New skills

The munchkin is getting better with the physical skills. He's had another skill "growth spurt." In addition to his solo stair climbing activity, he's also done several new things this week. He got out of a large rocking arm chair all by himself (and very smoothly I might add). He got down off of our bed by himself (not so smoothly). For those who don't know, our bed is very high--it comes up to my waist, so this is quite an accomplishment (even if he did loose his balance and fall on his tush). He's been practicing that one for a while. He's been very cute with it...he knows to turn around and throw his legs over, but since it's so high, he gets a death grip on the sheets and slowly lowers himself down. The first couple times he did it (with me sitting right beside him to help him if he needed) he did his little nervous laugh. Then he figured out to lower himself until he was standing on the bed rail. I think the problem now is he's not sure how to get down off of that. He also walked all the way out of the YMCA to the car. He's starting to like exploring more new places on foot. That makes for interesting trips to the store while he pulls everything off the racks. He and I went shopping for some summer clothes for him last week, and he ran around the clothes racks playing hide and seek and laughing like crazy. He had the best time.


Another random picture. He's practicing to be Joseph in the Christmas play when he gets old enough.

Stair climbing

Isaac loves climbing stairs. Unfortunately, he often thinks it's a game. He's getting pretty quiet and sneaky with the walking, and if you aren't paying attention, he'll sneak up the stairs on you. When Paul or I find him climbing the stairs he just laughs like it's great fun. He has made it up to the top on his own a few times (he's sneaked past Mommy and Daddy on different occasions). And he's fast too. Often when we hear him, by the time we get there, he's almost at the top. Thank goodness at least he's good at it.
Climb a bit, then stop and pose.

Climb some more...

then turn around and make sure Mommy is still back there.

First "black" eye

Well, as you can see, we got a nice boo boo. My little Angel is having a bit of a devilish streak. He'll act all sweet and perfect until you tell him no and then...look out! So this occurred as we were playing around on the bed. Paul had just gotten home and Isaac was a bit grumpy. He started throwing himself around on the bed. He hit his head on Daddy a couple of times and fussed because it didn't feel too good. But apparently that wasn't enough to stop him from throwing himself around. A few seconds later, he got exasperated and threw his head down on my knee. Oh boy, did he cry at that one! This mark appeared almost instantly. I was really worried that it was going to turn into a big bruise (in which case I was going to have shirts printed saying, "No, I do not hit my kid!"). Luckily, it didn't get any darker than this and it disappeared in a day or two.

Same ole, same ole

Well, I'm really sorry I haven't posted more on here recently, but in all honesty, it's been too crazy. I hardly have any new pictures because Isaac moves around too much to get any. (He's just a blur in most of the ones I have taken recently :-). Every time he does something cute, by the time I find the camera, he has moved on to the next thing. So I figured I would at least give everyone an update. Isaac is walking all over the place now--he'll be running in no time (Lord, help us!). I guess he finally got up the confidence and man can he go! He went through this phase where he would walk on his hands and feet--quite entertaining! Unfortunately, I think he might already be done with that, and I never did catch it on camera. He loves playing outside. We can't wait for the weather to get consistently nice so we can play out there every day. He now has at least 12 teeth (4 new honkin premolars). There might be more back there, but he's not big on letting us look. Life has settled into a fairly predictable routine (for which, I am very grateful!) Of course, with that predictability comes boring blogger updates! Here is one of the few good pictures I have recently (and yes, I know he needs a haircut).

Foward facing

We have made the move to a forward facing car seat! The first night we tried it, Isaac was so funny...he was trying to take everything in. He would whip his head from side to side trying to see it all. His utter fascination at not having to stare at the back seat was quite amusing. He looks like such a big boy in his new seat :-).

Walking video

So video doesn't look great on here, but I had to put this one on. Isaac was only walking when we stood him up and got him to walk to us, but the other day he decided he wanted something, so he walked over and got it. He's starting to walk to things for his own benefit, not just because Paul or I try to get him to walk. Just wait until he figures out the running thing...

Blowing

Isaac has started one of his cutest tricks yet...blowing on everything. What's so cute about it is that it isn't a really blow; it's sort of a combination between a puff of air coming out of his mouth and a sigh (I'm not sure that makes sense...you'd just have to hear it). Paul and I blow on his food before we give it to him if it's hot, and Paul blows out candles while he's holding Isaac, so maybe that is where he has gotten it from. At first I didn't know what he was doing, because he would do it while he was playing in the living room. I haven't exactly figured out what all makes him think he needs to blow on something, but I'm coming up with a theory. He does blow on some food that we give him while he's in his high chair. (He blew on a pancake I gave him Sat. morning and he blew on his cheese toast this morning.) And he does help blow if we're blowing out a candle, but my favorite so far was this morning. For some reason he likes to chew on the noses of stuffed animals (his puppy, some bears, pretty much anything). He goes right for the nose to bite it (this might not bode well for any future siblings or classmates). Anyway, this morning he leaned over to bite the nose of a teddy bear and right before he did, he blew on it.

Here's a cute random picture for you.