Sea World

We went to Sea World today, and had lots of fun. Isabelle's favorite thing was the "BAby Dophins". She enjoyed Shamu, and the Sharks also. Don't have plans for tomorrow yet, but Wednesday we are traveling to Tampa to see Aunt Mary, Uncle Don and family, can't wait. Talk to everyone later.

been too long

sorry it's been so long since we've posted, but we hope you like the slide show from the past couple months. alot of these are from our trip to Spring Mill.

Isabelle in the Snow

One year old

It has been a while since we have posted and life has been busy. Isabelle turned one on November 15th. We had a wonderful rubber duckie themed birthday party with our families and friends. Isabelle was given lots of toys and she loves them all. She got a whole band including drums, keyboard and guitar, and 4 babies that she loves on and hugs and carries with her all the time. She is walking everywhere and has been since she was 10.5 months old. She is talking all the time and says between 10-15 words like: what's that?, dog, cat, outside, football, grandpa, bear etc. Also she can point out animals in books and she can tell you what the dog says "woof" and the sheep says "baa". It is too cute. She is such an amazing blessing. We had her one year visit at the Dr. and she is 31 1/4 inches tall (this is half as tall as me, i am 62 inches tall) and she weights 23 lbs 10 oz. When the nurse came in to measure her she had to do it twice because she was off the charts on height. I guess she gets that from daddy, we all know it is not from me.
We will post some pictures of her soon from the last couple of months. Our digital camera has been broken by Isabelle and we sent it off to the warranty company 6.5 weeks ago and they just now have said that it will be replaced, but we are still waiting to hear from them about when we can get a new one.

Step by step

Isabelle is trying to walk. She started taking a few steps on her own a couple of weeks ago. She now takes a step or two to get from furniture to furniture and when you put her in front of you she will walk between two people and take up to 6 steps so far. She is pretty wobbly and she usually gets distracted by something like a toy or music and she falls down. I am sure with in the next week or two she is going to be walking all around. She is such a big girl!!
Also she is talking a lot more and getting a little personality. She says mama, dada, mom, dad, cat, dog, meow, uh-oh, oh-no, ouch, duck and I am sure there are others that I cannot think of right now. She also signs all done when she is done eating and more when she wants more.
She is getting a little temper too. Yesterday I was at my mom's picking her up and my mom had gotten her a new game and she was taking the ducks out of the game and throwing them across the room and when I told her not to do it, she would get made and start grunting and throwing more ducks.
We are starting to plan her 1st birthday party. It is hard to believe that it has been almost a year since she was born. It truly feels like a few weeks ago that she was born. She has changed so much over the past year. She is such a blessing to our family.

Hello from CO

We're here in Longmont, at dad's. We've been to Santa Fe, and back now. Isabelle did well on the long drive down and back. She had a couple aunt's to keep her company. Below here is a small compilation of photos from that trip to Santa Fe and Bandelier. Hope everyone is well, we'll keep you all posted.