Cora's BounceU Birthday Party

yesterday we strolled off to isaac's favorite place in the entire universe, bounceU, to celebrate the 3rd birthday of his pal, cora. we didn't bring a camera, so we couldn't get any good shot of the bouncing action. but, our phones did a decent job of capturing the birthday cake part of the day...

cora and her princess cake:

sucking down a juice box after an hour of intense bouncing:

delicious cake:

testing out the princess party hat:

Our First WS Dash Game

last night, we packed up and drove off to downtown winston-salem, to take in our first dash game at the new stadium. we had lots of fun...

i think we were in the ninth row.

isaac loves sprite. or any pop for that matter.

watching intently.

when the excitement of class a baseball wore off (after about 1 inning), we went to explore other parts of the park, such as the kid zone, which had an assortment of blow up bouncy apparatuses and a merry-go-round. isaac's favorite is the big slide.

isaac did a really great job at being a baseball fan... cheering at the appropriate times, dancing when cued to dance, eating hot dogs, drinking carbonated beverages, walking the long long long haul from our parking spot to the stadium, riding on dad's shoulders from the stadium back to the parking spot...

Pizza (and pop) lunch date with a cute boy.

Hipstamatic

Got a sweet new photo app for the iPhone. More pics to follow, I'm
sure...

"i love you so much"

this story happened quite awhile back...

many times, isaac will stop us in the midst of what we're doing and say, "mom/dad, i have to tell you something... i love you so much". it's very sweet and he's stocking up some good bonus points for the times when he says not so nice things...

one night, i was lying in bed with him and it had been pretty quiet for some time, when he said, "i love you so much". i thought he was talking to me, until i heard a kissing sound with no accompanying kiss.

not really sure i wanted to know the answer, i asked, "who are you talking to?"

"super mario."

meaning this (a 2ish inch tall replica of super mario. yeah.):

anna delores

that's what we'll be calling baby lidbom 2.0.

anna - because we both liked it and could agree on it. :)

delores - after my mom's mom. the grams...

so, that's that.

one month away...

8 months of pregnancy in the books.

1 left. give or take a few days, i suppose.

i feel like we have so much to do. which is funny, because we cut out a lot of the to-do's that we had with isaac. since, apparently, the world doesn't end if the nursery isn't ready for a photo shoot when you bring the baby home. and kitchen towels can double as burp cloths. and diapers can go in the trash just as easily as a diaper genie.

but, we do still need to buy some bottles. and a car seat. :)

our to-do list mostly consists of stuff that has nothing to do with the baby, but we know will be put on hold indefinitely if we wait until her arrival... like when i didn't clean the house for 18 or so months after isaac was born. :)

anyhooo...
that's the story. one month left.

egg hunting, round 2.

firstly, happy easter to all....

we started off the day by heading out to salem chapel for some super sweet easter services. then, we went to derek's parents for easter lunch and a little egg hunting. we forgot our camera, so all of those pics are on a borrowed camera, to be posted at a later date.

we came home and lounged around for a bit, sampling a few different movies from netflix for isaac. when we had recovered from our morning, i hid some more eggs for isaac to hunt in the backyard, without competition. i thought i got some great pictures, but since i'm a little slow these days, i was usually behind the boy and didn't get too many face shots. and who wants to look at the back of the head of a kid picking up easter eggs?

anyhow, without further ado, here are some shots of the little man on his egg hunt...

checking out the goods on the first egg:

running to the next egg:

securing an egg found on the garden tarp:

all eggs loaded in the back of the car, ready for cruising:

cousins and easter eggs

isaac went to his gramma's yesterday to dye easter eggs with his cousins...

easter eggs

i thought perhaps the boy was old enough this year to do a little easter egg decorating. i opted for a kit that had stamps and paintbrushes rather than fizzy dyes that take so very very long to take effect. (even i lose patience with that process). well, a couple of eggs in, isaac became more interested in floating his stamps in the rinse water (they were "taking a bath"), so we didn't get very far. but, i managed some pictures, nonetheless. better luck next year...

doesn't he look excited to begin?