Well Worth the Wait

The much anticipated moment has arrived. Isaac is officially 18 months old now which means that he is officially Nursery age! These last few months at Church are always the hardest with a toddler, but I swear that he has been our hardest yet. He hit his separation anxiety pretty hard and it's been tears and screaming anytime I leave the room. We've been adjusting him to the idea of "dropping off" with play group and with Nursery the last few Sunday's at church. He still gets nervous when you walk him close to the door, but after a few minutes of playing with mom or dad close by, he soon forgets that we even exist and is happy for the next couple of hours. Church is going to be so much more enjoyable now!

He sure is cute though! He's at a really fun stage and is starting to talk more (we're hoping he starts to scream less) and really has fun with us at home. He has recently started to play football with Brandon in the family room, loves to play Legos with Caleb, and is often seen running to Kelsie for comfort or just a hug. He yells "bye!" and "love ya!" to everyone that leaves in the morning for work and school, and will start cheering "go, go, go!" if we walk past the electronics department at Target and a football game is on the tv's.

We're also wondering if he's going to be the engineer of the family as he likes to figure out how things work and will stack and restack Legos for longer than 10 minutes at a time. He loves stickers and his new favorite things are coloring (with markers) and play dough. He gives us hugs and kisses all the time and will even tickle an exposed belly if he sees one.

18 months is a milestone around here in many ways. As excited as we are about his new career in Nursery, we're also a little sad that our little boy is that much older.

Cuteness

It's been a while since I've posted some pictures of Isaac.  He's growing up so fast and I wish I had the ability to slow time down (I'm sure every parent feels the same way).  Isaac is now 9 months old and is crawling all over the place!  We think it's funny that he learned how to crawl and still has yet to roll over!  He only wants to eat the food that the rest of us are eating instead of any kind of baby food.  He has learned to clap and even dance, more like bob his head back and forth to music.  We think he has an internal sensor for any lego piece or marble left on the floor and makes a bee line towards it!  He says "mama" and is real close to saying "dada".  Isaac is such a happy little baby and we're so glad he's a part of our family!

Isaac Crawling from Ronni Paxton on Vimeo.

Toothless

In all the new baby excitement going on around here, a few other exciting things have happened as well.   Sometime between the very end of April and very beginning of May (I really can’t remember the exact date), Brandon lost his first tooth.  He was very excited and couldn’t wait for it to happen and was absolutely thrilled that it happened during school.  He came out of school at the end of the day very proud holding his little baggie with his tooth in it.  He couldn’t wait to show everyone and even let our favorite crossing guard know about it too.  He couldn’t wait for the tooth fairy to come “pay” him a visit and although he didn’t get as much as the kid next door, he seemed fairly pleased with his 50 cents.  He’s already got another loose tooth and can’t wait to cash it in!

Milestones

We have hit a couple milestones in our family the last few days:

First Milestone:

This is my 101st post!! I didn't think that I would have enough interesting things to blog about for this long, but I must confess that it is an addiction now. I look at my like through "blogging goggles" and try to think of fun things to write about. It has been a fun way for me to keep our families and friends updated with our exciting life. So, those of you that have stuck with me this long, thanks! I hope to keep you interested in coming back.

Second Milestone:

Happy Blogging!