Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Thoughts on moving
I don't know how many "Thoughts on moving" posts I'll have, so this may be the first of many. I am beginning to realize that there's a huge part of moving that I wasn't counting on: Nathan having trouble saying goodbye to his friends. What's so hard for me is that he knows things are changing (he can see the boxes start to fill the apartment and things like bookshelves and pictures come down) and I can try to explain it to him, but at not even two he's got a very limited understanding of what moving means. And tonight when I saw him with Katie and Kelly and Andrea I knew that when we have to explain why he can't see them anymore it will be about a hundred times harder than why we have boxes everywhere. He didn't want to say goodnight to them because he wanted to keep on playing so how much harder will it be next week when he has to say goodbye?
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Fatherhood and Motherhood
On Fatherhood:
These are the books that Nathan and Isaac gave Jimmy for Father's Day:
Jimmy reads stories to Nathan and Isaac before they go to bed so we thought it would be appropriate to give him bedtime books that he can read to them for Father's Day! Of course, Nathan approved the books. Isaac didn't have much to say about them.
Regarding Motherhood...
These are the books that Nathan and Isaac gave Jimmy for Father's Day:
Jimmy reads stories to Nathan and Isaac before they go to bed so we thought it would be appropriate to give him bedtime books that he can read to them for Father's Day! Of course, Nathan approved the books. Isaac didn't have much to say about them.
Regarding Motherhood...
I saw this under the signature of an email that I received recently, and thought it was 100% accurate:
Motherhood: The days are long but the years are short.
Motherhood: The days are long but the years are short.
Monday, June 9, 2008
Those pictures I didn't post yesterday...
Here are those pesky pictures that didn't cooperate yesterday. Just like in that post, the captions are below the pictures and as always, if you click on a picture you'll get a larger version of it. Enjoy!
Nathan enjoys sharing his toys with Isaac...he doesn't quite understand why Isaac doesn't enjoy it as much as he does.
My mom and Nathan and I went to the Santa Ana Zoo. It's a small zoo with farm animals and monkeys. Of course his favorite part was playing with (and hugging and feeding and kissing) the concrete turtle, lizard, and frog.
Strawberry picking! Too bad you can't really see Isaac. He's in the Mei Tai carrier on Jimmy's chest.
Nathan giving Gran-gran a piggyback ride!
When Isaac was two weeks old we went to Disneyland. Nathan got to meet Goofy! How exciting!
I spoiled him by buying him a t-shirt and stuffed Mickey. :) (And I bought Isaac a shirt and a stuffed Tigger!)
Gran-gran and "Baby I-ick." (That's how Nathan says "Isaac.")
The boys with their grandmothers in the 10 minutes that their visits overlapped!
More family visits! Aunt Sally and Ryan.
Visiting more relatives at a family funeral.
One of the benefits of going to Disneyland with my mom is that she bought the tickets (THANKS MOM!!) and since I'm a Southern California resident we could get the 2fer tickets. That means you pay the entrance price for one of the parks (either Disneyland or California Adventure--they're the same price) and go there that day and then come back another day within the month and go to the other park. We (Jimmy, Nathan, Isaac and I) redeemed our day at CA Adventure this past Friday with a couple of friends (which meant that Jimmy and I got to ride some roller coasters together, without children!!). Here's Nathan surfing.
This is on the Monster's Inc. ride. You ride on a little train through what is basically a ride of the movie. It's cute and Nathan looked like this pretty much the whole ride. Isaac got to ride, too, in the Mei Tai on Kelly's chest! Too bad neither of them will remember the trip.
This past Saturday we had a party to say goodbye to some of Jimmy's friends from college. His IV staffworker was there and this is his ten-month-old daughter. She and Nathan had fun!
Looks a little backwards, I'd say!
Nathan enjoys sharing his toys with Isaac...he doesn't quite understand why Isaac doesn't enjoy it as much as he does.
My mom and Nathan and I went to the Santa Ana Zoo. It's a small zoo with farm animals and monkeys. Of course his favorite part was playing with (and hugging and feeding and kissing) the concrete turtle, lizard, and frog.
Strawberry picking! Too bad you can't really see Isaac. He's in the Mei Tai carrier on Jimmy's chest.
Nathan giving Gran-gran a piggyback ride!
When Isaac was two weeks old we went to Disneyland. Nathan got to meet Goofy! How exciting!
I spoiled him by buying him a t-shirt and stuffed Mickey. :) (And I bought Isaac a shirt and a stuffed Tigger!)
Gran-gran and "Baby I-ick." (That's how Nathan says "Isaac.")
The boys with their grandmothers in the 10 minutes that their visits overlapped!
More family visits! Aunt Sally and Ryan.
Visiting more relatives at a family funeral.
One of the benefits of going to Disneyland with my mom is that she bought the tickets (THANKS MOM!!) and since I'm a Southern California resident we could get the 2fer tickets. That means you pay the entrance price for one of the parks (either Disneyland or California Adventure--they're the same price) and go there that day and then come back another day within the month and go to the other park. We (Jimmy, Nathan, Isaac and I) redeemed our day at CA Adventure this past Friday with a couple of friends (which meant that Jimmy and I got to ride some roller coasters together, without children!!). Here's Nathan surfing.
This is on the Monster's Inc. ride. You ride on a little train through what is basically a ride of the movie. It's cute and Nathan looked like this pretty much the whole ride. Isaac got to ride, too, in the Mei Tai on Kelly's chest! Too bad neither of them will remember the trip.
