At Least it is Summer at the Beach

I am with Mom and Grandma at the beach house, we are having a very good time! The sun was out big time yesterday and even though it is a little less sunny today, it is still nice out. We went down to the bay today (after my very first milk shake- YUM!) and I had a great time checking out the water.

It was a bit cold but still awesome!

We also played outside at the house, which is always a good time.

And earlier, before my nap, we went to the ocean to see all of the big waves.

But the best part, and I know that you will laugh at this, is that I get to open AND close the garage door with a button each time we leave and come back to the house. Hey, I live in a house that is "vintage" and was built way before there were automatic garage doors, or attached garages for that matter....

Dada's Day

Happy Father's Day, Dada! You are the absolute best! I am sorry that I felt so yucky last night, thank you for holding me tight and making me feel better. You are why I have made such a quick recovery today- plus, I did not want to be sick for Father's Day! I love you so, so much.

I have some big shoes to fill, but I think that I am on the right path....

Mama Isaac

My mom has quite a little collection of sunglasses, they are mostly big but they are all different colors and shapes. I love to wear them, even though I have my own pair I much prefer to strut around in her shades. Here I am at Grandma's showing off some serious style (and serious lack of pants).

Grandma has dubbed me "Mama Isaac" when I wear Mom's sunglasses, I am pretty cute. Recently, I have discovered another reason to call me "Mama Isaac". I imagine most of you would say that I look quite a bit like my dad. I mean seriously, look at my mom.

I wouldn't exactly call us twins. But while I was looking at old photos of her when she was a little girl, I discovered that she looked a lot different when she was my age- and a whole lot more like me!!!

She even had a best friend, but her name was Maya not Eliana.

She had a big cheesy grin, like me.

And wild blond hair.

Here she is with Grandma and Grandpa.

(it looks like family pictures are not high priority, we should work on that)

I wonder what this means for the future of my lovely, blond curls- not to mention my perfect little nose! Hopefully Dad's genes will take over for that................

Happy B-day Mama!

Today is my moms birthday, we didn't really do very much because the whole family got together yesterday to celebrate. This morning dad and I got up early and finished wrapping her gifts, and then I made her a cool card with all these awesome drawings. It was a lot of fun, 

However, yesterday was really Awesome!!!!

First I got to hang out with Dad and Mom all morning long. Dad didn't have any classes, so we just played and played and played. Then we went shopping for a few things and then I took a long nap.

When I woke up we went over to Grandmas house! She had been cooking all day long and the house smelled wonderful! She had made bread, ice cream, and a very yummy carrot cake! Everything tasted so good! Then Grandpa Jim let me open and shut the garage door like ten times! It went Up, up, up, and down, down, down!

After a bit Grandpa and Grammy Steph showed up! Grammy Steph brought all these presents in for my mom, and she even had some clothes for me too. Grandpa had made some vegetarian lasagna that we all ate way too much of. After we ate, and talked, we watched mom open gifts and she seemed really pleased with everything she received. There was even this strange cat thing she got, it holds tea or something, it sort of looked like our cat Bailey.

To round out the night we watched a little bit of the basketball game (go celtics!) and then I got to go into another room and watch one of my very own movies. Everyone took turns coming in and sitting with me while I watched. It was so fun!

I can't wait for my moms next birthday. Happy birthday mommy I love you very much!!!

and thank you daddy for typing this all up for me.

iSaac

I like to copy what Dad does, I mean he is the coolest guy I know. I copy Mom too (like when she sneezed last night and I ran into the kitchen to imitate her, she sounded funny!) but mostly I like to follow my dad around and do "manly" stuff. Like play the guitar, or paint, or sit with my napkin in my lap, or wrap my blanket around me like a cape. This is all very manly, I am sure of it. My dad loves his iPod, so I love it too.

I like to put the earbuds in my ears and turn the music up so that the sound reaches my processors, I look just like Dad- so cool!

Big Night

I have been having a very good time lately. A few weekends ago, we went to an awesome birthday party where I got to run around, play with friends and eat a delicious cupcake. Afterward, the fun wasn't over. My parents dropped me off at Grandma and Grandpa Jim's house for an overnight stay and left to visit friends and have fun. Grandma and I ate ice cream, watched "Cars", read bedtime stories and sang lullabies. I figured that, since my parents said they were going out to have fun, they would be doing the same thing. Apparently not. In fact, when I found the camera the next day it didn't look like they watched "Cars" or ate any ice cream at all, and it seems the closest they came to singing lullabies was when Uncle Seth played the guitar for them.

