Officialy Homeowners!

Well, it is official.. Matt and I are officially homeowners!

That's all the pictures we have right now.. and it's from the listings website haha. 

Matt is currently at the house, repainting some rooms such as my office, the master bedroom, and living room which currently sport some interesting colors and pattern designs that just do not suit us. He is also getting everything set up before Isaac and I join him, such as getting the phones/tv/internet hooked up as well as moving all our furniture in. He will drive to PA on Friday to pick Ike and I up and then we leave for the house on Saturday! Theo may have to stay at Grandma's a bit longer though.. we don't think the car will be able to fit my work stuff, the rest of our suitcases, plus him in it.

The past few weeks have been interesting... Matt has been staying in MD while Isaac and have been staying at his parents house while all the housing stuff gets settled. He has been driving back here on the weekends to be with us though.

As for me, my work is going through a HUGE project right now and I wouldn't have been able to work at all if it wasn't for Deb, Joe, Katie and Beth, who have all been nice enough to watch Isaac for me during the day. A big, BIG thanks to them all!

No pics of Isaac for this post..maybe tomorrow though :)

Happy Birthday Isaac!

Happy Birthday to you

Happy Birthday to you

Happy Birthday Dear Isaac

Happy Birthday to you!

365 days... 52 weeks.... 12 months...
However you want to count it, it has been a WHOLE YEAR since Isaac has been brought into this world.

Happy Birthday little man! 

I love you so much!

So many milestones have already happened and more are yet to come. He is very, very close to walking. In fact, I think he can, he just doesn't realize it yet. He will litterally RUN while holding/dragging onto his push car and go all around the house. Today, he was standing and holding onto a remote control and I was tugging the remote and he was walking forward while I tugged, but when I let go, he dropped to the floor. He'll get it eventually though!

He's talking a bunch more now too. He learned "Deb" the other day. And now he meow's at the cat when he see's her (usually right after she meow's at him). I also got him to say "poop" a few times! "Book" is also a word he will attempt to say whenever I show him one and say the word.

He loves to play with cars. Anything with wheels for that matter. He'll push them around and keep himself entertained.

He blows kisses too! I love this. I'll see him on the other side of the room, or office door, and blow him a kiss and I'll hear/see him do it back. It's so adorable!

Here are a few more from this morning

He got his first hair cut the day of his birthday party, and of course we pictures to show of it.

Some "Before"...

"During"...

He wasn't happy having his arms held down, but he kept reaching for the scissors

 Hair lock for his baby book

and "After"!

You can really see the difference in his hair length in his birthday party pictures (and even in the first picture posted on this entry).

He also got to play.. or really sit in... the snow today! When we first got here to Pennsylvania, we didn't have all the things he needed, like boots and waterproof gloves. We finally collected it all and then.. the snow melted! So we waited for the next snow fall, which happened the night before his 1st birthday (last night). We got about 10 inches or so!

So we bundled him up, which he hated. He was born in Hawaii where he could live in a diaper if he so wished, and now he's being layered on with jackets, pants, gloves, boots and a hat (the hat didn't stay on.. he kept taking it off). Once he got outside though, he was too curious about the snow to care about all the layers on him...

 The jacket fits him well when he stands up, but when he sits, it rides up and it covers his whole face.. so we had to unzip it. We were only outside for 5 minutes though. 

I love the last picture.. he's looking back like "what WAS that stuff??" hahahaha...

Isaac's 1st birthday party!

This past Saturday (February 19, 2011), we had Isaac's 1st birthday party!

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*personal information were blurred for privacy

This was the invitation that I made myself :)

I had decided on a Rubber Ducky theme since he LOVES bath time and his rubber ducky. And since I found awesome party plates with the Rubber Ducks on them, that only helped my decision. And I went all out.. We had rubber ducky icing decorations for the cupcakes...rubber duckies on top of blue jello.. even rubber ducky's in the punch bowl, which was, you guessed it... blue! (It was supposed to be Koo-laid, but we couldn't find any in the stores here [a season thing??] so we used Gatorade instead :)

 Standing tons still, but no walking. He's VERY close though!

cupcake tree

 Close up of cupcakes

 Plates that I found online

 I put little rubber ducky's in the punch bowl. It was supposed to be Kool-aid, but no stores carried it, so we used Gatorade instead. 

Isabella

Jake

 Blue jello with Rubber Ducky toothpicks. 

 We found these balloons at Party City. Pretty neat!

 Isaac playing with balloons (and his cousins joining in)

 Zack and Jimmy playing with the party blowers.

 Jimmy with his party hat and blower.

 Jake figuring out how to work the blower. Way to go!

 Jimmy

 Isabella

Bethie eating Papa Joe's Pizza

 Papa Joe making pizza with his firebrick oven!

 

 Yummy pizza!

 All the guys outside.

 Isaac's poster that Grandma Deb made.

 Caleb smiling is sooo cute!

 Marissa is too cute also!

Love those two little teeth

 Isaac's cake 

(Ike is his nickname)

Birthday Rubber Ducky that didn't fit on the cake.

 Isaac with his Great-Grandma Amsler.

 My parents couldn't attend the party, so we had them join in via Skype! They got to sing Happy Birthday, watch Isaac eat his cake, and open a few gifts.

 "Happy Birthday to you! 

Happy Birthday to you! 

Happy Birthday Dear Isaac, 

Happy Birthday to you!"

 Blow out the candle!

 Mommy helping him eat some cake.

 Not too sure about the cake this time around.. 

 Oh! got a hand on it now!

 Digging in!

 The start of a messy face.

 

 

 Stuffing his face.

 Cake is almost destroyed.

 Close up of the messy face.

 He has a fistfull of cake... what do you think he will do with it? Eat it?... let's see....

  Nope, he's pushing it under the tray and onto his pants and floor.

I think he's done with the cake, yes? Yes. :)

Katie and Marissa

 

 Luke and Jake

 

Isaac with Mr. and Mrs. B

 Isaac with mommy.

 Close up!

 Isaac with his Mommy and Daddy.

 Isaac and his daddy with is Grandma Deb with her mommy and daddy!

 Zack playing Wii after the party.

 Uncle Marc!

 Isabella playing with the blower again. Pretty neat pic!

 Isaac playing with the balloons again. He was so hyped up on sugar that he going non-stop till two hours after his bed time haha

 With is Grandma Cindy and Grandpa Terry

 

Isaac with his Uncle Luke, Aunt Mary, and cousins, Isabella, Jake, and Caleb.

 Isaac and Marissa playing together.

 Marissa

Attack of the baby!

 Tried to get a picture of Isaac and Marissa.. Isaac had a meltdown instead (overly tired).

 His crying got Marissa to cry..at least Jimmy is happy hahaha!

 Poor Marissa... 

Isaac with Zack

Well, that's about it! I am sure there are more picures floating around that others took and I will eventually collect them, but these are the ones from our camera and I think we got a ton of good ones. 

I cant believe he turns one TOMORROW!