Moving Up!

There are a couple of new things this week:

1.  Munchie has discovered her ability to use the highest, shrillest pitched scream possible.  It's not because she's mad or sad or needs attention.  It's just because she can.

2.  Iz also discovered the fun "ppppp" noise she can make when holds her lips together and blows air (and baby saliva) through them.  It has been the noise of choice for the last 36 hours.

3. She pulls herself up on her knees wherever she can! At the coffee table to steal the remote, on the arm of the couch to get a better view, at the side of her crib so she can plan her escape (yes, we're lowering the crib now).  Big, grown up girl!

Still on the move!  Her teachers at school remarked

this week on how she moves really fast considering

she only rolls and scoots.  But she makes it work!

What are you guys doing up here?

Always such a happy girl!

Wait, there's more than just ceiling in my room?!?

A new game.

Peek-a-boo!

 

  

Girls' Trip

Grammy, Auntie Em, Izzie and I went on a girls' trip last weekend.  We drove down to KC on Friday, spent all day shopping at Legends Outlet Mall on Saturday, and then drove home Sunday (after a final, quick hurrah at the mall).  We had a blast, and Miss Isabel was quite the happy traveler.  (These pictures are off my old camera, and I can't for the life of me figure out how to rotate the vertical ones.  I will work on it--sorry!)

Grammy bought Isabel her first purse.  She loved

carrying it around (and she had $3 in it from Grampa)

Izzie played with my Kindle in the car.  She never has

before, but I thought a 3 hour car ride might call

for some bending of the rules.  The fish made noise

when she hit the screen, which entertained her for a bit.

Grammy and I ran down to the car and found this when we

came back up to our room.  We did a double take before

we realized Auntie was playing a trick on us.

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She now gets up on her hands and knees, folks.

Crawling is just around the corner...

Needless to say, she thought we spent

a little too much time in Gap...

A long day of shopping and that girl still

has her purse.  Mommy was proud.

Dinner in a hotel is so fun!

"Auntie said I could..."

 

Turns out the slushie lid was entertaining for

far longer than the Kindle.  Especially when she

found the hole she could stick her lips through.

We Have a TOOTH!

I was sure that as soon as the first tooth popped out, I would want to shove it back inside Isabel's gums and then shove her inside some newborn clothes and pretend she would never grow up.  HOWEVER, this little tooth that showed up last week is so darn cute I can't bring myself to do it.  (And the physical impossibility of her fitting into her newborn clothes is an issue, though when I imagine her crawling I can see how I would reach the point of trying...)  I did cry a little when I found the tooth, but it was a strange mommy mixture of joy and pride and sadness.  Anyway, that little tooth just snuck in without us even realizing until it was all the way out!  No fussy baby or sore mouth.  Izzie just produced that tooth like it was no big deal.  Like she does it every day.  

Bryan says you can't see the tooth in the pictures.  It's on the bottom, right side.  You're going to need to zoom in, folks.  It's a BABY tooth.  Otherwise just pretend you see it so you can share in my joy.  (PS, if you have ever tried to look in a baby's mouth, let alone take a picture inside of it, you understand why this is the best I can do.  She has yet to master the command of "Open up".)  And the facial expressions in the pictures are interesting.  Bryan and I were working really hard to make her do something to open her mouth...and I think we were creeping her out.  You can see the fear/embarassment/confusion on her face in the last picture.  (Or perhaps it's resignation that these weridos in front of her are, in fact, her parents.)

heehee...

It's true.  She does.

Li'l Scooter

Isabel is newly mobile.  Her rolling has become very advanced, and she scoots backwards so fast.  She can use a combination of rolls, rotations and scoots to get herself anywhere she wants.  And Isabel is already sneaky...she works best and fastest when no one is watching.



 Izzie has a musical toy that we keep under the crib.  She wedged

herself under as far as she could get so she could reach the toy.

And she happily laid there playing her little piano as if this were

a perfectly normal place to be.

Munchie thinks it's really funny when she gets under

the coffee table.  She is completely unfazed when

she inevitably bangs her head on it.  Tough cookie!



