Well, Summer's Officially Over!

So since it has been over a month since I wrote in my blog, I am going to try to catch up. First blog - all about Isabella. Since Destin I swear she has grown a foot. When I look at her these days I just feel like I have a little girl now. I mean I know she hasn't been a 'baby' for a while, but she just seems so grown up!

If you don't believe me you can see the picture below. We stopped by her Grandpa's office recently and he had her doing calculations!!



Ok seriously that picture cracks me up. She LOVED that calculator that spits out paper though. She loves grandpa's office because he will let her do whatever she wants! =)

On that same visit we went to Babies R Us with Nana and she rode in her first motorized little car thingy. Not sure what those are called...


Her new thing lately is for me to hold her. I don't think it is so much that she needs me to hold her, she just wants up high. She has been in to everything down low so many times, I think she is ready to get in up high drawers and cabinets. Anyway, she likes to sit on the bathroom counter and put her feet in the sink and look at herself in the mirror. While doing this one day, since I can't exactly go anywhere while she does this, I experimented with pigtails. They are SO cute I think.


What else have we been up to? Well we are selling our house! We were going to wait until after the holidays, but we figured we may as well put it on the market and see how it does. Who knows, we may be moved by the holidays or not. We aren't in a hurry, but I would like to be in a new house by Isabella's birthday. Mainly because I have a great idea for her birthday party and want to invite lots of people. Is that a good reason? =)

So trying to get the house all cleaned up and out with a toddler in the house has been a challenge, so Isabella started Mother's Day Out for three days a week this week! She loves it there, so I don't feel too guilty offloading her for 15 hours a week. I go to pick her up and she waves and keeps playing, so that makes me feel good.

Bella also has started speaking her own language, some dialect of Japanese I believe. She has also started saying a bunch of English words in her own cute way. Banana, goggles, cookie, juice, wet (although that sounds just like hot), and pretty much anything that starts with a 'B' she at least tries to say. It is so amazing to hear her start saying random things out of the blue. Half the time you don't even realize she is paying attention and then she blurts out what you just said. Jason and I were having some conversation in which Lady Gaga came up, and Bella immediately goes 'gaga'. Then we kept saying it and she kept repeating it. Haha. She has always been a Gaga fan, so it isn't surprising. =)