With the graduation to the big kid room of Ponies, Isaac has been exposed to all kinds of new things--4 year olds, the requirement to dress and undress himself, the big playground, and chicken nuggets.

One of his friends brings them for lunch about once a week and Isaac is positively obsessed. At dinner we hear about chicky nuggets regardless of what we are eating. "Well, they are aren't chicky nuggets" he'd say.

Then last night, we got him some chicky nuggets from a local grilled food place. Bianca cut them up and I opened his ketchup for dipping and Isaac tore into them with his fork (he is not a finger food kind of kid right now...too messy). After a few chomps he told us:

"Chicky Nuggets--that's pity cool."

Pity cool, indeed.

Isaac likes swinging more than Tarzan.  If there is even a faint hint of a swing set on the horizon, he needs, needs, needs us to push him for a little bit.  He has also taken to the world of Underdogs.  There is the regular Underdogs, the Reverse Underdog, the Frozen and Reverse Frozen Underdog.  There is even the very rare Yoda Underdog (at the top of the swing's arc, just before I pass underneath him, he grabs his hair and makes Yoda ears).  But after generating perhaps a dozen or so new Underdog variants we had to add something to the mix.  Here it is:


After some careful measuring Dad found the perfect distance for the trash can to sit out front.  By doing this Isaac is able to safely but loudly kick the lid closed (a perfect thing for a 3 year old, yep, I said it).  There are few things that generate as much pleasure in this little man as a good session on the swing.  It sometimes prompts spontaneous chants of "Here we go Family" from I-man.  Then this past Sunday Isaac asked us, unprompted, if we could get a swing in the backyard.  Oh, I-man if you only knew what your birthday had in store for you:

Okay, so here is a little less sappy post about I-man and S-man.  Isaac loves to pretend to fly and sometimes it involves me picking him up and carrying him around with his arms outstretched.  Other times it is this: