Homemade Playdough

My mom had sent me her homemade play-dough recipe a month or so ago because she had made some with my nieces and nephew. I purchased what I needed but decided to wait until she got here to make it with Isaac.


Isaac likes to watch us make dinner quite often, but he doesn't really get to participate. This time he got to help a little, and it was okay that a little mess was made :-)








It took him a while to get the hang of playing with it, but eventually he jumped right in.


I had a set of play-dough toys I had picked up in the Target $1 bin a few months ago.


(Thanks to Kyle for taking photos, he got my old camera and seems pretty proud to be able to play around without the pressure of getting what he thinks I am wanting)

Here are some of Isaac and Grandma reading, Isaac L-O-V-E-S reading!




And of course he loves playing too!


Knocking over blocks as soon as Grandma has a few stacked:


Harpo does get love, although with all the photo bombs you would think he was starving for attention.

Flash Back

Cleaning off our small camera and was double checking I had all my videos backed up before I deleted them. Came across this one, which I didn't have backed up and added it to the bunch.

Just wanted to share cuz it was so stinkin' cute! Babies sure don't last long.

Splishin' & a Splashin'

We went to a local gym today that has a splash pad for little ones. Isaac had so much fun! He loved going down the slide and running in the water. He kept running to the deep end (2 feet) he's such a dare devil!

Here's a video of him going up the stairs and down the water slide:


And I love this photo:


Here he is after they had just turned on the sprinklers:






Our friends, Jana & Logan at the bottom of the slide:


Isaac & Logan:


Logan was being so nice and sharing his cheerios:

More photos & month 14

Playing around with my new lens now... it's a f/1.4 meaning the aperture will open wide to f-stop 1.4!! My widest lens before this was a 35mm 1.8 that was always on my other camera. This lens (50mm) will most likely always stay on my new camera as it is now my new fav!



These were from last night:




It is VERY hard to try and focus on a small focal plane (which is what 1.4 gives me) of an active one year old that won't stay still. But I was determined :-P

And then these were from today, trying to get a little valentine's day flare


he showed little interest

more interest in the rug gripper


And here are his 14 month photos, which was Monday but we just got to it today.


It was so funny because as soon as I set the blocks up, he knew where his spot was and he sat there very serious for the first couple photos, then he began playing with the blocks.

New Camera

I got a new camera!!! And I have been trying to figure out the settings to my liking. Took me almost 20 minutes to get my focal points how I like them... just a little getting used to and it's not even a new brand! But I'm excited and think I am closing in on all my particulars, then on to learn what it can do in addition to my older model.

Just wanted to share some practice shots I took the past few days. Which I just realized when I saved them, I saved them as small copies. I didn't realize this until I uploaded them and they uploaded super fast! So instead of going back and replacing with big files I'm just going to leave as is for now.

Saturday bath time:
   

Sunday before the game (and before I left for work):
   

Look he's running and he's not a big ball of blur!


Snack time today:


And playing in the basement, he is in to everything!