Izabella is 13 Months Old!

What a fun summer we are having! It has been hot so Izabella has sent most of her days in her diaper. I never thought I would be a mom to let their child do that, however, if we could all run around in just our undies I think we would! So why not let her?! She looks cute in it anyway.

Izabella is so much fun and is learning something new every single day. She is starting to point to her body parts now. She really knows where her toes are because of the song "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes!" She won't point to the rest, just the toes! She also does her own version of patty cake! So cute!

I know that we assume what it is going to be like when we are mothers, but you really have no idea until you are actually there! She is such a sweet baby, most of the time anyway. She is still a great sleeper, which we feel so blessed to have! We truly are so lucky to have such a beautiful, happy baby! Life is GOOD!

Izabella is Walking!!

Chris has been asking when Izabella was going to start walking since she was 6 months old. Of course I laughed at him and would say when she is ready! We did think that she would start walking early since she started crawling, pulling up and cruising so early. Boy were we wrong! So we kept wondering when this day would finally happen, and now it has! How exciting!! We have been waiting and waiting for her to walk and she finally is!!

A few days after she turned 13 months, Chris and I were sitting on opposite sides of the living room and she would take a step or two. We would cheer her on and she would get up and do it again. Next thing we know, she was walking all the way back and forth between us! But the funny thing was when she would walk half-way between us, then look between her legs and look back at us. Then she would try and look between her legs WHILE she was also trying to walk! It was so funny and cute!!

Everyone keeps telling us, "when she starts walking, you will be wishing she wasn't." However, we are really excited that she is actaully walking now! But since she had started crawling so early, she was REALLY good at it and boy was she fast! So she was already getting into everything anyway, without walking! Soo exciting to reach another milestone!! I am sure she will be running soon too!

Family Vacation July 2009

The first weekend of July, we headed out to our timeshare in East Texas. We met up with my sister Rebecca and her family in Canton for some "shopping" before we went to our cabin. Boy was it HOT!!!! It has been a long time since I have been to Canton and forgot how big it is! Could have spent so much money on things I wanted.....but since I didn't NEED it, I passed most of it by!! Want to go back when it is cooler so it isn't so miserable! Maybe that is where we will do our Christmas shopping! :)

We made it to the cabin late that evening. The boys headed to play putt putt while K'Leigh and Izabella enjoyed a movie and Rebecca and I enjoyed catching up. The cabin has stairs which Izabella quickly learned how to use. She was constantly trying to get up the stairs to see what was up there! We finally had to put chairs in front of the bottom of them so she couldn't get through!!

We had a nice and relaxing time while we were there. We spent some time at the waterpark that is on the timeshare grounds, we swam, and swam, played putt putt and cooked out. One of the swimming pools had a beach entry with three fountains. Izabella had so much fun crawling as far as she could until the water was up to her nose. She had fun playing with the fountains too. Her and her daddy went to the deep end where she hung on to her daddy tight, but did have a blast jumping off the side into his arms. There were lots of kids there and they all found their way over to Izabella. Several of the little girls just HAD to get their hands on her. Some wanted to hold her and others just wanted to play with her. She found lots of friends and enjoyed playing with every single one of them! She even had lots of hugs to pass out to them! I don't know if she has ever met a stranger. I guess she is going to be very social like her daddy!

The timeshare put on a beautiful fireworks show on the night of July 4th. In the beginning, Izabella wasn't sure what to think about them, but once she got use to the noise, she started to enjoy the lights in the sky. She kept pointing to them as they exploded. We were all impressed with the show. And once we got back to the cabin, Izabella crashed because she had had a LONG day!

We had such a nice time and it was so good to get away for a little while. But as I am sure all of you know, it is so wonderful to get back to your own home in your own bed! Izabella didn't sleep that great while we were gone, so we were ready to get her back in HER bed so we could all get a good nights sleep again!!