The Park

After the Flower & Garden Show (and a nice long nap for Izzy), we headed to Hiawatha Park in W. Seattle. It's the best park I've found for kids Izzy's age. They have great swings & play ground for little ones. Izzy loved the swings (as always), and she finally got a chance to go down a slide for the first time - I think you can see from the photos that it was a hit!

Flower & Garden Show

Kristi, Grandma, Izzy, and I headed to the Flower & Garden Show since it's their last year (maybe) of having it. It was a bit of a disappointment because people weren't very nice about letting a stroller in to see the gardens, but Izzy was on her best behavior and we made the best of it we could. I got inspiration for a couple of new plants for my garden, so I guess it served its purpose!

A couple of fun photos from our day:

Izzy & Grandma in front of the red mustang in one of the gardens
(my Mom had a red mustang when she was younger).

Kristi & Izzy in front of the Asian inspired garden - there are cool lanterns, chairs and elephants behind them - but they're hard to see...

Izzy with the stuffed Tiger in the same Asian inspired garden. I think it was called dancing in the garden and on this side of the exhibit there was a large dance floor with a set-up for a King to watch and the Tiger was near the King's area - Izzy liked the tiger.

At "Spoutopia", younger gardeners designed several displays - this was sponsored by High School students and was a "dressed-up" golf cart. Since Gerald had a golf outing planned the next morning, I thought this was a perfect place for Izzy & me to pose.

As usual, Grandma spoiled Izzy and bought her this darling hat. We tried on a ton of them and finally arrived at this one, because it matches her wardrobe (she looks so cute in purple, what can I say!). Here she is posing on a purple chair at Starbucks - she knows that camera is on her...

Radio Flyer Wagon

Isabella's Grandma & Grandpa bought her a wagon for Christmas. We were holding off on putting it together until the weather started to improve. Since the sun was out this morning, we thought today would be the perfect day to get it all put together so we could push Izzy around the yard while we got some yard work done. As luck would have it, by the time Gerald was done putting it together the sun had turned to clouds and the temperature had dropped significantly... so, we just had a quick stroll around the front yard and we'll look forward to really breaking it in when the sun returns - hopefully very soon!!

Sunday Morning Bowling

We attempted to go bowling on Saturday night (Valentine's Evening) but the alley was too crowded, so we postponed our inaugural bowling excursion to Sunday morning (we skipped church this week, but I was doing a lot of praying at the bowling alley so I think he'll forgive us! ;-) ). It was a fun time. Of course Izzy was too little to bowl yet, but she enjoyed watching all of the people and got a bit of practice walking around with me holding her hands. She's getting close - maybe in a few weeks she'll be at it solo!

Action shot of Gerald - look at that form!

Jessie & Izzy - though Izzy's more interested in her crackers...

Gerald & Izzy

Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day from Izzy!

Life According to Alex

I showed our Nephew Alex how to use our digital camera and then I let him run free. I promised to publish some of his photos so that he could check it out on the blog. Here you go, Alex! Enjoy!

Self portrait

Izzy's not so sure she likes the camera!

Lola & Mom

Auntie Nila

Lolo's sleeping!

Uncle Gerald is sleeping too!Auntie Jessie is being silly!
I am an artiste!

Saturday in Bremerton

Gerald, Izzy & I headed over to Bremerton for Celerina's post-birthday celebration. Marie & Alex were also there. We enjoyed a nice lunch and the kids played together. Izzy really likes to play with Alex's toys. It took a bit of coaxing, but Alex enjoyed sharing with her and playing with her toys too! He liked her barn - it makes animal sounds and can be fun for all ages!

Posing for the camera

See Izzy, you go like this...

Thanks, Cousin Alex!

New Skills

This video speaks for itself. Izzy is pulling herself up on everything, and occasionally she's cruzin'. She's a happy, talkative girl - and quite the ham when she sees the camera!