that is pulling up the sod was also out there and he had a wheelbarrow.  Two people and a wheelbarrow made it go much more quickly.  He did a lot more after I was done, but I at least helped him with everything that he had already taken out.

This afternoon I got a little mulch to put down where we weeded in the morning.  It's kind of sad how a ton of mulch doesn't really go very far.  I knew it was going to be bad, but I was hoping it would be a little better.  Oh well.  One section down, several more to go.  It'll probably be an all summer project.  But hopefully it will help with the weeds.

Then this evening we brought the grill back out to the deck.  We bring it through the house, and so move all the furniture out of the way.  This excited Isaac to no end.  Moving the grill was significantly more fun this time because Isaac was so excited about it.

Friday: 16 months

Isaac turned 16 months (a few days ago)!!  He's still a lot of fun.

Thursday: growing up

The last two days have seen a lot of new "big boy" things for Isaac...

*He found that he can flip the light switch from his crib.  While I think this has kept him entertained for a while, it's not ideal.  I think I'm going to remove the leads from the switch so that it doesn't do anything.

*We started swimming lessons!  I was a little nervous because the pool water is always a little cool, but Isaac did great.  I learned some things to do with him in the water and he is learning to be more comfortable in the water.  The class only has three students (maybe two next time), so that is nice.  Our goal is to get him to hold his breath if he is pulled under water, but we're also working on leg and arm movements.

*He learned how to open doors.  He can now push them open (yesterday) and pull them open (today).  It helps that we have the lever knobs.  I don't think he's realized that this will work on all doors yet, but I'm sure that's just a matter of time.

*We finally changed his car seat from the infant carrier to a bigger seat.  I was kind of dreading this day because I still like to bring him inside when he falls asleep in the car.  But so far he's transitioned just fine.  We made the switch because the weather is getting warmer and his head was always really sweaty when I pulled him out.  The new seat seems to let him stay a bit cooler.


(In other news, the ants seemed to decrease today.  There were still a lot, but not a ton.  And the roomba seems to be working well.)

Wednesday: dirty, almost not dirty, and cleaner

We'll start today's post with the dirty.  Ants.

They found their way to the top of the kitchen counter last night.  Yuck!  I didn't sleep well because I knew they were there and had nightmares of them overtaking the kitchen.  While they didn't overtake the kitchen, it was still disgusting when I got up.  I found some ant poison that they seem to love.  Hopefully it's actually killing them too.  I took some pictures because I was so excited that it was working, but decided it was too gross.  Yuck.  *Shiver*.  The only good thing is that now they're pretty much only in one area and not wandering all around.

Moving on to cleaner...
I got rid of two boxes of the stuff going to Good Will today.  They came by to pick it up, so I happily put it on the street.  It's a small step in trying to get the basement room cleaned up.

And finally, almost not dirty...
The roomba came today!  Of course, it came at 4:30 and Isaac fell asleep on my shoulder at 4:35.  I did manage to charge the battery later though so we got a short cleaning in.  It's a little bit noisy and so might need to run it while everyone is awake, but in fifteen minutes it picked up a lot of junk.  I'm still optimistic that this will work really well.