worked hard on this star shaped menu for isaac’s lunch today. it’s already worked to trick him into trying a peanut butter sandwich (something he wouldn’t even dream of trying in it’s native format).
isaac
ghetto deck pool

i commissioned derek to purchase a $10 blue plastic wading pool from walmart for our deck. we’re high class now. isaac doesn’t really like full all out swimming, so it’s pretty much perfect for us. i’m not sure how many more things we can cram on the deck. we currently have a pool, a sand/water […]
anna’s first big adventure

with beautiful weather in the forecast for the day, and a mom and boy itching to get out of the house, we decided to head to the natural science center in greensboro. we packed up the entire contents of our house (it felt like) and rolled on down the road… the springy teeter-totter like contraption.water […]
boys love hoses

isaac loves to fill things with water. preferably hose water. so, i pulled out all kinds of containers and let him have at it on the deck…
“special delivery”
the other day, while my mom was here, an interesting thing happened… isaac was upstairs playing by himself. i think anna was asleep (or more likely, my mom was holding/spoiling her). isaac started down the stairs with a small puzzle box in his hand, announcing he had a “special derivery” for me. he knelt down […]
siblings

one of the pictures in the “anna’s first bath” collection reminded me of one of the pictures from isaac’s first bath. i had to search long and hard for it, since i’ve organized and reorganized our photo collection a number of times (do i sort by age, year, event, etc??)… anyhooo… here’s the side by […]
retraction
a few posts back, i made anna out to be a complete opposite to our sweet boy isaac. well, here it is a few days (weeks, even?) later and i’d like to retract some of that information… isaac and anna are very very very similar. the main difference is that isaac cried all the time […]