Isaac and the abyss

At a friend's wedding Makaela goes from dancing solo on the dance floor to the blue-grass band, to running to give me a hug. This goes on for a while.

Cute onsie that Aunty Jocelyn gave Isaac.

Gettin' some sun in the hot, hot weather.

We play in the backyard and get some sun.

making pancakes...almost every morning Makaela asks for them. Yummy!

Makaela adores her collection of monkeys.

Daddy gives Isaac a good-bye kiss

pouty pouty

pouty pouty

At the Zoo!

Makaela is so interested in bugs including spiders, but she will only look, not touch, and she'll FREAK-out if as much as a ladybug gets on her. Poor kid. Here she looks at a tarantula at the insect section of the zoo. I have a feeling she'll eventually get over her fear and be one of those kids who has snakes and spiders for pets.

At the Zoo!

Makaela uses a caterpillar puppet and Issac watches with interest.

At the Zoo!

Isaac plays with a crab puppet at the zoo.

At the Zoo!

We've been going to the zoo a lot lately. This particular trip was five hours long!!! But it was super fun and we took two buses and one train to get there. The Oregon Zoo is great.

At the Zoo!

Isaac takes one of many naps during our trip to the zoo. Zzzzzzzzzzzz

First real hair cut!

In preparation for the wedding, I took the kids to "Castle Cuts" to get Makaela's bangs straightened and to get a trim. This is the place to go to get your kids hair cut. Half of the entire place is kids toys for the kids who are waiting to occupy themselves with. It's great. Here Makaela sits in a sports car and gets her hair cut. She seemed a little worried, but overall, did very well.

Makaela wears spray-on-sparkles and pretty clips in her hair after her first hair cut.

Makaela's and Isaac's room. It's a little tight, but sweet.

Isaac is wearing the onsie that we tie-dyed for Makaela before she was born.

Waaaaaaaah

Her hair is so long for someone her size.

If ever we ask miss Makaela to smile for a picture she cocks her head like this.

Isaac is learning to hold his head up. Here he is wearing one of the outfits that Sean's sister Christy sent to us is a big huge box of hand-me-downs! The very best gift ever! Thank you so much Christy and the boys!

We got a toddler by UPS today!

My little one is not so little anymore. He's just under 3 months and he's fitting into these 3-6 month overalls. He's such a big boy and he smiles all the time!

Mommy and Isaac got back from being in the hospital for three nights. Isaac had a temerature of 104 at the doctors office and we went straight to the emergency room at the children's hospital at OHSU (Oregon Health and Science University). He ended up having a UTI and he's all better now, and still taking antibiotics. Little baby went through so much pain with all the IV's and a blood and spinal test. He was on antibiotics from the moment we go to our room even though we didn't know what was wrong yet. We had three doctors on our case and 20 or more nurses and nurses assistants throughout the entire time we were there. They call it preventative treatment because they treat as many things as they can even though they don't know what it is. It was a pretty big scare. But Isaac will be fine and there is nothing we could have done to prevent it. Let's just hope it doesn't happen again. One of the nurses jokingly said to me as I was leaving "Don't come back now, ya hear?", I said "I hope I never see you again, but thank you."

The excitment of having mommy and Isaac home from the hospital wore her out. She fell asleep on her own with none of the normal coxing. She just left the room and when I went to look for her, sure that she was getting into something, I found her asleep like this.

Makaela shows Daddy little rocks in our back yard.

Makaela holds her baby doll with a "carrier". She pretended to tend to her baby doll for a long time.