Best Buds

My sister and niece are visiting for a couple of days. It's so much fun, but now that Isabella is moving around it's a little crazy with two babies into everything. I love the first picture, it took a lot to get that picture. As soon as one would sit still the other would start crawling around. I think I took about 20 shots before I got that one!

Pictures

She Crawls

Isabella started crawling this morning! I've been thinking for quite a while that it would be any day now, she's been so close for so long. She finally figured it out. I guess we'll have to baby proof the house now! Maybe I'll get a picture of her crawling later and post it - she's sleeping right now.

Today Isabella and I went to the town where I work (about 40 miles away) to visit some friends. We made quite a few stops as they all work at different banks. (Really - I do have other friends besides bankers) :) One of them hadn't seen Isabella since she was a newborn in the hospital, she thought she had changed just a little! She was all smiles, and loved "performing" for everyone. And why is it everyone always tries to guess how old your baby is? Not that it bothers me, but I just don't understand it. Today the cashier at Wal-Mart said, "She must be about 4 months." Wow, people usually guess she is a little younger than she is (which is almost 10 months), but that is a new record!

Klutz

My friend Susan and I have an ongoing conversation all the time about which one of us is the most uncoordinated, awkward, klutzy, etc. She swears it's her, but after tonight I really think it has to be me! I decided to take a quick trip to the grocery store this evening after Isabella went to bed. It was garbage pickup tonight and Monte had just gotten done putting all of our garbage at the end of our driveway. As I'm backing up I see Monte come to the window and start waving his arms frantically at me; I thought, oh that looks funny I wonder what he's doing?!!! Duh, it never ocurred to me that I was about to run over our 123 bags ( at least that's what it seemed like :) ) of garbage! Silly me. As I hear all of the "crunching" of everything hitting the car (yes the loaner car) it is then and only then that I realize what I've done. I'm sure I was quite the sight as I was running around the neighborhood picking up bits of our garbage that had landed in other peoples yards!

Busy Weekend

We had a very interesting weekend. We went home to my parents on Friday night so we could paint my parents' house all day Saturday. We got so much done in one day, I couldn't believe it. My mom, dad, brother, sister-in-law, Monte, and I painted all day. My mom got my cousin, Kendall, to come and babysit the four kiddos. She was definitely busy as well. At least my brother's baby girl and Isabella were on opposite schedules so that helped a lot. As soon as one would wake up the other would go down for a nap. It was actually more fun than I thought, it was really nice to have so many people around, which made painting a lot more enjoyable. It was a very long day, then this morning we got up early to drive about 90 miles to my sister's. We went to Church there and went to my niece's first birthday party! It was a lot of fun, my grandma, aunts, uncles, and cousins were all there.

The not so fun part of our weekend started on Friday when our car started making a terrible noise on the drive home. We made it home okay, but our car has major problems, and we definitely don't need that financial burden right now! How wonderful is family though! My cousin owns a Ford dealership and he let us take one of the cars off of his lot to use as long as we need to, until we can either get our car fixed, or we might end up getting a different car. Although, we had to get the Durango last year because Monte has to have 4 wheel drive for work, so we were really hoping our car would last a long time because we didn't want to buy another vehicle anytime soon. Hopefully it can be fixed - and it will be cheap. But I think that's wishful thinking! :)

Moo Baa La La La

Isabella is very into animals right now, she loves to read about them! Those of you that know me know that I love sheep, they are my favorite animal. So imagine how thrilled I was yesterday when Isabella started baaing! It is so funny, she tries so hard to get the sound out! I think sometimes I don't realize how much babies take everything in, they understand so much and are always learning. I'm sure now she will add her baaing to her little bag of tricks she has. She always has to perform whenever she sees someone besides boring old mom and dad. Usually it goes something like this - wave bye bye, fake cough, squeal, fake cough some more until her face turns purple and she's half choking, etc. I can't wait to take her home to my parents' farm so she can see the sheep in person. And of course now Monte is trying to get her to moo since his favorite animals are cows, which his parents have on their farm. As for the title of this post Moo Baa La La La is the name of a book I just ordered for Isabella's birthday in a few months. I love the author, her books are so cute.

There is something about Wal-Mart . . .

that Isabella loves! I don't understand it. We go there pretty often, as it is the only place around to do one stop shopping (groceries AND everything else you could possibly need). The thing I don't understand is that every time we have ever gone Isabella sleeps the entire time we are there! We could be there 20 minutes or 3 hours, it wouldn't matter - she sleeps. We go to any other store and she looks around the whole time in amazement of everything she sees. I guess the nice thing is that I don't have to plan our shopping excursions around nap times as I know she'll get a good nap in while we're there. Silly girl!

We had such a nice day today, the only thing Monte had to do for work today was go to a town nearby and meet someone quick to get his signature. So Isabella and I tagged along. We went out to eat and to the mall. With the cool weather lately, I've realized Isabella doesn't have much for long sleeved fall outfits. She's got a ton of 18 month outfits for winter from my mom's friend, hopefully that's what size she will be in by then. So I picked up some 9 and 12 month outfits today. I actually hit some pretty good sales - so that was good. I am a bargain shopper thanks to all those years of my mom "teaching" me the right way to shop. I'm afraid I've passed on my love for shopping to Isabella, she gets the biggest smile and actually starts laughing at the mere sight of a dress. She's all girl! After our trip to the mall, we of course headed for Wal-Mart so Isabella could get her nap in and so I could get a bike. It is honestly the first bike I have had since I was about 12 years old! Monte's sister gave us a bike seat for Isabella, but I think I better practice up a bit first so as not to risk the life of my child, whose mother hasn't ridden a bike since she was in junior high. Anyway, with working the past couple of weekends it was so nice to be together as a family today, it wouldn't have mattered what we did.