Isaac Turns One

Just one year ago I was sitting in a hospital room looking into the eyes of my brand new baby boy.  

Isaac's birth was a relatively quiet one (except for the scream I let escape my lips when I had to push all nine pounds of him out).  I don't know if it was the quiet calm of the hospital on a Sunday, or the many events that took place before his birth (that led me to really think about the sacredness of his life and who he was/is/and can become, as well as my job as his parent) or the hemorrhaging I experienced after he was born, but  Isaac's birth brought with it a time to reevaluate myself and my priorities. In a sense I feel like I was reborn that day too.

Now a year later, you still have a way of making me reevaluate my life on a daily basis.
Isaac I love you from your big giant baby head to your long monkey toes!

11 Month Highlights

You finally decided to walk on your own.  I love watching you take each step, with your funny zombie like way of lurching around the room.  

You are happy, 90 percent of the time!  I really believe you are sunshine for my soul.

You are very opinionated when we experience the other 10 percent of your personality.

If you don't like what I'm serving you to eat you have no qualms about dramatically throwing it across the kitchen.

Food is most certainly your passion, life is good as long as you have food in your mouth. 

You decided that everything should have one universal "sign", so whenever you ask for something you just wave your arms around in little circles, sometimes it means drink, sometimes it means food, sometimes your just waving, and sometimes it means bath. 

You like to take the path of least resistance, I think you inherited that quality from me.  

You love eating dirt and being outside, I think you inherited that from me too (the being outside part).

At one years old you have remarkable changed my life, your dads life and the lives of your brother and sister.

I love seeing the bond you and your daddy have.

I love seeing your brother and sister love you with everything they have.

I love that you give me the opportunity to learn and grow and that you are so patient and loving with me.  

HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY ISAAC!

Thanks again to everyone for the gifts and birthday wishes!  Isaac has the best Grandma's & Grandpa's & Aunts and Uncle's Ever!

Because I Never Want to Forget the Sound...

Last night after I sent Alivia and Dylan to bed I sat down to relax a little.  After a few minutes of quiet I began to hear this hysterical giggling coming from the hallway, so I took our camera and decided to investigate.  Here is what I found.

Video Disclaimer:

I took this at night so it's dark and grainy.

Alivia is doing a whole lot of yelling, but if you listen close you can hear the best sound in existence!

Pure, Sweet, Uninhibited Joy!
PS  I think it's so cute that through out their play, Isaac keeps signing more, he was having a ball!

11 Months Old

Isaac's FIRST Birthday is just a hop, skip and a jump away!

It's hard for me to wrap my mind around the fact that in less than three weeks I will have a ONE YEAR OLD. 

Time is flying!  

Here are a few of Isaac's 10 month highlights.

You disowned your Binky.  I tried and tried to make you take it back, but you won't have anything to do with it.  You like screaming it out better.  In the end I guess I'm glad because I don't have to break you of it later.  

You love to walk all along the walls and furniture, but you refuse to take a step on your own, if you are not gripping onto something.  

You think you need to eat 24 hours a day 7 days a week.  

You like to feed yourself!

You started cutting a bottom molar on your right side.

You sign "more", "bath", and you attempt to sign "drink" by slapping the side of your head.

You love to get into things, more than ever!  You go from one cupboard to another emptying their contents and just when I muster the energy to clean them up, you go right back to emptying them out again.  

You sleep through the night, most nights!

I took the picture above so I could always remember those chubby baby hands and the way you so sweetly slumber.  Because I know that soon you will be this independent, feisty, button pushing, toddler, and I'm really going to miss you being my snugly little baby!

I love you Isaac!

A Hodge-Podge Post

I'm a little behind in my family blogging thanks to some computer issues.

Isaac's 10 month birthday came and went. 

Here are a few of his 9 month highlights.

 You love to walk along the walls and furniture.

Tooth number 7 emerged.

You started using some sign language by signing "more".

You started to be better at sleeping for long periods during the night.

You eat what ever we have for dinner, I no longer make you special food, unless of course our dinner happens to be something really spicy.  You aren't really hip on spicy food.  

You finally graduated Physical Therapy!

And last but certainly not least, I gave Isaac his first haircut. It was growing really long in patches, so I buzzed it all to one length

And while we are on the subject of haircuts....

Miss Alivia's hair style went from this..

to this.

All thanks to a pair of kids scissors and a distracted mother who was doing dishes. 

9 inches of length, almost all of her curls and a huge chunk out of the center of her bangs, as well as her golden hair color are all gone now.

The other day Alivia innocently asked if Jesus lived in the sky.  

I answered her question by saying, "well sort of....I told her He was where ever we needed him to be".

She then replied, "When do we get to go on a plane, so we can be in the sky and ask Jesus when we are going to move". 

For family home evening on Valentines Day we made Love Floats. 

Thanks Heidi for sharing the idea.  They turned out really cute. 

 

When I Grow Up

Dylan has decided to do many things with his life.  I love hearing his latest career choices.  I support him in his aspirations, because as long as he's contributing to society and doing something he loves, I'm okay with that. 
At one time he wanted to race cars for a living.
Then there was the time he wanted to be a police officer.
He's always wanted to be a dad.
And just last week he came home with a paper that stated that he wanted to grow up and become a paleontologist.
But after a Saturday at work with his Dad.  Dylan has decided that Working at Sysco is the best job ever.  He matter-of-factly told me when he grows up that's where he's going to work.  When I asked him why?  This was his reply, "Mom they have Mango drinks in the break room"!

Nine Months

17 months ago I looked at two little pink lines just like this.

And I was so excited.

I grew a baby for nine months, and they were a very long nine months.

Nine months and a few days to be exact.

Big-Little Isaac entered this world and I loved a little deeper,

prayed a little harder, and tried to be a little better.

As I sit here this very moment I can honestly say I have no idea where the past 9 months have gone, they just flew by.  And my baby isn't so much of a baby any more. 

And I'm sort of in mourning over that fact.
He's been out a long as he was in, but I really can't believe it.

8 month highlights
Your top 2 front teeth came in.
You crawl all over the place, and as if that wasn't enough
Now you stand up to everything.
I catch you letting go (of the things you stand up to) and testing out your balance.
You are accident prone.  I think you will be my child that will get to know the ER really well.
There isn't a day that goes by that your curiosity and balance testing doesn't end in screaming and bodily injury.
You still think that sleep isn't really necessary at least not for long periods of time that is.
You love to beat on your daddy's laptop keyboard. The glowing screen seems to attracts you like a moth to a flame. 
You love your daddy especially when he tickles and tosses you around.
If you are feed and have had plenty to drink, you are an absolute angel.
You love to clap and play patta-cake, and you figured out how to click your tongue.
You love to terrorize, tearing papers and emptying everything in sight keeps you (and mom) busy all day.

I love you Isaac.  After nine months of holding and loving you.  I just can't get enough of you.

Little Toy Train

I love listening to children sing it's heavenly music to my ears.  

Mr. Giovannoni and I put Dylan in an after school choir this year.  We thought it would be something fun for him to do.  He has loved it so far.  

We got to hear his first choir performance this past Saturday.  

This little number was my favorite from the choir concert.

Dylan can be found on the second row (from the bottom). 

First person on the (your) left.
 He is wearing a long sleeved white shirt under his choir T-shirt,