Green Bean

Eating a fresh green bean raw.
The hungry hippo couldn't wait for them to be cooked.

Makes a good teether.

Playdate

Isabelle made a new friend in our neighborhood. Keegan is 5 months younger. These are actually pictures his mom took of them playing together.

Isabelle had a great time playing with the "new" toys and new friend. Hope to have many more play dates.

Mommy's Cake Eater

Aunt Alysha made Triple Chocolate Cake for mommy's birthday and we got to take some home.

Isabelle definitely approved Aunt Alysha's delicious baking ability!

St Patrick's Day

Four leaf clover hunting.

Even with leprechaun socks, no luck this year.

Bananas Over Bananas

Time to get this blog jump started again. Life got busy for a while. I hope up coming blogs will prove that. These next blogs I had outlined what I wanted to post with the titles, pictures and videos already in place. Just needed a chance for writing descriptions, which will now be shortened, and actually post them. Hope you will enjoy them again even though they are so old.

Though we haven't had any in a while, at this time Isabelle was bananas over bananas.

Of course she was saying "nana" before I started filming.

Once she got the banana she ran around the house attempting to open it.

I finally caught her and got her in the highchair.

See how badly she wanted that banana with her huffing and puffing? That was the first time she had a banana that wasn't cut up.

And I finally got her to say "nana" again.

Mommy's Actual Birthday

On my actual birthday we just hung out at home. In the morning, Jon brought Isabelle in the bedroom with cards from each of them. Later that day I got a basket of pretty flowers from Jon that I never took a moment to photograph. That evening while Jon ran some errands, Isabelle and I spent some time outside. With her beach chair and toys, she was spotting planes. Notice that she is wearing Oscar the Grouch socks especially picked out by me that day as she was being pretty grouchy.

We attempted bubbles for the first time. I blew some for her but with the light breeze she wasn't able to play with them. Isabelle was very interested in the wand so I let her at it.

With her spoon skills intact she knew to dip the wand in the bottle. I wisely decided to hang on to the large bottle to keep her from knocking it over.

The wand kept falling back inside the bottle and was not easy to fish back out especially one handed. I have since bought a smaller bottle that we can use the longer wand with and refill the liquid when needed.

I thought perhaps if Isabelle waved the wand she would make her own bubbles and showed her how to do that. Instead she had bubble liquid flying everywhere. Though not on this video, she did make one small bubble this way. Lots more bubble practice to come.

Once the bubble liquid was rinsed off our hands, bucket play resumed. She kept walking off through the bushes, waving goodbye, and going around the corner of the house.

Getting through the last over grown bushes slowed her down as she didn't want the branches to touch her.

Isabelle the explorer also decided to check out the palm tree trunk.

Although my actually birthday had no extravagant events, I had a great day. I especially enjoyed those precious moments with Isabelle.

Birthday Beach Walk

The day before my birthday we all went to Fernandina Beach for the afternoon. It was such beautiful weather that we were able to enjoy lunch outside at a cute cafe downtown and do a little walking around too. Being from Nebraska I have had quite a few snowy birthdays so now that we are in Florida I wanted to go to the beach for my birthday. It was our first beach outing of the year and a different experience with a walking Isabelle. Unfortunately, this beach walk was pretty short as it was breezy and cooler by the water.



Definitely looking forward to many more beach walks.