It doesn't look like much

...but it will in a couple of months. This is the new piece of land Gary and I now own; I guess I should say the bank owns, but you know what I mean. We hope to start building mid July- first of August. Praise the Lord we will soon be out of this town house but it won't be before the baby arrives.

Easter Weekend

We went home to Sheldon on Easter weekend and stayed with Gaga & Papa and we also visited Grandpa Pennings in the Sioux Falls hospital. On Saturday we took Isaac to the Easter egg hunt at the park, there was a ton of kids and not as many eggs so we got maybe 2-3 eggs and I had to practically drag Isaac by his arm just to get those. It was pretty cut throat to get an egg that's why there are no pictures of it, from start to finish it lasted maybe a minute.

When we got home papa had some work to do in the back yard and Isaac being the big helper that he is decided he wanted to help papa rake. Then after Isaac's nap we went to the park with papa and papa found out I wasn't kidding when I said Isaac could swing for hours. Then on Sunday we spent Easter morning with gaga and papa and opened his Easter baskets, then in the afternoon we went to Orange City to celebrate with the Pennings side and we finished the party with an Easter egg hunt with his cousins. It was a weekend packed full of fun!

Bubbles, Bubbles & More

This is from a couple of weeks ago, but I have been meaning to post these for awhile. I let Isaac play in the sink one day after his nap and he loved playing with the bubbles so much that he spent an hour and a half transferring bubbles and water from one side of the sink to the other. Every time I asked him if he was done he stomped his feet, and shook his head no, and very admittedly told me 'no'.


Just coloring a picture, probably on a rainy day or while I'm making supper and we're waiting for daddy to get home
You have to be careful how you lay on the floor in this house because Isaac takes it as an open invitation to give him a 'ride'. He likes to just sit on daddy and say 'ride daddy'.

Baby doin

Today I had a Dr's appointment and according to Isaac it was to see how the "baby is doin". The baby as far as we know is doing great, and growing accordingly. We got to hear the babies heartbeat, took about 5 minutes to find, but I could eventually take a sigh of relief once I heard that sweet sound on the Doppler, it was in the 150s.

Isaac is coming down with a cold so I took him with me to my appointment, I wasn't going to but the midwives all love him and have told me to bring him with me to every appointment...we'll see! Come to find out once we were there Isaac loved that I took him as amazingly he remembered all his adventures from 4 weeks ago.

Last time I had my OB appointment it was a really long one almost an hour so Isaac was getting pretty bored, thankfully my favorite midwife Sea took Isaac out of the room and brought him into her office to play for awhile. Sea happens to have her office decorated with pictures of ocean wildlife and has "fishies" as Isaac calls them. Sea let him play with these fish last time and so today we weren't even in the office for more than a couple of minutes and he was already starring back at her office and pointing asking for these fishies. So when I got called back Isaac went tearing ahead of me and ran right into Sea's office asking for the fishies.

Much to Isaac's excitement Sea was in her office and so he got to play with these fish again. His memory just continues to astound me every day, it's crazy how he remembers something of that little detail (in my mind anyways)from 4 weeks ago! I guess now we have something to look forward to every time we go there. Although, next time he won't be coming with me since it will be a long morning of appointments including an ultrasound to determine the sex of the baby, so stay tuned!!!

Cream on the mind!

Isaac's favorite food lately (by far) is cream...short for ice cream! If we ever want his attention all we have to say is cream and he comes running to our side. He's becoming very smart and we don't know how he knows but when we are out driving he will start talking about cream just as we are driving by the ice cream stores. We don't tell him that's an ice cream store, somehow he knows where they are and he loves to tell us. Here is a video that shows his love for cream.

I'm 2!

It's hard to believe but our little baby is 2 already! Seems like yesterday that we were bringing him home from the hospital. We celebrated his birthday on Saturday and we got to enjoy the day with Gaga and Papa. He was really excited to see them, and I noticed this time he had an increasing fondness for his papa. The whole weekend when papa was out of his sight he was asking for him. He liked when papa would swing him around, papa would put him down and Isaac would go "again, again!", I think Isaac wore papa out! I'm sure they will be great fishing buddies some day. Of course he loves and adores his gaga too.

