Isaac - photos by Callie Anne Photography

When Isaac and Mom went to TX with for MamMaw Parish's birthday, we also went down to Baylor University in Waco, where our amazing friend Callie Carruth-Harper took pictures of Isaac. The first one is of Isaac and Callie's son Hutson.

By the way, Callie is an amazing photographer - very patient and great at catching the spirit of Isaac (each of these pics capture Isaac's personality quirks and facial expressions!). If you are ever in the Austin, TX, area and need a photographer, you should check her out at www.callieannephotography.blogspot.com!

Isaac and Hutson

Waving 'bye (or hello?)

A little insight into our world right now...

Isaac has been developing his little personality at warp speed lately - he is very curious, and more than a little silly. We will often walk in on him bopping along to the music in his head, or talking to any number of stuffed animals in his room. Here are a few pics from his more recent personality development!

Cuddling/wrestling with Dad

Cuddling/wrestling with Charly


Hanging out in a Huggies box


Putting the Superman toy bucket on his head

Thanksgiving 2007

This is not about Isaac (he and I were taking a nap at the time) - but I found it on our computer this afternoon and thought it was funny! Last year at MamMaw and PapPaw Parish's house on Thanksgiving, it started snowing, and the "big kids" got to play in the snowflakes! (The big kids are cousin Joey, Garin, Aunt Stephanie, and Aunt Jessica - Grammie is filming.)

Boy and dog - a photo series...

Last January, we took some pics of Isaac and Lucy (our dog), where they seemed to be making the same faces and expressions. Here he is again, this time with Grammie's dog, Annabelle.

Everybody look right...

...now everybody look left...

...now everybody look down...

...now cuddle up!!


Puppy-kisses are the best!

A trip to Grammie's, Oct 30-Nov 5

Reading an "In Style" magazine on the plane (apparently, little black dresses are back)

Lots of new things to play with at Grammie's house!

There is a pumpkin patch across the street from Grammie's house, so we went Friday afternoon. Isaac explored the pumpkin vines, and Mom got bitten by ants. Ick.

In his Halloween costume, which he wore for all of 15 minutes - in TX, Halloween is not the day to wear head-to-toe fleece!

With (Mom's good friend) Callie's son Hutson on Baylor campus

Maybe someday they'll hang this picture on their Baylor dorm room wall!

We got together with some of Mom's high school basketball teammates - this is Amber's son Zane. (They took turns getting in and out of the highchair.)

Sharing crackers on the kitchen floor with Aunt Jessica

With PapPaw Parish

The boy loves his Grammie!

Fort Worth Zoo - Tuesday, Nov 4

Since Mom and Grammie had voted early (and it only took 20 minutes for Aunt Jess to vote) we took election day off and went to the zoo. It was great fun!

Isaac had the best seat in the house!

Grammie and Isaac watching the rhinos.

In the Bird Aviary, Isaac fed one of the parrots with a birdseed stick (there's a video in the next post)

In case you can't read it, this says "Hill Country" (so, basically this is a pic of Mom being cheesy)

Isaac loved the penguins - this one was trying to eat his fingers, though Isaac seems blissfully unaware.

Trying to pet the penguin

A couple of videos from the Grammie trip

Here are a few videos from our recent trip to visit our TX family.

Isaac loved playing with Annabelle, Grammie's huge lab-mix dog. This is a video of the three of them playing soccer (with a partially-deflated basketball).

On Tuesday, Mom, Jess, Grammie and Isaac went to the Fort Worth Zoo. At the aviary, Isaac and Grammie fed one of the birds with a birdseed stick. It was pretty cool!

Picture tag...

Here's a new tag that is actually pretty simple to do.
Open your pictures folder
Go to the SIXTH folder
Go to the SIXTH picture
Publish it to a NEW POST and tell the story of the photo

This tag came from Isaac's friend Hutson's blog (actually, my friend and his mom, Callie, sent it!) - it was a little complicated because all our pictures are in iPhoto, so there aren't any "folders," but this was the closest thing (I just kinda made up my own system).

STORY: We bought Isaac a new Monkey towel, and this picture was taken after bathtime the first time we used the towel. Dad had given Isaac the bath, and then brought him downstairs to show Mom the "cuteness" (those were Dad's exact words). He actually didn't like the towel much - this pic was taken in between protestations!

I tag: Julia and Trevor, Angela and John, Natalie and Chris, and Stacie! Post your pictures, too!

"Carson-Newman, How I Love Thee..."

This weekend was Carson-Newman's Homecoming, so we trekked up to Virginia for a night, and then on to Jefferson City, TN, for the festivities and football game.

The new football stadium is very nice, and we sat with the Barkers (thanks, Stacie, for taking most of these pictures!)

Every time Carson-Newman did something good, Isaac stood up on Dad's lap and started bouncing and looking toward the endzone - we finally figured out that he was looking at the cheerleaders! Dad was so proud...


It started to get really cold, and Carson-Newman was up 42-7 at half-time, so we decided take one last picture and head back home. It was short trip, but worth it.

Mom and Dad in front of the fountain near the new (very fancy) field house at the football stadium.

The latest installment in our "Isaac on college campuses" series (in front of the columns on C-N campus).

A visit to Grandma's house, Oct 17-18

We went to Isaac's Grandma's house in Virginia on Friday, before going on to Carson-Newman (Dad's alma mater) for Homecoming. We were only there for about 16 hours, but it was great to see MamMaw Mac, Grandma, and the Barkers!

"Grandma lets me sit on the counter and eat crackers! She's much cooler than my parents."

Aunt Marie (Barker) taught Isaac a new dance (see the video on the next post) - it was quite entertaining!

"Look what I found - a basket of bunnies! (I am so very proud of myself.)"

Warm and fuzzy in his moose jammies

a little off balance (he spends a lot of time like this)

A visit to Grandma's house, the video

Aunt Marie (Barker) taught him a new dance - they point their fingers in the air and then "get down"! It was oh-so-hilarious (be sure to push play to watch the video below).

New cousin!

Isaac has a new cousin: Micah Levi Hill was born on Thursday, October 16 at 1:30am - congrats to Aunt Julia, Uncle Trevor and Cousin Tirzah! Check out pictures at their blog (click the link at the bottom left of this blog called "Cousins Tirzah and Micah"), and prepare yourself for some cuteness!

Pumpkin Patch

On Saturday, we went to Iseley Farm to pick out some pumpkins - Isaac really seemed to enjoy seeing the beautiful fall colors. It's so fun to watch him learn about the world and have new experiences!

An Isaac-sized pumpkin.

They had beautiful mums there, too.

Obligatory picture with his pumpkin (sitting in a rocking chair - it was really sunny, so he's not so much smiling as squinting, but we tried!)

Tired of picking pumpkins - ready for a nap...

Isaac in his funny hat

Our little clown - such a silly boy!