Sunday: disappearing

Ben and I have disappeared for the night. Dad (and Pat) are watching Isaac tonight and Cheryl is watching him tomorrow. This is the first overnight that I've ever been away from him...and I'm not sad at all. I tried waiting until he was sleeping though the night before asking someone to watch him...of course, this past week he has woken up several times. But hopefully he'll do better tonight.

We are at a bed and breakfast. We have done a lot of relaxing...there is a little gazebo and the weather was perfect to sit and read. There were also some delicious dinner appetizers.

It's nice.

Saturday: "10 minutes with Dad"

Take special note of 0:10-0:13.  Although my favorite is 0:25

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."