Little Boy

This is how he finishes most meals that are served in a bowl. We are a stickler for good manners at this house. I must have been singing to him, or bossing him around for this photo. He does this to me more often all the time. He doesn't like flip flops.
It looks like he doesn't think boiled eggs are made out of food.
I think this was the point in the Easter egg hunt that he discovered that I just kept hiding the same empty plastic egg. He seems to be bugged by this trick.

Wack-a-loo

This baby is a huge goofball. He started mouthing words to me this week. Not just words though, whole sentences or conversations. I've never heard of a baby doing that before and I just think it's hilarious. He also refuses to wear flip-flops. He started out just making an annoyed face, but now he cries like I'm torturing him. My 12 year old nephew still refuses to wear flip-flops (except for formal occasions like weddings) so I hope Isaac grows out of this phase before he grows out of his cute flip-flops.

Just a bunch of photos of the cutest boy in the world...

He usually wakes up from his nap in a cheerful mood.
Doesn't he look grown up with all these teeth?
He is such a messy eater! Everybody who meets Isaac says that he's very "chill". He mostly goes along with whatever we're doing, although he's also very noisy and very busy too. TB calls him a lounger. Any day of the week, he'll hang around the house in his bathrobe until noon. Wait - is that because HE'S chill/lazy or because his MOM is? Isaac does his own laundry! He moves his clothes from the washer to the dryer now in addition to delivering his clean clothes to his bedroom. He does this all with no complaining, although he can get distracted if he finds his favorite "truck" pajamas and drags those around the house for a while. He likes to do all kinds of jobs (check out under the couch, bang on things) with this stick which is the safety stopper for the sliding door. I just discovered these pictures from last summer and I just can't believe how fat the little guy used to be. He's so skinny now!

Funny guys...

We are considering the name Adeline for baby April. A survey of people named Adeline say that the most common complaint about the name is that "old people" sing the Elliot Smith song "Sweet Adeline" too much. I asked TB if he knew the song and he started singing "Sweet Adeline, good times have never been so good" (to the tune of Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond). Then he tried "Oh my darlin' oh my darlin' oh my darlin' Adeline" to the tune of ...Clementine. I sang "She'll be comin' round the mountain, Adeline" but he said that song was already about a girl named Shelby. HA! HA! Maybe you didn't know that TB can sing a jingle for almost any situation.
Now some stories about a smaller funny guy. Isaac plays the piano every day. Mostly he turns on some rhythm setting and dances. He just came up with a new little shimmy accompanied by jazz hands. In this video, he's watching TB dance at first, then he joins in.

He's missing a shoe in these videos because he took one off and hid it. He likes to take things from where they belong to wherever he wants them to be. I found a little shoe a couple of hours later in my closet.
He always reads on his morning commute - usually the Money section of the paper.

The latest collection of tricks:

Here's a video of the baby sitting on the floor in only a diaper, eating Lucky Charms while lecturing TB and me about something. I just wanted to document that he's a bossy little sucker, and I'm not the perfect mother that you all think I am.

Little Baby April

We have some new pictures and video of baby April. She is kind of little: 41st percentile for 32-week-old-but-not-quite-here-yet babies, although her head is nice and big. We love these big brained kiddos.
This is her cute little profile. She looks just like Isaac we think.

This is a picture of her cute face. The top of her forehead is on the right margin. You can see eyes, nose, lips and chin. Like she's just looking over her chest at you. Todd said, "She's got chubby cheeks!" The ultrasound tech said, "She's kind of squished in there, you might look like that too."

"Mowing" the Sidewalk

Isaac went for a walk "by himself" for the first time today. We brought his lawn mower for some extra balance. He was so cute, he didn't fall down once, and he sure didn't want to turn onto our sidewalk to go home.

Baby tricks

Isaac learns new tricks really quickly so of course we think he's the smartest baby ever. My mom keeps telling me that he's not a dog, which I know of course, but boy are these cool tricks.
His first "chore" is to take his clean laundry to his room. We showed him this a couple of times, and he did it spontaneously this week. He didn't use a pacifier much when he was a baby, but he gets into the bottle drawer and chews on anything he finds there.

He likes to hide out a couple of times a day. Luckily the closet door is squeaky so he's easy to find when he chooses this spot.

He likes to give lectures on things: how to use a cell phone, where the toys in his room go, etc. When he woke up from nap the other day, he seemed to be giving a discourse on correct bowing procedure.

He knows some sign language words and he can palm a beach ball. What diverse talents he has!
He had a good time at his first Jazz game, once we put ear plugs on him.His hair is so curly! It's a little mullet-y, but I've resolved not to cut it until it's too crazy. He received two hats for Christmas this year. He especially likes to wear them in his tent. This hat from Aunt Caitie is so soft. He cuddles any soft thing like this.

He looks pretty happy to wear this hat.