We were starting to gather things for our upcoming vacation in Florida. Isaac was helping us unpack as fast as we could pack. He finally found his aqua socks, so he wore them around the house for the rest of the day.
Don't they go great with my red monkey PJ's?
So this is why I wake up with a stiff neck and bruises on my Adam's apple! Isaac's feet are exactly were my face is supposed to be, so after getting kicked in the face for the 20th time in ten minutes I decided to document the offender. I know what your saying "Why not just put him parallel to you and your troubles would be gone." If it was only that simple. The second I put him parallel he does this ninja move where he walks up my chest until his feet reach my face, then he proceeds to kick me until he finally hits a sensitive spot and I either fall out of bed or just get up in the morning. I can tell you what, getting kicked in the nose is one of the worse ways to wake up in the morning. Second only to a groin shot.
Isaac loves vacuum cleaners...as long as they are off. Here he is in a basket, taking apart the vacuum.
Mechanic Isaac checking under the hood to see what is the problem. Hmmm, seems there is a toy are in here instead of an engine. Guess me and my trusty rain boots will have to provide the thrust.
Look mom, no hands.
BUSTED! Caught red handed removing Christmas ornaments. But it is hard to be mad when he isn't wearing any pants and is wearing rain boots.
Look, I put a cheerio in my ear. I am hilarious!
Here he is playing kitchen with Grace.
Like my hat! Starting to get tired. Way past my bedtime.
Hey, party horns. Alright, I think I know how this works.
Weeee! This is fun.
He walked around looking at the horn go in and out and not really were he was walking. He bumped into quite a few things but it didn't bother him as he was so totally focused on the party horn.
Does it work if you blow on the other end?
The older kids all dressed up with no where to go. It looks more like Mardi Gra than New Years.
Vicky and Jay given us the Columbus gang signs. Or are they telling us how many minutes they have left before they fall asleep.
Man, that hat really works for you Brian. You should were that around town. Its sure to be a hit.
Mommy and Isaac, both asleep about two minutes after this picture was taken.
Yet our greatest plans were all for nought. Instead of Isaac using his broom, he makes mommy use his small broom to sweep the kitchen while he uses the big broom. Do you know how long it takes to sweep an entire kitchen with a 6 inch wide broom.
Here is Isaac deciding that mommy doesn't need that broom either.
"That's better, Mommy let me show you how to use two brooms at once to sweep the kitchen."
Isaac looking to see what Santa left him in his stocking. Santa gave him his own cell phone. Hopefully this will prevent him from "borrowing" mom and dad's phones. We have had to call each others phone multiple time to find out where Isaac had deposited the other phone. 
Taking a stroll with my new monkey backpack.
Heather's godson, Jacob showing off his yo yo skills.
Heather's aunt and uncle had motorized bears and Christmas figurines. Isaac was in awe of them and kept wanting to hug them. Which was really cute, until you could hear the motor grinding on the inside because he was preventing it from moving. Most of the day was spent trying to keep him from tearing them apart.
We gave Grace her first purse. She loved it and wore it the rest of the night.
Isaac getting his own tool bag and tools.
A wagon from mom and dad. Not as easy as you would think to put it together. After attempting at the party and realizing that we were doing it wrong we stopped until we got home and could read the directions. Yep, you read that correctly. I read the directions. Although, it didn't really help that much. We basically looked at the picture on the box. Another negative side effect of outsourcing jobs to foreign countries. Their directions don't make any sense.
All the grand kids in the family. Quite the gang of kids. They can make quite a bit of noise together.
The kids with their spouses.
The parents and grandpa.
Isaac enjoying his new Wisconsin Badger crocks. It was quite funny to watch him walk in them. Think old west cowboys walking with the inverted U shaped legs.
Isaac finally gets his own vacuum cleaner! Isaac has a love/hate relationship with vacuums. He loves to push them around the house, take all the parts off them, and play with the chords. He even likes to be in your arms when you are vacuuming. But... they scare the crap out of him if he turns it on and isn't in mom or dad's arms. He will literally fly across the room to get to one of us and climb up our legs if we don't move fast enough. It is so hard not to laugh. I know we sound like evil parents but he knows what he is doing. We warn him that if he turns it on it is going to be loud. But he seems unwilling to learn that lesson yet. The toy vacuum is the best of both worlds, all the fun without the pooping of the pants scariness.
Stanley checking to see if there is anything he can help with or has Isaac dropped any food lately.
Issac digging into his first present. He didn't really care to much at his 1st birthday party but he had a good time at Christmas opening presents. He normally didn't care what was in the wrapped box, he just liked tearing the paper and eating it. Basically, this was the start of the random destruction phase that we are still dealing with at home.
He got some really cool crayola crayons and markers. Yep, he is eating the marker. 
Unfortunately, he still was in the phase of putting everything in his mouth so after one minute with the markers he had a blue and red tongue. We had to put them away until he gets a little older.
Grandma and Grandpa helping him with his gift.
The grand kids ready to dig into the gift and yes that is Isaac with something else in his mouth. I have no idea what it is.
Uncle Ty helping Isaac with his presents.
"Man, this is fun. We should do this everyday."
Yes, it is back! The old "Sit and Spin" that we had when we were kids. Or as I liked to call it the "Spin until you Vomit." I don't know if I ever vomited but I do know I got close pretty much every time I used it. Isaac's came with a 21st century upgrade, it plays music when you hit the buttons on the top of the handle. This is one of the few toys Isaac opened on Christmas that he immediately wanted to play.
Isaac helping daddy assemble the "Sit and Spin."
Isaac still waiting for daddy to finish setting up the toy. He just couldn't wait to start making himself sick. Actually, he is not quite strong enough to get himself going fast enough to make himself dizzy....so daddy helps him out. A dizzy kid looks very similar to a drunk adult.
Grandpa reading the "Night before Christmas" to the grand kids.
We took about 20 pictures and this is the best one we got. It is hard to get three kids to stay in one place long enough for a picture, let alone look at the same camera. Plus grandpa has a bad habit of blinking when the camera takes a picture.
Merry Christmas from Stanley! Lets just say he is not a fan of the Santa hat, but he is a good sport about it.
Max with his reindeer ears.
