Seven Peaks

So, on Friday, we headed out to Seven Peaks Water park to take advantage of our season passes. We have a pass that gets us into Trafalga, Orem Owls and Utah Flash games, and of course Seven Peaks. We were excited to take Isaac, as he is quite the water baby.

I was very pleased to see how many things they have there for the really tiny ones to do. They have a splash pool with zero-depth entry, and then a larger play area that has about five slides that kids are good to go down in by themselves, or their parents can take them down. There are floating alligators and snakes to play in there, too. Then there's Tyke's Peak with slightly larger kid slides, that we could take Isaac down as well. And we were able to take him to the wave pool, too. All in all, it is definitely worth the money to us, and I think we'll be spending lots of time there this summer.

Here's James and Isaac starting off!

And Isaac and Daddy on the slide:

It did not faze Isaac one bit to get completely dunked under the water.

He did get pretty cold though (it was only about 70 degrees out, and windy), so we got out frequently to wrap him in a towel and warm up.

(Side note - Isaac loves towels. After the bath he loves to just be wrapped up in his towel - almost swaddled like a baby - and just lie there all happy and snug, or sometimes he likes you to hold him and rock him in his towel. Sometimes he will find a towel in the middle of the day and hold it out to me and say "Please!" and something that sounds like "arms" though I'm not sure - but I get the gist that he wants me to wrap it around him. He saunters all around the house until it falls off and then he brings it back to me and says Please and Arms again and we start all over.)

Here's Isaac and me on the Tyke's Peak slide:

And after, in the towel again:

The last thing we did was the wave pool, which I didn't think Isaac would be into, but he totally was. Every time a wave would crash into us, he'd grin and say "Whoa!"

That was our first Seven Peaks Adventure! We celebrated with Little Caesar's pizza and crazy bread for dinner. Perfect Friday!

National Donut Day

I am not sure why, but Friday was National Donut Day. We'll take any excuse to go have a donut (ok, that's not entirely true. James will, but I'm not such a huge donut fan. I like them when I eat them, but I never actually crave them or think, "That would really hit the spot right now." I think that much more often about pie). - so anyway, we decided to go ahead and head out to Krispy Kreme and give Isaac his first donut.

Well, the lines were really just too long and there was no parking, and we wanted to go to the waterpark, so... we decided to delay National Donut Day - and we celebrated a day late. People are always doing that, anyway. So, we went back on Saturday to a much less crowded Krispy Kreme.
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Isaac was fascinated by the donut process - they let you watch how the donuts are made through a window - and kept pointing and saying, "Cookie!"

So, what did Isaac think of the donuts? He took a couple bites, but he was much more interested in wandering around and investigating the store.

He even played "Daddy Chase Me!" outside...

But at least he accomplished the most important donut feat - getting it all over your face:

All the Things He Says

My dad asked me on the phone the other day what Isaac's vocabulary consisted of. So, for his sake, and for the sake of helping me remember, these are all the words Isaac can say at 21 months of age:

hair, head, eyes, ears, mouth, nose, cheeks, teeth, hands, feet, toes, tummy, knees, shoulder

no, uh-ha, hello, hi, bye-bye

diaper, shirt, pants, socks, shoes, boots, hat, jammies

car, truck, bus, train

water, drink, milk, juice

bird, dog, kitty, moo, duck

apple, banana, strawberry, grape, noodle, cookie, popcorn, cheese

there, this, that

mommy, daddy, grandma, grandpa, yia-yia, Johnny, Allison (he's trying on that one, anyway), Isaac, baby, Troy

please, thank you, you're welcome, sorry 

sun, girl, tree, picture, clock, chair, show, door, knock-knock, bed, sleep, bath, sit, outside, bubble, puzzle, ball, bounce, go, let go, down, up, help, help me, prayers, amen, blocks, fork, knife, spoon, stir, more, dirty, stinky, cold, cool, hot, park, slide, swing, keys, backpack



I'm sure I'm not getting all of them, but those are the ones I can think of for now, so they're the ones he says most often. My favorite is when he hands you somethings and says, "gu-kum" which is, of course, you're welcome. I also love when he says "help me" - it's just so cute.

He definitely is talking just a ton more this past month or so - and he gets more articulate by the day. My sweet boy. How I adore him.

Little Stinker

You know how you read in all the child development books and sites and whatever that it's totally normal for your toddler to want to run around naked and constantly be shedding his clothes. Well, what about the opposite? Isaac has a serious clothing adoration - he hates taking his clothes off and sometimes will bring me shirts or pants to try to get me to put them on him over the clothes he is already wearing. I'm sure it's perfectly normal, too, I just think it's pretty funny that while other parents are struggling with their little nudists, I've got a little never-nude on my hands.

Case in point: The other night James was trying to give Isaac a bath while I did the dishes upstairs. I heard a lot of whining from Isaac and a few exasperated "Child!"s from James, and then finally I hear "Honey - will you come down and help me? Isaac is refusing to take his clothes off. So I trot downstairs, James meets me at the door of the bathroom, and in the time it takes for me to give him a little commiserating pat on the shoulder, Isaac has done this:

 Don't worry, he wasn't actually drinking soap. The bottle is empty.

Little stinker.

Ready for Work

Isaac is a good little worker. He always likes to join in and add his muscle to any household job. But he's a smart one - he always makes sure to wear his protective gear.

Breakfast with Isaac

Isaac and I shared a banana shake for breakfast a few weeks back. After a while, he decided to forgo the whole cup thing and went straight to the source.

Visit from Grandma

Way back in April we had a lovely visit from Grandma Ruth. She came to attend Allison's graduation (hurray Allison!) and enjoy BYU women's conference. We really had a great time with her, and were so glad that she could come.

Grandma brought Isaac a much-beloved truck:

And played with him, which he enjoyed even more than the truck: