Look at Me!

Isaiah is getting cuter and cuter every day! I know all you parents out there do the same thing we do, “Can you believe how cute he is?” “Can you believe we made him…how did he get so cute?” Constantly, every day, I think these words come out of our mouths! Here are Isaiah’s latest “cute” pictures. Enjoy.


Here's Isaiah looking out the window in our bedroom. My sister made this stepstool for him for Christmas; looks like it will come in handy!

Swimming Lessons

A friend gave Isaiah money to put towards swimming lessons. We meet for a ½ hour one time a week, for six weeks. The first night we went in, Isaiah was not such a fan of the water, he clung to mama for dear life pretty much the entire ½ hour. By lesson #2, he eased up quite a bit and did a great job “floating” on his front and back. He loves jumping in off the side of the pool and of course splashing water! It will be fun to see where he is at by lesson #6.

Spring Time!

We had a wonderful, low key Easter with Nathan’s family. Not many of us got together this year, which made for a quiet Easter. We had fun making the traditional Geiger Bunny Cake and decorating Easter eggs…okay, I’ll admit, my mother-in-law dyed the eggs and I decorated all 12 of them to look like each of my in-laws! J See if you can pick them out! Both Grandma bunnies were kind to Isaiah—he got a bucket with a shovel and rake and a pair of rain boots. Very cute!

The weather has been just beautiful here in Duluth. It sounds like the rest of the United States hasn’t been quite so lucky this spring. We are certainly counting our blessings. We have managed to get out a couple times already for hikes and picnics and are excited that it is only April. This means we hopefully have MANY more hikes and picnics ahead of us this spring/summer/fall. YAY!! We have even gotten out and biked once with Isaiah already. He did pretty well, although he was a little unsure of it right away. We hope by the end of fall that we’ll have to pry him out of the chariot! Though, don’t mistaken us, we won’t be biking as mode of transportation getting around Duluth. With these killer hills, you won’t find us biking up and down them, unless we get REALLY strong. For now, we’ll stick to the trails; plus, it sounds safer.

Isaiah's 1st birthday

Isaiah celebrated his first birthday on March 24. We had a wonderful eve of his birth on the 23rd reliving a lot of what happened one year ago. Everything from remembering waking up with cramps from beginning labor, to dinner at a friend’s house, to Nathan finishing up a wood-working project, to walking to the hospital in the cold and rain, laboring all night and then welcoming our little one at 6:38 AM on the 24th. For one reason or another, Isaiah was up a lot during the night and when I would look at the clock I would automatically think back and wonder what I was doing one year ago. Kind of a fun way to look back at the year.

Nathan took the afternoon off and the three of us went to the zoo (again). J It was such a nice day out, that we HAD to get out again; very different than the day he was born…blustery, cold and rainy. The three of us then had a low key meal at home followed by some friends over for cake and ice-cream.

The week before Isaiah’s birthday, I was driving with a co-worker and on the side of the road there was a Little Tykes play gym type-thing with a FREE sign on it. I couldn’t get it apart, so Nathan went back and managed to get it apart and into our car. This was Isaiah’s birthday present from us; gotta love free things!

Snow shoeing

Okay, this is a LITTLE out of order. But, back in February, when we still had snow on the ground, we went on a family date to Boulder Lake and went Moonlight Snowshoeing. Nate carried Isaiah on his back in our AWESOME Ergo carrier. It was a beautiful evening, of course a bit chilly, but the moon was full and gave off plenty of light for us to snowshoe our path. Okay, I'll be honest...one of Nate's snowshoe bindings broke while we were putting our shoes on, so we ended up having to walk the path. It worked out just fine though because the path was pretty packed down so you didn't have to worry about falling through the snow. I think we'll put the snow shoes away for this year! The way the weather has been, I don't know that we'll see anymore snow before October. But, this is Duluth...

Spring Break!

Although I didn’t have Spring Break from work, my 16 year old sister and Nathan both did. So, we did our annual meet up during Spring Break. Pearl and my mom drove up from SD and met me, Nathan and Isaiah in Minneapolis. We had a great time.

We started our break by driving down to Minneapolis Wednesday afternoon. We visited a friend who just had a baby and then had dinner with Nathan’s sister and her partner. Then, we headed to the hotel in downtown Minneapolis where we waited for my mom’s and Pearl’s arrival. They finally arrived and we spent the evening catching up.

Thursday we began our vacation by heading to the Minneapolis library and playing in the toddler area. It's a newly remodeled library and had a GREAT space for toddlers. It was so beautiful outside, that we decided it would be in our best interest to spend some time outside so we headed to Como Park. We walked around the zoo and the gardens throughout Como Park and enjoyed the wonderful weather. Being that it was my birthday, we then headed to a wonderful Indian restuarant for dinner and enjoyed a delicious meal. Then it was back to the hotel for some Ben & Jerry's ice-cream! :)

Friday Nathan headed to St. John's for class, so Pearl, my mom, me and Isaiah headed to the Mall of America to do some prom dress shopping for Pearl. Yes, Pearl is going to prom this year! She found her dress after not too much stress (lucky for us all!). Then, off to Ikea. I can't believe how well Isaiah did through all the stimuli! We are one lucky family to have such an awesome kiddo! :)

Saturday morning we woke up and headed to St. Cloud with my mom and sister to celebrate Isaiah's birthday with a birthday party with friends and family at Nate's parents house. We had a lovely Mexican themed dinner with lots of yummy dessert! My grandma recently sent me the birthday candle used on my first birthday, so that was used on Isaiah's cake. I can't believe my grandma kept that candle after all these years!

We had a great time celebrating and were so lucky to have both sides of the family attend the party.