The Return of Bono

Nonnie and Isaac trying on his Bono sunglasses.

Dude, am I cool or what?!

I am ready for my close up Daddy!

Just a nice Christmas picture.

Isaac's First Haircut

Isaac's hair was getting quite shaggy so we decided that he should get a haircut before Christmas arrived. We took him to the place where I get my hair cut. We brought Nonnie and Grandpa along with a boat load of toys to help distract him so Angela could cut his hair without Isaac "helping."

The colorful smock entertained him for about as long as it took to put it on him. No good.

Extra combs worked for a while. He had to have a comb for each hand and he would still drop one to grab the one in Angela's hand. No good.

Here is a joke for you. "How many combs does it take to cut Isaac's hair?" There are five in the picture, but the answer is zero. They don't distract him long enough to get much accomplished. No good.

Here is what Isaac thinks of haircuts! This picture still makes me laugh. We call it "one of Isaac's special pictures." He kinda looks like he is doing the Sylvestor Stallone sneer.

What did we finally get to work? A squirt bottle filled with water. If I lightly squirted his face or allowed him to suck on the bottle he remained relatively motionless. Ok, that is a exaggeration. Let's just says Angela was able to remove some hair but it wasn't really a "good" haircut.

Here he is getting his drink of water.

Here are the after effects of the squirt bottle.

Isaac getting his first look at the Christmas tree.

Isaac "helping" decorate the tree. This means he dug through the boxes, pulled out what he liked and threw the rest on the floor.

Isaac helping Grandpa put the Christmas train together.

Isaac loved the train. He played with it every morning and night. The train played music. Isaac loved to derail the train Godzilla style and then point/grunt until we righted the train. Lets just say we were glad to put the Christmas train away after the holidays.

Christmas at Nonnie's and Grandpa's house

Santa's coming to get you.

Isaac playing with the train under the Christmas tree.

Nope, doesn't taste like a real apple.

Where are my reindeer? Where's Stanley when you need him?

This is a singing Christmas tree stuffed animal. It's mouth moved when it sang and Isaac loved putting his finger in the mouth and watching it bite his finger.

Shortly after the tree bit his finger. It's ok, no splinters from this tree.

Tyler is a college grad!

I have to give my brother mad props. He is working a full time job, raising two kids with another one on the way, does numerous large home construction projects, and still managed to triple major at Viterbo University taking night classes. He is amazing. The whole family went to the graduation. Unlike Madison, they take the time to read every one's name and what they majored in at school. When Tyler's name and majors were read I heard a couple of people around me say "Wow, three majors!" They don't even know all the other stuff going on in his life. WAY TO GO TY!

With the Stapleton men in the house(bar), it always calls for a shot of Tequila. God I hate that stuff. To think, it used to be my shot of choice when I was a freshman at UW-Madison. Wait, I mean, when I was a junior at UW-Madison and I was 21 years old.

Naked Time!

Ok, not quite naked but close. Here is Isaac after he as ripped his baby monitor from the wall and brought it to daddy to show him what a good job he did.

He proceeded to drag the chord around the house looking for place to plug it in. The kid is absolutely fixated with electronics and plugs. He gravitates to remotes, TV's, video games, computers, what ever requires power. He also posses an uncanny knack for being able to disable a TV or computer with the push of one button. Seriously, he touches the TV remote and it takes me five minutes trying to figure out how to undo what ever he just did. I swear the other day he had the remote and was able to change the channel, start recording a cartoon, and almost delete a show we had recorded all in about ten seconds. This kid is going to be scary once he really knows what he is doing. I am sure by the time he is ten I will be asking him how to fix the computer.

The Banana Wave!

Isaac has been in the habit of putting his hands into his hair. This does not normally have a noticeable effect, unless he has just got done eating and has food on his hands. If he is eating spaghetti, this requires a bath. In these pictures he had just had a banana for a snack. So in case your in a pinch and run out of hair gel, you can always use a banana.

Isaac with his "banana horn" turning on the space heater, then turning it off, then turning in on, repeat until we remove him from the area of the space heater.

Droopy eyes means its almost nap time.

Ed Grimley's long lost son? You be the judge.

Ed Grimley, lets hope Isaac grows up to be a little bit more attractive than Ed.

Just call me Lazy

As you know its been quite a while since I last posted any pictures of Isaac. There are a few reasons for this fact. One, he is now constantly on the move and nothing is safe in the house anymore. So by the time he is asleep we are exhausted. Second, and the more likely reason...I have been really lazy! So it has been brought to my attention that I have been depriving the American public of new pictures of Isaac. So here we go..