15 months

Well Izzy turned 15 months today! We don't have our well check up with the Dr until next week but I thought I would get down where she is at and what she is doing

-Walking/running everywhere and has been for a couple months
-Eating prettying good although her vegatable intake has gone down lately
-Loves to Eat Cheese, by far her favorite food, she will give up a cookie for cheese
-Says "Cheese" and "hot" but no mama or dada really
-She says boooo if you ask her what a cow says...her version of mooo i guess
-Loves to dance and bounce
-If you ask her who is cute, she will raise her hand
-Still loves her bath but hates getting her hair washed
-Still is taking 2 naps most days but only about an hour each sometimes 1.5 hrs
-Loves to swing at the park and go for walks
-Still loves Dora and Deigo
-No more bottles!!!!
-Understands so much of what we say, it keeps amazing me everday
-Loves dogs
-Wearing 18 month pants and still a few 12 month size and 18 or 24 month shirts

I think that is about all I can think of right now. I love you big girl!!!

Great weekend

We had such a wonderful weekend. The weather was GREAT even though it was supposed to rain it didn't. Friday night we went out to dinner the 3 of us to our favorite local place then stopped at some friends house to drop something off. Saturday morning, I went and worked out and Izzy and DH went to Cabellas with his best friend and son Jack. Saturday night we had Passover dinner at my folks, and they kept Izzy for the night so we could go to a party at a friends house to visit with some out of town friends we haven't seen in a long time. One of the other couples there brougth their almost 2 month old daughter and she was SOOOOO cute!! I got to hold the little peanut and rocked her to sleep. It was so nice. I just love the newborns (when I don't have to get up with them in the middle of the night!) So i got my baby fix for a while :) Then Sun mornind DH and I had the best morning, we kinda had a date morning since Izzy was at my parents. We slept in a little had coffee in our sun room then we walked up to town for breakfast and walked back. It was FANTASTIC. It was so weird to be walking without a stroller :)

Then last night we went to my aunt and uncles for dinner and Izzy was the star of the show of course. Here is my favorite picture of the night of her trying on her new backpack.

Bye Bye Bottle :)

Guess what, so far we have been bottle free 3 nights in a row!!!! We had Izzy down to just one a day at night but Monday night when i was out of town, DH tried to give it to her and she didn't want it. So tuesday she didn't get one although she wanted it because she kept pointing to where it normally is and doing the more sign...and last night i put her to bed without it and no problem. She sleeps through the night!! I am SOOOOOOO excited about being done with bottles which means I don't have to clean them anymore!!!!! I love the dr browns wide neck because i think they work good but they are a pain in teh u knwo what to clean! I think I am seriously throwing the bottles all out since if/when there is a second I would just buy new ones and probably no Dr Browns!

Totally unrelated I am very frustrated with homeownership right now. DH had a Heating and cooling guy out yesterday to give us a quote for a new A/C. Ours has never worked very well since we have been in this house. Well of course the guy takes one look at our old furnace and recommends a new one of those too. So for both a furnace and A/C he quotes close to 10K!!!!!! Well we go to bed last night thinking whatever we will at some point replace both but probably not at the same time and not right away................well then this morning we wake up and it is cold in the house, I look at the thermostat and it is 65 in our house but it is set at 68...I say..uh oh. So we call back the company we had out yesterday and they sent out a tech today. Looks at oru furnace and says some motor part is broken ($212) but if it were him he wouldn't put any more money in the furnace. DH tells me to have teh guy look at the A/C...which he does. He comes back in the house and says...I know what is wrong with your A/C....your compressor is bad you need a new A/C unit........FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So now we have some serious decisions to make and I called another company to come out to give us a quote tomorrow.

Urgh!! So much for being totally excited about or $10K tax refund...........I can guess where that is all gonna end up!!!!!!!!!!

Dancing video from Easter

DH finally showed me how to download the video off my camera. Check out Izzy dancing to her Disco Duck Egg. She was getting down!

