Happy Birthday Liam!

June 21st was my nephew Liam's first Birthday. The theme of the party was fish... so I made Liam's cake in the shape of a green fish (which he seemed to like - see pictures below) and I also made a bunch of cookies for the cake Angela bought. The fish are swimming on the water and the dolphins are jumping in and out of the "water" on the back of the cake. It turned out really nice! Walmart told Angela that they wanted a picture of the finished product.

slide

Isaac likes to play with the toy trucks at Grandma and Grandpa's house. Earlier this week, we went to the school with Grandma and played on the slides. Isaac LOVES the slide now. He was even going down by himself before the end of the night. He would go down feet first on his belly and when he reached the bottome he would either say "more slide" or "again" and run back to the ladder. His hair was soaked with sweat by the time we went home!

Zoo visit #2

We went to the zoo again on Friday, June 13th with Billy, Angela and Liam. It was fun to see the animals that we had missed the first time... the manatees, fish, lions and giraffes. This picture was taken right before the sky opened up and poured on us! The trays on the boys' strollers were filled with water and all of us were beyond soaked. Nevertheless, we had a good time :)

Isaac is saying "meow" in this picture. He was telling us what the "big kitties" say.

Men in Ties

Isaac and Daddy both wore their blue ties to church a couple weeks ago. Isaac likes to wear ties and hats when Daddy is wearing them, too.

Muscle man

Practice makes perfect... I can almost invision Isaac's Olympic pommel horse routine :)

Working out is tiring, but being strong is the payoff. He better work on those muscles... so his bigger baby cousin can't beat him up!!

Zoo

We took Isaac to the Cincinnati Zoo yesterday for the first time. We got to see the "Ellies" take a bath (elephants) and we watched the "Oukeys" (monkies) swing on vines and branches. We saw the "big kitties" in the cat house and we watched the bears swim. It was a nice warm day and we all had a nice time together :)

Prayers

Happy 34th Anniversary Mom and Dad!

We came home for lunch today after church because we had a lot of leftovers that needed eating! I put Isaac in his highchair and started helping him get started on his lunch when he kept saying "a men, a men" and pointing at Daddy. I then realized that he was saying "Amen" because we hadn't prayed for the food yet. He is so smart! Whenever we finish a prayer, he always says "a men".

I pray with him before he goes to bed and he makes sure that I don't forget any names in the prayer :) Then I sing him a song about Jesus and he claps when the song is done, and says "night-night", which means he is ready to be put into bed.

I hadn't realized until lunch today that he pays enough attention to our prayer times to notice when it doesn't happen... and then to let me know about it! I love him so much... he is such a blessing from God.