Our Favorite Things

Izzie is at such a fun age right now and does the cutest & funniest things. Here are a few of the things Danny and I absolutely love:

• Sometimes when we're holding Izzie or giving her a hug, we pat her on the back. So now she pats us on the back when we're holding her - it's so cute!
• She loves reading books. We keep a few in her toy baskets and she will sometimes look at them by herself. But, most of the time, she picks them up and then crawls into our laps for us to read to her. This is by far one of my favorites!
• She loves playing with her baby dolls. She gets excited shen she sees them and gives them hugs and kisses.
• People give her attention wherever we go because she smiles and waves at everyone and how can you help but notice those beautiful, big, blue eyes?
• She loves to be tossed around and turned upside down. This is definitely Danny's doing since he's been doing these things to her since she was an infant, but the girl seriously loves it. Danny does this little flip thing with her and she giggles and giggles and wants to do it again and again!
• In the bathtub, she loves when we turn on the faucet and she puts her hands, head, and face in the running water - it's especially funny when she tries to take a drink!



• Danny doesn't really love this one, but I do - in the past couple of weeks, Izzie sometimes calls Danny "ma, ma"!
• This one drives me crazy, but it's pretty funny. When she's eating in her high chair, we leave a sippy cup of water out on her tray. Almost every time she needs a drink, she takes a sip then carelessly tosses the cup over her shoulder onto the ground (and then of course I have to pick it up again and again).

First Steps

Izzie started taking her first steps a couple weeks ago at about 9 1/2 months old. Ever since she started crawling at 6 1/2 months, she has been pulling up on things and cruising around furniture. Over the past couple of months she's been getting better and better at standing without support. And finally, she got brave enough to take steps without holding onto anything. I wouldn't say she's officially "walking" yet, but she will walk back and forth between me and Danny and will walk from the couch to the table, the table to the stairs, etc. Anyway, I'm sure it won't be long now before she's off on her own! Here's a cute video (sorry the lighting isn't great) - don't you love how she waves while she walks?!

Exciting Month of "Firsts"

Although most of these things deserve their own post, a compilation will have to due since I'm so far behind! Anyway, August was a big month of "firsts" for Isabelle:

1. She turned 9 months old on the 9th. At her check-up, she weighed 19.8 pounds and was 28 1/4 inches long.

2. She tried many new foods for the first time. At her 9 month check-up, her pediatrician told us we could let her eat just about anything, so she's loved expanding her menu beyond baby food. She'll pretty much eat anything, but so far, some of her favorites include cheese, strawberries, watermelon, black beans, and chicken.

3. She started playing peek-a-boo. She actually started doing this the last couple days of our trip to Salt Lake. She'll pull her shirt or bath towel up over her head and then quickly pull it down and then laugh when we say "Where's Isabelle - Peek-a-boo"!

4. She started dancing. She first started dancing to her "Baby Signing Time" DVDs and now she dances along to most any music. We were at the airport yesterday coming home from Denver and a man sitting by us had his music turned up really loud and Izzie started bopping along.

5. She learned how to wave.

6. She learned how to clap. The video below is of her waving and clapping.

7. She took her first steps (I will create a separate post for this since it's fairly significant and I have a cute video of her).