Friday: two rocks and one spool

If you give Isaac two rocks and one spool what do you get?  Over an hour of great play outside.

Thursday: Duck Duck Moose

I'd like to give some props to the Iphone/Ipad apps by Duck Duck Moose.  I was kind of having a hard time finding apps that Isaac could easily use by himself, and since I really like these I thought I'd share with...anyone else that reads this blog.

Isaac likes to tap the screen.  He's good at tapping things on the screen, but is bad at waiting and sliding things on the screen.  The first app we got, Itsy Bitsy Spider, is really good at dealing with lots of taps.  There are lots of things that change based on the tapping.  We also got Fish School.  While it is geared for slightly older children, Isaac can still use it and enjoy it (even if he doesn't quite get the point of the games by himself yet.)

I expect several more Duck Duck Moose apps in the future.  And seriously, I love their name.

Wednesday: grrr

I sent a package to the wrong address.  If the people at the address are decent folk, everything will probably work out without any problems.  But I'm annoyed.  And I'm annoyed that I can't do anything about it.

In other news, Ben and I have now been married nine years!  We are celebrating this weekend, so didn't do anything really special today.  We did grill out with the family to celebrate some birthdays, so I guess that counts.

Isaac and I also saw Betsy and Ethan this morning.  I had a really good time.

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.