Saturday: bedroom and picture wall

Our bedroom is cleaned up and we finally got our new bed lamps, so I can show you pictures of another room!  Bed lamps have been on our "to buy" list for about five years now.  We finally got some because the lamp Ben was using is ugly and Isaac took the one I was using.  (Which, when I thought about it, used to be Nathan's.  I traded him a desk chair for it right before I left for college.)  They are three-way touch lamps and we're quite happy with them.

The yellow wall is the bathroom.  It is all cleaned up to, but nothing too special.  A toilet, a shower, two sinks, and cabinets.

I put the picture wall back up!  I missed it.  Issac got featured predominantly in it...in fact, if someone in our immediate family wasn't in the picture, it got replaced.  (Flurry counts as a family member.) (Except for some elephants, and I expect to replace them shortly.)

I would like to get a few more pictures with our extended families, but don't have any recent ones.  There is also one of Ben jumping into a pool that I want to get, but couldn't find the disc when I was ready to order.

(BTW, how do you distinguish the family that we grew up with from the family that includes aunts, uncles, and cousins?  Because now I'd say that our immediate family is Ben/Amanda/Isaac/Flurry.  That would make, for example, Dad, Pat, Nathan, and Liz our extended family.  But then how to easily specify the next level of family...i.e., my aunts/uncles/cousins?)

Friday: 9 weeks (or 2 months)

Happy 9 week birthday to Isaac!  Happy 2 month birthday to him too!  So...we had a photo shoot.  Again.  Oh, and it was blue day today.  He has a lot of blue in his life, so it was pretty easy to point it out.

This is a rather poor picture, but it is the only one of its kind where he stretched out.  Maybe he really did grow two inches.

Blue monkey!

I wore a blue shirt too! (Again, a poor picture.  It's hard setting the autotimer, arranging Issac, and getting a quilt over our lap.  I wasn't going to try again.)

Isaac got tired...a good time to use the quilt.

Tomorrow is going to be a post that isn't about Isaac.  I've been trying to do it most of the week, but kept getting side tracked.  I spend most of my time with him and find him interesting (hence all the Isaac posts) but this is still my blog.  Amazingly, I've done a few other things this past week too. :)  I figure that if I tell everyone tonight, I will actually do it tomorrow and not get side tracked.

Thursday: shots

Today was Isaac's 2 month well child checkup.

He weighs 11 lb, 10 oz (about the 50th percentile)
He measures 23.75" long (about the 60th percentile) (There is a chance that this should be 22.75...the nurse measured starting at the 1" mark and I'm not sure she took off an inch.  I don't feel like he's grown two inches, but maybe I'm wrong.)

And he got his shots.  Two nurses each gave him one at the same time and then he got a third.  At first his eyes got huge like "what just happened???????"  Then he realized that it hurt and he got so red with crying.  Poor guy.  He calmed down pretty quickly, but this evening he had a hard time not crying.  Ben finally swaddled him and put him in the crib around 6pm, and with the mobile that calmed him down for a while.  Then he fell asleep while playing the dice game right before bed, so we just stuck him in the swaddle again without putting on his pajamas or taking a dip.  I usually don't mind waking him up, but not tonight.

Wednesday: Leap Day

To celebrate Leap Day, Isaac wore hippos.  I know, it's kind of a stretch, but in cartoons characters always leap across rivers on the backs of hippos.  We just don't have any leaping or hopping creatures for Isaac to wear.

It was a really nice day out today (58 degrees) and so we went on a walk.  I was hoping to walk around the lake, but we only got a short third done before Isaac started getting cranky (i.e., seven minutes).  It was probably good though...by the time we got home I could tell that I haven't exercised in quite a while.

It was also real bath day.  (His little bath tub isn't working right now because it floats because he doesn't weigh enough.  I can't handle a squirmy baby and a floating bathtub all at the same time.  But this method has proven to work very well.) 

Tuesday: rattles and naps

Today I made a rattle for Isaac.  I was rather impressed by how the rattle thingy on the play thingy made him stop fussing every time I rolled it...but it isn't very mobile.  It involved putting seven pennies in a small water bottle.  It worked wonderfully.

I also have had a terrible time getting any sort of decent nap since Isaac has been born.  Often Isaac will wake up (it will be the time he decides to take a short nap).  Sometimes the phone will wake me up.  Sometimes I can't get to sleep.  Sometimes the toilet doesn't stop running.  It doesn't seem to matter though...something always manages to interrupt my nap. :(

Here Isaac is sitting on the couch.  Right before this he was sitting all by himself and looked like a very tiny adult. 

Today was much better than yesterday...things were back to normal.  For example, Isaac showed us how he really feels about tummy time.

But he also listened to Alice's advice and got his head up nicely.

We tried a different configuration at the play gym so that Isaac could sit up while playing.  It doesn't work quite as well, but I figured I should at least try because he has a slight flat spot on the back of his head.  We played with the yellow spinney thing with balls in it for about 20 minutes.  Any time he started to get fussy I just started rolling it again...I think he is intrigued by the sound.

Oh, and I finished the master bedroom and bathroom today!  No pictures yet because we're waiting for two lamps to show up.  But Isaac helped to model the last of the socks I'm getting rid of.

The whole day exhausted him.

Sunday: uff

Today didn't really work quite right. It started last night...I'm not sure if I was sleeping more soundly or if Isaac woke up an extra time, but I did not want to get out of bed at all. He almost missed getting fed at 2:30 because I was throughly convinced I had fed him around 2.

Anyway, Isaac didn't nap well all day, Ben and I had headaches, I was super tired, and Isaac was crankier than normal. The good news is that even though Isaac didn't nap well, he was still content to be in his swing...maybe not as long as a normal nap, but it was still very helpful.

We'll try again tomorrow.