The weekend of January 19-20, my sister Beth came down to meet Isaac.  He's been a popular guy lately!   You can see below how he loves his panda bear.  It has long arms and legs that velcro together, supposedly around a rolled-up fleece blanket that came with it, and he just loves to chew on the velcro.  The arms and legs ...

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Found some more pictures from the Bowlans' visit.  You can see that Brandan is trying to get Ike and Brady to sit together, but Isaac keeps trying to touch Brady, which he does not like, although he eventually works up the nerve to touch Isaac with one finger.  Also included below are some shots of Ike in his new jogging stroller. &nb...

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Grandma Kathy left on New Year's Eve, and we spent a quiet night at home.  Up next were the bowl games - Oklahoma played in the Cotton Bowl and Notre Dame in the national championship game, both in early January.  There's no need to rehash the outcomes, but you can see from the pictures below that Isaac was shocked - shocked! - at...

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Isaac has been talking a lot, mostly saying "mamamama," "dadada" and "babababa."  Although his nanny Diony swore up and down that he's been saying "leche," which she apparently says repeatedly to him after he gets his bottle.  We were naturally skeptical, so she got a video on her cell phone, wh...

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The weekend of January 12-13 the Bowlan family (aka my youngest sister Theresa, her husband Brandan, and their almost 2-year-old Braedan) came down to Cancun for a visit, and to meet Ike.  I realized that we don't have very many pictures of the visit, probably because we were all chasing after Brady the whole time!  Definitely a littl...

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I'm a little behind on my blog-posting but we've been busy!  Grandma Kathy came down for Christmas, then my sister Theresa, her husband and son came last weekend, now this weekend my other sister Beth comes!  I'll start with Christmas. Grandma Kathy (Tita) came down on December 23 and stayed through the 31st.  Around tha...

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