Sunday: dragon hunting

Isaac went giant dragon hunting this evening.

In order to dragon hunt, you put your "gobbles" (i.e., goggles) in front of your eyes and go around looking for giant dragons.  When you find them, you step on them.  (Yes...you step on them.  It doesn't seem like they're all that giant if you can just step on them, but I guess it's a matter of scale.)

The biggest problem with his gobbles was that he couldn't see anything with them on, so he kept running into stuff.  Ben had a pair of goggles too, but instead of dragon hunting the two of us just laughed a lot.

Saturday: presents

We started wrapping presents.  Isaac happily loved to help and ripped the tape.

He later told Ben that it was Ben's birthday but that it was a surprise.  But then, it's still currently a surprise to Isaac so he wouldn't have been able to tell Ben even if he wanted to.

Friday: more photo shoot

I tried once more it get a good picture of Joshua before I had to return the boxes.  He wouldn't smile for me, but this one isn't too bad.

Isaac wanted in on the action too, so we took just a few pictures with him.  He's in his black shirt.  Black is his favorite color, no question.  Conversations usually go like this.  "[That thing] is black!"  "It sure is." "I like it."  By default, since his favorite color is black mine is white.  Even though I've told him it is blue.  I've kind of given up at this point and just accept that my favorite color is white.

Thursday: a photo shoot

Here's how today's photo shoot went...

Isaac had to be convinced to stand in a box. (Which I proceeded to cut out of most of the pictures, but it kept him in one spot.)

Both boys look at me!  But I cut off Isaac's arm.

Joshua looks at me, Isaac looks at something in the distance.

Joshua decides the wrapping paper is more interesting and ignores me for several pictures.

Isaac is cute; Joshua is still ignoring me.

Isaac decides he's done with this pose.

They switch boxes.  It doesn't work.

Joshua still likes the wrapping paper; Isaac has disappeared.

Joshua looks at me!  Too bad only Isaac's foot is in the picture.

Isaac plays the "don't look at Mom" game while his feet are in the box.  This set up didn't really work.

OH NO!  I realize that Isaac was supposed to have taken off his zip.  All the good ones that we might have had are not going to work.

Back to standing in boxes.  And everyone is looking at me.  This might be the one that gets used.

Isaac got bored of that pose quickly again...back to sitting on the stool.

Joshua decides to put his feet up.

Joshua slips down a bit too much.  Time to move everyone around again.

Joshua has had enough.  Let's try for just Isaac.  He's been making some weird faces.

I think he looks so grown up in this picture.  I wouldn't be surprised if this is the picture where, when looking back at pictures ten years from now, you start to recognize that it is Isaac because it looks like him as an adult too.  Hmm.  That's hard to put in words, but hopefully you know what I mean.  He stops looking like a small person and starts looking like Isaac.

Wednesday: 19 weeks

Oops...I forgot to get Joshua's 19 week pictures.  So I did it this morning and forgot to take his bib off.  Oh well.

Joshua had his four month checkup this week and didn't grow quite as much as expected.  He weighs 13.3 pounds (dropping from 18% to 9%) and is 25 inches tall (50% to 25%).  However, his weight to height ratio was on a good curve, so the doctor wasn't too worried.

He also started talking a ton this week!  Wow, it is like a switch turned on.

Isaac got his blanket out too.

I tried getting some pictures by the Christmas tree in our first round of pictures.  Trying to get both boys looking at the camera with their eyes open and Isaac having a good smile and having it not be blurry is impossible.  Impossible!

And the "all of us" picture of the day.

Tuesday: conversations with Isaac

Isaac: Do you want to go this way [left, toward nothing in particular] or this way [right, toward the Christmas tree]?
Ben: left
Isaac: Which way do I want to go?
Amanda: right
Isaac: What way do you want to go?
Amanda: right, like you
Isaac: No, you want to go with Dad.

Isaac, this time with his hands pointing up and down: Which way do you want to go?
Amanda: Up (as I think, finally, an easy question.  I know I want to go up.)
Isaac: No, you don't have wings.  You can go down.

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Isaac, coming to find us around 9pm: It's wake up time!  There's no one.
Amanda: no one?  What do you mean?
Isaac: no one.  Time to wake up.
Ben: What are you talking about?
Isaac: There's no one.
Isaac finally pointed at a clock.
Amanda: oh!  No, that's only for nap time.  This is big sleep time.  You need to go back to bed.

It took Isaac about five more minutes to go back to bed as he got stuck several times.  Lately his rest time has started around 1pm or a bit earlier, so I've told him he can get out of bed when there's no 1 on the clock.  He picked it up very quickly.  Very quickly.

Monday: snowmen and holes

Isaac colored this snowman at the library.  It's probably his best drawing yet.  The snowman has two eyes (although they're hard to see) that are circles and in the right spot, a mouth in the right spot, and he mostly colored in the lines.  And he did the I all by himself.

After the library, we went to the doctor's office and, as Isaac says, "Joshua got a little hole."  As normal people would say, Joshua got a shot.  I'm a little annoyed because the records got all messed up and so instead of getting two shots he was only able to get one and we'll have to go back.  Joshua did pretty well for the rest of the day, but once early evening came around he was done.