friends and relatives

We love visitors of all kinds.

Love this lady

and this one too.

Love the light shining on them

and their smiley faces in this one.

Ugh. This one is a heart-jerker. He was trying so sweetly not to fall asleep in his lunch.

A few more...

our big boy

eating his pumpkin costume

with his best friend

posing

sick boy nesting in clothes basket

The Mom and Dad

Some might look at this blog and wonder if Isaac is a child roaming in the world with a photographer, or if he is actually part of a family. Well, the truth is he has a mom and dad and we like each other quite a bit. Every once in a while we do things without Isaac. Here's an example. For our anniversary, Grandma D took Isaac over night. This meant we were able to drive to a little town on a little river and go kayaking.

Here we are on the bus ride to our drop off location.

Here I am happily paddling along

and checking out some of the wildlife pointed out by my trusty tour guide.

Trusty Tour Guide

It was only moments later when the tough guy started razing me for bothering to wear my life jacket (which I hadn't thought twice about until he mentioned it. Who doesn't wear a life jacket on a raging river? Notice in the pictures how it's raging?).

Well, it's all fun and games to make fun of water safety until you get tossed out of the kayak by a giant wave (or your wife).

Just kidding. He was fine and I was glad to have his unused life jacket as padding for my bum.

Way behind...

As you may have noticed I am way behind in updating this blog. It's taken some encouraging words (demands) to get me going again. I've got pictures and movies and all kinds of things I could post. Putting them in any order is too daunting. So, it'll be a random sampling from late summer and fall until I'm caught up. Here goes.

He was a pumpkin for Halloween. He's quite the jokester now. Somewhere I have a picture of him pretending to eat the pumpkin he's wearing.

Watch out for bucket-head!

Oh wait. It's just this guy.

At the ripe age of two and a half Isaac is slowly entering the world of sugar. He's lived happily with graham crackers and ice cream... until now. He was recently introduced to cookie making. He loved every little thing about it, especially eating the delicious results.

No explanation needed.