This afternoon, Isaac and I played outside after dinner. Isaac got to feed Ox a few treats. By a few, I mean as many as he could before I finally hid the box from Isaac so the dog didn't get sick. Isaac assumes that everyone rams food into his mouth at the same rate he crams food into his mouth. This meant that for the first time in his five and a half years of life, Ox couldn't eat jerky treats as fast as they were pushed into his face.

As I chased Isaac down the sidewalk, I realized something. I definitely am loved by everyone living in this house. However, the one who I think loves me the most, actually listens to what I say, occasionally does what I say and is least likely to run into traffic or bite me is probably Ox. For those of you wondering, yes I am comparing my dog to my wife and child. Yes this post will annoy my wife and I will pay the consequences. No I don't care.

Big Boy Bed

Just a really quick post...Isaac has slept the past 2 nights in his new big boy bed! The quilts are a temporary thing, as the red and navy comforters are on back-order. Besides, it's not like he uses the quilt at the moment. We'll work on that later. Right now, we're just thrilled he stays in the bed.

New Room

It's been a couple of weeks since my last post. I suppose I haven't posted because I simply haven't known what I wanted to talk about. Parts of the last couple of weeks have been really busy. Parts of it have been wonderfully slow. I'll skip to today. I suppose most people who actually check this know by now that Emily is pregnant (about 9 weeks along). This means we'll need the crib in a few months for number two. (Yes, we are hoping for a daughter. No I don't feel bad admitting that.) That means we are about to begin transitioning Isaac into an actual bed. It also means that I have now lost my office here at the house. The nursery has moved into my office. Isaac's bunk bed was delivered today. In the name of indoctrinating the child at a young age, the Ole Miss pennents and flag go up tomorrow. The red and navy bedspreads have been ordered. I'd post pictures, but I'm feeling a bit lazy. Otherwise, today was the spring cleaning day for Em and I. We washed windows, fed the lawn, cleaned the fridge, mopped, caught up on laundry.

The Zoo

This morning, Em & I took Isaac up to Waco to the Cameron Park Zoo. For the most part, Isaac was mildly indifferent. The tigers and lions seemed a little more interesting. I suppose having the largest cat he'd ever seen roar and breath on the glass right in front of him may have been somewhat more interesting the watching a monkey hang there and stare back at him. He would giggle every time the lion's breath fogged the glass. He cackled when the lion or lioness would growl or snap at the other one. To make things better, we got there as the zoo opened and there was no one there for the first hour we walked around.

Since we've gotten back from Iraq, most of our work weeks have been four day weeks. Many have only been three day weeks. This has been great for getting time with the family. It's also made the work days very pushed to get the administrative and staff work done. There really isn't much of a schedule to fall in on. It seems that much of the next few months will be that way.

There are more pictures of the zoo in the photo albums.