Isaac is 1

This boy is the sunshine in our lives.  I can't say enough how much joy and happiness he has brought to our family.  I thought that after a year, the kids wouldn't be so obsessed with carrying him around and playing with him.  They have only become more obsessed with the little guy.  

Isaac's favorites-

food- cottage cheese, applesauce, anything someone else is eating

book- bubbles bubbles (he sits in his little chair saying bubbles over and over while holding his book.

toys- balls.  He loves to throw the ball, and he makes a really good effort to catch it too!

song- Jesus wants me for a Sunbeam.  He gets so excited when the primary kids sing it.  I think it's because they jump up and yell the beam part.  He raises his arms and laughs along with them.

activities- being read to, going to Grandma's house, sitting in his car outside, and going for walks.

He dabbles in walking, and talking.  He won't commit to walking quite yet, but he knows how.  He is such a little copy cat.  He tries to say what he hears.  He can sing "let it go". He says, bye, ball, bubble, mama, dada, Aba (Abi), Cccc (Carly), biber (diaper), nana (banana)

Stats- 32 inches {98%} 23lbs 11oz {83%} He obviously takes after his Dad.

His birthday was on a Monday, but we decided to celebrate with Grandparents the night before during our Sunday dinner with the Dawsons.  Ike wasn't feeling very good and he just wanted to snuggle with his Grandmas.  He likes to tuck his arms in while he snuggles and I love it.

He loves to take the balls in the foyer to bounce on the tile

He loved his new reading chair

And his mega blocks

He got all shy when we were singing to him.

He started to perk up and enjoy his birthday

Monday night we still sang to him and had some left over cake for our family night treat.  He was still not feeling very good.

Abigail was so sweet, she really wanted to take a picture of Ike on his birthday.  She went and got a blanket for a back drop, and a ball to make him happy.  We got one picture that he wasn't crying in.

The rest of the day, he was pretty grouchy and spent a lot of time like this.

We love our Ike so much!

February 2015

Isaac was sick the whole first half of February with a nasty cold.  It was hard to get a smile out of him.  Abigail said that it looked like he had precious moment eyes when he was sick, cute but sad.

We try to keep the babies in the living room during Sunday dinner.  Nash and Noah have now figured out how to climb over.  Ike's still working on it :)

I just thought he looked so grown up in his new big kid car seat and shoes. 

 He just wanted out.

I got Hailey ready for her preschool valentine party and she thought she looked so cute and asked for a picture.

Hailey and I helped out at Carly's school Valentine's party.  

Luke had a basketball game early Valentine's day.  Larry and Sharla showed up before his game and heart attacked us with treats.  The kids were so excited about the surprises on our door step.  Then we went to Luke's game and to Village Inn for breakfast afterwards.

That afternoon Grandma and Grandpa Jenkins brought mini pizzas over for the kids to make and a heart one for me and Ben.  The kids are lucky to have their grandparents.

Luke will read to anyone, anytime I ask him to.  Hailey loves being read to, and she likes that Luke lets her pick any book...  Abigail usually bribes her to pick certain ones :)

We had our fabulous Blue and Gold Banquet.  They went all out on the Lego theme and even brought bins and bins of Legos for the kids to play with.  It was a hit.

Seriously, what would I do with out him?

Hailey loves to bake.

Luke finished his basketball season.  

This year he loved the game more than the promise of treats afterwards :)

Abigail and Carly looked so cute for their dance pictures

4th grade field trip

The 4th graders got to go on an all day field trip to Salt Lake.  We started at the Natural History Museum, then to the Daughters of the Utah Pioneer museum, then to the State Capitol.  I had never been to any of these places and I was amazed by them all.  I wish I had had a lot of extra time at the Pioneer museum, I especially loved all of the history there.

I was in charge of 3 perfectly behaved individuals.  They made the day so fun.

 We ate lunch at the Capitol. They were out of tables, so we sat along the walls.  Hardly any of the kids could drink their milk, because it was still frozen from the cooler.  They were a little sad about that. Luckily, Luke and I brought home lunch.  The kids cracked me up.  I loved listening to them.  We mostly talked about our favorite Studio C moments.

I loved hanging out with Luke the entire day.