Reid and Stefani Adopt

Ever since Mom caught Isaac trying to climb the stairs by himself, she has endeavored to teach him to climb down on his own, hoping to prevent a painful tumbling down the stairs that seemed inevitable. So far, so good!  He hasn't fallen down the stairs yet, and he is starting to get a hang of climbing down on his own.

So, a little explanation... We broke our camera, and hence we are a few months behind posting pictures.  So the next few posts will playing catch-up.  These are our Easter photos.    Even though Isaac didn't get any Easter candy, he did get egg-shaped sidewalk chalk and a book.  We also read the Easter story as told in the easter eggs in the brown & green basket on the left.  In each egg there is a little scripture written on a strip of paper, and a little item that symbolizes what the scripture talks about.  Each Easter we read the scriptures and talk about the object inside of each egg.  This is Daddy and Isaac, showing off the dyed eggs that Mom hid for them on Sunday morning. These pictures are really just showing off Isaac's eggs and super cute Easter Sunday vest, tie, and striped shirt.  He is such a handsome little man! This is Daddy and Isaac finding eggs on Easter.  At the very least, Mommy had a great ...

It's Sunday after church.  Isaac fell asleep in his car seat on the way home from church.  Since it was his nap time anyway, I thought I'd try and keep him asleep.  After carefully taking Isaac out of his car seat,  carrying him upstairs, gently putting him down onto his changing table, carefully removing his coat, hat, and gloves, and  changing his diaper, I successfully laid him down in his crib--still asleep.   He was so cute in his little red argyle sweater, bow-tie, red and gray pinstripe shirt, and black and red plaid pants that I wanted a picture of this adorable sleeping bundle.  That's when I ran into trouble.  I went to go find the camera and it was no where to be found.  After a frustrating search, I decide to use my cell phone camera.  As I was messing with the setting trying to turn off the shutter sounds so as not to wake him up, I accidentally changed the shutter sound to an ...

Isaac recently learned to army crawl.  He is no longer satisfied with his toys.  He wants to explore everything.  Today I snapped a few shots of him trying to sneak up on the cat.  This was unusually funny to me because our cat is known in our neighborhood as "the hunter."  She is always trying to sneak up on unsuspecting birds, mice, and fingers.  It was amusing to watch Isaac stalk Izzy with his incredibly slow and clumsy army/inchworm crawl. Isaac spots the cat. Izzy, still not realizing the danger she's in, watches Isaac curiously. Izzy, the unsuspecting victim, waits patiently as Isaac draws nearer. Mom snaps the last picture and then intervenes in time to avert a crisis.

Aunt Christine the pie queen, and Devin, licking the beaters.  Once Devin's beater was a little too clean, he dipped it in the frosting bowl for a second helping.   Daddy's first smoked turkey and Mommy's little turkey pictured. Back row: Christine & Devin, Molly & Soren, Stefani & Isaac Front Row:  Collin, Ian, Quinn, Georgia, and Kajsa The Pilgrims and Indians ready for Thanksgiving! A happy, slobbery Thanksgiving guest. Isaac's cousins came to visit for Thanksgiving.  Grandpa and Grandma Archibald came also.  It was a full house with happy little pilgrims staying in the tent upstairs!

This is Isaac moonlighting as a Raccoon for Halloween!  This picture may be a bit blurry, because I snapped it with my phone.  I actually took this picture at the end of September.  Isaac was just learning to smile back at me, and I was too excited to actually wait until October to buy a Halloween costume for him.  So as soon as I bought the costume, I tried it on him and let him lean against the back of the lazyboy recliner that our awesome neighbors gave to us.  Then I smiled at Isaac and snapped a shot!  I just can't get over how cute he makes his costume look!  This is probably the best picture I have ever taken.  (Shows how awesome of a photographer I am!) 

Isaac, as usual, was very hungry when he got up this morning.  I had a bottle ready, but I didn't want to keep him in such a soggy diaper while he was eating.  When I laid him down on the changing table to change his diaper instead of giving him his bottle, he was instantly upset and started to wail.  So I gave him his bottle, and for the first time, he more or less held it up by himself and ate while I changed his diaper, and then ran to get the camera to take a picture!  It doesn't take much to make this mommy proud! Go Isaac!