Team i6 Takes on Things I keep meaning to tell you...

Here are a few quick stories that we thought were cute but kept forgetting to put in our weekly updates.  Enjoy.

When we were at Disney we went to breakfast at a restaurant called Chef Mickey's, which I would highly recommend if you ever head to Disney.  We were there for a character breakfast with Mickey and friends.  It was a buffet so there was there was plenty to choose from to eat, you will never go hungry there that's for sure.  They also had a cereal bar with all types of cereal, I got some fruit loops and heading back to the table.  Lincoln declared them to be "beautiful cheerios" and it was adorable.  That is all.

At dinner Lincoln was being kind of picky and didn't want to eat a good dinner and spent most of his time playing and not actually eating.  I told him I wanted him to put the bite of steak he was playing with in his tummy.  So he looked at me and smirked and then lifted up his shirt and put the steak on his tummy.  Sometimes it is SO hard not to laugh at him, and this was one of those moments.  I don't know why but somehow I can picture this as something Todd would have done as a child.  I turned to Todd and told him this was one of those moments when I knew that they were related.

Lincoln is obsessed with the song Some Nights by FUN.  Seriously he is crazy about it.  It started a few weeks ago when it came on the radio and he got all excited and called it "the party song".  Amused we asked him who told him it was "the party song" and he said Grandma.  Now I am 99% sure that neither of his Grandma's know of this song and would probably not refer to it as "the party song" even if they had.  Anyway that is his story and he's sticking to it and he tells us so ever.single.time. this song comes on the radio, or because Mommy is a sucker I bought it on iTunes so we play it on my phone if he is being a good boy before bedtime so he can dance and sing his little heart out.  He actually knows quite a few of the words, I can't decide if this is good or not, but for now it is cute so we go with it.  I never really saw the appeal of the youtube videos showing babies singing and dancing to Beyonce, that was until my own son started to break it down to songs, now I get it.  Behold:

 
Lincoln and Daddy were having a convo the other night about animals and where they live.  Linc was talking about bears and how they live in the forest, and then about how monkeys live in the jungle...  Daddy then said that lions live in the plains.  Lincoln looked at him all confused and very seriously said, "no Daddy, Pilots live in planes, not lions." 

Lincoln put on his cowboy hat and was riding 'Jitters' his rocking horse. Daddy told him he looked like a cowboy and Lincoln looked offended and said "I'm not a cow boy, I'm a horsey man!"

Team i6 Takes on Week 155

We had a really laid back week here, so much so I seriously have no pictures from the week.  I know!  I am a horrible mother and blogger.  Really I will try to be better, I don't know what my deal is but I am just not going for the camera like I used to. 

Lincoln went to school all but the two days that his daycare was closed and both Todd and I worked pretty much our normal schedules.  I am trying to save up all the vacation I can, I don't know what Todd's excuse was, haha.  But anyway we did relax a little the few days we had off, but we also tried to get alot around the house done as well.

We did a bit of Skyping with family and Linc did pretty good keeping with conversation and not being too too crazy.  He still would lose interest and get distracted though so we didn't get to chat as much as we wanted to.  He had a good time opening Christmas presents with Grammy Tuesday and Grandpa Sparks & Phylis Wednesday.  He loved his train, innotab pirate game, and his fire truck so much.  He is such a lucky little boy! 

Somewhere in there we made a trip to the JCC to enjoy some inflatable bouncy house time and other fun games and treats.  And we also went for a playdate and dinner with Tyler and Zachary over and Uncle Matt & Aunt Cyndi's.  The kiddos had a grand time running all around and playing with trucks and whatnot. 

Lincoln has been doing really well with potty training this past week.  He has been in big boy underwear more and more with very few accidents, yay!  We even have been taking him out of the house in real underwear with lots of success.  Next step is sending him to school in underwear.  Will update next week with progress.  Fingers crossed!

Mama i6 Takes on Week 36 (!)

Total weight gain/loss: I am right on track here.  Even though I feel as big as a house I have only gained about 15lbs total, still a bit to go though.
Maternity clothes? Yep. 
Sleep: Seriously it is so hard to get comfortable at night.  I am all over the place, poor Todd, I am on my left, then right, then on my back for a little (which I know I am not supposed to do but it is comfy) and then back to my left, so on and so on.  It is a wonder either of us gets any sleep at all. 
Best moment this week:  We had a good ultrasound this week, our last until she is here!  We decided to take Lincoln with us since he is talking more and more about baby girl.  He was super excited when I picked him up from school to go to the appointment....and then we made it to the Dr. office (still good) and then they took us back to the room (still good) and then I got him a chair.  And that is when he found the swivel Dr. chair and well he pretty much could care less about anything else that was happening in that room.  So little sister has been out done by a swivel chair, sorry little girl better luck in 4 weeks, but then again for a while he thought you were going to be a giraffe so maybe you shouldn't count on impressing him. ;-)

