Friday: walking

Today I put my pedometer in Isaac's pocket.

The pocket on his leg.

Showing off that he is wearing a whale and playing with a whale

Now, the number is probably off.  The pedometer probably logs the number of steps that I carried him around.  (My guess is about 400 because we went on some odd errands and I carried him more than normal.)  It probably also logs each crawl as a step because it is based on the movement and doesn't care which direction it goes in.

At the end of the day, it said 4908.  It was a pretty good day of walking. :)  It helped that he took his walker and went from one side of the house to the other side and back to the first side and then back to the other side and then stopped in the bathroom and then to his bedroom and then back to the first side.  I watched him while I was sitting, exhausted from shoveling.  (As a side note, our driveway is shrinking.)  He can walk without the walker, but he can almost run with it.  And I'm not so worried that he will fall over backwards.

Thursday: dragging

I'm going to admit, today dragged.

Class today was just a time to work on projects.  So there were a few questions, but not a ton.  It was boring.  Then I forgot the library books to return to the library, so Isaac and I just went home.

I was excited to take a nap, but Isaac was determined not to.  I thought he should take a nap around 10:30am, but it took until 2:00pm.  I kept expecting him to be sleepy and so when he wasn't the day continued to drag.

Once we left for racquetball the day sped up.  Hopefully tomorrow will be a little better.  If we can at least stay on a semi-normal schedule it would help.

Wednesday: a few pictures

As promised, I took a few pictures today.

He likes his chair, but rarely uses it as a chair.  I more often see him pushing against it like a football player practicing blocking.  But he wouldn't do it with the camera out.

He also likes his spools.  They're all over the place, but they're just right for his little hands.  So we're making a collection.

Tuesday: today

Today had its ups and downs.  I couldn't find several things that I wanted to use (although to be fair, they weren't really very important things).  Isaac seemed to be feeling weird.  Bible study was canceled.

But...it snowed most of the day.  Isaac slept a lot.  I got some quilting done.

Hmm.  I thought this would be a more exciting post.  But really, it is pretty boring.  It's my half birthday today.  I think I'll try to take some pictures tomorrow to post.

Monday: falling

Isaac is still walking, but hasn't learned how to fall well.  He often falls backwards but forgets to bend at the waist, so he bonks his head.

We've managed to limit it to about once a day, but it is still really sad each time it happens.  The only good thing is that I get some great hugs afterwards, but I'd rather forgo them.

Sunday: Dominion

Today we played online Dominion with our friends.  It was fun.  Nothing special to report I guess, though.  Isaac always goes to bed before it starts (unlike the other children) so it's a little sad that we don't get to show him off.

Doug won the first three games, but Ryan and I managed to beat him on the last game.

Saturday: feelings

Isaac is starting to figure out his feelings.  Yesterday and today the feeling he is learning about is frustration.  Frustration that his walker ran into a wall.  Frustration that the end table ran into the wall.  Frustration that I wouldn't pick him up.  Frustration that he had to wait for his food.

It's annoying, but I suppose part of growing up.

He also got to experience some happy feelings with Ben today though.  Notice that he even has his own controller.