Tea Party for Grandma

James's Grandma Wilde, one of my favorite people, celebrated her birthday this Wednesday with a tea party. We were all invited to wear hats and dresses and gloves, if possible. Well, I jumped at this chance to get dressed up and, with the help of Aunt Kathryn, secured a lovely garden party hat for the occasion. My friend Alayna came into town and helped me shop for a dress and gloves, and by Wednesday I was super excited to attend the party. When I arrived, I saw that it was going to be a lovely party indeed, with all the other guests having just as much fun as I did with the theme. So here are the pictures for you all to enjoy:

Shorts, the Dog

We spent a lovely Monday evening with James's Aunt Martha and Uncle Eric and their family. We had a lovely FHE lesson given by Caroline and enjoyed some great conversation. While there, Isaac met a new friend, whose name is Shorts. Luckily for us - and Isaac- Shorts is a very patient, easy-going dog who very kindly allowed Isaac to poke, prod, and pull at him throughout the night.
Isaac loved it, and hopefully Shorts is not too damaged from the encounter. Here are a few shots of the new friends:


Isaac also enjoyed stealing Shorts's toys. What a sweet, patient dog. Hopefully we can teach Isaac to be sweet and patient back.

Growing Up

Isaac is growing up - he's got two teeth now. Sharp ones. It is hard to get pictures of baby teeth though, so this is the best one I got:


You can see 'em, right?

Isaac and His Friend in the Mirror

We have a big mirror, courtesy of Grandma and Grandpa Wilde. I still haven't figured out where exactly to put it, so it's been hanging out in the play room. This happens to work out quite nicely for little Isaac, since he loves to admire his reflection. And who can blame him, handsome man that he is?





As you can see, he also adores playing in that curtain.

Matchy-Matchy

James usually gets up and goes to work before I wake up (fully) in the morning and get myself and Isaac dressed. So, one day last week, James came home from work and was holding Isaac and I just had to laugh when I saw how closely their outfits matched. So of course I made them pose on the couch for some cute matchy-matchy pictures.

Welcome to the world, baby girl

Milenna Jean Deal was born to Cyndi and Guy today, March 8th, at 1:43pm. She weighed 7 lbs 11 oz and was 20.5 inches long. She is the most gorgeous baby girl ever.


Welcome to the world, and welcome to our family, beautiful niece.

Apology

I would like to formally apologize for my lack of blogging lately. I just realized it has been about two months since I last posted anything on here. I hang my head in shame. I am making a goal right now to do better, and I will try to post at least once a week.

Isaac is six months old now. (!) He is almost crawling, he has a tooth (well, almost), and he is gobbling up solid foods with gusto. We love our little cutie pie.

I wanted to post a video, but I can't remember our YouTube password, so I'll have to wait until tomorrow and ask James. He is sleeping right now.

So - here's to better blogging.

Video Isaac: Isaac Lectures on the Benefits of Flexibilty

Isaac Makes His Parents Giggle

Man, do we love our baby. He cracks us up every day. He has recently started making some very interesting noises, and as luck would have it, James bought me a simple little video recorder (which is AWESOME, by the way) for Christmas, so I have a little sample of these strange sounds coming from our baby:

James No Longer Looks Like the Abominable Snowman

For a while, James was growing a beard. At the time, I quite liked it, but now looking back at the pictures it seems he looked a lot like the abominable snowman from Monsters, Inc.

Compare:


No wonder they call him the Beast, huh?

Well, now he has shaved and is looking more like himself:

Ok, just kidding. Here he is:

as "Chuck"