Isaac spent the morning entertaining gaga and papa with his nonstop energy and silliness and then we ate lunch. After Isaac's nap we did some driving around and then came home and had pizza. He typically eats pizza and loves pizza so I made it especially for his birthday and he wouldn't eat any of it. We eventually got a few bites down and then we had cake and cream (Isaac's favorite, ice cream). Since he loves Veggietales or more specifically "Bob" I had a veggietales themed cake made for him. He loved it.

I'll try not to make this too long, but after all it's been a long time since I posted anything. Some of you already know but we haven't made a big announcement officially, but I haven't been blogging much the past few months because I have been pretty sick with baby #2! I am finally feeling better and starting to get that 2nd trimester energy so I will try to do better about blogging what Isaac is up to. We will be welcoming baby #2 in mid-September. Hopefully around the beginning of May we will be finding out whether Isaac will be getting a baby sister or brother. I'm hoping for a girl, but we will welcome whatever God has planned for us. We are really excited to meet her...or him. :)

Here are some pictures from Isaac's birthday and from the last couple of months. Within the next few days I will be posting some video of him. He is changing so fast and sometimes it's easier to get it on video than capture him in a picture.

Isaac got ahold of Papa's hat and took it
Isaac still loves to give away hugs all the time. He's giving Papa hugs here.
Isaac giving Gaga hugs
Isaac with Gaga and Papa at Valentine's day weekend
Isaac likes to put hats on and run around with them, this time he got ahold of my hat!
He been starting to grab my phone and run around playing with it and talking on the phone
I made this box for Isaac's train set, but Isaac loves to dump all his trains out and then sit in the box with this blankies
Isaac loves to play in the corner with his toys
Isaac's 2nd birthday cake
Isaac with his cake
Enjoying his 'cream' and slice of cake with Bob on it
The barn set we gave him. I had this down in the garage and he spotted it once or twice, so he was very happy to finally play with it. He loved all his gifts!
There's a big smile on this face, he loved his train. Thanks Aunt Gina!

Chatter Box

Thought I would give an update on what Isaac has been up to since it's been awhile :). He continues to be the entertainment of this house, he is always doing something to make us laugh. And of course when daddy gets home things get even more silly around here.

Isaac has been starting to talk some sentences, and I love all of them so far. For the most part his sentences are, "I nee a hug." as he comes running to me with his arms open, "I wanna read", and my favorite so far "Mommy, I love you". Only within the last couple of days has he learned and started saying, "me no like".

Gary taught Isaac how to demand for supper so when Gary comes home I usually have both of them by my side going "eat, eat, eat". Every once in a while Isaac will come up to me before lunch and say "eat, eat, eat" his memory for things completely amazes us.

Isaac loves to read and when he's not playing with his trucks and trains he's usually just flipping through books and he will stay occupied with that for quite awhile. He is fascinated by the moon and any time we go outside at night he is quick to spot it and point it out to us. He always has to tell everything and everyone "bye-bye" so that includes the moon. He'll point to the moon and then he'll start waving at the moon going "bye-bye moon" over and over. His love for the moon pours out into his books as he knows every single book that is in the house that has a moon in it. He also loves his "moose" book he got from Aunt "Cheetah" for Christmas. We read it at least once a day if not twice and sometimes more.

We are just enjoying this time and stage with him. We have our days where it seems all he does is test us, but for the majority of days he is a very sweet and loving boy. He is becoming quite the helper as well, he knows where all of his toys belong and he is very good at helping us put them away when it's time to go to bed.

Here's just some recent pictures we've taken.

Isaac riding the rocking elephant Papa & Gaga made him for Christmas

Isaac loving on mommy

Getting pretty good at feeding himself

For some reason he loves to lay on the stairs, it's one of his favorite spots

Eating "corn" with daddy, one of his favorite things to do at night

On the way home from Colorado he fell asleep while he was sucking on a sucker