Movement: Yes still lots of action going on in there.  I think she had the hiccups for 4omin strait the other night.
Food cravings: I haven't had anything really significant hit me this week, that I remember anyway.  I have been drinking a lot of milk right now, like I think Lincoln and I killed over a gallon in a little over a week and I am sure more of that was Mommy than Linc.
Gender: Girlie.
Labor Signs: Nope.
Belly button in or out? Still an innie.
What I miss: Medium rare steak, sushi, lox, WINE. 
What I am looking forward to: Focusing on Big Brother Lincoln and his upcoming Bday party.  Getting in some last family of 3 moments before we rock his world.
Size of Baby:  (18.75 in long) crenshaw melon - I have no idea what this is actually, but Google tells me it looks like this:

Team i6 Takes on The Big Boy Fire Truck Room

Yet another transition has occurred here in the i6 household (and more to come).  This one has been mostly successful at least so far.  Saturday during nap time we did our final preparations for Lincoln's new room and Saturday night we had the unavailing.  Linc was super excited to see his new bed & sheets & just loved being in there in general.  He kept running back into his old room though to try to find some of his stuffed animals and books.  We kept having to tell him they were already in his new room.  Bedtime has been just a little bit later than normal due to the excitement of it all & just getting used to his bed that is 3X the size of his old bed. 

It is still a bit of a work in progress as we have some cool fireman/truck/station related wall decals coming to put up, some shelves to hang, and at least one picture to go up yet.  But so far it is really shaping up and most importantly Linc loves it.  Here is sort of a sneak peek, the best I could do at this point anyway.  Better pics to come once we have added the finishing touches and hopefully have the real bed in place.

Team i6 Takes on Week 154

Ok, lets get back on track shall we?  Not that this week has been all that exciting but we'll at least get you all caught up so you can't call me a slacker...

We spent the past weekend finishing up Lincoln's room by hanging his wood blinds and curtain rods.  Now we just need a bed.  I wish I had better news on that topic, but I don't.  We really don't know right now when we are getting the headboard in, awesome.  So we are moving to plan B and this weekend we are going to arrange the furniture how we want it and put the mattress on the floor and go ahead and introduce him to his new big boy room!  He is super excited and asks to go in there all the time so we decided we are just going to go with it.  We are going to throw on his cool new vehicle sheets, hang his curtains, add the fire truck rug, and hang his newly repainted letters for his name (that used to hang above his crib) in his new room this weekend and we'll just call it a work in progress.

We focused more on potty training this past weekend as well, progress has been made.  He wore real underwear most of the weekend and stayed dry while we were at home and he had on a pull-up when we were out and about and kept that dry as well.  He is really excited about putting on big boy underwear right now, especially the super hero ones and the shark ones he has.   We are hoping to keep the momentum going and work on it a lot more this weekend too.  I don't want to jinx it so that's all we'll talk about.  Wish us luck.

Friday was a special day at Lincoln's school, it was pajama day!  Lincoln got to wear his fire truck pjs and take his mini dino pillow pet with him to school.  He and mini dino enjoyed mini pancakes in the back seat on the way into school.

He was so excited and could not wait to get to school to show all his friends his cool pjs.  And all his friends were equally excited to show him their pjs, there were race car pjs, animal print pjs, polar bear pjs, and princess pjs just to name a few.   He had a great day and could not stop talking about how much fun it was.

Team i6 Takes on Hanukkah 2012

Hanukkah started December 8th this year.  We spent the first night celebrating with The Aldersons.  Cyndi fried the latkes and we had quite the Hanukkah feast.  We lit candles and the boys all played and opened presents. 

The next day we did our yearly trek into DC for the National Menorah lighting.  This year it fell on a Sunday night, so getting in to the city was not quite as hectic as if it were a weeknight after work, but parking was more difficult on a weekend so meh.  We were a bit late to the ceremony but it worked out because there is kind of a lot of fluff in the beginning and really a toddler can only sit through so much programing so I think we decided we might just be a little late every year from now on. 

It was a good time as always.  Lincoln nearly lost his mind with Dreidel Man, he just thought he was the coolest and sang "dreidel dreidel dreidel" all the way home. We enjoyed warmish latkes (Cyndi's were better) and donuts and made our way slowly to a quick and kid friendly dinner before heading back home.

We lit candles every night and opened presents most nights.  Lincoln was so excited to sit on the couch and close his eyes and hold out his hands for presents and he loved all of his fun new stuff.  He is a spoiled much loved little guy. 

He was thrilled with his stuffy (think pillowpet-esque), a purple dragon with little pockets for "stuffing" (a toddler hoarders dream come true).  He has been all about his playdoh from T&Z, his Fireman dress-up stuff from A&A, and his Innotab 2S from Grandma & Grandpa i6.  Like I said he is one lucky and loved little dude. 

Team i6 Takes on The Lost Weeks

What?  What!  I know, I know I have been M.I.A for a bit.  Life has been, well, life.  I am tired.  I am feeling like I am a million months pregnant and blogging has really taken a backseat this time around.  But I am going to try to catch you all up on the happenings of The Isaacs' over the past few weeks.

We are continuing to get Linc's new room together.  The furniture delivery that we had been looking forward to did not go so smoothly.  As in the headboard was not made properly, and some holes were drilled too high and they had to reorder us a new one.  So like the one thing that was important to moving him into his new room, the bed, was the one thing that did not get setup.  Awesome.  Oh well, such is life.  the good news is that Linc is super duper excited to get into his new room.  He digs the new wall color and his firetruck theme, and he thinks his new furniture is cool...though he does keep trying to climb the nightstand.

We attended a really fun bday party for Linc's girl-pal Miss J.  It was a science party at a place called Curiosity Zone.  The kids had a blast.  They put them in little white lab coats, so cute.  And they learned the differences between certain animals, like alligators and crocodiles among other pairs. 

Lincoln got to play "baker man" and helped me mix up a batch of sugar cookies.  We had a good time and he was actually a really good helper and he loved helping me with the electric mixer.  Mommy did not really do a good job of reading the recipe ahead and realized after we got it mixed up we needed to have it be refrigerated for 12hrs before we could roll it and cut out cookies...opps.  It was still fun...and to be continued. 

We finally got around to finishing up cookies later in the weekend and even though I gave half the dough to The Aldersons it still made way more cookies that I figured it would.  Linc enjoyed rolling out the dough and did a pretty good job using the cookie cutters.

At School they started a new theme, Winter Wonderland.  They are reading books about polar bears and other Arctic creatures.  His teacher did a project with his class where they painted a polar bear and she also started a story and asked them to finish some of the sentences of the story, sort of mad-lib like, sort of.  His teacher said Lincoln tried to finish every sentence and barely let the other kids have a turn.  He was very enthusiastic...per usual. ;-)

Mama i6 Takes on Weeks 33, 34,(awww heck we are close enough) & 35

Total weight gain/loss: Still looking good.  I am well under what I gained with Lincoln, but I feel way hugererer than I did with  him.  I do however still have 5 weeks left so I might not want to start bragging yet, huh?
Maternity clothes? Yes and yes. 
Sleep: Rolling over is just about the hardest most awkward thing right now.  I seriously woke Todd up the other night groaning and whining as I was trying to turn on to my right side.  It was sad, I think he was concerned there was something really wrong, nope I was just tired and pissed I couldn't get enough momentum going to move. 
Best moment this week:  I got my fancy new diaper bag in the mail the other day.  I had to treat myself this time around and ordered a Kate Spade baby bag.  Though really I got it on Cyber Monday sale so while Todd still thinks it was a wildly outrageous price to pay for a baby bag, I love it and it was 70% off.  Isn't she pretty?

It's even bright pink on the inside.  Totally love love love it, can't wait to carry it everywhere! 
Movement: Yes, OMG so much!  She is seriously going crazy in there.  Just as active as her big brother...I've said it once I am sure...I'll say it again, we are in trouble.
Food cravings: Well I did in fact eat my fair share of latkes, so that craving has been taken care of.  Also enjoyed homemade sugar cookies and the goodies keep rolling in from work.  I remember having a weird craving not too long ago but now I can't remember what it was.  I know that I could really go for some John Wongs Chinese food right now though.
Gender: GIRL, or as Linc likes to call her "baby grwil" (kinda sounds like grill but there is a "w" sound slipped in there too)  It is adorable to hear him say.
Labor Signs: Not really and truly but I think, I think, I am feeling some braxton hicks contractions this time around.  They don't hurt but they feel really weird.
Belly button in or out? In-ish, kinda just barely.
What I miss: Whew, I am back into that being tired phase.  Holy cow, am I tired.  It is ridiculous the way I feel after going from the basement to the third floor of our house. 
What I am looking forward to: Having some quiet time at work while everyone is off for the holidays and being able to get things setup for when I will be out on maternity leave.  Another ultrasound next week at 36wks.  Seeing family when they come in to visit after baby girl is born.  Visiting Indiana in the spring.
Size of Baby:  (17 in long) pineapple at 33wks, (17.75 in long) average cantaloupe at 34wks, (18 in long) honeydew melon at 35wks