It looks like they had a great time without me. Laughing at funny things.

Listening to music.

And staying up late.

But I forgave them because the next morning I got to hang out with Grandma, Grandpa Jim and even Grandpa who brought over waffles and banana bread (thanks Grammy Steph)- yummy! I think that they even missed me a little:) Well who wouldn't, I am pretty sweet.

It's Potty Time!!!

There has been a lot of talk about the potty over the past few months. I have an awesome video called "Potty Time with Elmo" and an Elmo potty book. Anyway, I have been practicing sitting on the potty before my bath each night, well actually not so much lately. My parents are giving me time and space and following my lead on this one and I haven't wanted to sit on it lately.

But last night, I was running around the house without a diaper and Mom brought out my potty (into the living room, but whatever works, right?), I went right up to it and sat down all on my own. Then I ran around some more and she kept asking me if I needed to go pee, how annoying. Unfortunately, I did and I peed a little on the floor, which was so horrifying that I exclaimed "uh-oh" and covered my face with my hands. When I said "uh-oh" again, Mom knew what was happening and sat me down on my potty where I peed- a whole, whole bunch!!!!! She was very proud of me and I felt proud of myself. It will take a lot of practice but this is my first big potty step! Happy Friday!!

Mothers Day

A lot of my regular blog readers are moms, so to them "Happy Mothers Day!!".

Although I have some sad news for you ladies, as it turns out my mom is the ultimate mom! I am not just saying that either, I actually hired three separate polling companies to figure out who was the Northwests ultimate mom, and my mom polled considerably higher than all others. which leads me to the only possible conclusion: My mom is the best mom and she doesn't deserve just a day, but like a whole week!

Seriously! I'm not even doing this to butter her up. I have no ulterior motives.

She does so much for me and dad. She is the glue that holds together our family and our lives. I think most mom's are this way. Without them I don't think the world would even work. Nothing would get done, no one would be on time, it would be chaos.

Every mom is special, but my mom is the ultimate. One day isn't long enough to appreciate all that our moms do for us, and absolutely not long enough for me or my dad to properly thank her for everything she does.

I love you ma-ma!

here are some of my favorite photos of her:

This is mom before boarding the small plane that would begin the first legs of my parents honeymoon to Europe.

This is her and Dad on that small plane.

Mom and I checking out a leaf.

One of her famous car photos.

Look how excited I am in this picture!!

An artsy shot...

Mom as she hulk!

Me as....ummm little hulk?

These last two photos are my two absolute favorites of the favorites. I like this one because I think it looks like some kind of ad for Gap or something.

And this one because its just....cool

*this was translated by my dad least anyone think my mom made a post about herself.

Happy Hearing Birthday!

Today I am celebrating one year of hearing!!! My first Cochlear Implant was activated on Cinco de Mayo! Here I am last year.

That was my original Freedom implant and before my parents discovered the beauty of wig/body tape to keep it in place (and before I had much hair:). Here I am today.

Boy, so much has changed in a year! I am so incredibly grateful for my implants. I am able to understand so much and am learning to say more and more words. My receptive language is coming along much more quickly than what I am producing but my parents work very hard, along with some other very special people, to help me to communicate and use my voice.

I love to dance, listen to stories, point out objects in books and babble. I can make all of my ling sounds and say about 20 words (maybe more, some of them sound a lot alike:). I am so good at following directions and understand more words each day (most recently, "clown", who knows where I picked that one up). I am beginning to do more imitating of what others say and I like to point and label objects that I see around. I can point out my hair, eyes, nose, mouth, etc. (and yours:) and if you ask me where my ears are I point to my beloved implants. My favorite words are "Mama", "up-up", "around, around" ("roun-roun", as in anything that goes around and around) and "more" (which I sign as well). I only sign the word "Dada" right now but one day I will get my "d's" down. My dad is my most absolute favorite person in the whole world and I ask for him all day long while he is in school. I love my dad, and I love my "ears".

America's Next Top Model

is..... ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A few weeks ago, I had my photos taken by Sara from Studio Sub Dio.
http://studiosubdio.com/index2.php#/home/
She is my neighbor and a very nice lady. I must confess that I wasn't the best model, I mean I have an overabundance of energy and do not like to sit still, but I am pretty cute so this seemed to make up for it.

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Check out my reflection- how clever is that?!?

I liked the tennis net.

I am too cute.

Happiness!