Week Sixteen

Week Sixteen was another relatively uneventful week -- the Zantac that the doctor prescribed may or may not be working, we're still not sure. Overall he was relatively happy and seemingly less fussy, so maybe yes??? Isaac started recognizing himself in the mirror and grins when we walk into the bathroom now. He is also working on perfecting his hand-eye coordination and is now able to grab things and bring them to his mouth (sometimes to his ear, but we get his intention...). He sets his sights on anything and everything with the intention of getting it into his mouth - his hands, burp cloths, Wilson's fur, my hair... We decided to enlist his help with our holiday gift ideas, including stuff with baby hand prints - he seemed game at first, although he didn't seem to get the concept of making a handprint in the wet mold, and instead treated it as another thing to try to to pull into his mouth :) He loves staring at the lights of the tree, especially from his Bumbo seat and is still loving the bath, but getting a little big for it (see picture below), and loves kicking his feet out of the water and making a big mess.


We also had a fun day downtown, where Isaac accompanied me on a trip to the doctor for a physical - he was very well behaved for the most part, flirting with the lab tech and expressing his desire to eat loud enough that the doctor agreed to lend us his personal office for that purpose! After the appointment, we met some of my friends from work for coffee, Sabrina and Anne (who is expecting ANOTHER new friend for Isaac in a few months!!) We also got to hang out with Karen (getting closer and closer to delivering Isaac's best-friend-to-be) and her sister Lisa who came by for lunch after Lisa's wedding dress fitting. They got to see Isaac's big grin and were so surprised when he busted out with it that they burst out laughing, which scared him, and led to a hysterical crying fit! (which made all of us laugh even harder!!)

We had a fun happy hour with the yoga girls and their babies at a cool Hill place called SOVA which has a back room that we took over with all of our strollers and baby stuff. It was so perfect that it may be the new location for our bi-weekly happy hour (much to the chagrin of the bartenders, I imagine!)

We had a fun dinner at Josh and Julia's while Bill was still away in California, and, contrary to this picture below (Josh is such a sport!), Ashton and Isaac really did seem to enjoy each other's company!! Finally, on Sunday night we bartered with our neighbors - some wine and NFL package for manual labor in putting together Isaac's new Exersaucer. Unfortunately, the Sunday night football game (apparently the real reason they came over) came on before they finished, and so Isaac will have to wait a little longer to play in it...