A Birthday Boy!

It was Isaac's first birthday about a week and a half ago. This is Isaac on his birthday with a present he got from Grammie and Grampie! He needed something to help him walk better, and he absolutely LOVES to push this around!

Stopping for a quick cuddle with Daddy before continuing his shopping cart marathon.

December loves Isaac's shopping cart, too (especially since her long-time broken, three-wheeled shopping cart lost a second wheel and now more resembles a wheel barrow. I keep putting it out on the porch to get thrown into the dumpster, but she, without fail, runs out and rescues it before I can sneak it away.) Sometimes Isaac doesn't get alot of play time with the new shopping cart because he's not quite big enough to wrestle it away from his older sister. Just wait, Isaac. Soon enough he'll be taller and heavier than she is and he'll be able to wrestle anything he wants away from her!

I thought I'd take this picture just so you know Isaac is occasionally awake in his high chair! He did fall asleep within ten minutes of this picture being taken, though...

December posing for a picture

Daddy and Isaac hanging out on the couch together. Brad has turned in all of his papers, yay! And now he is in the midst of finals. He has three exams this week and his last one next week. And then the week after that, we leave for a Calgary Christmas!

There's a large holly tree that grows right next to our steps outside, and the holly berries get red right around Christmas time. It's absolutely beautiful!

I wonder if I'd get in trouble if I went outside and started trimming away at the tree, just to get some decorations for us...

Isaac Learning How to Walk

Here's a video we took on Saturday night of Isaac trying to walk! He took his first steps on Halloween, and has ever-so-slowly been getting better and braver with his walking skills. Every week I can see improvements on how much and how well he is walking. The night this video was taken was the night he decided he actually likes to walk -- and since he has been doing it WAY more than he used to! Right now I'd say he spends about 30% of the time walking and the rest crawling. It's so different from how December learned to walk -- she was 100% walking, as in, tearing around the house, within two or three days of taking her first steps (are we surprised about that?!?). Isaac's taking the more gradual approach!

Happy **Sick** Thanksgiving!

Here we are on Thanksgiving morning. For two weeks around Thanksgiving, both children were sick with croup. Isaac has only just finished getting over it (and he's still finishing up his medicine for the ear infection that accompanied his croup). The children's sickness meant that we were quarrantined from having Thanksgiving with anyone else, so we had our own Thanksgiving! While the turkey cooked in the oven, we went out and played outside. The temperature that day was really warm (86 degrees F / 30 degrees C. -- that was unusual, though. Right now it's hovering around the upper 60's / around 20 degrees C).

Brad teaching December how to roller skate.

Happy Thanksgiving! We really had a wonderful, cozy time, and while we ate we listened to Christmas music.

This is Brad's Mom's recipe -- called Strawberry Bavarian Cream. December tried to eat the entire bowl of it, she loved it so much!

This is what Isaac was like for close to two weeks. He changed from his usual happy baby self to a super cranky, needy little boy -- understandably so. He just felt so sick, the poor guy. His croup was ten times worse than December's, because his airways are so much smaller and get much more inflammed. Isaac's fever lasted for about six days straight, while December's fever lasted for maybe 6 hours. The doctor gave Isaac an anti-inflammatory shot so that his airways wouldn't close up on him.

Both kids were run-down and tired, as you'll be able to see from these next pictures. In this picture, I had woken December up from her nap, but she just walked right to the chair and went back to sleep.

Isaac asleep on the floor with his blankie.

Isaac asleep while eating Sunday lunch.

Isaac asleep during lunch again...

Haha! This is one of my favorites. Isaac is really asleep laying like that!

Here's Isaac when he was starting to feel better. His newest favorite thing to do is sit on the couch like this, just like all the big people do. If you lift him up and sit him next to you, he'll grin and grin and feel quite proud of himself.

December, feeling all better (as you can tell), and Isaac, who is getting there.

The Most Gorgeous Rendition of "O Holy Night"!

I just love listening to this beautiful version of "O Holy Night." It just gets better and better as the song goes on! Ha!

My only question: where can I get this guy's number to invite him to do a special music number at our church?