Busy MN Weekend

Last Thursday night, Zach and I loaded Isaac and all of the 13,743 things he requires when traveling in the car and began a 5 hour trip to his parents' house in Rochester, Minnesota. It was the first time we made the drive since Spike was born, and we figured our best bet was to leave around his bed time so he could sleep away the miles. Isaac usually goes to bed at 7:30. Around 10pm he finally fell asleep. OK, we'll roll with the punches.

We got to the Dani's house around 12:30am and Izey woke up. We tried to put him to bed, but he was apparently terrified. It wasn't until after 1am that we were finally able to get him to sleep.

Friday was a wonderful, relaxing day by the pool. Izey swam some, but mostly moved piles of rocks around the yard. Here are a few pics of his adventures.

Look at this face!

"Can you hold this please, Grandpa?"

Radio Flyer

Later that afternoon, Ruby (aka Miracle Baby--she was born at 24 weeks gestation and is basically totally normal!) came over with her Grandma Janet and the babies got to swim together.

Ruby wasn't thrilled about some strange lady holding her in a scary giant bathtub.

Both thoroughly enjoyed the baby pool, though.

Look at that face!

The next day we packed up all of those 13,743 things again and drove the hour to Minneapolis. We visited the Dahls and Izey again moved piles of rocks around their yard with their 18 month old, Zach. Then it was off to Zach's college roommate's wedding. Despite the fact that the dancing started well past Isaac's bed-time, he shook his groove thang with the flower girl. Mostly, though, he chased her around and latched on to her with an overly aggressive "hug" as often as possible. Below is a video of the two when they still had the whole dance floor to themselves. Notice how our handsy son takes advantage of her momentary inability to run away from him.


That night we stayed at a hotel and then visited Zach's aunt, uncle, and cousins. I found out I have some blog fans from that side of the family too! Hi Schreiners!

After lunch, we wrangled Izey into the car one more time and made our way back to Chi-town. When Spike woke up from his afternoon nap, we started to be a little concerned when he lethargically stared out the window for a couple of hours. When we took him out of his car seat for dinner, he had turned into the tell-tale little heater, and we knew he had a fever. We thought his ear infection had come back, but when we took him to the doctor, it turned out his ears were just fine. So now our boy is sick again. Poor pitiful peanut!