A couple of other new things around here.   She has tried her sparkly tennis shoes, which are super cute but a little tight on her pudgy little feet.  And she has also tried her first real solid food...MumMums.  They are basically crackers made of air.  But she thinks it's pretty cool to feed herself.

 

This is how we roll

Mmmmm

 

We took her 6 month pictures with Nana.  We also got some cousin shots with Callie and Carter.  Carter is terrified of Izzie's drool, so we had to keep him as far away from her as possible, while still having them in the same picture.  Luckily Callie is really good with Iz, so we got some good shots.

 

 

 

 

And this picture is just because...well...why wouldn't you want to see this?  Caden likes to hop up on the changing table with Izzie.  And Izzie thinks everything her big cousins do is amazing, so she was game.  He then thought it would be fun to try hats on.  Headbands came next.  They each tried on every single one she owns.  We were on the changing table for awhile.  (And you can't see it, but I'm holding on to Izzie while Bryan takes the picture.  Don't call CPS.)

The Deliciousness of Izzie

Isabel is pure giggly deliciousness right now.  She has expanded her vocabulary to include "Dada" now, much to Bryan's delight.  She laughs hysterically when I growl at her.  She is too busy and grown up to eat her bottles.  She eats all foods except peas.  They literally make her gag (and though she powered through and kept eating them, by the third gag incident I quit trying).  She has tried a sippy cup for the first time.  She pushes herself up on her hands and knees and just kind of rocks back and forth, often very frustrated that it gets her nowhere.  Her favorite (or do I mean "My favorite"?) book is Little Blue Truck.  It is wonderful.  I could recite it in my sleep. 

Izzie's 6 month appointment was last week.  She weighs 19 lbs, 8 oz (95th percentile) and is 26 and 3/4 inches long (81st percentile).  I realize that most people assume she is pounding formula all day with stats like that, but we can barely get this girl to eat most of the time.  She is apparently genetically wired to turn oxygen into calories.  :) 

She cracks herself up

 Prettiest little bird...though her feathers

are easily ruffled when bathtime is over

Gorgeous, drooly mess

 She's embarrassed that I make her do this

every time.  "Not again..."

Big, grown girl

6 Months Old

I can't believe that Isabel is 6 months old.  It blows my mind that she's grown up so fast.  These past few months have been crazy in terms of how much she has changed.  Here's some facts about being 6 months old...

1.  Isabel can turn the lights and sounds aquarium in her crib on and off by herself, to her extreme pleasure. She kicks it so hard it sometimes sounds like she is working on a construction project with all the banging.  (I took this picture of her in the dark.  When she was supposed to be napping but had other ideas.)

2.  Izzie is sure that whatever is in my hands (like the camera) should be in hers so that she can play with it and chew on it.  I went to lunch with a friend recently, and Izzie was sitting my lap as I ate.  I looked down as I was chatting, and Izzie was mauling a handful of ham she had grabbed out of my sandwich.

3.  Munchie rolls effortlessly now, only in a clockwise motion.  But she is choosy about when it is actually worth it.  Sometimes she will roll onto her tummy and cry because she doesn't want to be there, but doesn't feel like rolling back.  However, in this picture, she rolled from the giraffe blankie to where she is in about 30 seconds.  She can do it if she cares enough!

4.  Isabel has some favorite sounds.  She still does the "Mamamamama" a lot, but has recently been rocking the "Buhbuhbuh" quite a bit. 

 

5.  Izzie is learning to love reading as much as Mommy...though perhaps for different reasons. She finds the taste of the book much more exciting than the text.

6.  Sitting up is now the only option.  Laying down is never okay anymore, unless she is sleeping.

7.  Munchie is very good at independent play.  Her current toy of choice is any kind of block.  We have plastic blocks, rubber blocks, and soft blocks.  All are wonderful.

8.  Her feet touch the floor in her jumperoo.  And she goes crazy in it!  Jumping up and down and rocking side to side.  It's hilarious.

9.  Isabel is going to be a big cousin!  Emily is having a baby girl, and we are so excited!  They will only be 10 months apart.  This picture of her is when Em told us it was a girl...I screamed so loud that it terrified her.

10.  Izzie sleeps on her side now (which sometimes turns into her tummy in the middle of the night).  This, combined with her longer hair, means we get some sweet action bed head.  I love it.