Friday, March 31, 2006
our sweet baby boy is getting too big!
- ninang = na-nee
- starting to talk into the phone without freaking out by a response on the other end
- tall enough to walk up and down the stairs while holding the banister
- will still fight sleep until the bitter end
- loooves dogs (HIII, DOGGIE!! *wave*)
- puts his head on my belly and say "hi, baby"
- really good at copying dances and hand motions (and remembering them)
- can do single arm pump *yes!*
- wipes his forehead and says "phew!"
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
noah noah came over to hang out last night while ellen and rob (his parents, my cousins) were at work. noah is just 5 months older than isaiah, so it's great that we live close enough for them to spend time together often. oh, and noah is also going to be a big brother (t minus 4 weeks!).
i think that it's pretty fair to say that both isaiah and noah have not been very good at sharing. (can you blame them? they've been only children their whole lives.) usually, we have to hang around both of them to make sure they're not snatching toys from each other and making the other one cry. but last night we left them alone in the living room with blocks and doggies (stuffed animals) and nemo books, and they shared! passing the dogs back and forth and hugging them at the same time. "reading" the nemo books and showing each other the pictures in the book they're reading. it's so funny to watch them interact.
isaiah: mamo! dada!
noah: gurgle gurgle gurgle...book.
isaiah: book book book.
noah: gurgle gurgle gurgle...okay.
they played and played and played. i think that isaiah played last night (even after noah left) until he was ready to drop. i changed him into his pajamas and he was out in eric's arms within 5 minutes. i'm betting that if eric didn't hold him still for a minute, he would have literally played until he dropped.
taking care of two boys is exhausting. that was good practice.
i think that it's pretty fair to say that both isaiah and noah have not been very good at sharing. (can you blame them? they've been only children their whole lives.) usually, we have to hang around both of them to make sure they're not snatching toys from each other and making the other one cry. but last night we left them alone in the living room with blocks and doggies (stuffed animals) and nemo books, and they shared! passing the dogs back and forth and hugging them at the same time. "reading" the nemo books and showing each other the pictures in the book they're reading. it's so funny to watch them interact.
isaiah: mamo! dada!
noah: gurgle gurgle gurgle...book.
isaiah: book book book.
noah: gurgle gurgle gurgle...okay.
they played and played and played. i think that isaiah played last night (even after noah left) until he was ready to drop. i changed him into his pajamas and he was out in eric's arms within 5 minutes. i'm betting that if eric didn't hold him still for a minute, he would have literally played until he dropped.
taking care of two boys is exhausting. that was good practice.
Friday, March 24, 2006
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
i think isaiah has croup. he just has the barking cough, nothing more. no fever, no runny nose, no drooling, no lack of appetite or desire to play. i'm thankful for that. we've been doing everything you're supposed to do to help it along....letting him play outside in the cold, cool mist humidifier, etc. hopefully it goes away in a couple days. a little over a year ago, we spent two nights in a row with isaiah in the ER because he came down with RSV bronchiolitis. it's so scary to see such a small person working so hard to breathe. he had to get an iv and everything. i don't want to imagine it getting worse than that. anyway...like i said, i hope it goes away in a couple days.
on a completely unrelated note...when disciplining your child, it's important to be prepared for any reaction your child has for your form of discipline. isaiah can get a little excited when he plays/tries to communicate with you and tends to hit. so we've been doing the "no hitting, gentle, etc." a couple days ago, he smacked me pretty hard in the face, and i immediately went into a very stern "no, isaiah! that's hitting. you don't hit! you gave mommy an owie." and was instantly greeted with the biggest eyes and a "HII!!" with a wave and a hopeful smile. ugh! i had my guard down and started to laugh. i had to turn away. i see eric in the front seat (we were in the car) shaking from laughter (and keeping his face out of view in the rearview mirror, i might add). *sigh*
on a completely unrelated note...when disciplining your child, it's important to be prepared for any reaction your child has for your form of discipline. isaiah can get a little excited when he plays/tries to communicate with you and tends to hit. so we've been doing the "no hitting, gentle, etc." a couple days ago, he smacked me pretty hard in the face, and i immediately went into a very stern "no, isaiah! that's hitting. you don't hit! you gave mommy an owie." and was instantly greeted with the biggest eyes and a "HII!!" with a wave and a hopeful smile. ugh! i had my guard down and started to laugh. i had to turn away. i see eric in the front seat (we were in the car) shaking from laughter (and keeping his face out of view in the rearview mirror, i might add). *sigh*
Monday, March 20, 2006
isaiah knows:
- how to tickle
- how to wake you up
- how to kneel and fold his hands in prayer (with much prodding and only for a few seconds at a time)
- how to say "where'd it/he go?" when something/someone disappears
- how to point to his diaper and say "poop" whenever he pees
- how to do 50% of the wiggles' dances
- how to sway back and forth to motown songs while trying to snap his fingers
- how to get on the web browser on my phone
- how to mysteriously shut down the laptop with two keystrokes (and never touching the power button)
- how to turn on the receiver for the tv
- how to brush his teeth (kinda)
- how to put in contacts (kinda - he dips his finger in the case then touches his eye)
- that two comes after one (but he can only say "two")
- that despite us referring to milk as "white juice", it is not as good as real juice
Monday, March 13, 2006
at bedtime last night, we had had the lights out for a good 5 minutes. clearly, it was time to sleep. isaiah had been tossing around, but was quiet. then a little shadow appears by eric's head: "hiiii!!" super clear, super loud.
hahaha. what a silly boy.
isaiah's starting to understand right from wrong. he can't use the "but i didn't know and i won't be developed enough to understand for a while" excuse anymore. enter time outs and stern reprimands. (side note: it's amazing how long 1 minute is for a time out.)
at church, isaiah is usually pretty good for 3/4 of the mass. it's usually when we get to the "holy holy holy" that he becomes restless. he dropped his binky and i let him go get it. (he drops his binky a zillion times during mass.) a lightbulb went off in his head: "aha! i can run around if it means i have to go get my binky!" so he starts throwing his binky so he can walk even farther to get it. eric sits him down and says "no, isaiah. we do not throw our binky. no throwing." isaiah pauses. processes what eric told him. looks down. then looks at eric, waves, and says, "hiii."
so that's how we know that he gets it. whenever we tell him that he's done something that he shouldn't do, he stops for a second to process it, understands it, then says "hi." it's hard to not smile when he does this cuz it can be really cute. then there are those times where he just totally tunes you out. but that's another story....
hahaha. what a silly boy.
isaiah's starting to understand right from wrong. he can't use the "but i didn't know and i won't be developed enough to understand for a while" excuse anymore. enter time outs and stern reprimands. (side note: it's amazing how long 1 minute is for a time out.)
at church, isaiah is usually pretty good for 3/4 of the mass. it's usually when we get to the "holy holy holy" that he becomes restless. he dropped his binky and i let him go get it. (he drops his binky a zillion times during mass.) a lightbulb went off in his head: "aha! i can run around if it means i have to go get my binky!" so he starts throwing his binky so he can walk even farther to get it. eric sits him down and says "no, isaiah. we do not throw our binky. no throwing." isaiah pauses. processes what eric told him. looks down. then looks at eric, waves, and says, "hiii."
so that's how we know that he gets it. whenever we tell him that he's done something that he shouldn't do, he stops for a second to process it, understands it, then says "hi." it's hard to not smile when he does this cuz it can be really cute. then there are those times where he just totally tunes you out. but that's another story....
