Naughty

Isaac has recently become very good at helping us out in a new way: he lets us know when he is being naughty. It is now not uncommon to hear him say, "I'm being naughty". This picture is from this morning when he was climbing on the desk to get to the cabinet with "treats". He knows that is very naughty and was vigilant in pointing that out to me. He said "I'm being naughty" over and over again.

Let the weekend begin!

Last night we rented and aerator for the lawn. Isaac was really interested in this and wanted to be a part of the action. It turns out that he is not quite big enough to help push, so we resorted to this approach. It was a win-win. Aleks could aerate and I could make dinner and tend to William. Isaac was having the time of his life. When Aleks would grunt because the aerator was really hard to move around, Isaac would grunt, too.



This morning we have been making pancakes. Isaac was a good helper. Most of the ingredients stayed in the bowl.



Yes, that is a wet wire whisk going in the canister of flour. Needless to say, cleanup was a bit more involved than usual, but Isaac really had fun and enjoyed his pancakes (he ate five).



We also had some tummy time this morning. Isaac got jealous of William getting all the action, so he had me place him on the ground on his tummy, too.



No post is complete without a picture of our adorable William. We really like this guy. He has started to bust out some smiles this week. We will have to work to capture them on camera. He has a lot of similarities to Isaac at this age-we will see do managing two hyperactive kids. Aleks has already starting talking about getting covers for the furniture.

some random pics

The weekend before William was born, Aleks' dad came out and brought us bunkbeds that he had made for Aleks and his brothers when they were kids. We had a great weekend with him and really appreciate the beds. Here they are at the public gardens.

I love newborn sleep poses.

Some more photos

Here are some more photos.

Isaac giving William a smooch.

Some photos

I have been having some strange errors every time I upload photos, so here are a few that managed to upload without errors. We are overdue posting photos of William. He is super cute and a really great baby.

His favorite pose.

Bathtime-he is not getting one again until our water starts flowing in a safe way. We have been under a boil water alert since Saturday.


This from last night. He is a lot chubbier than Isaac ever was.


We have had a large box around that Isaac has been enjoying.

Isaac is still doing well with William. He likes to give him hugs and kisses. We find ourselves saying "gentle" a lot. Last night he was telling us about what he learned at nursery at church and said that Jesus loves Daddy and Jesus loves William (or Wim, as he says). I somehow got left out, but I guess that is ok.

William and the sandbox

We have been terrible about taking and posting photos of William. Poor second child. I think that now that he is awake a little bit more, we will be pulling out the camera more. He is a really cute kid and has a lot of features that are similar to Isaac. It will be interesting to see how he evolves. So far he is a lot bigger than Isaac was-he is a very good eater. This photo was taken this evening. The faded spot on on his jammies on his tummy is from Isaac hugging him earlier today when he was crying and Isaac had pasta sauce on his face. I also have failed to put William's other sock back on after it fell off earlier today.
ooops! Isaac is really good at trying to console him. We learned yesterday that Isaac is also really good at putting his binky in, which was really handy when both of us had our hands full with other things. William is a great baby and very good natured and mellow. We said the same of Isaac at this age and I would say he is still good-natured, but definitely not mellow.

In other news, Aleks finished making a sandbox for the back yard and Isaac has been in heaven with it-we did not even need to go to a playground today to entertain him. Sharon and Mike dropped by this afternoon with 250 lbs of sand to contribute to the 200lbs we already had. Benny got his first introduction to the sandbox and seemed to enjoy himself.

New arrival + Easter

So, we have been absent from the blog for a while. Time to do some catch up.

Our little William decided to make an early arrival like his older brother (both were 10 days early). I had a doctor's appointment in the morning and about five meetings at work after that. That day at work was intended to be my big wrap up day, so I was not thinking much about the doctor's appointment. I was really willing the baby to come later. I had bronchitis and was still recovering from that as well as the rib damage I seemed to have gotten from all the coughing so going in to labor was not high on my priority list. At the doctor's, we realized that my water had broken and that basically meant that I needed to have the baby within the day. That was a bit of a surprise. So, I went home and tried to tie up some stuff for work and pack up things for Isaac and myself while Aleks finished up things at work. Once we were ready, we picked up Isaac from daycare and dropped him with family and then headed to the hospital. William decided to wait until 1:10am to arrive, making it easy for us to remember his and Isaac's birthdays (both are on the same day of the month).

So far he is doing good newborn stuff: eating, sleeping and pooping. We think he is adorable and are enjoying getting acquainted with him. Isaac is doing great so far and seems intrigued by him. He likes to hold him and point out his ears, eyes, head, etc.

One funny thing that Isaac has done is that he is possessive of his changing pad. He never has allowed us to change him on it and does not like to lie down for diaper changes. So, we busted out the changing pad for William and suddenly Isaac decided that he was not going to share that. So, Isaac got down on it and demanded to have his diaper changed. Needless to say it has been much easier to change Isaac since William came along. All we have to do is mention that we are changing William's diaper and Isaac comes toddling on over and demands to have his diaper changed.



We had a nice Easter weekend. There was an easter egg hunt at the church Saturday morning and Isaac had a lot of fun with that. He totally gorged himself on sugar and loved every minute of it.

Sunday we refilled the plastic eggs with healthier snacks and had another hunt around our backyard.

My mom has been in town the last week helping out, which has been great. I am still trying to figure out how to entertain and take care of Isaac while breastfeeding all of the time. Should be an adventure when my mom leaves! I suspect that there will be tears involved (Isaac's, William's and mine).