Long Overdue Update

Hi Everyone,
This blog update is long overdue. I haven't been very good about getting on and updating pictures and stories. So I will have to summarize and try to catch up from where I left off.
So many new and exciting things have been going on around our house. Isak has learned how to climb very well. He climbs over the couch, likes to go head first off the couch, can climb up into his high chair, on to the coffee table, into the toy box...you get the idea. I've said with every month...boy this is sure a fun age...I hope he stays here for a while. But each new month brings a new adventure and I am really enjoying watching him learn and grow.

Yesterday, Grandma Howe sent him a new Silent Night book the plays Silent Night and the lights around baby Jesus twinkle. He LOVED it. He sat and played the book all day! He even took and nap with it and was holding it when he woke up this morning. This morning he was walking around with it while it was playing and he started trying to sing Silent Night. It was really cute.

Isak is talking more and more every day and developing the desire to try mom and dad quite a bit. His mischevious little smile is hard to get upset at though. He runs all over the house and loves to play tag. Steve and I have taken him to visit the playground at the mall a couple of times now and he never wants to play, but he does LOVE the fish. He about goes into convulsions before we even get to the door because he knows the fish are inside. I may have to put a fish tank in our house somewhere!

This Thanksgiving, Steve and I spent the afternoon with Steve's parents in Manhattan. They are in the process of adding onto their new home so we are so very excited for them. Isak had a great time eating the wonderful Thanksgiving dinner that Roxana made. I think he had 3 or 4 servings of everything before we had gotten through one.

Some exciting news from the Howe household is that soon we will have a new house! We close on our house this Friday. Steve and I are very excited to have a place to call our own. The house is in a great neighborhood with a wonderfully large backyard. Isak will have his own room, plus room to spread out all the toys and books. Steve and I plan on remodeling portions of our house over the years as the house is dated to the 1960's. If you love z-brick in kitchens, you can have your fix in our house :) I'm especially fond of the pink and blue bathrooms...complete with pink and blue toilets. I didn't know they made those but after some research, you can get toilets in a lot of different colors.

Our holiday season will be spent, painting, cleaning and decorating. We are really excited to get in and get to work. We spent a majority of our Thanksgiving holiday packing up our house so at least we have a lot of that done.

Below are some updated pictures of Isak. At his last appt. he was 33 inches tall and 27 lbs. Still in the 90th percentile. I didn't realize how tall he was until he was around some other children at church. He is almost as big as some of the 2 year olds. Someday he'll be able to clean all of those high cabinets for mom :)

After 3 1/2 years of living in the same place, only 2 weeks before moving, vandals hit our area of town. 2 kids decided it would be fun to go around town and shoot BB guns/air guns at people's car windows and homes. They apprehended the two kids but this was the damage left behind on my car. So a Monday morning that was going great, turned into a long day. Steve came home and took care of a lot of the details in getting car fixed. It was just annoying to get it all done. I've put a picture below of the damage done. Luckily, the place the fixed the window had it done within a day, so that was great. We now have two vehicles again.

Livin' in a box.....

Watching' my favorite show...without moving.

Mash potato mouth #1


Mash potato mouth take 2

My GQ pose

Balancing act...or learning by osmosis.

Silent Night Book

Thanks for the book grandma!

Climbing on the coffee table.

Have a wonderful week and hopefully I'll be able to update a little better over the holidays.