Fun outside

Well we had a GREAT weekend playing outside! Miss Izzy loves to be outside! She likes to walk down the sidewalk and look for doggies, she seems to be really into dogs lately. We played with teh neighboor girls (7 & 8) on their trampoline, which Izzy seemed to enjoy. Yesterday Izzy and I walked up to the park and went swinging, as you can see by the picture she LOVES swinging! I can't wait for summer, it was in teh 60's and breezy this weekend which was great but I can't wait till it is in the 70's! We grilled with our neighboors and hung out which I have missed so much!

On another subject DH and I came to agreement on what to do about a gym membership. I am goign to join the gym where my class was by June at the latest (car is paid off in June WHOHOOH!) the best part about it is by joining we get access to the awesome outdoor pool which Izzy and I will be using a lot of this summer! I am excited. I have to just try to stay motivated active and eat well between now and then. It is so much harder on your own to still go to the gym and work out for the full time. I packed my clothes and am goign today to workout at the little gym by the house (it is not a health club just a gym but I won a 6 month membership there and it is all new equipment)

Other than that not much else new. Just loving the warmer weather and can't wait for more!!!

Random Thoughts

I haven't blogged in a little while so I will add some random thoughts. I forgot to blog about Izzy's cast removal last week, she got it off on Tuesday and was a champ! We thought she would be scared of the loud noise of the saw but she actually laughed when they cut it off, it must have tickled from teh vibration. She started moving it right away and she is back to normal...yipee! The xray showed it is healing well and no more cast was needed! Yipee, I am so glad that is done, giving her a bath with the cast was not so fun!

Other Izzy developments, lets see she still isn't really talking, but she does say moooo(or more like boooooo) when you ask her what a cow says or if she sees a cow. We took her to the petting farm last weekend and the cow came right up to the fence and we could even pet it! She also got to see lots of baby pigs which she loved! Can't wait for warm weather so we can do more outside. It is actually supposed to be nice this weekend so I can't wait. We definately have cabin fever!

Oh and an update on her sleep. I think that night last week her mouth was just really bothering her because she was fine the next several nights. The poor kid has like 5 teeth coming in at one time, i noticed yesterday that I think the top center 2 finally poked through and then a bottom one popped also, so I think she has 2 more on the top trying to make it through also. It has to hurt. Last nigth ws the first night she got up in the middle of the night and I just went up gave her tylenol and origel and rocked her for 5 minutes and she was back out until morning......phew!

This is the last week of my workout class/biggest loser challenge. I am so sad it is over but still might continue on to the next class, I am waiting to see if the DJ comes through with getting me a free membership, if he does then I think I am going to take the next class which is more weight training based and way mor intense, i took the demo class on Saturday and my legs were sore for 3 days!. Still 3x a week only it will be in the morning instead of noon like I do now. Izzy will have to go the child care at the club 2x a week because my mom will not be available monday and wednesday but I think that will also be good for her. I took her there last friday and she did great! She loves being in new places and around other kids. I also will find out Friday at our weigh in if I win.....I hope so! I am hoping to be down a total of 15lbs! I am definately the smallest size i have been in my adult life. I have bought some new clothes lately and all the pants have been a size 8! I can't remember being a solid size 8 ever in my adult life, maybe for a year or so in college.....I am proud of myself! I just hope that if I don't take the next class that I am able to continue working out on my own.

Oh and we got our taxes completed and YIPEEEEEEE is all I have to say. We are getting so much money back and will still have $2500 of the adoption credit to carry over next year! We got to apply most of it this year and get it back which I am so thrilled about! Maybe we will actually be able to afford to do it again...........on that front I think we are both kind of thinking that we will get everything submitted by summer some time....there is still a small part of me that doesn't want to start over but the larger part wants Izzy to have a sibling, as scary and overwhelming as the idea of doing it again is. I would like them to be 2-3 yrs apart so if we wait till end of summer to submit everything and it takes 6 mo to a year we will be in good shape. I really can't imagine having a newborn right now. I know people do it everyday but I don't think I am ready...and neither is DH.

Okay well I guess that is enough random thoughts flying out of my head!