First time at the beach for '10

Loving the beach!

......and she's off!

Pointing at the waves and saying "oooooooh"

Last year Isabelle was still a little baby during the summer. We took her to the beach a couple of times, but she was too young to enjoy it. Since the weather is getting warmer, I'm getting so excited to bring her to the beach this summer. I think she'll have a lot of fun in the sand and playing in the water this year. A couple weeks ago we went down to the beach just to let her check it out a little bit. She just took off running around in the sand and just kept pointing at the water. I know she was amazed with the waves. Looking forward to a fun summer!

Easter 2010

Loves her Easter presents!

Pointing at her singing Easter bunny Grandma got her

All ready for church!

After a long day, our little bunny was a little grumpy!

We had a very nice Easter this year. The week leading up to Easter we had some really great services at our church, one of which Jeremy played a disciple sitting at the table for the Last Supper! He had no lines, but still did a great job! Easter Sunday morning we hid Isabelle's baskets and let her find them. She loved all of her Mickey Mouse Clubhouse themed gifts and had so much fun finding them! We bought her plastic eggs a couple of weeks ago and she loves playing with those too. We went to church, followed by a really great meal at home with family. It was beautiful weather and we got to play outside for a while too. Jeremy's mom was in town for about 10 days and it was great having her for Easter. Easter is definitely one of my favorite holidays. It's so important to always remember that Jesus died on the cross for our sins and was resurrected 3 days later...I think that true meaning of Easter gets so lost in the commercialism of the holiday. In all, it was a great day.

Look Closely....

Isabelle is going through a phase where she likes to put food in her ears. On this particular day, she put a noodle in her ear and left it there the entire meal! She's so funny, but man, we have to watch her every second!

Silly Girl

Our pretty girl on Valentine's Day

Isabelle's favorite thing to do...get into the cabinets! This is the face she makes when you ask her to show you her teeth. At the same time she shows you she's saying teeeeeeeth!

Isabelle walked around for an entire day with this monkey strapped around her neck!

No matter what she's doing, if you tell Isabelle to go "night, night" she lays down right where she is

She wore this skirt on her head and just laughed and laughed...she knew she was being silly : )

Lately Isabelle's personality is really coming out. She does funny stuff constantly, and we find ourselves cracking up at her all the time. It's hysterical because she really knows what's funny now and she does it just to make us laugh!! We are having so much fun with our silly, funny, loving, precious, full-of-life little girl!!

Yoga Baby

This is what Isabelle does when we tell her to do downward facing dog...she keeps us laughing!

SNOW!!!

Last weekend Myrtle Beach actually got snow! I've lived here about 7 years and Jeremy 9 years, and the 5 inches of snow we got was the most either of us have ever seen in Myrtle Beach. With both of us being from the north, we're definitely not strangers to snow, but it's been so long since we've been around it we felt all excited like little kids again!! It started on Friday night after Isabelle went to bed. I had to work Saturday, but Jeremy took her out to play in the morning. She started crying at first, but after a short while she was loving it and they had a blast! She liked when daddy made snow balls for her and she loved to eat it too! Fortunately, they got their play time in early because it was mostly all melted by noon. Jeremy got some shots of Isabelle in the snow, because who knows when she'll see it again!

15 months old

Monday, February 1st marked Isabelle's 15 month mark. Isabelle has changed so much in these last three months since her first birthday. Isabelle now is completely on table food, and is sporting 6 teeth. She actually eats A LOT, you wouldn't think that from how tiny she is! She eats 3 meals a day and snacks in between. She loves her fruits and veggies, and pretty much will only feed herself. She's so independent these days and wants to feed herself, brush her own teeth and anything else she thinks she doesn't need help with!! About a month ago, Isabelle transitioned over completely to 1 nap per day. Although we miss the free time with the extra nap, it does give more flexibility to our day. She goes down after lunch around 12:30 and sleeps about 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 hours. She's sleeping well at night too, from about 7:30 to 7:30. Another amazing accomplishment happened a couple weeks ago when we got her completely off bottles. She's drinking all her fluids in her sippy cup now and doing very well with it...we definitely don't miss cleaning all of those bottles! Probably the biggest thing that happened in these last three months is Isabelle official became a walker. She started taking a few steps during her 13 month. Around 14 1/2 months she started really cruising around. The past couple weeks, she walks about 80% of the time. The other 20% she walks around on her knees! Silly girl, I guess it makes her feel more stable. Her vocabulary has really grown as well. She's saying Dada constantly, but also duck, hi, eyes, hot, what and occasionally byebye. For some reason she refuses to say mama...I think my stubborn little girl won't say it because she knows I want her to!! For the last few months, Isabelle has really gotten more interaction with other babies. During the week she's in the nursery at church, with the kids at our Life Group meetings, and in the children's program at my Bible study. I think all the exposure has brought on more colds, but the interaction has been really good for her. She likes playing with the kids. Today was her 15 month appointment. She's tipping the scales at 18lbs. 10oz and 30 inches long. As always, she's very petite, but still healthy. I know this is getting long, but a lot happened in her little life in 3 short months! She is such a blessing to our lives and we thank God every day for our sweet angel!