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!

Friends are friends forever

Izzy and I met up with our close friends Jil, Avery & Landen at the mall today. We had lunch at Ruby's Diner at Alderwood Mall - as a belated birthday lunch. Landen chose Ruby's because they had "Choo-choo trains" there. Izzy and Avery made fast friends sitting side-by-side in highchairs at the diner. They even shared food - each stealing from the other's lunch. It was so cute - and people kept asking us if Izzy & Avery were twins! Not twins, but I bet they'll be life long friends!

Izzy snarls at the camera while Avery leans in for a hug.

Our little princesses.

Jil & Landen - he's showing off his power ranger pose.

Heather & Jenny Visit

Sunday afternoon, Heather & Jenny visited us for a bit - Izzy had a great time playing with the girls. We tried to get a photo, but Izzy wasn't in the posing mood...

Horton Hears a Who

I wasn't feeling well on Sunday, so in my attempt for a lazy day at home, I turned on the movie Horton Hears A Who thinking Izzy might like it. She's never one to sit still for long but she actually cuddled with me - and fell asleep on my lap. She's getting so big now that this is a rare occasion so I enjoyed it! Gerald couldn't resist snapping a photo...

Stairs

Izzy finally started pulling herself up onto furniture and climbing the stairs over the weekend. She's pretty fast too - she can climb both flights of stairs in about 2 minutes. I'm thinking that she'll be walking in no time since she went from only crawling last week to pulling up and climbing everything almost overnight! I know everyone says it makes life more difficult, but I can't wait for her to walk because she'll get to use her independence that has been frustrating her so much lately - she wants to be a big girl but without the walking part she struggles to do things on her own. I think she'll love being able to walk!!

Hanging with Elmo, Rocky, and Shadow

We made a brief visit over to Auntie Kristi's house on Monday morning - I needed a little break from the house. Since both Kristi & I were working from home on MLK day, I figured a quick "coffee break" wasn't to big of a deal.

Izzy had a chance to visit with Kristi and her boyfriend, Mike... oh, and the cats, of course. Rocky is the striped cat and Shadow is the black cat. They were both very curious about Izzy and she liked trying to chase them around. And we were all entertained (or rather annoyed) by Elmo for a bit too!

Groceries

Look what Gerald brought home from the grocery store!

We headed out in the freezing cold this afternoon to get Izzy some time on the swings at a park in Lynnwood - it's a 10 minute drive, but it seems to be the only park I can find with swings near our house. What's up with that - aren't swings a requirement for a park. I bet some annoying parent sued the park system for a kid falling from a swing and now they won't take the risk...

Grilled Cheese

Ok, so this is silly, but I was so excited yesterday because Izzy had her first grilled cheese sandwich - well kind of, I ended up cutting it into tiny pieces and mostly pulled the bread apart so that they were individual pieces rather that two pieces together, but still ...

Sneakers, can we be friends?

Since Izzy started crawling, she's been a bit of a menace towards Sneakers the cat. They're getting along reasonably well, but Sneakers knows just how far away she needs to stay in order to be safe. Sneakers has recently taken to sleeping near the back of the seat cushions on the couch, just out of reach ... but adding extra incentive for Izzy to learn to climb up on the furniture.

Ninong Jason

Izzy's godfather, Jason, stopped by the house on Tuesday night to deliver Christmas presents for Izzy. Rachel made her two beautiful blankets and they gave her her first baby doll. She loves to play with her eyes - and actually loves to snuggle with the baby's teddy bear most! Izzy wasn't really that excited to sit on Jason's lap, but we were going to get a photo regardless!

MMM...pasta

To Gerald's horror, I let Izzy eat pasta with speghetti sauce on it. She loved playing with the sauce and spreading it all over her highchair and the table. Mmm...