How to destroy your child (1 yr)

1. Sleep in a new bed in a different house.
2. Leave your child with a babysitter all morning.
3. Give up on the afternoon nap after 30 minutes and pick him/her up.
4. Go to a cousin birthday party at a park for the next hour
5. Drop your child off at another babysitter until an hour past his bedtime.
6. Let daylight savings start the next day and
7. It's now Sunday, and church covers nap time.

Yep, got them all. Maybe tomorrow will be better.

A group in which Isaac belongs

Isaac has a strange propensity: he really doesn't like taking toys out and throwing them around. No, he'd much rather put them away. Three examples --
1. A week or so ago, he found a dirty sock by the laundry bin. He picked it up, carried it into our room, and put it in Andrew's sock drawer. Don't worry, it's not because he knows where it is, but because it was the only drawer open.
2. Yesterday, I watched him take my brush from the bathroom counter and put it into one of the drawers.
3. Today, this was what he did.
Everything in the cupboard he plays in came from the kitchen into this bin.

Given the preceding evidence, I offer my son as a future member of the following group. I apologize for the subtitles and attribute them to the joys of Youtube.

Moving Forward

I have finally realized that the main reason I never post on my blog is that I'd then have to cover months of family life, and I find myself unwilling to do that. So there. Life has moved on. Isaac is now almost 14 months old. He walks, falls down stairs, and bangs his head on things. He likes making people laugh and has a funny face he makes when he's being funny. We have a few temper tantrums too. I think that covers the last six months adequately, right?