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 […]
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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 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 […]
isaac’s hero
isaac loves jake.anything jake does is hilarious.especially if it involves some three stooges humor.
i like swinging.
my ny family (mom, terry, jake, dogs and neighbor debbie) came and left. terry and derek worked feverishly on the deck and it’s looking really awesome. other than that we didn’t really do much. i didn’t take many pictures except for a quick trip to the park. my mom plopped isaac onto the big kid’s […]
reading time with uncle jake and grampa terry
jake and terry taught isaac about soft and rough, with his touch and feel book.
wny trip
two weekends ago, we made a short and spontaneous trip to the buffalo/batavia area. here’s the proof: isaac and derek coming down the stairs, amidst the snow and ice and slippery-ness. isaac and anna (varland) making an artwork duet. attempting for a pose in front of the ginormous tree at aunt eleanor’s and […]
do you smellllll what the rock is cookin’?
for christmas, jake received tickets to go see the wwe (formerly the wwf) in charlotte. derek and terry also got tickets. secretly, i think they were pretty excited. 🙂anyhoo, i helped jake with these signs: derek sent this picture from his phone, in between a long string of twitter updates:
family visit
late tuesday night (early wednesday morning, actually), my parents and jake rolled into town. since then, it’s been a festival of eating, playing the wii, more eating, shopping, cooking, eating, gifts, and eating. here’s jake and isaac contributing their strongest skills to the cooking: on christmas, isaac wasn’t as interested in getting gifts as […]
Sarah and Isaac take New York
On Friday morning, Isaac and I headed off for our first ever road trip alone. I was a little skeptical, but the boy was a total champ. He got a little cranky towards the end of each trip, but who wouldn’t after 10 hours in a car? Here’s some pictures: The ride up. Cookies and […]