Isaiah's 2nd Birthday

Birthday's these days, in the time of quarantine and social distancing look so different! We kept it super simple, and super sweet for this crazy guy's birthday!

Isaiah Jae, you are a true joy. Yes, we say this sarcastically some days. But most days, we truly mean it! You definitely complete our family. You are our grand finale. Our cherry on top.

You are silly, feisty, and strongly opinionated. You are a lover of music, balls, anything with wheels, good food, and being outside. You don't like being told no, or not being able to keep up with sisters. 

You are tiny for your age, but you make up for it in personality. 

We couldn't imagine our life without you. You are a blessing and a dream come true. We love you to the moon and back!  

 -Mama and Daddy got you a building blocks food truck (two of your favorite things...good food, and blocks!). They also got you a replacement "Car, Car, Truck, Jeep" book b/c you essentially have shredded the one you got from one of Mama's co-workers right after you were born. A few pair of sunglasses, and a soft fuzzy penguin rounded out their gifts. 

-DL, EL and Tia & Uncle G got you a car coloring book, a shark wash cloth, and a balloon which was probably the hit of the party : )

-Mimi and Pops got you a cool musical and light up car driver play toy

-You expertly blew out both candles which was a surprise to Mama!

-We had GF/DF hot fudge brownie sundaes. SO good...you ate it up!

Super fun, quick evening party to celebrate our little guy turning the big TWO!!! Isaiah Jae, we can't wait to see what this year will bring for you!

Isaiah Jae 24 Months

Happy 24 Months Isaiah Jae!

24 Month Highlights:

-You are definitely an outdoor boy. When you get crazy, I mean fussy, we take you outside and you are so much happier!

 -Picking flowers for Mama...so sweet!

-You LOVE the water! Water table, sprinklers, playing in the well spiggot, and this make shift pool at Cate and Addie's birthday party...you enjoy them all!

-You love the playground!

-Impromptu dance party after breakfast with sisters!

-Running in some rain puddles in the cul de sac after a quick summer storm

-This was taken just after you were standing on the stool...on the coffee table...and then wanting to jump off! When I said to get down, you knew you shouldn't do it, and said "Oops!" : )

-Being a goofball like usual. You love making us laugh!

-Another day, another picnic with your bestie!

-Mama wanted to get a fire truck to come into the neighborhood to help celebrate your birthday! Luck would have it...we were out in the cul de sac playing when they came driving by to check the fire hydrant! They let you go all around to check out the truck, and gave all the kids fire hats!

-One of your favorite activities...jumping from the ottoman into our laps!

 -Celebrating Isabella turning 6!!

Sleeping: No big changes. Still a great sleeper. Bedtime is around 7:30 and you usually sleep about 12 hours. You stay happily in bed in the morning until 8 or 8:30. Nap is sometime between 1 and 2, and you nap 1.5-3 hours. 

Eating: No big changes, you are a good eater overall, and LOVE food! You are especially a great snacker and love treats! Favorite foods: salami, cheese, yogurt, apple sauce, fruit of all kinds, cereal with almond milk in the mornings, frozen blueberries, GF pizza, almond crackers, annie's cheetoes, veggie straws, hippeas.

Isaiah Loves:
-Being outside

-Going down the slide

-Riding his bike

-Being pushed in the push car

-Bubbles

-Puzzles

-His lovies and some other stuffed animals

-Coloring

-Listening to music (Wheels on the Bus, Twinkle Twinkle, and Baby Shark on repeat!)

-Reading books (Llama Llama, Car Car Truck Jeep, Where Do Diggers Sleep are some favs)

-Chasing sister's around the house with push toys

-Firetrucks, cars, trucks...anything with wheels

-Balls

-Train set

-Water table and just playing in the water or well spigot

Isaiah Hates:

-Being told no

-Not being allowed to jump on couches

-Not doing something sisters are doing

24 Month Stats:

Height: 33 in (about 10th percentile)

Weight: 22 lb 14 oz (about 7th percentile)

Teeth: he now has ALL his teeth, except his 2 year molars!

