Big Boy Bed

Saturday morning (2/8/14) we met a couple to pick up this bed off craigslist. We had been looking for a darker frame to match his other furniture but this deal was too good to pass up. It's a sturdy frame in great shape and also came with a mattress and box-spring (which we are storing under the bed for now to help it not be so high), and mattress pad and a set of white sheets! All for what we would have had to pay for just a frame.

We got it put together Saturday morning, but we wanted to let him pick out sheets so he slept in the crib for nap time on Saturday. Then after nap we ran to Ikea where he picked out the green sheets; matches his room pretty well huh? This was right before bed Saturday night, he was pretty excited about his big boy bed.

We had the bed rail that we use upstairs on our bed (well we used it when he was little and plan to have it available when the babies come if needed) on his for the night but a friend ended up dropping off a smaller one that fits his bed better the next day. This rail is actually the tallest I could find out there because we needed a tall one for our tall mattress. Way to tall and rather long for his bed.

He did great his first night (and every night since actually). It was funny to watch him Sunday morning because he woke up, looked around... slowly crept his way to the end of the bed where the opening was, climbed down every so slowly... stood up in his room and looked around. Then scurried back into his bed and sat on his bed looking at the door "mama! mama!" like he did from his crib. It made us laugh upstairs as we watched him on the video monitor.

Since then he just wakes up in the morning, or from nap and just reads in his bed like he used to do in his crib. He is such a "bookies" lover that he has to have a hefty size stack of books that he sleeps with every night so there is never a book more than arms reach away from him.

Here he is reading with daddy before nap-time on Sunday.

This how he eventually fell asleep Sunday for nap-time. Holding his plastic baseball, lol. As you can see the bedrail our friend loaned us is shorter and definitely makes it easier for me to get in and out.

I had to take a photo of him sleeping during nap this day... maybe it was Monday. The numbers on the edge of the monitor are kinda in the way but you can still see how he's snoozing with both arms behind his head. 

Such a big boy now! <3 p="">

Proud mama moment

I need to be jotting more of these down as they come along. Isaac is talking more and more and it is so cute! He has the sweetest little voice.

At dinner tonight he was eating applesauce out of the reusable pouch. Why he wouldn't let me just put it on his plate is a mystery to me but he wanted it in the pouch. He is looking down and pointing at the back of the package and says "T-O-D-A-Y" I was so impressed he just spelled the first word on the back of the package that says 'today this pouch has' (or something like that) <3

He's such a smarty pants hopefully it's all that reading paying off that he makes me do :) "bookies" ALL THE TIME. It's a good thing. He knows his letters, numbers (recognizes to 20; counts to 5), colors. And of course learning lots of new characters everyday from books. We've been reading a Charlie Brown valentine book, he picked up on "doopy" (Snoopy) right away and now knows "darly owe-n" (Charlie Brown) and "I nus" (Linus). 

He is also super cute reciting the bearnstein bear characters "mama bear, papa bear, ister bear, bu-der bear" 

Oh and I need to blog on him moving to his big boy bed!! He's doing great, he loves his bed!! 

Skyzone - trampoline play

Today we attended a toddler Tuesday playtime at a place called sky-zone. It's just a big gym filled with trampolines. Isaac LOVED it. We went with some of our local friends and they all had fun chasing and running and jumping. He wore himself out, which was the goal. Here are some photos and videos. I had to capture a lot to share with daddy since he missed out on the fun.

He finally let me take off his "yellow stripes". He was working up a sweat and his little cheeks were red.

Fun in the ball pit at the end. He was so tired he was just laying around but was giving it all he could to continue to play. I'm glad they close down at a certain time otherwise it would have been a bear getting

Belly Update

I had quite the growth spurt around 22 weeks, growing 2" in one week! I haven't really grown much (around) since then so I am expecting another growth spurt soon.

January snow

I had to bite my tongue yesterday hearing about 'all the snow troubles' in the south. Really?!? Babies born on highways, kids staying overnight at school for an inch or two!?! 

Woke up at 4am to pee this morning and it hadn't started snowing yet. They were calling for 2.5" last night for Thursday morning. When Kyle left this morning the local newspaper was sharing on Facebook that metro would get up to 5". There wasn't much snow when he left about 7. When we got out to head to our music class at 9am we probably already had 5". I shoveled a path to the garage so Isaac wouldn't get eaten by snow as it would have been over his knees on the sidewalk. 

We made it to class thanks to the good 'ol 4x4 Jeep Cheerokee. I'm gonna miss that thing. The roads were a mess but we didn't have any trouble. When we got home there had probably been another few inches that fell. I tried to get some photos to capture our accumulation of snow this winter. 

I <3 it!!

Harpo doing his business. He is such a premadonna and won't go out unless I shovel the deck. 

Happy Winter! 

7" out our front door at noon. The snow has appeared to stop falling.