Canoe Trip

Every year just before the 4th of July Isaac's aunt and uncle take everyone on a canoe trip that they've been doing for 20 years. Everyone packs a picnic dinner and blankets, and we borrow the stake's canoes. We canoe across the lake to the same spot every year, unpack our blankets, and eat our dinner. Then we sit around and talk until it gets dark. We go at night because Isaac's uncle is an astrologer extraordinare, and he uses his laser pointer to point out all of the constellations. I never know what he's talking about but I still think it's fun. Isaac's mom always brings glow sticks so we can take our famous glow stick picture and that way we can see where everyone is when we canoe back since it's pitch black. I've been twice now, and it's a lot of fun. My pictures are really lame though because it was so dark that the flash hurt everyone's eyes so no one wanted to look and because I couldn't see what I was taking pictures of. I just knew there were people there because of the glow sticks. But these are for posterity! Oh, and it was more fun because Joshua got to stay with a babysitter.

Getting Bigger

I'm skipping a couple of events that I'll have to come back to since those pictures are on Isaac's computer. But here are some pictures I took of Joshua yesterday. I got some bins down out of the closet to put away some clothes he's grown out of, and I ended up leaving the bins out all day because they are all he wanted to play on. He's really good at standing up now, and I've attached one video of how fast he's crawling. Hopefully he'll walk soon! These pictures and videos make him look surprisingly happy when in reality most of the day he was whining and had a fever. The pictures of him standing up against me are what Isaac calls his 'ugly faces'--I think they're funny. You can see his four bottom teeth though!

Love this

kitchen.

It's modern with a vintage flavah-flave.

(Pictures from flickr.com)

Little Boy Blue

Someone gave Joshua this really cute cable knit sweater outfit, but he's just now able to fit into it and it's just now getting hot outside. So I put it on him to snap a few photos before he can't wear it anymore. He was pretty cute. The first picture is just him being cute.

Learning to Pull Up

I have a few unpacked boxes of scrapbook paper, photos, etc. that I don't have anywhere to store except for under my craft table. Joshua has recently discovered these boxes and all of a sudden the booger's gotten really good at pulling himself up on them. Here's the action sequence:

Going back, back

to Cali, Cali!

So here we are--two weeks into our new move. It's been hectic and crazy and at the same time anti-climatic and uneventful. The drive out here took forever! It was 12 hours in two cars. We had too much stuff and the U-haul we rented was too small so we ended up having to pack the Focus all the way to the top which meant fortunately for me (unfortunately for Joshua and Isaac) I got to drive by myself. So yes it was a long way to drive alone, but at the same time, I really enjoyed the peace and quiet. Luckily Brooks and AmyAnn let us crash at their place so we didn't have to drive and move all our stuff in all in one day. When we got here Joshua was a mess with having slept a lot in the car and then with the time change though. He pretty much didn't sleep that first night. So he was a grumpy pants the whole next day (and pretty much every day since we've been here.) Last week, we were in no rush to unpack because Isaac didn't have to start work for a week so we took our time moving in. And now we're just hanging out--Joshua and me that is. I'm so used to having my mom and Isaac around all the time; I never realized how quiet the day can be when it's just Joshua and me. I talk to him a lot more than I have in the past and so I think that's good but sometimes I just feel like a crazy person. Like when I ask his opinion at the grocery store or when I give him a 5 minute heads-up at the park. But at least I use the mom-talking-to-baby voice. Because if I didn't, it would just look like I'm talking to myself like those people who use bluetooths (teeth??).

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PS Baby Update: Joshua is a proficient army crawler who enjoys flicking door stoppers, sucking on cell phones, and grabbing everyone's hair, even his own. He's had a bad cold this last week though so that's been sad, but he's doing better now. I'll post pictures soon. After I take some.

Everything's Amazing; Nobody's Happy

I think Conan O'Brien is typically obnoxious. Luckily in this clip, he's not really talking and the other guy is awesome. Thanks, Andre!

Squirrel

I don't care if this is a fake picture. This is HILarious!

Let it Snow

It's been snowing like crazy today, but Joshua was ready to go out and play!

Big Shoes to Fill

Joshua's football face

Sweet Dreams

Isaac and I love to peek in on Joshua every night before we go to bed. He's so cute! This is how he always sleeps.

Easter

Sunday, 8 am

Sunday, 12 pm

A Doctor and a Poet

A long long time ago I posted a couple of poems by one of my favorite poets--Imagist William Carlos Williams. I really like this one as well called "The Red Wheelbarrow."


so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens

Easter's on its Way

Peas

We took these pictures a couple of days ago. It's been 3 weeks since we started solids, and Joshua's favorite so far are peas. They are the only one he opens his mouth for after the first bite.