*Still wearing size 3 diapers, but the next box we buy we will size up

*Wearing mostly 18 month things, and some 2T that run smaller

*Size 4.5 or 5 shoe

Isaiah's Firsts this Month:

-Still not saying many words (working on it with speech therapy!), but he's got "Whoa" "No" "Oh no" "yeah" and a whole lot of very realistic animal sounds down!

-Best word of all...he's saying Mama consistently!!

-Doing great with sign language --> please, water, help, open, song, book, again 

-Insisting on walking down stairs like a big boy, heaven forbid he sit and scooch

Isaiah Jae 23 Months!

Happy 23 Months Isaiah Jae!

-You insisted on "reading" your fav book while Mama took the picture...only appropriate I suppose since we read/sing this one about 45 times every single day! "Car, car, truck, jeep!"

We say it every month, but it rings more true the older you get. You are our cherry on top. Our grand finale. Our true joy (we really do mean that, even though some of your rough days that's said sarcastically!). I can't believe you are almost TWO! How did that happen!?

23 Month Highlights:

-You are getting the concept of smiling for the camera on demand now. Doesn't mean you are cooperative most of the time, but you certainly know what I'm asking. 

-Your happy place is outside playing. You would literally stay out ALL day if we let you. Except you'd demand food, b/c you do get hangry.

-This month you started participating in Mimi's monthly rock painting. This month you all did something to celebrate Daddy's birthday. Your's was a birthday balloon and you loved painting!

-YUM! First garden strawberry! You ate it UP!

-We are still in quarantine and your hair was getting SO long so Daddy cut it for you. You look like SUCH a big boy now!

-Yup, no clothes, but still happy b/c you're outside!

-When the little nugget asks for Mama's banana right out of her hand on a lazy Saturday morning, you just give it to him : )

-You LOVE your new water table...so do big sisters!

-We got our mini orchard planted!! 2 nectarines, 2 apple trees, a plum and a fig tree

-You love to color, especially now that the weather is nice and we can do it on the screened in porch

-We love picnics in the pasture! You did not love the running in the sprinkler part!

Sleeping: You are an amazing sleeper, let's just say it! Bedtime is around 7:15/7:30 and some nights you fall asleep pretty quickly, while others you just lay quietly playing with your lovies until you do fall asleep (around 8 or 8:15). You wake up usually in the 7 o'clock hour, and stay happy in your bed until we get you around 8, but even if it's later you are a rock star. 

Nap is around 1:30 or 2, and you sleep anywhere from an hour and a half to 3 hours (average is prob about 2 hours most days). When you are teething (most days these last few months!) you wake up not so happy, very irritable and crying. Makes for some not so fun evening times. 

Eating: No big changes. Pretty good eater, excellent snacker. You know exactly what "Last Snack" is, and beat your sister to the panty many nights : ) Breakfast most days is yogurt cups with dry cereal, cereal with milk (you've starting adding milk now b/c sisters get it!), or oatmeal. Lunch is usually a deconstructed sandwich, a "crunchy" (veggie straws, hippeas, pirates booty, etc), and fruit. Dinner you eat what we have, or a deconstructed version of it. You still won't touch most vegetables I put on your plate. 

Isaiah Loves:
-playing outside

-riding his bike

-bubbles

-water table

-throwing balls

-listening to music

-singing and dancing

-baths

-elephant and "blue-y" lovies

-Car, car truck jeep book

-Twinkle Twinkle Little Star song and all the hand motions

Isaiah Hates:

 -not getting to be outside ALL day long!

-not being able to do something sister's are doing

-being told no

23 Month Stats:

Height: 31.5 in (under the growth curve...boo)

Weight: 22 lb 5 oz (about 7th percentile!)

*Wearing size 3 diapers still
*Wearing 18 month jammies, and mostly 18 month clothes, but a lot of the 12 mo shorts fit better than the bigger 18 mo. Also 2T tshirts are swimming on you : )
*Wearing size 4 shoes

4 new teeth started popping through this week but are still tiny! I think that's 12 total.  

Isaiah's Firsts this Month:

-You are walking down stairs more and more rather than sitting and scooching...Mama gets so nervous! 
-You started saying "ha" for hat! woot woot!