January 31, 2011

Isaac is completely obsessed with trains lately.  Especially the Thomas trains.  He loves it when I help him build a big track all over the living room floor.  We push the coffee table out of the way so there is more room.  I actually think it's kind of fun to engineer new tracks and get them all to connect (it's not quite as easy as it looks).

January 30, 2011

The weather has been warm and sunny the past couple of weeks.  I know we are totally spoiled here in Southern CA but I actually wish it were a little cooler.  Something about 78 degrees in January just doesn't seem quite right.  Well today I got my wish.  High 50's and rain.  I snapped this photo on the way home from a YW board meeting after church today.  

January 29, 2011

Charlie is sick so we stayed home and relaxed most of the weekend.  We decided to head out for dinner on Saturday night and ended up at Outback Steakhouse.  We hadn't eaten there in years.  In fact, the only time I remember ever eating there with Charlie was while we were engaged.  For some reason we decided to go on this crazy "Abs Diet" in preparation for our wedding and honeymoon.  I don't think we lasted more than a week or so on the diet, but we went to Outback one night for grilled chicken and veggies.  I was working at Kaplan at the time and our office would go to Outback sometimes for lunch and I always loved their veggies.  I'm not sure what it is that makes them so good.  Okay, I'm totally rambling.  I opted for a steak tonight (which is unusual for me, but Charlie was getting the chicken so I thought I'd be different) and the veggies were just as good as I remembered!

January 28, 2011

Charlie is sick with a cold and a very bad cough.  He decided to sleep on the couch so that he wouldn't keep me awake at night.  Usually when he goes to bed early I stay up and watch TV, but since he was in the living room I opted for a book instead.  I'm so glad I did!  I don't read very often these days and I always forget how much I love it.  Charlie picked this book up at Costco last weekend.  I was expecting it to be kind of a sentimental, feel good, dog lover book but it is actually very scientific.  It's pretty interesting.  It talks about how we tend to anthropomorphize dogs and how we can set that aside and learn more about them through their body language, barks, behavior, etc.  And yes, I know I am a crazy dog lady but I also have a crazy dog so maybe this book will help me figure out why he is so psycho.

January 27, 2011

Sorry the picture is kind of blurry.  I've been taking most of my photos with my iphone because it's convenient... and honestly the photo quality from my Canon is not that much better!  Anyway, I was surprised to get this cheesy certificate in the mail tonight.  We've been selling on EBay for a couple of years now, and we always get e-mails from them about our seller status.  I never expected to get an "official" certificate.  It kind of made me feel like I was in elementary school again!

January 26, 2011

We went to visit my sister Sandy today.  Isaac loves going to the "cousin's house" - mostly because of all of their cool toys!  But he also really likes playing with his cousin Ryan.  Today we all rode together in their van to go get ice cream at Baskin Robin's.  You can't see Ryan (behind baby Hailey's seat), but he was being silly and making all of the kids laugh.

January 25, 2011

Out on a walk with Isaac and Cracker.  Isaac LOVES riding his tricycle.  He likes going around and around the park better than going to the lake.  The park has a few very slight hills so Isaac likes to put his feet up and coast down.  He also likes to collect various pine cones, rocks, sticks, and leaves to put inside the little box on the back of his bike.

January 24, 2011

Today we had a plumber come to fix a few problems around the house.  We had a toilet that ran constantly and a dripping shower.  For some reason he did all of his work in the bathroom with the door closed.  Mysterious.  So I was only able to snap a picture of him inspecting the leaky dishwasher.  I think I way over paid for him the toilet and shower ($336 - anyone with plumbing experience care to give your two sense?), so I opted not to have him pull the whole dishwasher apart and incur any further expense for the day.

January 23, 2011

This is a little embarrassing, but since I'm pregnant I feel a little less guilty about indulging myself.  Not many people know this, but I have a weakness for fake nacho cheese.  And this cheese - Que Bueno - is by far my favorite.  The other night I even had a dream about it (again, I will blame this on pregnancy) and actually woke up and googled the cheese in the middle of the night to see where I could buy it besides Costco.  See, Costco only sells it in this enormous can and it's way more cheese than I need to eat.  But unfortunately Costco is the only place to buy it.  So yesterday I gave in and purchased a can and today I am eating fake cheese to my heart's content.

January 22, 2011

Today we attended a birthday party for Isaac's friend Jack.   He's a little older than Isaac (just turned 5), and when Isaac was at ICEC Jack was his favorite person to hang out with.  Miss Erin was Isaac's cognitive therapist and Jack and Patrick are her two boys.  It was fun to go to he party and see all of our old friends from ICEC.  Isaac loved being tackled in the bounce house by Jack's dad, playing with all of the trucks out on the driveway, and taking his turn to swing at the pinata.  Here he is (in the blue shirt, by the tree) collecting his share of pinata candy.