This past Saturday we had a party to say goodbye to some of Jimmy's friends from college. His IV staffworker was there and this is his ten-month-old daughter. She and Nathan had fun!
Looks a little backwards, I'd say! Sunday, June 8, 2008
Some pictures of Isaac
Nearly 1.5 hours ago I started a post that included 22 pictures taken over the past six weeks of various things we've done. As you can see, that mission got aborted because Blogger and I engaged in an epic battle over the format of my pictures, and Blogger won. I didn't want that entire time to have been spent in vain so I decided to compose a post of the most pressing pictures: Isaac. Hopefully I will get another wind of energy soon and finish posting the other 14 pictures I originally intended to post!
(Just FYI: Captions go with the pictures above them, and if you want a larger version of the picture, just click on it and a larger one will come up in another window.)
Isaac's first sponge bath. He was rather indifferent about it, unlike his brother who hated sponge baths!
Nathan likes to share everything with Isaac (including food and drink). Here he has filled Isaac's swing with toys he thought Isaac might like upon waking.
Isaac's first tub bath! He really likes baths as long as we don't wake him for them. If he's already awake, he thoroughly enjoys having water poured over his head.
Again, Nathan giving Isaac a toy. I like how Isaac is looking at Nathan in this picture. :)
Isaac's baptism, June 1, 2008.
First smile! (Well, the first one caught on camera.)
This picture was included so you can see just how gigantic Isaac has gotten. He hasn't been weighed since he was about 10 days old, but I would guess he's around 11 pounds. Compare how he fills the swing in this picture (taken today) to the one above (the second picture)!
(Just FYI: Captions go with the pictures above them, and if you want a larger version of the picture, just click on it and a larger one will come up in another window.)
Isaac's first sponge bath. He was rather indifferent about it, unlike his brother who hated sponge baths!
Nathan likes to share everything with Isaac (including food and drink). Here he has filled Isaac's swing with toys he thought Isaac might like upon waking.
Isaac's first tub bath! He really likes baths as long as we don't wake him for them. If he's already awake, he thoroughly enjoys having water poured over his head.
Again, Nathan giving Isaac a toy. I like how Isaac is looking at Nathan in this picture. :)
Isaac's baptism, June 1, 2008.
First smile! (Well, the first one caught on camera.)
This picture was included so you can see just how gigantic Isaac has gotten. He hasn't been weighed since he was about 10 days old, but I would guess he's around 11 pounds. Compare how he fills the swing in this picture (taken today) to the one above (the second picture)!Sunday, June 1, 2008
Long awaited update
Hi!
Well, it's been a month and a day since my last post so I figured it was time for a new one. I'm sorry that this post won't have any pictures. :( It's more to let you know that we're still alive and doing quite well. Isaac is, so far, a very easy baby. Nathan loves him, sometimes loves him a little to eagerly and scares Isaac. Isaac has been sleeping a lot and eating even more. I'm not quite sure how much he weighs right now but he's definitely gaining weight rapidly. Jimmy has been taking off a few days a week so I've only actually been home alone with the boys two days. They went very well. Nathan was a very good boy those two days which was somewhat of a nice change (he decided to "show off" the first few weeks Isaac was born but was back to his more compliant self on Tuesday and Wednesday). This week I'll have three days without anyone else (well, any other adult) so we'll see if we're able to keep ourselves busy!
On a sadder note, we'll only be in California until June 26. We'll get to visit Bakersfield one more time and then ship up and fly out on the 26th. Actually, Jimmy and his dad are driving to Virginia and my mom is coming out to fly back with the boys and me. We'll be in Virginia until about August 14th or 15th and moving into our new apartment in St. Louis August 16, at what I'm assuming will be the heat of the summer! At least we'll have central air there (that was a shock when I moved to So Cal--that there are places in the US without air conditioning).
Anyway, once I get some pictures off of our camera (there are plenty, don't worry) I'll upload some of them here. Most of the ones of Isaac look pretty much the same since he's not really doing much yet, but we've got some cute ones of Nathan at least!
Well, it's been a month and a day since my last post so I figured it was time for a new one. I'm sorry that this post won't have any pictures. :( It's more to let you know that we're still alive and doing quite well. Isaac is, so far, a very easy baby. Nathan loves him, sometimes loves him a little to eagerly and scares Isaac. Isaac has been sleeping a lot and eating even more. I'm not quite sure how much he weighs right now but he's definitely gaining weight rapidly. Jimmy has been taking off a few days a week so I've only actually been home alone with the boys two days. They went very well. Nathan was a very good boy those two days which was somewhat of a nice change (he decided to "show off" the first few weeks Isaac was born but was back to his more compliant self on Tuesday and Wednesday). This week I'll have three days without anyone else (well, any other adult) so we'll see if we're able to keep ourselves busy!
On a sadder note, we'll only be in California until June 26. We'll get to visit Bakersfield one more time and then ship up and fly out on the 26th. Actually, Jimmy and his dad are driving to Virginia and my mom is coming out to fly back with the boys and me. We'll be in Virginia until about August 14th or 15th and moving into our new apartment in St. Louis August 16, at what I'm assuming will be the heat of the summer! At least we'll have central air there (that was a shock when I moved to So Cal--that there are places in the US without air conditioning).
Anyway, once I get some pictures off of our camera (there are plenty, don't worry) I'll upload some of them here. Most of the ones of Isaac look pretty much the same since he's not really doing much yet, but we've got some cute ones of Nathan at least!
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