Thursday: Liz's quilt

Our friend Liz quilted a quilt on my frame this week.  I was a little nervous at first...is the machine going to act up?  Is it going to take tons more time than I expect?  But it went really smoothly and she finished quite a bit faster than I expected.  Anyway, I took some pictures of her and since the camera was out, I took a picture of Isaac in what has become his normal place while I'm quilting.  He does play with the toys down there too, but it depends on his mood.

Then Liz took it off and was taking a few pictures of it and Isaac decided it was his favorite thing ever.  He was all over it!  We rolled it up at the end and Isaac tried to take it.  When Liz (gently) refused, he brought me over to the quilt to take it away from her.  I gently refused too.  :)

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. :)