Our Family

So I took Natali in for her 3 year old pictures. It was fun. We made a little mommy daughter date out of it. We had her pictures taken, then while we were waiting for the prints we went across the street to Costco. We walked around, enjoyed some samples and topped it all off by sharing a churro! Seriously...Costco is one of my favorite places. Both kids fit in the front of the cart, we get samples, Costco chicken, great kids clothes, fabulous prices on kid books, the people there practically know me by name, and to round it all off...hot dog, drink and churro...yes please (lunch for all of us)! Anyway. It was a fun outing with Natali. She is getting ready to start preschool in Sept. and I am not sure who is more excited (her or me). We'll call it a tie. Then I also have her enrolled in a dancing class at the YMCA. A friend of ours teaches it, and Natali is over the top excited for that. We have been watching the Olympics a lot out our house and Natali loves to watch the "dancing girls'. She says she wants to do gymnastics now. Yesterday she took some of my hair ties and put them around her ankles and walked around the house saying she was doing 'nastics". She is getting so big. We love the spunk she adds to our family...intense at times (most of the time)...but we love our little redhead.

Isaac had his one year wellness check yester day and here are his current stats!
Height: 30 1/2 (70%)
Weight: 22lbs 15oz (50%)
Head: 18 1/2 (70%)
His a growing boy! This is his one year picture that we had taken last week. He had a REALLY hard time sitting still. As soon as I sat him he started to crawl away. It made for a very difficult photo op. but we made it work. He is getting closer and closer everyday to walking. And last night he actually slept till about 6:30 am with out waking up once! This is truly a miracle in the Fluhman family because Isaac has NEVER done this before. When I woke up at around 5ish I was so confused and wondered was it am or pm, and why hadn't Isaac woken my up multiple times yet. Then of course I thought, "is he okay!". Once I could hear his breathing over the monitor I quickly rolled over and went back to sleep. Let me just say, getting a solid chunck of sleep is AMAZING (totally not over rated)! Thanks Isaac. Lets do it again tonight!

I can't believe that it's been a year since our little Isaac joined our family. Oh he was such a little chunk...and so much dark hair. We've loved every minute watching him grow and develop his sweet personality. We are so blessed to have his happy easy going spirit in our family.

We had our trauma in the beginning, but it worked out perfectly and he left the hospital a week later in great shape!

Today we celebrated at home watching Isaac DESTROY his cake and open his present. The pictures below show the progression of destruction! He loved every second eating his mini John Deere Tractor (or at least that's the look I was going for). At the end he was taking fist fulls and just squeezing the cake through he chubby fingers and smearing it all over. All we could do was sit and laugh!



Isaac playing with his new instrument toys.
Happy Birthday chunky monkey! We love you!

Somehow last night I found myself at Barnes & Noble with about 100 other girls waiting for the release of Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer. When I say other girls let me just paint you a picture! Ages: 12-15 and dressed up in PROM dresses! Yes as you entered the store there was a sign saying: Welcome to Prom. It was...interesting. How did I get there at 10:30 pm you ask? Well, I saw Mama Mia last night with some friends. I loved loved loved the movie, pretty similar to the Broadway version, but seriously how can you beat ABBA!!! I was honestly restraining myself from bursting out in song and getting up and dancing. I'm sure the other girls are greatful I didn't as well. Anyway, after the movie someone suggested stopping by the bookstore and seeing what it was like. Well , after popping our heads in and feeling TOTALLY out of place we entered a trivia contest and I won! My prize was a Godiva Chocolate Bar with something like "Bite Me" on it (in honor of the book) and I got a ticket to be first in line. So of course we had to stay. Now I am proud to say that I bought the first copy of Breaking Dawn from the West Des Moines Barnes & Noble! I haven't started reading it yet, but I can hardly wait. All I know is there better be some resolution at the end...and it BETTER envolve Edward! (we did take pictures to document the event..I think honestly more as blackmail for eachother so pictures will be posted later)