Summer Days!

Wow! The summer has been speeding by! I can't believe that this week we will welcome the month of July and celebrate our nation's birthday! The week after school ended Isaac and I accompanied my mom & Aunt Hubba to San Diego, CA to visit my grandmother and thier sisters and lots & lots of cousins. Isaac was a wonderful travel companion. Here we are at the start of our journey in the Tampa International Airport. Isaac looks too cool with his Starbucks water chillin' in his stroller while Mom, Aunt Hubba, and I spend a few more minutes with Tom before heading through security to find our gate. Security was "fun" even Isaac had to take off his shoes and since his stroller wouldn't fit through the x-ray scanner thing they had to wipe it down and search it.

Aunt Susan has lots of fun toys at her house!! It was like going on vacation at a toy store. Our first day at Aunt Susan's house was lots of fun. We ended our day by going out to dinner at Cozymel's a restaurant my cousin Amber works at. We ended up spending so much time visiting that Isaac feel asleep in Grandma's arms.

Isaac loves story time and his favorite book is Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault's Chicka Chicka Boom Boom! We read it several times every day!

Isaac kept seeing the baby cousins in the swing so he decided to check it out. It was funny to watch until he tried to make it swing faster and landed on his head. :o( With so much to do, it was hard to fit in a nap, but Isaac found a way and for that I was thankful! :o)

The San Diego Zoo!

I'll post more of our summer fun later, I'm getting tired and it's taking a while to load these photos. Isaac had a F-U-N trip to the zoo. He loved it!

A Night Time First

Wow! I can't believe it. A few months ago I posted to a yahoo group about the trouble we were having at bedtime. Isaac would cry and cry because he didn't want to go to bed all by himself. Tonight after our bottle, several books, and our prayers he ran down the hall to his room and proceeded to try to climb into his crib! I picked him up and placed him in the crib where he promptly lay down and allowed me to put the blanket over him. I checked on him a few minutes later and he was out like a light! I hope our upcoming trip to San Diego, CA doesn't mess with our new attitude towards bedtime. (We have been going to bed happily for a few weeks, just not with as much excitement as we did tonight.) I just had to share, I was so excited about this. ;o)

First Hair Cut

When we first met on October 13th I wondered when my little guy's hair would grow in. Here he is with his nanny when we first met him outside of the Adoption Registry Center of Guangdong Province as we were heading upstairs for our appointment. We weren't allowed to touch him yet, but it was so amazing to see his face and know that our son was so close to us and that we were soon to be united as a family. I had seen his picture and knew that he had very little hair. I look back at him now and see how much he has grown in the past 7 1/2 months. WOW!!!! 7 1/2 months, I can't believe it!!! He looks like such a tiny little guy here, and now he is getting so big! (LOL!!! In a few months I'll be looking back thinking the same thing about the pictures I am about to post!)

So here we are getting ready for our fist hair cut.

But Mommy, I don't want to sit in the chair!! What are you doing with those scissors?!?!

Well, OK if you insist.

Go figure! I forgot to take a picture of the back of his head when we were in our haircut mode, but I finally did the next day. It's a little jagged, but it's hard to cut hair on a moving target. Here he is feeding Pepper. He loves to help out around the house these days!

Fun at Lake Pearl

After leaving Naples we drove 4 1/2 hours to the UCF area for a Memorial Day Good Bye Party for our dear friends Matt & Mary. We are going to miss them when the move to Nashville, but we are excited about the opportunities that the Lord has brought their way. While in the pool area Isaac kept hearing the boat and would run along the gate to see the boat go by. Finally I decided to take the little cutie on the boat. After a while Isaac got pretty bored on the boat, apparently it wasn't as exciting as it sounded and he had to wear the "icky" life jacket. He kept trying to wriggle out of it and was getting pretty antsy. My friend April told me that she was going to take her daughter out on the intertube and that Rachel could sit on her lap. I thought that it sounded fun. I climbed out onto the three-man intertube when and Craig watched from the shore. He was sure that I WOULD NOT take our son onto it. The next thing I know Michael zooms out to the boat on the jet ski to get a life jacket, minutes later Craig and Michael come riding up next to the boat. I can tell it was all that Craig could do not to demand I get back into the boat with the baby!

He loves this! He waved at people on shore, in the boat, Daddy on the jet ski... He bounced on his legs as if the tube wasn't bouncing enough! The crazy boy thought this was a turbo trampoline or something!! When everything was over he asked for more. He kept asking for more in sign language. It was great. He even told Hal "thank you" and "please" in sign language as well. So what could they say?? We got another trip around the lake!

The second time around he jumped and waved. I had to have a tight hold of his life jacket because I thought he might jump right out of the tube! Craig would have killed me if something like that had happened!! His laugh was amazing! I can't believe how much fun he had. I can't wait to get him out there again!

Not everything was perfect. It rained and rained and rained just as we were preparing to leave. Isaac fell off of the picnic bench and got the biggest goose-egg he's ever had. I was so worried about him, but he didn't display any signs of a concussion and was back to his normal active self in minutes, so we didn't end up going to the doctor. However we did get a beautiful double rainbow as the day ended. A remarkable reminder of God's promises to us.