Animal Sounds (& smells)

Isaac woke up from nap making animal sounds while I was changing his diaper. So I tried to capture it on video. He does a few, but not like I was early, of course. I can't believe how fast he is developing. Such a cute little guy!




And in other news today was such a fantastic day (sarcasm there... but really a lot of horrible things happened but it wasn't a horrible day). Started with my jeep acting up on our way to a La Leche League meeting... then after the meeting my jeep wouldn't start. Kyle was able to come and pick us up, which was nice getting to see him. And Isaac ran to him smiling, which made his day as well. So Jeep got towed to the shop by AAA and Kyle took us home. Isaac and I had lunch, then he took a great nap! Which is rare, I got a lot of chores done. Jeep got diagnosed and worked on - battery and cables needed to be replaced and my shocks were bad so four shocks put on... a little financial dent but shit happens. Speaking of shit... that tops off the day. Kyle came home (from taking me to my car) to find that Harpo had puked on the carpet. While we were cleaning up the carpet after dinner. Well he cleaned it a little when he got home but I wanted to go over it again because you could see the area. So as I was cleaning we were getting serenaded by musical toots coming from Isaac's behind. It was cutting into bath time but we wanted him to finish up, so we let him do his thing. Then as I'm cleaning up the second/last vomit spot I see Harpo behind Isaac licking the carpet... what is he doing!?! I go over there and there is a yellow streak, oh no Harpo puked again, and standing near Isaac was dreadful, good grief this kids butt smells! I go to clean it and lift Isaac up to move him over when yellow ooze starts dripping out of his pant leg. Oh dear Lord, that's the yellow! Kyle runs to get a paper towel (which is next to us since I was already cleaning the carpet, good timing eh?) we put a paper towel where the drips were happening and shimmied Isaac into the bathtub. Kyle gets Isaac washed up, I continue my carpet cleaning for the evening and we have a nice laugh. Ironically before the poop leakage I was joking with Kyle "Just a lovely Tuesday evening, cleaning up vomit and listening to my son crap his pants" If only it would have stayed that lovely :-)

Sea Life at MoA

Today we went to Sea Life which is the aquarium at Mall of America (formally named Underwater Adventures). This was Isaac's first time at an aquarium. He seemed to like it, but was also distracted by all the people so he got a lot of people watching in as well as some fish watching.

Our goal was to get there when it opened to avoid the crowd (at 10). We probably beat the big crowd but there was still a lot of kids being that it was President's Day and school was out. But we wanted to go on this day so Kyle could join us since he was off of work.



Walking through the aquarium tunnel:






Jelly fish:


Poisonous frog:


And an alligator popping his head up. He was actually standing on a log.

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: