18 months

Well Izzy turned 18 months last thursday! I really can't believe it! She is such a big girl, defintely not a baby anymore! Her words have really started to come along the last month or so . Some of her newest are

Nana

High Chair

Buh Bye

Ball

Dora (sounds like dada)

ice cream(sounds more like hi meem)

Duck

Bubbles

Belly Button (sounds like bebe buh)

She is just such a little person I can't even handle it! She loves imitating what she sees us do, like every tuesday i write the babysitter a check and she likes to take the check book and pen (with the cap on) and write a check. She also likes to file her nails on teh nail file. She is still a pretty good eater, although she is getting a little pickier. Her favorite food is still Cheese, followed probably by hotdogs and ice cream :-) She has finally settled into the one nap routine pretty nicely and will normally nap 1 1/2 hrs-2 hrs which is GREAT. She still goes to sleep around 7 and wakes up between 7 and 7:30 although Sunday morning she slept until 9:30 and I thought she was dead!, she has NEVER slept that late! We have also taken her the last two weeks on our friends pontoon boat and she LOVES it. As long as she has her snacks and gets to go swimming she is a happy girl! She doesn't even fuss much about the life jacket.

I am lacking in new pictures because we had forgotten our camera at a friends house and just got it back on Saturday. Here are a few I have taken with my phone the last 2 weeks.

Book Review

I just finished an amazing book and I had to blog about it. My neighbor loaned it to me. The book is called With or Without You and it is written by Deborah J. Wolf, it is her first book. The story is mainly about a mother and her relationship with her two daughters, one is 15 and the other I think is 12. One of the daughters gets pregnant and decides to place the baby for adoption. I think I would have enjoyed this book even if there was no adoption theme but because there was and it hit so close to home I enjoyed it much more. The characters take on a life of their own and I just loved the writing style. I shed some tears and some smiles. If you want a heartwarming easy read for the summer I recomend it. For those of you who have been touched by adoption I think you will enjoy it even more and pleased with the way the adoption was portrayed. The author has two adopted children and it says in the chat with the author that the adoption story isn't related to either of her childrens adoptions. I am off to search the net to see if i can find a myspace or facebook or blog for the author and leave a comment.......

Terrible Mother!

Well I won the worst mother of the year today! I took Izzy grocery shopping, loaded the car with groceries, put Izzy in the car, took the keys from her and threw them on my front seat, shut her door and went OH SH**!!!!!!! Yep Izzy had pressed the lock button on the keys, so I had locked her in the carseat in the car with no windows open and it is80 degress out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I called my good friend/neighbor first who is a teacher and home for the summer, she is not reac able...I start to freak out, (at this point Izzy is still happy in car playing with her crocs) My husband is a good half hour away and i am stuck. SO i called my other neighboor and asked her if her mom was at teh house with her daughter and luckily she was so I explain to Lydia the neighbor that I need her moms help. Her mom calls me I tell her how to get in my house, where the spare key is and wait. THIS WAS THE LONGEST 10 min or whatever it was OF MY LIFE!!!! After 5 mins or so Izzy is now screaming and reaching for me and I was doing all I could do to keep it together. What a horrible feeling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I had a couple people ask me if i needed help, i explained my problem, both of the women said they have done it before, but at the time it isn't making me feel better. Thank god the grocery store is only about 5 mintues away. LYdia's mom came and I got izzy out and poor kid was so worked up and sweaty!!!! I felt TERRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!! Note to self, always keep phone in my pocket, (thank god i had done that!) and never close the door with keys and kid in it even if i think it is unlocked!!

Summer Fun

I feel like I never have time to sit down and blog lately. So here I am trying with Izzy playing with her crayons and paper on the floor next to me. We will see how long this lasts. We have been having such a wonderful summer! i love the nice weather. Izzy loves going for walks, going to the park, playing in her water table and playhouse outside and going swimming. I haven't taken a ton of pictures lately, it seems like she is tough to photograph these days she is always moving and won't smile for the camera.

A few weeks ago we went to the Hot Air balloon festival with our neighbors and their two kids and Izzy loved seeing the big baloons. We also live right around the corner from a great petting zoo. Here are a few pictures

I am starting to feel better about Izzy's speech, it seems like in the last few weeks she has really started talking more. I had been dreading our 18 month check up because she was no where near the 15 words they wanted her to be at by 18 months but I would say she is about there now...maybe a few shy but I bet more will come in the next couple weeks. I know she understands everything and she is very social so I am not really worried, I think she is just taking her time getting the words out.