Isaiah at 18 Months

Isaiah was 18 months on March 22, so I wanted to record a few things about him at this moment in time.

-He's 25lbs and just shy of 32 inches tall.

-He still only has 8 teeth.  His molars have been huge bruised "marbles" under his gums for MONTHS, but just now one is actually cutting through so that part of it is through the gums.  The other ones are still just bruises.

-He gets up between 2 and 4 times a night to nurse.  It's just recently he started sometimes getting up only 2 times.  I love those nights.  But I usually end up laying awake for 2 or 3 hours anyway.

-We cosleep, and we love it and have no plans to stop.

-He doesn't talk much, but he does say Mama, Dada, Noah, more, no, yah, ball, block, Papa, Nana, baby, bird, moo, cheep, and maybe a few other things.

-He likes to build now, not just destroy.

-His "lovey" is a panda that Noah built him at Build-A-Bear, named "Pandy".  He ADORES Pandy, which is especially cute because Noah made him for him. I don't think I have a picture of it, unfortunately.

-He hasn't been sick that many times.  4 or 5 times total, one of them being right now (we all have a cold except Justin).

-He's a super smiley, friendly baby, but he is not easy.  He is pretty high maintenance and requires a lot of attention.  But he's a toddler, so yeah.  I expect that.

-I've always said that 12-18 months is my least favourite age (for so many reasons), and literally just in the 1.5 weeks before Isaiah turned 18 months he suddenly got a little easier.  Up until that point he still wanted to be held or worn every second, even while I was cooking, washing dishes, cleaning, etc.  Right before turning 18 months he suddenly preferred to play than to be worn.  Nothing else got easier, really, but that made a HUGE difference.

-He is a MAJOR STINKER.

-He loves to strut around like a peacock on the dining room table.

-He's not a "good eater" even though he always wants to eat.  He just doesn't actually ingest a whole lot, and he's rather picky.  He still gets about 95% of his nutrition from breastmilk, which is fine.  It's healthier than most things he could eat anyway.

-In the tub he is constantly doing this (don't mind the old lady tiles):

-He continues to be a hitter, scratcher, pincher, and biter. He's always done these things, ever since he was an infant. It's usually not even malicious, but it HURTS! We are just finally starting to make some headway with the whole "Be gentle, be gentle" and petting things instead of hitting. And finally when we say "No biting! Just kissing." He will kiss whatever he was about to bite. Up until now those things didn't work. And interestingly, if he's hitting or biting and we just say "No hitting!" or "No biting!" it will make him do it even more. Every single time.

Trying to bite for no reason:

Still trying to bite...

A split second before I yelled "ISAIAH NOOO!!" and he smashed Noah on the head with the old diaper sprayer:

-He's a HUGE gym rat, and pretty much his favourite place to be is in our garage gym.

In short, he's "challenging", but he's a pretty awesome kid!  We like him :)

Happy 4th Birthday Noah!

On March 18 we celebrated the fourth birthday of our first baby, our sweet Noah.

Noah is sweet, funny, smart, and kind.  He loves Cars (especially Cars 2) and fish.  He loves to play racing games on the iPad or Wii, and he loves putting on his "tuner" ("Shoom SHOOM!!") and then racing around the house against his Daddy.  He also loves to paint, draw, make bracelets, and build things (although that's mostly been on the back burner for the past while because his little brother is The Destroyer... Noah calls him "Isaiah Godzilla").

Everyday he tells me a hundred times that he loves me, and it always comes out somewhere along the lines of "Mommy, I love you a million thousand two hundred pieces!"

He got a trampoline for his birthday, and he loves it (this was before we put the net on).

We are so thankful for the past four years with our Noah.

March 18, 2010:

March 18, 2014:

The kids really didn't want their picture taken... here is an example of what the rest of the pictures looked like:

That's real life, people!

Noah and Isaiah

Again, I've taken a super long break from blogging.  Mostly because I can never remember my freaking password.  BUT, for the heck of it, here are a few pictures I took of the kids yesterday (March 11, a week before Noah's birthday).  Noah is almost 4, Isaiah is 17.5 months old.

This is the squinty-eyed scrunchy face Isaiah makes all the time.  We get such a kick out of it, as does everybody he does it to:

Things Noah Says

Me: Noah, do you want to go see big birds, and snakes, and real crocodiles, and big dinosaur skeletons??

Noah: (unsure of himself) But... crocodiles EAT people.

Me: These crocodiles won't be hungry. And they'll probably be on leashes. They won't eat anyone. It will be SO cool!

Noah: I'd rather have a race against a chicken.

Well... okay then.