From One Generation To The Next!

Here's little Isaac at just a couple minutes short of being two days old. And, there is something in this picture that was handed down from one generation to the next. The little sleeper that Isaac is wearing was his daddy's! So it was worn almost 40 years ago by his daddy who was much smaller than Isaac. Nathan weighed only 5lbs. 12oz. and was only 18 inches long. This was a little outfit that Woody's father bought for Nathan when he was born. I always loved the color and how soft it was and it is still that pretty blue color and still soft after all these years! We ate lunch with Nathan and Kathy and family today and when I walked in Isaac was on Kathy's shoulder and all I could see was his back and I asked if I recognized his outfit. Kathy said that I should!


Woody got up early and went for a walk as he knew that it wasn't going to get much warmer. Today the temperatures have been dropping all day. Today's high was in the mid 40's but that was sometime in the night. Presently it is 27F. For a while this afternoon we had snow flurries, but prior to that we had over an inch of rain again today. So far this month Weather Bug says that we have had a little over 7" of rain...and it is only the 12th of the month! That's a lot of water! Everything is squishy underfoot. After Woody got home from his walk, he got things set up to grind up a couple of London broils. That took a while and was quite a bit of an effort on his part. I stayed away when I heard what he was doing...I didn't want to get into the mess! After he was through grinding he packed it up in pound portions and we have frozen it. We also broiled some hamburgers to take next door for part of the lunch. Nathan had made some hummus and then we gathered all sorts of condiments from both houses to make hummus sandwiches and/or hamburgers. It was a very good meal and fun to eat with Isaac at the table. Woody held him for a while so Kathy could eat her lunch. After lunch, Woody invited Elijah over to play for a while. He played and then said that he was tired and he decided that he would have his rest over at our house. So I got the art things that were out in the school room (the girls had fun doing art when they were waiting on little Isaac's birth and I just hadn't gotten in to pick up from that and didn't want Elijah to get interested in art rather than a nap!). He snuggled up on the bed that is in there and I read him a story about a dragon and then he went right to sleep with a nice soft throw over him. A little later Abigail called up and asked if she could come over and read to one of us. So she came (when it was snowing) over. Not long after she finished reading Elijah woke up and then they both headed home in time for their supper.


Isaac had an unusual problem with one of his eyes that was discovered not long after he was born. He had a little flap of skin that attached the top lid to his bottom lid. It was keeping Isaac from being able to open that eye. An ophthalmologist was called in. The doctor said that he had never seen this before. The doctor thought at first that all it would take was swiping it with a Q-tip, but in the end he had to cut it with a scalpel. Isaac will go in to see the eye doctor next week...one so young already having an ophthalmologist appointment!