Playtime!!

Isaac has many toys but some of his favorites are the really cheap ones. For example, the diet coke bottle or any plastic bottle. If you are wondering what to get him for Christmas, don't make it too expensive! Here are some pictures:

or daddy's cup:

Isaac also loves eating his toes and playing in his exersaucer.

This last picture is Isaac sitting up on his own! He's been doing this for about 5 weeks but we are too slow to get the pictures online!

Isaac has started to roll over from front to back but he doesn't do it often. We've also heard a rumor that he's attempting back to front but I haven't seen it yet. He tries to move his legs when he is on his tummy so maybe he'll get the idea of crawling sometime soon. I think he's just going to go straight to walking though.

We are getting ready to start the holiday traveling again. We are going to Minnesota for Thanksgiving and again right before Christmas. We will be at my parents Christmas day through the weekend. We hope to see many of you along the way! Happy Thanksgiving if I don't get back on here before!

Eating Time

Isaac has begun eating solid foods in the last month. I decided to try my hand at making my own baby food and so far it's gone well. We started with sweet potatoes...yuck! Isaac likes them pretty well and he'd better get his fill now because he will never see them on the table with our meals! Here are a few pictures of his first time eating sweet potatoes.

Here comes the 1st bite!

Another bite...notice mommy is now holding Isaac's hands!

The finished product! Obviously mommy didn't hold the hands well enough!

Next we went on to butternut squash...again yuck! Isaac seems to like these even better but again, I'm not making them when he starts eating table food. Feeding is quite the process. Isaac likes to grab the spoon, clap his hands when the spoon is almost to his mouth, and play in the bowl itself. I also use paper bibs and he likes to chew on those in the middle of feeding. He still likes to blow bubbles in his food too.

We will be trying our first fruit in the next few days. I made pears so we will see how he does. At least he has a chance of eating those again in his life!

We've started giving him a sippy cup. He doesn't understand it's for drinking and not chewing but he does a really good job of holding on to it. Someday he will get the right idea and drink from it but for now I give him the cup and 5 minutes later give him a bottle with a little water to drink.

Isaac loves to sit at the table with us during dinner. As long as he's got something to play with, he's pretty content. Here's a picture of him just sitting at the table with us.

Chickenpox....WHAT!!!!

This was my reaction on Monday after taking Isaac to the doctor for a rash. Isaac hasn't been feeling well since Sunday, not eating well, not sleeping well. But on Monday he seemed to be doing better so we took him to the babysitter and at 2:00 he broke out into what we thought were hives. We took him to the doctor right away because we were worried he might be allergic to his formula but the doctor thought it was the beginning of chickenpox! It didn't make sense because Isaac hasn't been exposed to anyone. We were told to observe the rash for 24 hours and report back. Tuesday morning he broke out again after eating half his formula bottle so we went back to the doctor and found out it's not chickenpox but a virus that causes hives. The doctor had me switch to soy formula too, just to make sure it wasn't the formula. Isaac has been feeling better since yesterday and is almost back to normal eating patterns. I'm supposed to call the doctor again today and find out if and when I can add the milk formula back into his diet. Here's a picture of his rash.

As promised we have finally downloaded the software to get our pictures from our new camera on our computer. The next few days will be full of the pictures I've taken over the last 6 weeks. Since I haven't blogged for a while I will let you know what we've been up to.

This was Isaac's first Halloween and we did buy him a costume but we didn't really trick or treat. We took him over to some friends to show off his costume but he was in bed long before trick or treating was over! He was defintely the cutest puppy we have ever seen!

Daddy and Isaac

Mommy and Isaac

Our puppy dogs!

Asleep after a car ride from our house to the north side of town (approximately 7 minute drive!)

Isaac's costume is a 12-24 month costume but he might be too tall for it next year! We hope he can wear it again but like everything else we buy...we just never know!

Isaac is trying to help me type again and this time it is not going well so I will give more updates later. Enjoy the pictures and I promise it won't be a month before I update again!