Bath Time with Ikeman!

I took a bath with Isaac last night, it was so much fun. We haven’t been taking baths lately, mostly just showers because they’re faster and I’m so tired when I get home from work. Last night Isaac really needed one (we had gourmet French toast for dinner with Raspberry syrup so he was covered!) and I thought it would be relaxing plus I didn’t want to get my hair wet so we took a bath. Isaac was so excited when he saw the water filling up the tub; he just loves to play in water! While Isaac was playing I laid down with my head on the side of the tub and just relaxed. Isaac kept giving me these huge smiles like, “look at me Mommy, I love you Mommy, Thanks for taking a bath with me Mommy!” Every time I would smile at him he would scrunch up his face and blink his eyes as tight as he could. (We're going to try to get a picture of this tomorrow. He's so silly!) I’m not sure where he picked that up from but he just started it yesterday. Eventually Isaac came over to see why I was being so boring and laid his little head on my giant belly. The baby started kicking like crazy; I guess she didn’t like Isaac squishing her home. Isaac seemed a little confused as to why his pillow was attacking him. He was so funny. I love watching him learn about the rest of the world around me. He’s the greatest little friend I’ve ever had.
Speaking of the baby I can’t believe we’re already 26 weeks pregnant. When in the world did that happen? It seems like just last week we weren’t even to the halfway point and baby seemed so far away. Now she’s just 14 short weeks away, and only ten if she comes as early as Isaac did. I’m so not prepared for this. What in the world are we going to name her? Brandon and I can’t agree on anything. We have zero good names! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

Day Care Drop-off and Pick-up

I hate hate hate dropping Isaac off at day care. I thought I was getting better until yesterday morning when Isaac cried the entire 30 min drive to day care. He’s usually very tired and sleeps for the whole drive, but we’ve been trying to transition from a bottle to a sippy cup and he really hates it in the mornings. He’s ok most of the time, but in the mornings he’s so tired and he wants the comfort of his bottle. So anyway, he cried the whole way and would quiet down a little when I would sing the itsy-bitsy-spider but that only worked three or four times. When we finally got to day care I was near tears, its hard to listen to him cry because you woke him up, its still pitch black outside, and you would both be much happier in bed. I couldn’t believe how much it hurt my feelings when Isaac dove out of my arms and into Wendy’s like he could care less if I was there. He even pushed me away. As I headed back out on the road to work all I could think about was how rediculas it was that my eyes were leaking when I want him to enjoy daycare not freak out and cry when I drop him off. I don’t know what is worse when he cries or when he’s happy to have me go.
I love love love picking Isaac up from daycare. If I got off work before Brandon got done with school everyday it would be the highlight of my day, but I don’t so I only pick him up once maybe twice a week. Yesterday (September 28, 2009) was one of those days that I picked Isaac up after work. When I go to day care I ring the door bell and wait. Isaac is always in the back room (unless he happens to be taking a nap upstairs) playing with the other kids that are waiting for their Mommy’s to come pick them up. Usually he is snuggling with one of the workers because he is dead tired (as am I) by the time I come to pick him up. Yesterday though he was playing with the other kids and didn’t notice me when I walked in the room. I enjoyed watching him interact with the other kids; mostly he was just following the bigger ones around. After a few minutes I said, “Isaac.” He turned his head and his eyes got huge and he promptly fell over. Then he struggled like five times to try to stand up. He was having a hard time because he was so excited to see his mommy!!! He finally got to his feet and toddled over to me as fast as his little legs would carry him. Then he gave me a snotty face wipe (AKA a kiss) and a great big hug. It made me feel like I was on top of the world. I think picking Isaac up from day care will be one of the few things that I’ll miss when I have the other baby and quite working.

Mad Climbing Skills

So the other day (Tuesday, September 22, 2009) Isaac was in a really cuddly mood so Brandon and I sat down in the recliners to watch some TV while he sat on my lap and cuddled and ate a bottle. When his bottle was gone Isaac decided he’d had enough cuddling and wanted to play so I put him down on the floor. This was NOT what he wanted. Apparently, he wanted to climb back and forth from the floor to the recliner. The only problem with this is that he isn’t quite tall enough to get down from the foot rest. Don’t worry though; Isaac came up with a solution. He would hold on as tight as he could and lower himself until he lost his grip and would fall on his back. It looked really painful and I had to try really hard not to grimace the first time he did it so he wouldn’t cry, or so I thought. Apparently it wasn’t painful at all because he did this over and over again. Each time I thought he was going to start crying because it looked so painful, but no he just kept getting back up to fall again.

Sorry no pictures but I'm writing all these stories at work and putting them here so I won't forget to add them to my journal later.

Mommy or Daddy's home and other ramblings.

I love watching Isaac when either Brandon or I come home after being gone for a little while. He will be so attached to whichever parent was gone and won’t let the other one hold him. It makes him really mad when we pass him back and forth when he’s acting like this. If he’s playing on the floor when we come home he crawls over to us as fast as his little legs and arms will carry him. Sometimes he tries to go faster than he can and will fall over on his face. When he gets to you he just keeps running into you with his head all droopy and sad until you pick him up. Then he gives you a great big hug, smiles and claps his hands because he’s so happy to see you! I love when this happens.
Baby is kicking like crazy now. I feel like she’s constantly moving and everyday her little kicks get stronger and stronger. We still have no idea what her name will be but I guarantee it’ll be a good one! We’re officially 25 weeks along, which means only 13-17 weeks until she’ll be here! Brandon hasn’t been able to feel her kicking yet because her most active times are when we’re not together like after breakfast and lunch. I’ve started having evening sickness (AKA morning sickness in the evenings) lately which is weird because I’m past the point of when you normally get morning sickness. Hopefully it’ll go away soon because I’m not a fan!

Isaac Playing

I can walk!

We took some pictures of Isaac walking today. We will try and get some Video when he wakes up from his nap. We also included some pictures of the baby in Heather's belly. At daycare they said that Isaac was a terror the other day. He had climbed up onto the fireplace and then proceded to teach the other babys how to also. The only catch is they can't get back down. So, they all start crying and then the teachers have to come rescue them. Then they do it again.

Monkey Boy

Yesterday we went over to our neighbor’s house to give them some free laundry soap. (As I mentioned before, we have a lot of soap at our house!) They didn’t answer the door, but we could see the husband in the back yard working on something so we said high over the fence. We ended up talking to them outside for about an hour. They’re a really nice little family and we like talking to them. They have a lot of animals in their backyard. I think they have five or six dogs and three or four horses. (They are the family that has the horse from a previous post of Isaac sitting on it.) Isaac loved the dogs yesterday and wanted to get down and play with them. We put him down in the grass and laughed hysterically at his reaction to the dogs and their reaction to him. Isaac started crawling around on all fours just like the dogs, but the dogs were terrified yet fascinated by him and would only allow them to come within two feet of him. When they would bark at him he would growl back and then giggle super loud. He chased after them and looked like a little Gorilla because he wouldn’t put his knees in the dirt! Soon he found a ledge were the grass area gave way to the typical dirt backyard and climbed up and down the step over and over again for about fifteen minutes. Then he went back to chasing the poor dogs that were so so scared of him. What a bully!!
Sorry No Pictures Again!