Sunday: Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day!  I had a great one.

First of all, Isaac slept until 8am.  He once in a great while will hit 730 or 7:45, but he's never slept until 8am.  Ben was getting up with him so it didn't matter too much to me, but at the same time it is a lot easier to sleep without little toddler squeals all the time.  Ben and Isaac brought me a mini-breakfast in bed...chocolate covered strawberries.  Yum.  Isaac wanted a taste, but very "politly" just opened his mouth wide.  He didn't grab or try to move too closely.  (It was actually really cute.)  And a gift card to the fabric store.

Then we went out for a Mother's Day brunch.  Yum Yum.  There was orange bread.  I love orange bread.  Everything else was really good too.

We hung out with family for the rest of the morning/afternoon.  Isaac did an amazing job staying happy since he didn't take a nap.  By 5pm though he was starting to be done, so we took off.  He got a short nap in, but it wasn't very long.

Unfortunately, he had a really hard time getting to sleep.  Ben ended up finally getting him down an hour after his normal bedtime.  Oh well.

Saturday: alone

Ben took Isaac to do some errands this afternoon.  I can't remember the last time I was home alone (and awake and not scurrying all over the place).  I did my normal things, but it was really nice.

Friday: Quilt Show and ant update

Today Liz and I went to the quilt show!  It was fun to see all the quilts, but especially the one in the top center...it's mine. :)  I decided to enter it because I figured they worst they could say is no.  And it isn't an officially judged show, so the quilt didn't have to be perfect.

The boys did well with the quilts and at the subsequent fabric store.  

And I only saw one ant today!  I moved most of the traps away from the sink, although I am going to leave one there a few more days in case there are any stragglers.  Hooray, I think I got them!

Thursday: swimming lessons

We had our swimming lesson again today!  Isaac was still pretty calm about all of it, although I think he got cold a little sooner.  I told him he should kick and use his arms, but he ignored me.  We take a warm shower afterwards, but it still seems to take him a while to warm up.

The whole process also seems to make him so tired!  We had an errand to run again and he slept on my shoulder the whole time (ok, about 5 minutes).  But still...I got him out of the car seat and it was a little noisy.  We'll have to make sure to continue swimming once lessons are done so that I continue to get good naps!

Wednesday: Isaac

Isaac has a new word today! His list of words he can now say includes "mamama" and "dadada", although those two I usually can't get him to say on command. Then came "quack quack" followed by "woof woof". Today we got "baa baa". Guess he likes his critters.

We all went to play disc golf when Ben got out of work. There were three discs, so Isaac caddied for us. He took the job very seriously...when we took away his disc at the end he burst out crying.

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.