isaac is getting super fun these days. his vocabulary is exploding and he’s turning into a little comedian. sometimes intentional, sometimes not. anyhoooo, whenever i’m recounting his adventures to others, i’m often met with the same phrase, “make sure you’re writing this all down, you’ll forget it!”… so, since this blog has pretty much served […]
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mohawk farmer
isaac has been very helpful in the garden this year.he is pretty good about waiting for us to show him which veggie to pick, except when it comes to tomatoes. apparently, they are too alluring for him. he just picks with reckless abandon. doesn’t really matter i suppose, since we always have zillions more than […]
batavia trip – volume 6 – miscellaneous
couldn’t leave out these shots: isaac having his first (very artificially colored) push pop. thanks “new gramma”: jake reading to isaac :)… jake and isaac feeding the fish: and, i’ll let you guess what is taking place in this shot:
batavia trip – volume 5 – utica trip
from batavia, i did something that i always intend to do, but haven’t done since 2004*… i made a trip out to my old college town of utica to visit some old friends. how i had missed all my old favorite stops: the varick, franco’s pizza, the utica marsh, the scenic view of industry long […]
batavia trip – volume 4 – austin park with the redbands varlands
on a couple of occasions, we visited the new and improved austin park and visited with my old pal from high school, julie redband varland. 🙂she’s got two little varlands herself, so it’s fun to have playdates in batavia. isaac mostly liked the swing and jake did a great job obliging him: here’s a lovely […]
batavia trip – volume 3 – the mohawk
leslie cut isaac’s hair and derek found out about it on facebook. 🙂
batavia trip – volume 2 – stafford parade
for those not in the batavia new york “know”… after the st. joe’s carnival (see previous post), comes the stafford carnival. since we were all carnivalled out, we only went to the carnival kickoff event — the parade. it was pretty rough… lots and lots and lots of firetrucks. and lots and lots of space […]
batavia trip – volume 1 – st. joe’s carnival
this is the first of quite a few blog posts dedicated to our recent trip to batavia, ny 14020. isaac and i drove up with sarahpowers, stayed for two weeks, and drove back with jakepaine (my brother). rather than one, long, obnoxious post, i’ll be breaking it down into several, smaller, more manageable pieces… first […]
Potty Update
Things on the potty training frontier are going super swell. On Friday, we drove from NC to NY. We opted for a diaper, since it didn’t seem like he was really 100% getting it. On Saturday, we were back at it. Isaac only had one accident all day (and it was a #2, so that […]
Potty Training
Earlier this year, we dabbled a bit in introducing the potty, only to discover that Isaac wasn’t really interested. Well, he was interested. Just not quite “getting it”. He wanted to wear undies. He was willing to sit on the potty. He didn’t have accidents. Sort of. He would hold it and hold it and […]