Wednesday: quilt show

Cheryl, Isaac and I went to a quilt show today.  It was a lot of fun and Isaac did pretty well.  He had his ups and downs, but they were mostly ups.

I liked several of the fronts.

But found myself paying a lot more attention to the quilting of the quilts and really found a lot of designs that I liked and would like to try and do.

There were also some quilts displayed on cars.  It was a fun way to display them, but...they were rather hard to see.

Hooray for quilts!

Wednesday morning: monkey wrestling

5:30am: Amanda goes into Isaac's room to calm him down, hoping he'll go back to sleep. It seems to work.
6:00am: Amanda gets up because Isaac is making a lot of noise and is probably ready to get up.
6:02am: Isaac demands to be put back in his crib.

Monkey wrestling ensues for the next half hour. Maybe next time he can do it more quietly.

Monday take 2: pictures

Balloons!

Although it's hard to tell from this picture, I do think he's having fun being one.

The people!

He had a hard time (at first) understanding that you were supposed to take the tissue paper out.  Then he had a hard time realizing that he couldn't play with the toy right away!

Near the middle he finally got it all figure out though.

Scissors!  Ben and I have heard him say scissors...it's one of his first "real" nouns.  I haven't heard it the past few days though.

Cupcakes are delicious.

Monday: 1/2 birthday

We had a 1 1/2 birthday party for Isaac tonight.  It was a lot of fun.  We have several cute pictures, but I think I'll post them tomorrow.  I'm kind of tired and think I'll head up to bed early tonight.

We decided to celebrate Isaac's half birthdays more than his full birthdays because his full birthdays are so close to Christmas.  It did feel a little weird this year, but I think that if we get in the habit it'll be a lot better.  A birthday party in late June is a lot easier than mid-winter because we can go outside too.  And I expect Isaac will someday thank us for it.  We'll still do something really small on his birthday, but it might only be a cake or something.  I guess time will tell.

I feel like I'm rambling.  I better head to bed.  I didn't take a nap today. :)

Saturday: "Bring this to Dad"

Amanda: "Hey Ben, did you read this card we got?"
Ben: "We got a card?"
Amanda: "Yeah...uh...hey Isaac, can you bring this to Dad?"  (Ben was on the couch and I was in the kitchen.)

Isaac does so.
Isaac comes back for more.

Amanda: "uh, here, bring this to Dad"  ...and hands Isaac some junk mail.

Isaac does so.
Isaac comes back for more.

Amanda: "Please bring this to Dad" ...and hands Isaac an oatmeal box.

Isaac does so.
Isaac comes back with a hat.

Friday: pool

Today Isaac and I met Betsy and Ethan at the outside pool at the gym.  It was a really nice pool...although the boys seemed to prefer running away from us.

(Thanks to Betsy for the picture)

There's also a nice eating area, so we had lunch together too. :)

Thursday: monkey

Not much exciting happened over here today; it was just a normal kind of day.

Well, maybe one exciting-ish thing.  The car was having a oil change so Isaac and I walked to the nearby greenhouse to see the monkey.  (I know, it seems odd.  It is odd.  But nevertheless, it is a real live monkey.) I remember feeding the monkey when I was a kid.  So today Isaac got to feed the monkey.  (I also remember the monkey being out of snacks by the time we got there. I was so sad.)

The monkey smiled at us a few times too...that was actually a little scary as the teeth look really sharp.