A Picture

I wish I could take a picture of Isaac as he is all tucked in and ready for bed at night.  He has to have all his stuffed animals right in his arms.  Yesterday all you could see as we were leaving him to sleep was his head and little hands wrapped around two animals on each side (bear, elephant, little raccoon, and big raccoon).  It's adorable.  And always looks a little different when he is soundly asleep enough to risk a photo.  I hope I can remember that cute little image in my head forever, but somehow I know it won't last.

He's growing too fast.

So Faithful

Funny story:

We have a pretty solid routine for Isaac's bedtime around this house.  Yesterday, when it came time for saying prayers, Isaac headed for his open closet instead of the usual zone for kneeling.  Jacob followed him and I watched him from my already kneeling position on the floor.  I saw Isaac bend over his laundry basket and heard him say something and then stand up.  I thought I heard an "amen" but wasn't sure until I saw Jacob helping Isaac out of the closet laughing.  We said our prayer and continued with the routine.  And then Jacob and I had a really good laugh at how righteous our 18 month old is.

He was praying in his closet after all.

Father's Day and Then Some

We had a good Father's Day around these parts.  At least I think it was a success.  You'll have to ask Jacob if he agrees.

For Jacob's gift I made matching ties.  Well, sort of made is probably more accurate.  I bought two men's ties that matched and then sized one down for Isaac using my mother-in-laws pattern.  It turned out pretty cute.  The only problem I had was that I couldn't get Isaac's tie tight enough around the neck but still able to go over his head using an elastic neckline.  Maybe I need to take it apart and do some velcro instead.  I just didn't want him to be able to take it off and play with it.

Anyway, the ties got a few compliments at church and I think they both looked quite handsome in their Sunday finest.

 

We also had some good food for Father's day.  Celebrations are all about the food, aren't they?  I made bacon and egg sandwiches for breakfast, a homemade pizza imitating one of our favorite pizzas from a local restaurant for dinner, and lemon bars for dessert.

Sarah and Kevin and their two kiddos came over to share some homemade donuts with us later that night as well.  Needless to say, we had way more good eats than we needed.

And in other news, I think Isaac has started exploring the "terrible twos" a little early.  Maybe I feel that way because I am limited in my ability to pick him up and I feel like he knows it.  He is certainly testing limits regardless.

He loves pulling out the air vents from the floor.  He went through a phase  of this earlier and I thought it had passed.  Apparently it's back with a vengeance.  I am constantly trying to put him in time out for pulling up the vents.  It's gotten so bad all I have to say is "uh oh" and he goes running off to the spot where I lately have tried having him sit for time outs.  You might think this is cute (and sometimes I do too) but he runs away saying "sit" because he knows he has done something wrong and if he just sits everything will be okay.  It's like he's trying to say "What? I'm not doing anything.  Why are you looking at me?"

I think the fascination of the air vents rekindled in our current wave of heat.  We have been running the air conditioner a lot lately (temperatures in the 100s) and every time it kicks on Isaac is either laying on the vents, sitting on them, or pulling them up.

 

He has also become very stubborn and independent of late.  His favorite words are "no" and "self" as in, I'll do it myself.  Since I've not been supposed to lift Isaac we abandoned our normal high chair for use of one that can sit on the floor.  It worked out all right for the first couple of days but then Isaac started throwing fits whenever I'd try to get him to sit in it and would insist on sitting on the floor instead.  Sometimes I don't fight it.  Stubborn little guy.

 

Family of Four

This ultrasound was done at about 14 weeks

I decided it was time I announced that we are expecting a baby at the end of November! Primarily so I could write down a few things I don't want to forget.  I am excited and also extremely scared.  I'm not sure how I'll manage Isaac and a newborn.  Those tiny ones are HARD.  I guess we'll figure it out!

This pregnancy has been quite different from my pregnancy with Isaac.  At least so far.  The first trimester was still hard, I think everyone knows that, but I was less tired and sick than with Isaac.  I still felt plenty of nausea but mostly didn't have the food aversions like I did with Isaac.  Maybe that's why I look way more pregnant at this stage of the game than last time too.  (Not really, I know it's normal to start showing sooner but I do feel huge compared to the first go around.)  I definitely took advantage of Isaac's nap time to sleep myself.  But I certainly wasn't sleeping as much as the previous pregnancy.  And I was grateful for these blessings because Isaac is a very busy kid.  Any time I would try and rest on the couch while he was awake he'd come over and grab my hand or my hair (ouch) and pull while saying "up" several times.  He does not like a lazy mom.

I'll tell you what was worse with this pregnancy, the indigestion.  I remember feeling it in the later end of pregnancy but I was popping tums like crazy really early on with this one.  Luckily, that has eased up a bit.

And now I am in my 2nd trimester and feeling pretty good most days.  I'm usually fine energy wise and I could probably eat all day.  Everything sounds good...well...mostly.  But about 4 weeks ago I started having some complications that have landed me on "pelvic rest."  Not full on bed rest (thankfully) but I am certainly limited in what I can do, including lifting Isaac.  That's been difficult.  I think things are improving though and at my next ultrasound in about 4 weeks I'm hopeful they will let me get moving again.  But mostly I'm grateful to have a healthy baby continuing to grow and develop.  I think he or she is adorable all ready.  Just look at that ultrasound with the baby sucking it's thumb...incredible.  It's only 3 ounces after all.

As for the gender of this little one, I think it's a girl (though lately I've been changing my mind) and Jacob thinks it's a boy.  Isaac's answer is different every time.  I guess we'll find out in a few weeks.  Secretly I'm hoping my doctor will schedule the ultrasound sooner than 20 weeks.  She's out of town the whole month of July and I would really hate for her to make us wait until she gets back.  Especially since I want to be done with this "resting" period.  

Cute and Less Cute

I think this photo was snapped one morning when Isaac found my camera.  He is so stinkin' cute.



This just stinks.  Literally.

This was our view of the High Park fire coming out of church on Sunday.  This fire is massive and close to our city.  When the wind blows just right we end up with smoke filled air and smelliness.  We have been under air quality restrictions specifically for children, elderly and people with asthma so we haven't been getting out much.  I wouldn't want to subject Isaac's poor little lungs to junk.

One day I ran to the post office for a minute and thought to myself "this must be what a smoker feels like all the time."  You could smell the smoke, see ash floating around, and it just felt thick breathing it in.  Nasty.

These were actually really orange colored clouds.  We get out of church at 4 and it looked like the sun was setting.