8 Months Grown

This Brunson family recently returned from a trip to Oregon (more on that later, I hope) with a brand new 8 month old! My how he has grown. We took the opportunity while there to have Jacob's mom use her nice camera to take some photos of our little family (more photos later, maybe). Here are some winners of Isaac that are maybe mostly taken by Jacob.

At 8 months old Isaac is a crawling machine and also loves to eat. He mostly loves his finger foods, drinking from a real glass with a little help from his mom, and of course eating things he shouldn't (dirt, paper, leaves, grass, and numerous other hazards we've had to fish out of his little mouth). He is less good at sleeping, still.

We think he's pretty great and obviously adorable...

And More Trouble

Also, I just noticed that Isaac must be standing in his crib a lot more often than I originally thought because there are bite marks and teeth scratches ALL OVER one side of my nice wood crib.

Any suggestions for that? I'd love to have a crib in good shape for future use...

Strong. But Not Strong Enough

What do you do when your baby is strong enough to pull up on things but not strong enough to maintain balance when letting go? And really not smart enough to know he can't let go without falling? This is especially becoming a problem when I put Isaac down for naps. He pulls up on the crib and this afternoon I heard a thump...falling into the side of the crib I'm sure. Of course I didn't see it because I was in another room listening for him to stop crying and fall asleep.

So, how do I do naps without causing lots of bumps and bruises on my poor babies head?

Crawling Perfected

Isaac has abandoned the army crawl/scoot he was doing for the more technically perfect form. And he became super speedy at it when I was vacuuming. He LOVES the vacuum and followed me as quickly as he could.

So Jacob brought the vacuum out to motivate Isaac to crawl so he could get it on video. I'm not sure why it copied so huge on my blog though...

Sleeping and Crawling

Yesterday Isaac started crawling. He hasn't really perfected it yet but there was definite forward progress on his hands and knees. He still mostly struggles with it and ends up rolling and scooting in other ways but I'm counting it as crawling. And it's exciting and scary all at the same time. I have certainly got some baby proofing to do!

In other good news, the past two nights Isaac has slept for an 8 hour chunk of time. And yesterday was especially good because he only woke up once to eat at 4 am after being in bed at 8 pm. Lately he has been waking up a couple hours after going to sleep and crying for awhile until I feed him again or he falls asleep. So yesterday was brilliant! I could certainly get used to it. Though I must admit I woke at about 3:30 and had to check on him to make sure he was okay since I am so used to crying at some point in the night...

No Socks For You!

I've given up putting socks on Isaac. And here is why:

They ALWAYS end up ripped off his feet and usually find their way into his mouth.

But it's sure a cute mouth at that. Look at those adorable teeth!

(He has four now, by the way.)

And that smile is too much adorableness. Seriously...could he be any more adorable. Me thinks not.

Further evidence of adorableness:

A New Ride

A few weeks ago Jacob and I purchased this new ride for Isaac.

We only had a metal clip on base for our car seat and Isaac is getting old enough that he likes to see what's going on around him. And I wanted something easy to push. After talking with a few people I decided to go for a jogging stroller with the larger wheels. We bought this one off craigslist and it's certainly not the top of the line. But for now it does okay. It seems to be pulling to the left though and I need to figure that out.

The other night we went on a walk near the Poudre River.

I think Isaac mostly likes the new ride, but I put his hat on him every time we go out and he doesn't like the hat. He pulls on it but can't get it off because it's fastened around his chin. He ultimately ends up pulling it over his eyes. Most of the time he doesn't even cry about it, but that sort of defeats the purpose of getting him a stroller from which he is more able to look around.

And since it's a jogging stroller, I decided I had better start jogging again (especially after seeing this photo :)). So I took Isaac for a jog the day after this river walk. I was pretty certain I was going to die. I haven't been jogging in a long while and never pushing a stroller. It's hard for me to find my groove while hanging on to that jogger. So it mostly ended up being a jog/walk. But I went again this morning and did a little better. I guess if I get a little better and jog a little longer every time I go out that's all I can ask for. But I REALLY need to get this pulling to the left situation figured out. I think it's because the front wheel's quick release gizmo is a little loose and doesn't keep the wheel aligned right. Jacob said he'd check into it and if we can't figure it out we'll post it back on craigslist and buy a different one.

And as for Isaac, after such exhausting activities he needed a bath to relax and rinse that sweat off. I love this chubby baby!

Quilt Market

I'm finally getting around to posting about quilt market back in May. It was such fun to see what it was all about and completely overwhelming. I wish I would have gotten a picture from up above so you could have seen just how enormous this market is. I don't know if I mentioned before, but it took me the full two hours I was there just to walk from one end to the other through all the isles of booths. Believe me when I say I barely slowed and rarely stopped at any of the booths.

But in the middle of all the booths there was a display of quilts entered into international quilt association contest. These quilts were simply amazing. I did take a few pictures of those quilts.

This one was actually not this orangey color, it's a bad picture. But the point is, it's double sided! You must admit that is amazing. And I'm not quite certain how it was done.

This one actually shimmered. It's quilted in shiny thread and had some sort of rhinestone type fabric in it. I tried to get a close-up but you still can't tell just how shiny and fun it is.

These next photos are examples of what some of the larger fabric designer booths looked like. I thought the Micheal Miller display was fun.

And the next two are Riley Blake. I used Riley Blake fabric for Isaac's room. I love their fabrics. I saw some I want to add to my non-existent stash of fabric.

I felt a little weird taking pictures because I wasn't sure which booths were okay about it and not. I did end up taking a lot of notes about designers and patterns I want to learn more about. I have so many project ideas brewing since market. Now if I could just find the time and money to make them all happen!

Thanks again to my wonderful mother-in-law for letting me in the show. It was a fun experience.