Isaac-3 months

I can't believe Isaac is already three months old. It is so hard to believe. Sometimes I watch "A Baby Story" on TV and the concept of being pregnant is already so foreign to me. I know........ FREAKY. You are not supposed to forget that feeling until you are ready for another one. Believe you-me.....I am NOT ready for another one. I am working out 5-6 days a week to try to get my "girlish figure" back (I know it may seem a bit extreme working out that much but seeing that I ate 10 cookies yesterday.....well, enough said). Slowly but surely things are shrinking and firming (did I mention slowly).

Isaac is so social. He smiles ALL of the time. He has a very sweet smile too. He is even beginning to laugh a little. It is hilarious. Without fail, he gets the hiccups. Who knows how the two things are linked but we get a good laugh out of it in the meantime.
He is learning to endure constant torture from his older brother Cael. Not a day goes by that he is not poked in the eye at least five times. He will probably be tougher that a pile of rocks for it. Cael better watch out........bad Karma, if you know what i mean. Some day it will come back and bite him in the butt. At least that is what we can hope for as parents (just kidding).

Life finally seems to be settling in. It still feels a bit chaotic and crazy but it is a this-is-what-life-is-going-to-be-like-for-the-rest-of-our-lives kind of chaos instead of just our-lives-have-been-turned-upside-down-uprooted- from-everything-we-have-ever-known kind of chaos. Does that make sense to anyone but me? I guess we should have known that life with three boys was never going to be dull. Sometimes I long for peace and quiet but that, I am afraid, is long gone. To combat this, I am trying to master my "ignore everyone and everything" skills. Someday I will accomplish this and once again I will find a little piece of heaven called.........SANITY!

Halloween 2007

We had so much fun this Halloween. The Saturday before, we went to our ward chili feed. We ate lots of yummy chili and cornbread and hauled in a good amount of candy at the Trunk-or-Treat. Monday we carved pumpkins and ate caramel apples (so typical of me, I did not get any pictures). Wednesday we ate chili and cornbread for dinner (I know, again, but it's tradition), went to yet another Trunk-or-Treat (in Carrie and Brett's ward), and went to visit Grandma and Grandpa Gillespie (great thanks to them for buying treats especially for Cael). What a fun week it was. It was great to spend time as a family and enjoy a holiday together (this was the first time in three years that Rob has not had to work on Halloween).

Gabe dressed up as a "ghost pirate" (very original), Cael was a frog and Isaac was a pumpkin. We reused and recycled old costumes and the whole lot cost me no more than $5 this year. You cant beat that.

I had to take pictures of Isaac's first bite marks. The pictures are not very good but if you will look at his left cheek (right in the picture) you will see marks from the row of top teeth and two long marks from the bottom teeth. If you haven't guessed it already, Cael was the culprit. OF COURSE! He is such a bully. I not quite sure what he was thinking but he sure got in trouble for it. NAUGHTY, NAUGHTY BOY! He can be so exasperating at times. Luckily there was no permanent damage. By the time Rob got home from work, the marks were gone.




More up close and personal with the bite. Actually, I have a scar quite similar to this one. Funny, it never occurred to me before just now. (sorry, no comparison pictures. My bite mark is in a place that is....well lets just say that it would not be appropriate for a picture to be taken for the sake of comparison.) Mine, however, was the result of a vicious dog not a vicious big brother.






As you can see, the bite did not turn Isaac into a werewolf or even worse, a temperamental red head (we have enough of those in the household right now). He is just as cute as he ever was. In fact, even cuter. I know I am a little biased but he is just REALLY cute. He is always trying to catch my eye and smile at me. What a sweet boy.

What a beautiful day! We could not pass up the opportunity to drive downtown and take a walk through Riverfront park. We fed the ducks, fed trash to the goat (there is a metal statue in the form of a goat. It has a high powered hose that sucks trash up through its mouth when you turn it on), we got to listen to some awesome Native American music with incredible acoustics (two guys beating drums and singing under a bridge), and slide down a giant radio flyer wagon handle. It was a lot of fun.

Isaac didn't seem to think it was all that great. He just hung out and took a nap. As you can see here, he was really tired.











Gabe just LOVES this slide. He talks about it all of the time. Underneath the slide is a couple of different sets of monkey bars as well. The kids have such a good time. Hey, in fact, Rob and I took turns sliding down it as well. I must admit that I enjoyed it immensely.








Cael had a good time too. It was a little overwhelming for him at first but in just a matter of seconds he was running back to go down on his own.