He's listening!

Now, I'm not trying to blame anything on anyone. I'm just telling you how it happend.

Last weekend Matt had Isaac "helping" him in the basement. Mostly Isaac was hitting the hammer against the fuel oil tank and riding his bike in circles, but while he was was down there he did learn 2 new words- wrench and darn it.

Today (almost a week later) Isaac was geting frustrated with me. He wanted to take Kaylee's hat off, and I wasn't letting him. After a few minutes of whining and trying to pull it off her head he said "darn-it, darn-it, darn-it."

I guess it could have been worse, but with my luck he'll start saying in the nursery on Sunday.

This amused me

Just so Matt doesn't think I am at home all day doing nothing, I try to make a point of letting him know all the new words, etc. our son is learning when he's with me during the day. That being said, this was the "conversation" in our bathroom last night:

Emily: (holding a washcloth) Isaac, tell Daddy what this is.

Isaac: baushcough

Matt: butt floss?

Isaac (very seriously) No, baushcough

I'm not sure if anyone else finds it amusing, but I'm laughing again as I type it. Maybe you had to be there...

Isaac likes to help mommy give Kaylee a bath (this is in fact how he learned the word washcloth)

Just for fun- Isaac pretending to go "night-night" in the bathtub

Just when you think you have things under control...

So yesterday (Monday the 16th) was my first day home all day by myself with 2 kids. I was a little nervous about how the day would go, but by 7:00 pm I was feeling really good about myself. The house was pretty clean, everyone had been fed, both kids had been bathed (hey- I'd even taken a shower) and Isaac had played really well all day. All was well. I'll admitt the words super mom crossed my mind.

Then...

At 8:00 I put Isaac to bed. I went into our bedroom to nurse Kaylee. At about 8:05 I heard the pitter patter of little footsteps in the hall. Isaac. Hmm. I thought I'd put him to bed. Matt was in the bonus room working on a paper so he didn't get him up. OH MY GOSH! Isaac just climbed out of his crib!

The next 2 hours at the DeWitte house were spent trying to figure out how to keep a stubborn 18-month old in his crib. Let's just say there was a lot of screaming. Finally Matt got him settled down and we turned on his tape player. There's nothing like a little wee sing praise songs to make you drowsy. By 10:00 all was finally quiet.

Then to top it all off today Isaac learned a new trick. Now he not only knows how to climb out of his crib, but he figured out how to climb into Kaylee's. For some reason he still thinks of her room as his personal playground and the crib is his trampoline. Oh yeah- then he bounced himself out of it and almost landed on his head ( I was sitting on the floor and was able to break the fall so at least we didn't have to make a trip to the hospital)

Maybe I am a super mom after all!!

Kaylee's first 8 days

As most of you know, Kaylee Elisabeth DeWitte arrived rather suddenly in the early morning hours of October 6. We are so excited that she is here. Here's what she has been up to this past week...

Kaylee makes a call from the hospital. Good thing we have the family plan.

October 7- her first day home. Time to nap.

Sunday October 8- Kaylee sleeps while Isaac plays on the playground at the lcoal elementary school.

Monday October 9- Kaylee's first trip to the Bean store (it's never too early to learn how to shop!)

Friday October 13- Kaylee's first trip to the pumpkin patch