Thursday: 17 months

Happy Birthday (again) to Isaac!  We've made it 17 months.

Isaac now says hiss if you ask him what a snake says.  (I think we're close on monkey noises too, but not quite there.)  He seems to have a thing for saying sounds, but he uses them as nouns.  He'll often quack when he sees a bird.  All birds say quack.  He can also sign "more" and "please", although I think that both of those signs just mean "give me that" to him right now.  It's a start though.

He now gives kisses.  Not on request, but when he's in the mood.  Sometimes they're nice and dry, sometimes they're rather wet.

Isaac is currently transitioning from two naps to one and it seems to be hard on him and me.  I don't think he's getting quite enough sleep and so he gets grumpy a little more easily.

He really likes shoes.  Since he can open the closet door now it is rather common to see him taking shoes out (or putting them in).  He also really likes rocks.  We searched the asphalt for loose rocks this afternoon and then he played with them for a while on the deck.

Thursday: carrying water

Tonight, for entertainment, Isaac carried water to Ben and me.  He did so by sticking his hands in a play shopping cart that was full of rain water.  He then ran over to us so we could wipe the water off of his hands.

This kept him busy for quite a while.  Probably because he didn't want to move the cart closer to us.

Tuesday: napping

Isaac fell asleep while eating lunch again today.  We were even having an early (11:00) lunch to try and avoid it, but it didn't work.

Next time we're in this situation I think I'll put him in his highchair and see if he wants to color.  Falling asleep while coloring would be a lot easier to clean up than falling asleep while eating.  OR...he should start going to sleep in his crib.  That would really be ideal, but it isn't working well lately.

Monday: Happy Memorial Day

Happy Memorial Day!  Today Isaac and I went to the parade.  We almost didn't go, but I was feeling a little bad about not bringing him to a tulip time parade.  Turns out that the Memorial Day parade was probably a much better idea and we had fun.  It was shorter and easier to get home when it was done, and both of those were good things for us.  He enjoyed the bands.  He also waved to some people in the cars, but usually after they had passed.

I was feeling oddly...patriotic.  Maybe that's the wrong word.  But after seeing Band of Brothers what some of these men had probably seen really hit home and I was happy to be standing there honoring their service.

Isaac really didn't want to take a nap.  We're still struggling a little bit with nap times.  So, of course, he fell asleep while eating lunch.  I usually try to catch it and keep him awake but it happened really quickly this time.

Sunday: beach

Scarlet and Autumn spent a few hours with us this afternoon so we took a walk down to the beach.  I was expecting them to play in the sand, but it quickly became playing in the water too.  Oh well.  Hopefully their parents didn't mind too much. :)

Isaac on the other hand really wanted nothing to do with the sand or water.  But he nicely sat next to me on the beach towel.  He did get up after a while, but was mostly interested in drinking water from the water bottle.

Friday: yesterday

Well, today went ok but Isaac woke up in the middle of the night and then didn't want to nap even though he was tired... I was tired and wanted a nap, so that wasn't really helping anything.

So I leave you with a picture from yesterday after swimming lessons.



He doesn't move when bundled up, so it is easier for me to get dressed without chasing him.

Thursday: pointless

In between racquetball games, Ben tossed me the racquetball.  However, I was busy getting my racquet back around my wrist and it ended up back with Ben.

Amanda: "That was pointless."
Amanda: "Haha, it is pointless because it's a ball."

We start getting ready to play.

Ben: "Ovids.  Rounded cubes."
Amanda: "[The score is] zero zero."
Amanda: "That's pointless too!"