After building Isaac his sandbox,
we got him a kiddie pool as well. It was
hot out and he is a fish! If there is water around, he will find it. Needless to say, we started spending lots
more time outside. I ended up convincing
Eli that I needed a lawn chair and small table to make things easier for
me. The benches on the sandbox are nice,
but being pregnant I couldn’t sit that low for long and I needed the option of
sitting in the shade for a bit. It made
things easier on me and allowed Isaac to stay outside longer, which he loved.
August brought more heat and more
trips. We headed to Bozeman in order to
go on a hike. It had taken a while, but
we finally were able to find a weekend that worked and would be easy for family
to get together and hike up to Cottonwood Lake.
The trip was fueled by the desire and need to spread ashes. In total it was an 11 mile hike. Eli and I had packed a camelback that way
when he was hauling Isaac, I could carry the pack…lucky for me my sister and
brother-in-law had the same idea. They
are big hikers (amongst lots of other outdoor activities) and they packed one
backpack between them as well. They did
this because my brother-in-law had the intention of hauling Isaac for the
entire trip (he weighed about 23 pounds on his own).
In all, this meant that I didn’t
have to carry anything!! Yay for me!! We took various breaks on the way up; it
was a rough hike due to how steep some areas were. With a growing belly, my center of balance
was off a little and some of the steps I had to take were a little bigger than
my tummy wanted to allow. When we got to
the top, wouldn’t you know it, Isaac found water. He had fun playing in it and, after falling
in the mud, having to have his arms and legs dipped in the lake so we could
rinse him off.
September brought a trip to Eureka
and the lake there. We met up with
family and friends, who had a boat.
Isaac has been on a boat once before, but he wasn’t even a year old and
it was windy so we had to be wrapped up a bit.
This time he got to wear a life vest and even got to sit by
himself. He had fun playing in the lake
and even took a nap after getting a boat ride to pick others up.
End of September brought our final
trip. We found out that Eli’s sister and
her husband were going to be moving to Indiana in the new year. This meant that Isaac and I would be making
the trip to Prosser on our own. Eli’s
sister had invited him to an event the same weekend we had planned to head to Prosser. It wasn’t an event that was Isaac friendly,
nor one that I would really enjoy with it being not the best for Isaac. Eli and I decided that Isaac and I would
stick to the plan of going to Prosser and it was more important for him to
spend the time with his sister, especially since my parents were planning on
coming for Thanksgiving.
We got to meet my parents’ new puppies, Rascal and Tobey. Isaac hasn’t been all that sure about dogs so far, but he warmed up to them. He enjoyed attempting to play fetch (the dogs haven’t quite gotten the hang of it yet), liked laying in their bed, and thought it was hilarious when they licked his tummy. By the time we got home, he was missing the playmates.
In Prosser, it was Balloon Rally
Weekend. Isaac got to see a hot air
balloon being blown up at the elementary school. He also got to spend time with my mom’s
Kindergarten class and got to take school pictures. Unfortunately the weather wouldn’t allow the
balloons to go up over the weekend, so he wasn’t able to see all the balloons
in the air, but had fun just the same.
That wraps up our end of summer
activities, especially since it has been getting pretty chilly here. As I get further into the pregnancy, I lose
more sleep out of just being uncomfortable and can’t run around with Isaac as
much. He’s been adapting pretty well by
playing on his own or coming up with games I can play with him (cars, his
tunnel, or even Legos) if I need to lay down to take pressure off my back. Now we just have to wait for Halloween to see
how he does trick or treating.
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