I Love Summer...

For so many reasons...

1) Because I get to eat sweet corn!

I ate almost the whole ear too!

2) Time I get to spend with my friends

My friend Hailey (she was my old neighbor), mom took me to Creston, IA to see her on Wednesday and we spent all day with her and her mom Kim.

3) Being in the water

4) Learning to color on the sidewalk with chalk

Peek-a-Boo!

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Branson Vacation

Last week the family and I spent the week on Table Rock Lake in Branson, MO. I got to see all my cousins...all 17 of them, my aunts and uncles and grandpa and Connie. Mom, dad and I started the trip on Friday night, they thought it would be a good idea to break the trip up for me so I didn't have to ride 7 hours straight in my carseat. They thought forsure that I would fall asleep on the way to Kansas City, but I decided I wanted to stay up...until 11:30. Man did that exhaust my parents. I was pretty exhausted too, dad laid me down at 11:30 and I didn't make a peep. The next morning we ate breakfast and then we joined the caravan of 5 cars and we finished the trip to Branson.

The week went really fast and it was really hot, its all almost a blur now but I will try to remember. We spent the first few days mainly on the boat, I really liked the boat and I loved when I got to drive the boat. We would normally head out on the boats by 10:00 and we would eat lunch on the boats, tube, ski, lots of swimming to cool off and of course I took a nap every morning on the boat. By the mid week we had all had a lot of sun and so we kept it mainly to the pool but the die hards went out in the morning and night to take advantage of the smooth water.

On Tuesday we all went to the show "The New Shanghai Circus". It was a pretty cool show, it only kept my attention for about 30 minutes. I got to have popcorn, a sucker and m&m's to keep me content. But then I just got really tired so mom rocked me in the back in my stroller and I fell asleep. I thought being able to put my foot in my mouth and do a headstand made me pretty flexible but you should have seen these people, they could bend backwards and touch their feet to their heads. I got a lot of work to do.

On Wednesday night we tried to have a mexican fiesta but it got rained out so all my cousins tried to line up on the side of the building to eat their food. The rest of us moved inside where it was dry.

This vacation I did notice that people seemed to be dropping one by one. My Uncle Greg unfortunatley dislocated his shoulder wakeboarding, two of my cousins got a fever and didn't feel very good and I think at least four people got swimmers ear. But that didn't stop our fun. We finished the rest of the week going out on the boats and being on the water, it was too hot to not be in the lake. Thursday night we drove all the way to see the dam, I think it was about 30 miles. Then on Friday we spent the majority of the day on the boat and we went cliff jumping. I was way to young, but a lot of people in my family did the jump, even my little cousin Alexa! The vacation ended with a little bump in the road, Greg's boat broke down, then Leon went to go tow them back in and they ran out of gas, so dad and Aunt Rachel got on the jet ski and took some gas to them and finally everyone made it back to the resort around 8:00.

I had a blast hanging out with all of my cousins and just being outside and in the water. Mom can tell I am pretty exhausted this week and still recovering from vacation, but then again so is she. You can see all my vacation pictures if you click on the link to go to my Picasa album or you can see some of them below.

Right Handed??? Left Handed???

Recently, I have started feeding myself now that I am such a big boy! I started feeding myself on vacation with a fork. And now that I am home I feed myself oat bran for breakfast. I'm doing pretty good with feeding myself, but there is one thing I can't quite figure out...which hand I would like to use.

Here I am the other day feeding myself with my right hand...

And here I am today feeding myself with my left hand...

What the heck, if I can't figure out which hand to use I might as well double fist it; gets the job done faster which leaves more time to play with my toys. :)

I'm a big help!

The other day mommy was vacuuming so I decided to get my vacuum out and help her. I did a really good job, I even made sure to go in every single room in the house and I vacuumed around everything. When I first started out I thought I'd play bumper vacuums with mom but she got tired of that game after awhile so then I went on ahead of her an vacuumed everything before she did. Don't you think I look like my daddy's little 'mini-me'?

Can You Groove Like I Groove?

My mom is pretty excited that there is one thing I seem to be taking after that I get from her...dancing! If it's got a beat mom and dad usually see my head boppin up and down. Sometimes I even dance to the sound of the grocery cart (if its a loud one) in the grocery store. I keep things quit entertaining around here.

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It's Back...

another ear infection, that is! My little ears are tired of this and mommy tells me she doesn't like to put me on these antibiotics all the time. Mommy and I have both lost track of how many ear infections I have had since December. I went to see Grandma & Grandpa this past weekend and on Friday I was a little fussy but she thought it was because I wanted out of my carseat. But on Saturday all I wanted to do was cuddle with Grandma, I know she didn't like to see me in discomfort but she really liked it that I was in a cuddly mood. :) I slept from 11:00-1:00 and then Grandma fed me lunch and then all I wanted to do was cuddle so she put me back in my pack-n-play and I slept from 2:30-4:00. I woke everyone up a lot during the night but I couldn't help it because my ears hurt but I couldn't tell anyone that's what was wrong. By Monday mommy knew what was going on so she took me into the doctor Monday night and he confirmed it, so back on the meds. I successfully went three weeks without any drugs!! So my doctor is sending me on to an ENT doctor and I see him next Thursday. Mommy thinks I'll probably end up with tubes but were praying I don't have to have surgery. I will update everyone next week what the doc says.

UPDATE: We saw the ENT today and the doctor said that Isaac is at low risk concerning his ear infections so we are going to wait it out for 2 months then we have a follow up. As of now looks like he won't be needing surgery! Thank you to all of you who were praying about this!