It's my Grandma's birthday!

Happy birthday, Grandma Ruth! Mom did a nice thing today and dropped of flowers for you at school. I hope you enjoy them. Thanks for babysitting, playing with me and taking me for walks...I really appreciate it. Even though I'm still trying to figure out what I'm going to call you...grandma, nana, memaw, or maybe granny, I enjoy hearing your voice over the phone and like all your funny voices! Here are some pictures mom put up of you taking care of me when I first came home from the hosptial. Love, IsaacMy 1st bath!

Pictures

I'm not sure if what I'm doing is legal but I guess we bought the pictures, so I have the right to post them!

When I was your age...

Now I can finally be one of those people who says to their child, "when I was your age..." I was over at my mom's looking for baby pictures. I realized that things (pictures, scrapbooking, and taking notes) are less and less with the 3rd child. I, being the youngest, experienced that on Sunday. My mom found my baby book that had about 5 pages filled out...sorry mom...I knew you were busy back then. But I kind of felt neglected. I know that if I say I won't do that with my youngest, I will but I guess it happens to everyone.
Anyway, I came across the page of my eating habits as a baby. And it is so funny that I was given rice cereal at 2 months, fruit and veggies at 3 months, and 2% milk at 4 months! Now they don't want you to go to solid foods until 6 months, let alone milk until they are at least 1 year. But I guess I turned out fine! There are so many rules that they say we should follow but it makes you wonder if it really matters. But now I can tell Isaac, when I was your age I had milk by now.
I think Mr. Isaac is on his way to crawling. This morning he was on the bed with Nick and I put the bottle in front of him and he got up on all fours and was rocking back and forth...trying not to go nuts reaching for the bottle. But now we need to start baby proofing everything.

Da da da bad bad bad

So, with Nick passed out on the couch last night I was the only one who heard Isaac at 1:30am! I guess he was hungry because he wolfed down the bottle but he definitely wasn't ready to go back to bed. So, he laid in his crib for about 40 minutes and said "da da da bad bad bad" and made raspberry noises. Then he finally put himself to sleep. I guess he got bored. I thought it was so funny I got the video camera out and taped it with night vision! Needless to say I was wide awake at that point too!
Nick says his first words are da da, which I guess that is true but he doesn't say it and look for Nick but we are working on it. I think it is funny that is saying da da and calling him bad!

Looking back and looking ahead

So, I've been reading other women's blogs and I think they are great. I say 'women' because I don't come across too many men writing blogs about their family. I kind of feel like I'm watching people from outside their window and I'm not supposed to! But I kind of like it. Call me weird...and I know some of you will!

I've been thinking on how time has flown by and how Isaac, Nick and I have changed so much in the past 7 months.

It's just crazy to look back at pictures of Isaac. I remember saying, 'I can't wait until he can sit up on his own." And now, I'm worried that he will fall back and hit his head on something. I guess there is always something to worry about.

As far as looking ahead, I think I want to start journaling for Isaac. I guess blogging counts, right? I was talking to a co-worker, whose daughter turned 21 and she sent her daughter some journal entries she wrote when her daughter was growing up. I think that would be so neat. My mom told me to start a journal when Isaac was born and I guess I started this but now I want to write more. Not sure how much a son would appreciate it when he gets older as much as maybe a daughter would, but I think he will because he our son and Nick and I like that kind of thing. And dang it, if I'm taking the time to write things down he won't remember then he better enjoy it! JK!

3 weeks, asleep on the couch

Isaac last month--I love that you can see his 2 little teeth!

Starting bad habits

Isaac finally got over a fever that he has had for the past 4 days. We both stayed home with him on Monday and then I stayed home with him on Tuesday because Nick went to Chicago for work. He was on fire and for the first time he slept in his diaper. Of course, I'm thinking he will get a chill from being naked but I guess he was fine. But now, Nick and I are sick!

But the past 3 nights Mr. Isaac has been starting a bad habit. Either he totally fights going to bed and just screams until we get him and bring him out to the living room or last night, he went to bed fine but then woke up 2 hours later screaming and wanted to come out. I was going to bring him to bed with me but I didn't do it. So, after 20 minutes of crying and being fussy we fed him and he passed out. I'm not sure if he still doesn't feel well or it's his teeth. I'm leaning towards his teeth because I put my finger in his mouth to feel around and he started chomping down on my finger. Nick said maybe his room has bad spirits and he doesn't want to sleep in there. I'm not too sure about that but he could be having bad dreams. :)
But on a good note, daycare is going really well. Sharon is fatting him up--which is fine with us and he is taking two-2 hour naps during the day! I'm so relieved.

Future IU student

We went down to Bloomington for my BIL's birthday and went to a crafts fair, lunch and walked around campus. It was a good time. Isaac took his first picture as a future IU student...if he wants to go there that's fine but Stanford, Harvard or Notre Dame are fine too! We sat him on the IU seal (which Steven said no one is really allowed on or should walk on...oops!) He almost had 2 wipe outs and would have cracked his head but supermom was there and I caught him with one finger--really!

Maren telling Isaac he isn't allowed to talk right now, it's her turn!