Friday, February 18, 2011

Isaiah is HOT, HOT, HOT! :(

Smiley boy getting ready for pool day last Thursday

Ornery boy!

Sorry it has been almost 2 weeks since I updated the blog. My Fridays have been really messed up the last few weeks and I haven't gotten my normal time on campus to post and it's always a pain to do it at home with a much slower internet connection, but I'm going to try anyway!

Eating his noodles for lunch after his nap last Thursday

Concentrating with that tongue out...just like his Uncle Kevin!

Spaghetti face!

Ready to play on the porch

Sharing some of Mommy's water

Ready 'Cutie Pie the Giraffe' all by himself!

Both the boys doing some reading last Friday morning before school!

Last Friday, I went to work to help Harley organize things at the store because we were told our newest shipment (40,000 lbs) of dog/cat food had arrived on the island and would be delivered to the store for us to unload either Friday or Monday. That's why I didn't get to blog and a little later on Friday we learned that the shipment hadn't gotten to the island after all. It was lost somewhere on another Caribbean island! Finally though today, we got word that the shipment is officially here in St. Kitts and should be coming to the store on Tuesday for us to unload and organize. It's a good thing because we are completely out of food! And it will mean an extra day of work and a little extra cash this month to help us afford the things that we need!

Playing at home before we headed to the prep school for Saturday morning play time and gymnastics!

Excited we're about ready to leave!

Beau trying out the monkey bars with help from Mom (Jessie)

He was lovin' it!

Isaiah climbing down the ropes

Damon's turn!

Future Olympic Ring champion!

Playing in one of the many sandboxes at school

Happy to be back to the beach after almost 3 months of absence!
(We went to the Marriott beach Sunday afternoon with Jakki)

Everything else this week has mostly gone according to plan except for the fact that Isaiah woke up yesterday morning with a fever. His temp was around 101 and we started dosing Tylenol when necessary. He had been having a runny nose for a few days prior to that, but being in preschool, he seems to always have at least a runny nose, so we didn't think much of it! Yesterday about mid-morning he developed a cough, which has turned into a productive sounding wet cough last night and today. Today his fever has continued off and on, but not quite as bad as yesterday, so I hope that he's on the mend. I switched around my work schedule today, so I could keep Isaiah home from school and hopefully give him time to recover for Monday! He's been behaving really well overall....I can usually tell when his fever is climbing back up because he stops talking all the time and slows down, which is the only time I've ever really seen that happen! He's being a good sport and sometimes I think it's worse for me to watch my baby be sick! We got to spend some time in the pool yesterday afternoon to cool him down a little bit and when Josh arrived home and Isaiah was still in the pool, Josh asked, "How are you feeling buddy?" and Isaiah replied, "I feel Hot!" It was really cute! He loved some time in the pool and I think we were both glad to be outside of the apartment....even if it was just on the porch!

A picture of one of my favorite St. Kitts flowers (I think it's a type of plumeria maybe)

One of our neighbors upstairs is a Ross grad and professor who heads the Sea Turtle research program at Ross and has 2 tortoises who live in her yard that Isaiah likes to visit!

Isaiah used to be scared by them, but lately, he LOVES stopping by to see if the tortoises are out!

Riding his scooter (sans shorts) Tuesday afternoon

Cool Dude

Sick little boy laying in bed watching "Curi George" on his "Pooter"

Josh had an exciting week this week with a few of his labs. For anesthesia lab on Monday, they got to practice putting a real dog to sleep for about an hour while monitoring it and then waking it back up. And then yesterday for his D.I. lab (Diagnostic Imaging or radiology) they got to go to the clinic and practice ultrasound and echocardiographs on real dogs too! While 5th semester is really busy and we don't see Josh quite as much, I know he is really enjoying all the hands-on learning they are getting to do and I'm happy to see him really getting to learn things with lots of clinical applications for the future! He's doing great so far and if you think about it, say a prayer for him....he's got 2 more exams next week before mid-semester break and the arrival of our guests....Steve, Ashley, Ella, and Lydia! We can't wait for them to get here and to show them St. Kitts! :)

Isaiah likes to Move it Move it!

