First Christmas

We had our Christmas early this year. 

Here are some photos from Izzie's first Christmas. 

What fun!

 There's a lot going on here...and there's a tree with lights on in the house!

 When Izzie talks, Dad listens.

 Baby's First Christmas Bear for Izzie.

 Iz, Mom, and Grandma having fun.

A snowman ornament for Izzie's collection.

Visions of Sugar Plums

I learned a big lesson today about when it is nap time, put Izzie in bed, and she'll probably go to sleep!
Seems so basic, but that eliminated quite a bit of fussing today.  She ate sweet potatoes for lunch...I hope Shout works as well as Kyle says!

Izzie finally made friends with her pink French poodle this afternoon.  Before she would always give it the big lip or broke down and cried at her!  I'll try to remember to take a picture of FiFi next week.  She's not so bad!

Looks like she wants to do the can can.

                                                                                        I only have eyes for you, Mom.

Long Time - No See

It's been 2 1/2 weeks since I last saw Izzie.  Long time.  Colds and trips got in the way.

I laughed by head off today.  I'm doing every crazy thing to get Izzie to smile or laugh, and she looks at me straight-faced and barely tolerant, which makes me laugh harder!  Too funny.  I guess we have different senses of humor.  She did like it when I was whistling Jingle Bells to her.  I think I stay on tune better with whistling than singing.  We also found out today that her talking doggy sneezes.  Izzie has done most of her giggling about little fake sneezes, but couldn't get any giggles today.  Maybe next time.

Izzie played in her jump chair quite a bit today, and is doing a lot more reaching for things now than the last time I saw her.

She had green beans for lunch.  Wasn't too thrilled.

Here are our photos from today.

Playing with her teething ring in the jump chair...
lots of drooling.














 In serious thought about her butterfly, which is her favorite toy.  This travels with Izzie when she goes into the cave that is her winter car seat.

Blue eyes and long eye lashes.

This is the look I often get

when I'm all but standing on my head

to try to make her laugh!

The Babies Meet Again

We had Thanksgiving dinner yesterday. 

Isabella and Izzie got to meet up again...this time better than before.

Here are a couple of photos of Isabella (7 months) and Izzie (4 months).

When She Was Good, She Was Very, Very Good, But.......

Well, we had some good times today...and some that weren't quite so good. 

It was fun, anyway.

Hope your shots don't hurt too much tommorrow, Iz.

One of the good moments.

Lots of chewing and drooling. 

Blowing bubbles today, too.

Short Little Visit

I got to spend a little time with Kyle and Izzie while Kenny weed wacked out in the yard and put the lawn furniture away for the winter.  I was missing her, since we didn't have our usual time together on Thursday this week.  Here are some photos of Iz in her jumper chair.


Hypnotized by that flashing thing again. 

A penny for your thoughts, Little One.

What big blue eyes you have!

Just keeping an eye on Mom.

November Moods

Our time together today was kind of like November weather.  There were some nice peeks of sunshine and happy times.  Most of the time we were just kind of so so.

I was busy for over an hour trying to put her new jump seat together, and Izzie was pretty content to watch, which was great, because the more difficult that became, the more stubborn I got about conquering that task!
Got it together.  No pix of it today...maybe next time.

 Izzie was doing her floor exercises while I was dressing her,

so I was able to get a shot of her face and her sox.

Those Mary Jane sox = cutest thing going for little girls!

I know...another sleeping picture...at least it's not crying!

She just looked so cozy and cute on this November day...

couldn't pass it up.