She took lots of naps today. On Sundays when we go to House of Mercy it gets to be a long day & night for her since she gets to bed later than usual. She had a good day. Mommy had a good day too; she clocked over 12,000 steps on her pedometer today.
You can vote for me here. When mommy checked tonight at 9:15, I was #9 out of 1100. You need to register to vote, and you can vote every day this week. You can use all 5 votes on one picture - mine!
When I went to Skye's to pick up a sndbox from her, they gave us this Little Tikes Coupe as well. She loves it. They have a couple similar at House of Mercy in the nursery and she was so excited when she saw them tonight, as if her giggles were saying "Hey, I have one like that."
Good drivers always know where others are.Hey, You Wanna Ride?
She started to get the hang of moving her own feet to move it. It will take some practice. She did figure out to pick her feet up when I push her around.
So, What Do I Do With This?
She is still figuring out the sand thing. This is the sandbox we got from Skye. Her boys have grown out of these things. Daddy picked up some sand @ Lowe's the other day.
Daddy Shows Her How to Make a Crab in the Sand
After a while we took off her shoes and socks and covered her legs in sand. She had no idea what was going on. After being in there for a while she seemed to get used to the sand, but still not necessarily like it.
We went to House of Mercy tonight and one of the nursery volunteers couldn't make it, so mommy stayed in there. She was great the whole time in there. She would watch the other kids. She seemed very concerned about this boy throwing a tantrum (he wanted daddy.) And she would get all excited when the high school volunteer would read stories. We read a lot of stories here and I think they read a lot at daycare too.
I had a few extra minutes this evening and could fool around with Elements to see some of the things it can do. So, I did a bunch of different things to this photo. Not sure I remember them all, but each time I always learn at least one new thing.
She has toys in her room, but she will crawl out of her room and into the bathroom and play with her bath toys. I think she just likes to dump everything out of the basket.
Such a funny girl. Today grandma & grandpa came to visit. We walked to the park and played there a bit and then went to Pizza Ranch for lunch, then back home for naps. Daddy & I could have left because they were babysitting, but we just went to bed and took long naps. Isabel was nice and took a good ong nap too, which allowed grandma & grandpa some dozing time too.
3 more weeks and she will be a year old. Amazing. I know people get older everyday, but I am just in amazement with everything about Isabel. She's a great kid.
Don't we all. But for Isabel, she gets to spend lots of time with mommy & daddy on the weekend. This Saturday, grandma & grandpa are coming to visit and taking us out for lunch. We are going to Pizza Ranch. They have a buffet with lots of yummy goodies on it, plus they have a play area on the main level for small children (which is great for entertaining Isabel) and on the upper level they have video games & couches for older kids to hang out.
We took a walk to the park today. She just loves swinging. We'll have to get daddy to hang her swing soon. She really enjoyed going down the slide too (w/mom holding her.) She still doesn't much like the sand, but she loves sitting on mommy's lap and controlling the digging machines. I had her crawl on the grass for the first time ever. She didn't much care for that either. All these new sensations for her. I am sure we'll get to the park once or twice this weekend too.
She has a couple bath puppets and some playtime puppets which I keep in a plastic shoebox. I think what she likes most is taking then out and then putting them back in the box. She tried taking the tiger puppet to daycare. Everyday (lately) she tries to take something to daycare and we hope she sets it down in the car on the way over there, but if not I just need to remember she has it and to bring it home. She is definitly developing a sense of ownership.
Daddy put up the baby gate at the top of the stairs. We acually haven't had to use it to deter Isabel, but the cats hate it. Larry really hates it.
Sounds like bathtime is done. I need to go now.
Even though mommy put her pig tails in crooked, she still looks like such a little girl, not a baby anymore. *sniff, sniff* She loves digging in her box of hair pieces. If I want to try to put pig tails in I have to preoccupy her with something that will keep her relatively still. It's hard to get those pigtails even sometimes. Before work I don't have much time, so that doesn't help either.
I like taking these pictures when she is looking down; she looks so sweet and serene.
Not really too much new. I took her for a walk with my friend Linda and her little boy Nick tonight again. We walk to the park and Nick runs around & plays and I push Isabel in the baby swing. She just starts laughing when I push her because it's so much fun.
She likes to practice swimming in the bathtub....scares daddy when she tries to do that. She also likes to try to drink the water, like it's one big cup of water. Silly girl.
