Lately

Some fun treasures from the past few weeks:


today at naptime:
me: "Isaiah, what do you want to thank God for when we pray?"
isaiah: "chips"


today at bedtime:
me: "Isaiah, what do you want to thank God for when we pray?"
Isaiah: "chips"
me: "ok, we'll pray for chips. Anything else you want to thank God for?"
Isaiah: "a dog"


A few days ago, he got an invitation in the mail for a friend's Disney princess birthday party. I jokingly asked him what princess he wanted to be. He replied, "buzz lightyear".


When he wants to keep doing something, he says one more. For instance: "one more play" (when he doesn't want to stop playing) "one more Disneyland" (as we are leaving Disneyland). It usually involves him putting his finger in the air as well. (It sounds like "mon more" though)


He sings all.the.time. Usually Yo Gabba Gabba songs or any song having to do with a choo choo. Or the Veggie Tales theme song. He sang it literally 80% of the day today. He also starting singing "life is a highway" from Cars the other day. Don't know how cool I am with my 2 year old singing "all night long". Let's keep working on "Jesus loves me", shall we?


Speaking of singing, when he says goodbye to someone, it is usually followed by the goodbye song from Yo Gabba Gabba. It's precious. "goodbye goodbye goodbye goodbye. goodbye see you later, don't be sad"


He's been really cuddly and really into giving kisses lately. Which we are 110% okay with. He'll start giving David little kisses on his arms, or on my knees. So cute!

During the Olympics, he learned how to play Curling- with his little toy broom. Does that tell you how often David was watching curling matches?


On a not so fun note, he had his first nightmare last week and now seems to be a little afraid of the dark. It's fun to see his imagination grow, but now we know the downside of that. We got him a rocketship nightlight and he is good to go though. Everytime he goes to bed he makes sure that he points out rocket.


I have not downloaded many recent pictures because my computer is out of space, but here are a few that I have:


Playing rockband with his buddy Will:

Look out world.

Hugging his future wife:

Reading stories with his cousin Mandy (or eenee, as he says):

Oh, yes- and he is still taking his pajamas off before he falls asleep. At least 2 nights a week.

And don't worry- he has had a haircut since these photos were taken :)

Halloween 2009

For Halloween this year, Isaiah was an old man. He was so cute! He- amazingly- kept his glasses almost the entire time we were trick or treating and held onto his pipe most of that time as well. (Fun side note: his pipe is one that his great grandfather used to use!) We did not, however, have as much luck with the mustache.

Summer Party: Friends

To follow up on my post of details from our Summer Party, I thought I would share some photos of our guests enjoying the party:

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Isaiah loves Disneyland

So, I am going to make an effort to backtrack and blog some of our adventures from the past couple of months.

In the beginning of February, we took a little day trip to Disneyland and it was the first time that Isaiah really knew what was going on. He had a blast!

A Bugs land:

Yummy tortilla:

Before taking off on Dumbo:

After taking off on Dumbo:

He also really loved Buzz Lightyear. We went on it twice!

So much fun. We are excited to go again soon. Anyone in?

Tomorrow it ends...

As I am sitting here on the floor, looking around at an empty dining and living room, I cannot believe it is real. We are moving again. Tomorrow, we'll pack up our cars and head to Orange County for the next six months. It has been a painful decision process, but we are wholeheartedly following God's lead and trusting that what he has next is even better for us.

We have loved this house. We have watched Isaiah grow from a little peanut who couldn't do much besides cry, sleep and smile into a spunky, adorable active little boy. All of his big milestones happened in our open downstairs area or in our much loved upstairs rooms. From his first birthday to a fun Christmas and his first little slide in the yard, we will greatly treasure our memories from Cedar Glen.

Since we are moving, I thought it would be a good idea to finally post pictures of his bedroom :)

I loved how it turned out:

I loved the bright celadon green! David and I painstakingly hand painted these circles for four hours one night. I loved them.

I then took letters from Paper Source, painted them and covered them with paper that matched his bedding.

Isaiah, checking out his letters:

My mom and I made all of his bedding, except for the crib sheet.

I had a hard time finding fabric that I liked, but I eventually came across Caden Lane' s line of crib bedding. I did not like all of it, but loved a couple of prints. I decided it was worth the hefty price and we mixed it with solid fabrics and a striped fabric that was actually a set of sheets we found at TJ Maxx. 

My sister-in-law, Lindsey (aka quilt designer extraordinaire), helped us with ideas for the layout of the quilt. 

It is backed in solid brown.

All of his furniture, except for the Pottery Barn crib, were hand me downs that we repainted and fixed up   (score!).
I bought the matching crib sheet & changing pad cover by Caden Lane from Giggle Brush Designs .

I think the thing that I will miss most about his room is this piece of bliss above. His changing table is next to a window that looks out over our backyard into our neighbor's yard, which has a huge bamboo plant, windmills and orange trees. Isaiah and I loved to watch the wind move through the trees and the windmills spin. 

My sweet friends Carolyn and Julianne made this for Isaiah's room before he was born, and before they even saw the fabric I had chosen! It matches perfectly.

A couple of cute pics of the little guy in our last few days here:

Eating pasta like a champ:

Goodbye house.