Tuesday: Isaac

Today Isaac and I went to "baby day" again at Hope, where the observe several kids and then guess the age.  They guessed Isaac was 11-13 months.  Sadness!  I know they are only untrained students, but...I was a little sad.  I'm not really sure why they thought it was so low when he did demonstrate several of the higher functions.  But then, there were several kids there to watch too, and Isaac was being a little shy.  I did end up looking at a milestone chart when we got home.  He's ahead in a few places, behind in a few places...so overall doing fine.  Phew.  And when we went to the gym one of the Kid Zone people said "Hi Isaac" (so she recognized him.)  A minute later she said that he is one of the happiest babies ever.  Hooray!  It was a nice confidence booster after earlier.

So I'll leave you with this video that I think is the cutest ever.  But all videos of Isaac are the cutest ever.

Monday: shoes

Isaac was grumpy today.  We've had some difficulties with sleeping (and napping) and so today just didn't seem to be working well for him.

We did take a break though to play with his shoes.

Isaac then wrote the following email to Ben:
"Dad, mom keeps putting my shoes on the wrong hands.
Isaac"

Ben responded:

"Clearly [you] was born with [your] hands backwards then."

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.