We went to River Bend Nature Center today for their pancake brunch. Actually, we went late enough that it was lunch for us. And then we went for a walk on the trails and finally went into the interpretive center. They have a little play area for kids. Once Isabel warmed up to the area she was excited to play with the toys. They have a whole bunch of puppets there as well & a puppet theater too. Daddy liked all the puppets.
We had a good time. Mommy has been there several times,but this was daddy's & Isabel's first time there. I think we may visit here other times this summer. to play in the interpretive center and go for walk on the trails.
She is all over the place now and into everything. She's pretty proud of herself that she can crawl and do things herself.
I was videotaping her this morning (so you might see that on here soo) so that gramps could see her crawling rather than just looking at still pictures. She has to explore everything and I figure it is better to let her explore and teach her how to be nice to things than try to keep everything away from her. Start young.
How Precious
I don't have enough time to fool around with pictures any more, but I took some time today. The only thing I did to this top one was turn it black & white. The bottom one I did a stamp effect on it. I use Photoshop Elements and if I ever get into it I know I can do some pretty neat things with pictures & layering, but I don't have a lot of time to teach myself. I just learn bit of things at a time. I love how detailed her eyelashes are in the bottom picture.
Long Lashes
It is interesting that she has never once even been within the "rainbow" percentiles for length. She is generally just a tall girl. She is now 31.5" long. I also took her waist & head measurements so I can make her birthday props. Her waist is 19.5" and her head circumference is 18.125".
Apparently she went through a little growth spurt in the last 2 weeks, which would explain all the sleepiness (previously she was taking 2 long naps a day for a short while.) Both her weight and length have gained at relatively the same rate. Her length has been a little more steady and her weight increase flucuates a little -- guess she' like the rets of us. :)
She is 11 months old and weighs exactly 23 pounds. I have to check her length again because last time was a week ago. Today she had pictures with daddy at Wal-Mart. Isabel turned 11 months today and daddy turned 31 years old. She is almost getting herself pulled up to standing by herself now.
I even left the red in her eyes. Her grimis very devilish. She was beating up her book. She was in a very good mood after she took her short nap after her pictures this afternoon w/ daddy.
Tada!
Boy, what a mess, I better clean this up.
What mess? I don't see a mess.
We took turns pushing her in the swing, then we went on the slide, then she rode on mom's lap on a big girl swing and then we watched daddy dig in the sand. She's still not too sure about sand. I don't think she likes the texture that much. I had my camera phone with, so these are pictures from that.
She absolutly loves swinging. She enjoyed going down the slide on mom's lap too, but more so if dad was at the end of the slide to watch her.
Well, and pee on the blanket - which she did when she was standing against the rail earlier.
She has got some bad diaper rash, so she was was getting some diaper free time this morning. It her crib or the pack-n-play is the best way to contain her in case she pees (which it never fails that she will) when she needs some air time to help with her diaper rash.
We're looking at a baby girl with such big blue eyes. She was a good napper today. Great for mommy & daddy & Isabel, bad for all the guests that came to mommy's belated birthday party. Everyone wanted to see her, but only those few who came early got to see her, otherwise she went to sleep and took a 2.5 hour nap and woke up once everyone left.
Haha.
She is working on learning how to pull herself up to standing. She can't quite do it herself yet. She gets all the way up on her knees and then gets one foot out from under her and can't quite pull herself up all the way; she needs a little push. But now that we were working with her on it she is determined to try & stand and practices it on the couch, the ottoman, and the tv stand.
She was slow to wake up in the morning. She wakes up like her daddy, but once she wakes up she's ready to go and was chatty. She was telling daddy all about her dreams as he changed her out of her jammies.
I think this is a great picture. 
Lucy has a shot to get away, but Larry is just toast. Every day she gets a little faster.
I took out her hair tie and we were playing around and her hair got all staticky. It made me laugh hysterically and then she would laugh too and then I would laugh because she was in essence laughing at herself.
Auntie Phanie would make lots of silly faces and Isabel couldn't help but laugh at her.
So.....I Grab Here?
Auntie Phanie taught Isabel how to pull on Uncle J's beard. I have a feeling they might regret that in the future.
Isabel w/ Grams
"You wear buttons on your shirt like mama does. I love buttons!"
