Visitors from Colorado

My Gramma (Isaac's Great Gramma) and my Auntie Penny (Isaac's Great Auntie Penny) came to visit us over my moms birthday week! This was the first time either had met Isaac. My Gramma and I are particularly close, my mom and I lived with her when I was little bitty....so a lot of her memories of me are at the same age Isaac is now. It was great to see them both, I miss them and hope that there won't be so much time between our next visits. Enjoy the pictures!

What is she doing???"


Gramma and Isaac

Kleenex

It's amazing what fascinates little minds.

Isaac discovered Kleenex the other day..

Peas

We've been giving Isaac soft solids for a while now, but I have come to find out that he loves peas. He loves to pick them up, roll them around between his fingers, eat them, and SMASH them!

M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E

October 31 was Isaac's 10 Month Birthday and his first Halloween. Thanks to Aunt Jeanette, he had the cutest costume and was the hit of "Trunk or Treat" on Boston Avenue. He started out in his stroller but was soon ready to be carried. The funny thing is that while I was carrying him and collecting candy he was digging in his pumpkin searching for something to gnaw on. He never broke thru any chocolate, but he did get past a wrapper on a sucker! OOPS!!! Shhh don't tell Sal!!!

How Cute is He!! His ears even squeeked!


Getting mor candy at the Miller house

That candy bar was mush once he was finished!


Getting more!
(I think he got his mommy's sweet tooth!)

Austin in October...

We had a chance to go visit Austin again in October :) Aunt Jeanette bought Isaac his Halloween costume....but that's another post! While we were there, Sal's cousin (Marie)had her son's first birthday party that's where the pictures came from!

Is he not the most adorable thing ever?!!?!

Playing with Aunt Jeanette

In the Ball area for little ones

It's been a while...

So I thought I'd share with you what we've been up to!

Once we returned from evacuating things started to get back to normal...kindof!

Isaac discovered:

1. He could sit in his big boy chair...


2. Toilet Paper!!!

So serious!

3. How much he loves to go swimming...


4. His long lost buddy Sparky


Don't worry it won't take me as long to post again! I promise!!!

He did it!

Since Hurricane Ike, Isaac has been slowly weaning himself. Once we got home he decided he wanted absolutely nothing to do with me (as far as nursing goes) which of course broke my heart. So I continued to pump to supplement what he wasn't getting. Well then the worst thing happened, my milk supply went thru the floor almost gone. We took Isaac in for his 9mo check up - he's perfect (of course) but our doctor told me he needed at least 20 oz of milk or formula a day. WHAT!? Needless to say things have only gotten worse, I went from 16 - 20 oz a day to 8 if I am lucky. Thank you to all my friends who I reached out to who encouraged me to try different things while trying to get Isaac to drink formula. It's been a struggle, with lots of tears, guilt, frustration, confusion, everything. So we've been trying to give him formula each night and each night he has adimently refused BUT TONIGHT IT HAPPENED! I put him to bed after he refused the bottle three times. I heard him whimpering so I went in to his room, bottle in hand, scooped him out of his crib and handed him the bottle and he took it, downed the whole thing!

I was almost in tears! And then he went straight to sleep! I'm so proud! I know it may seem silly to you but for us it is a HUGE hurdle we've come over!

** I had to take a picture because I was so proud!!**