He sure loves those watering cans!

Silly boy

Cutie pie

Close up!

He is definitely up to something!

Monday, February 7, 2011

Monday Monday.

He loves his bike!

Ready to go play at the prep school last Saturday morning!

Isaiah and Damon having a snack

Isaiah driving the 'car' at school

Damon and Isaiah on their favorite swing!

So happy to be swinging with his buddy D

D is pretty happy too!

What a disappointing night last night with the Steeler loss in the Superbowl! Oh well....you can't win 'em all right? We have been having a good week here in St. Kitts. Isaiah didn't have school on Friday (parent-teacher conference day) so I wasn't able to do my normal blog posting at school and it is taking forever to upload pictures to the blog here at home with our much slower internet connection!

Damon dressed up as Elmo

Happy Zay

Isaiah's turn to be Elmo!

Hello Dr. Morton!

Dress up fun!

I couldn't believe I got them to nap at the same time....so cute!

Damon playing after his nap

Last Sunday, we babysat Damon over lunch and afternoon while Harley and Erin went on a rainforest ATV tour here in St. Kitts. He was really good and Isaiah loved having extra time to play with his best buddy. We had our normal days this week of work (for me), school (for Josh), and preschool (for Isaiah) and not a whole lot else going on. The usual weekly things--Josh's Monday evening SAAVMA meetings, worship team practice on Tuesday, pool day on Thursday.

Isaiah ready to head to Bible study with Mommy

He was running and I couldn't believe how crazy his hair looked in this picture!

Being ornery

Beautiful sunrise in Frigate Bay
(happier about seeing it than I was when Isaiah woke us up at 5:45am!)

Isaiah and his Woody bowling...he loves it!

Isaiah playing with Shelby

We did get to have some fun this weekend. Harley, Erin, Damon, and Autum came over Saturday evening for pizza and to hang out. The boys had a blast playing together and got to enjoy bathtime together complete with popsicles! They loved it and it was fun for us to see them having so much fun! Yesterday after church, Isaiah and I went to Calypso Bay where our friends, the Chins live to swim at their community pool. It is one of the nicest pools with THE BEST view I have seen on St. Kitts and the kids had a great time pouring water, chasing each other, and even playing in the rain when a storm snuck up on us! After we got home, Isaiah took a 4 hour nap!!! Last night, we went next door to Matt and Diane's place for a little Superbowl get together. It was nice to spend some time with them. Their son Mason (who is about 7 months old) really seemed to like Josh for a good while, although Isaiah got a little jealous at times and wanted to sit on Daddy's lap too!

Damon showing off his 'Santa beard'

Damon happy to have a popsicle

Popsicles Round #2

Silly boys!

Supporting the Steelers/dressed for church!
We love Troy!
Smiley boy

If you think about it, please say prayers for my Mom's knee surgery (tomorrow), my Dad's back surgery (March 22nd and him getting through until then), and Josh's mission trip to Sudan (in April). Thanks so much! Love to all!

Isaiah, Damon, and Ava running around and playing in the rain!

Isaiah and Ava

Damon and Isaiah chilling at the pool

A view of the ocean from the pool at Calypso Bay

Isaiah was so happy to have time with his friends!

Just wanted to leave you with some of Isaiah's recent cute phrases:
-Yester-mornin' (for yesterday morning)
-Yester-night (for last night)
-When there is a lull in the conversation he will say, "So...?"
-"I did it all my biggie self!"
-"You see what I dood?"
-"Not quite" when we caught his foot jumping and landed on only one foot
-"This is fweakin' me out!" when sitting on the couch in his life vest
-After doing Ring Around the Rosey several times by himself in the yard, he said, "I'm weally dizzy...I think I'm going to take a little break!"
-While he was taking his break, he started log rolling on his stomach in the grass and looked up at me and said, "I'm like a humpback whale!"
-A few days ago over the phone, my Mom told Isaiah she wished she could hug him and he replied, "You no can hug fru da creen Mimi!" (translated, You can't hug through the computer screen!)

Ready for the big game!

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