Fun with December and Isaac

December continues to be Isaac's greatest source of entertainment, as you can see from this video! She loves to play silly little games, and Isaac is always more than happy to indulge and encourage her...and I'm the one who is blessed to be able to watch it all happen!

Aww, Isaac...

As I was finishing up that last post about sleeplessness, I stopped and realized that I hadn't heard Isaac meandering around for the past few minutes. When I looked around me, this is what I found. Aww...isn't he sweet?! Hehee. I guess I'm not the only one who's tired from our sleepless nights! :o) He really is a good baby and a joy to have...we love him very much!

Sleeplessness & Stickiness

Here's Isaac at breakfast this morning. Brad and I had left the table for a minute to get something, and while we were gone December poured out Isaac's baby food all over the table in front of him. He immediately began playing with it and getting himself entirely covered in a pear-rasberry goo.

Look at his hair! It's a sticky mess that stands out straight from his head. Haha! It's a peachy color so that you can't see it very well, but he was extremely sticky.

December wanted her picture taken, too, so this is her after we had finished breakfast...and right before she had gotten a sliver from our railing. Yikes! She freaked out when we tried to use the tweasers and remove it...as in, we had to physically restrain her in order to get it out! The poor thing. In the words of December, "I didn't like Daddy doing that! I thought he was going to cut my finger off!" But she's fine now.

Things have been a bit rough here lately. We haven't slept though the night for close to a year now (not since before Isaac was born...he has never slept through the night), so we've finally decided enough is enough! What I desire most in the world right now is to lay my head down on my pillow at night and not wake up until the morning. I can't remember what sleeping like that would be like! So we have been intentionally sleep-training Isaac for the past week and a bit. I admit it -- it's rough going!

He did very, very poorly the first few nights (as in waking up at least once per hour), but then he started doing longer stretches, with Sunday night as his best night (a 6-hour stretch!!!). But the past couple nights have been horrendous again. This time he has a new trick up his sleeve. He is getting up in the wee hours of the morning, and instead off going back down again, he decides to stay up -- for one to two hours. And that means I am awake with him, standing at his cribside...there is no sleeping while Isaac is awake!

Boy, that makes for exhausted days. This morning I was on the verge of giving up this whole sleep training thing -- we were getting more sleep before we started all of this! But I'm currently thinking that I'll persevere...and wildly hope that we see steady improvement soon.

Brad is in the throes of end-of-semester busyness. Papers, quizzes, final exams, etc. Not to mention mechanical troubles with our van. So we're seeing less of him than we usually do! December is doing well, though, and she just learned how to whistle yesterday. :o) So that's life in our world at the moment...

December's 1st Fishing Trip

A blast from the past...

Here's a post I was in the middle of working on when our computer crashed a few months ago. I thought I'd finally finish it and put it up, although all of these pictures were taken in July, when we were out visiting my parents for Klynt and Marie's wedding! But December loved doing this, and she still talks about it and wants to go fishing with Grandpa again!

My Mom and Dad have a pond in their backyard that has tons of fish in it, so Dad took December out for some fishing! As you can see, Belle (my parents' dog) loves to fish, too.

December caught her very first fish! Kind of. What would happen is December would get Dad a piece of corn (which was irresistable to the fish), and Dad would cast into the pond and catch one in a matter of seconds. Then he'd thow the fish and line back into the water for December to reel in herself, and she "caught" the fish! It was GREAT fun for her to do and for us to watch!

Isaac playing in the grass, trying to get used to the weird feeling of it.

I think Isaac's playing with a rock in this picture. Maybe it's a leaf.

Brad and Isaac having fun. Isaac adores being up on Daddy's shoulders!