Thursday: flowers

This morning Isaac and I went to the mall.  The main reason was to pick up a hat from the lost and found.  We lost it, someone found it, the lost and found lost it, and then the lost and found found it.  It was a bit odd because we had lost a few other things at the same time but the lost and found didn't lose those.

I also looked for some brown shoes.  I had a problem with the shoes I wanted not being in sizes larger than 7.5.  This happened twice.  I ended up not getting shoes.

We met Ben for lunch!  Isaac decided that today was laugh with Dad day, so Ben only had to look at Isaac to make him laugh.

We picked some flowers in the afternoon.  I was hoping that Isaac would take a longer nap.  I was not done with my nap when he decided he was done with his.

Wednesday: a walk through my day

I just realized that I didn't post for yesterday...actually, I've remembered several times but none when I was able to post.  I'm not sure Isaac will continue to nap until this is finished, but we'll try.

2:30am: Isaac wakes up to eat.
6:45am: Isaac wakes up.  How awesome!  1) He only woke up once during my sleep time and 2) he slept in!  This is the second night he's done this, so I'm hopeful it will be a trend.  (Spoiler alert: this did not happen again.)
7:30: We help wake up Ben.
8:00: Isaac is in the exersaucer while I eat breakfast.  All I have to do is look at him and he laughs.  It's pretty fun.
8:30: Isaac goes down for a nap, I do quilting stuff on the computer.
10:00: the window guy comes to see if he can figure out why it is so hard to open and close our windows.  He thinks they just need some TLC and a few little parts.  Additionally, the windows had a safety recall on them and ours didn't get fixed, so we can probably get the labor covered under the warranty!!  So all we would have to pay for is some damaged window screen replacements.  He also fixed our front door...the weather stripping was on the wrong sides of the door.  Who knew?
11:00: Isaac and I go outside.  He plays with his teether while I take out bolts from under the deck.  Between yesterday and today I have about 30 out.  And about 200 to go.  (Well, I haven't counted.  That's just how it feels.)
12:45: Isaac is awake so we go on our errands.  It's hot.  In the future maybe we should go in the morning.
1pm: Library!  I wanted to get "The Little House on the Praire" as I had a semi-dream about it the other day.  Turns out all four copies are out. :(  I did find Ben's book though...all I knew was that it was small and the approximate location.  So I felt pretty proud of myself for that.
1:30pm: Downtown stop at tree huggers.  They take additional recyclables that the street pickup won't take. I also got some environmentally friendly fabric softener.  Mostly because my current fabric softener is staining my clothes.  It hasn't gotten anything important yet, but I should stop tempting fate.  Does anyone want it?
1:45pm: Fabric store!  I love solids.  Sometimes I wonder if I should get more prints, but I'm just going to go with it.  I'm joining a Tetris Quilt-A-Long and needed some fabric for that.
2:15: bother.  Isaac took a short nap in the car and is now awake.  Bother.
3:45: Isaac isn't interested in a quick nap.  We watch a baby movie about shapes.  I wish I could take a nap.  Isaac is calm, so he probably wants a nap too, even if he doesn't realize it.
4:45: no naps were taken, but now Dad came over!  It was nice to see him.
5:45: Isaac takes a nap.  It is pretty late for a nap, but I'm not about to try and keep a cranky baby awake for the next hour.
5:50: Ben is home!
7:30: Bath time for Isaac
8:00: Computer game with Ben
9:00: Shower time for Amanda
10:00: Attempt to hem some pants and realize I've forgotten what I'm doing
11:30: Bed time.

Tuesday: a momentous day

Today was momentous.

This morning Isaac (finally) rolled over from his back to his stomach for the first time.  If you've seen him recently, you'll know that he has been so close so many times.  I was actually a little surprised since I was expecting him to just flop back onto his back.

Then he went to the bathroom in the toilet!  During his pre-bath playtime he's been getting his towel a little wet lately.  So I thought I'd hold him up and see if we could avoid a mess.  He ended up standing on the seat, but most of it still got in.  Three cheers!


And here he is playing with his toy with his feet.  We had to put it against the wall so that within the span of 60 seconds he doesn't move it three feet away from him.

Monday: forks

I found out yesterday that not everyone cuts their meat like I do.  I stab the meat with my fork and then put my knife through the tines to cut it.  Everyone else at the table stabs the meat and then cuts parallel to the tines.

We found this out because I had a three-tined fork and couldn't put my knife through the middle hole.  I felt off balance.

Anyway,  I put a poll on the side.  How do you cut your meat?

Sunday: Happy Father's Day!

After church we went on a boat ride for lunch.  It was delicious.

Isaac is really starting to like Flurry.  Flurry is still tolerant of Isaac.

For Father's Day, Isaac took a wonderful nap for Ben while Ben was on-duty.  (I was taking a nap.)  Isaac started screaming once, so Ben put the pacifier back in.  I didn't hear a thing.  It was awesome.  I hate being woken up from my naps to put the paci back in.

Saturday: a wedding

Today we went to a wedding for Ben's cousin.  It was beautiful and fun.

We also fixed the sprinklers with the help of Larry and Cheryl.  It was neither beautiful nor fun, but their help was much appreciated as several of the heads were buried and/or needed to be replaced.

Friday: 24 weeks

Today Jacob and Ashlyn spent some time with us.  Isaac really enjoyed playing with them, especially since it meant he got to watch a video game for a little bit.

And we have some 24 week pictures!  I played around with some of the camera settings and could easily see that some were better than others, but now I don't know which are which.  Maybe next week I'll write down what they are.

We also had some pictures taken of the immediate family taken.  The two smallest kids were doing ok until the last picture of just the grandchildren.  They were both done by then.  We'll probably end up with one or two decent shots thanks to Photoshop, but we had to work hard for them.  :)