Isla walking!

She did and for real this time! For about a week she has been bobbling between the coffee table and the couch but today she really walked about 6 steps!! Probably by the time we get to Minnesota she'll be getting up and walking around all over the place!

5 more days until Mark and Isla are in Minnesota! 7 days for me!!!!!

1 year old!

Here are the traditional cake pictures! She did a good job getting it on her hands but not so much on her face and hair. She's a girlie girl at heart! What a wonderful birthday party we had. There were seven kids there which was fun. Isla loves other children! Auntie Laura made the most amazing cupcakes and super big girl cupcake for Isla! Laura is so talented!!

Well, my baby is one! I can't believe how much she has changed in one year. I was looking at videos from when she was only weeks old and it is incredible how different she was then. Every stage she has gone through so far I have loved. I look forward to all of the stages to come!

Florida!

What a great time we had in Florida! Isla was a little out of sorts the first two days as she had her top two teeth pop through! She had fevers and even vomited one day which scared me! I started crying! I guess the first time you see your baby throw up is a shocker!
This picture is of baby Isla with "GG" as we call Great-grandma Edie. Edie will turn 95 later this year! I cannot figure out to make this picture up and down! Oh well! So we went to the pool or beach almost everyday. The weather was awesome. It only rained one day and that was the day Isla was sick so it worked out perfectly!

This picture was at Siesta Key beach. Isla was so tired she fell asleep under the umbrella on the beach. She went into the ocean twice and after getting past the waves which freaked her out she did great!

Uncle John and Auntie Saori were in Florida with us for a couple of days which was so nice. We haven't seen them since Christmas. They are expecting a baby in September!

I took some shots of Isla outside of Barb and Marty's house in her beach outfit and crocs. What a cutie!

This is at Lakewood Ranch just down the road from Barb and Marty's place. Again, we couldn't have asked for better weather. We ate outside at almost every meal!

In the pool with Grandma Barb!

Isla loved her rubber duckie for the pool!
This was her cute cover-up that Grandma Carol gave her. You can see her new top teeth in this picture.

Thank you Barb and Marty for a GREAT vacation!!

box

Amanda put Isla in this cardboard box and let her try to figure out how to get out of it. She's so smart it took about 10 seconds for her to figure it out!

Of course I am biased but she really is smart. This morning I found her standing next to the door reaching up to try to turn the doorknob! Fortunately she's not quite tall enough to reach it but it's a matter of weeks until she's opening doors!!

mommy crawl

I was trying to get her to do the silly mouth noises that she does sometimes but she didn't really want to do it! Instead she wanted to crawl on mommy!

playing with stuffed animals

This video shows an example of what Isla has been doing lately. She'll have two things she wants to play with. Her doll and the god in this video. She'll start playing with one and realize that she has put the other one down and back and forth. I guess it means she's developing her memory...or that she has inherited my talent for multi-tasking!

car accident- everyone is ok!

Last Thursday Amanda called me and told me her and Isla had been in a car accident! Apparently a woman came up on them at a red light. Luckily Amanda saw the car in her mirror and tried to pull over so instead of hitting the bumper the other car hit the side of Amanda's car. No one was hurt thankfully! However the police said the woman was heavily medicated and has a phobia of driving!!! WHY WAS SHE DRIVING!! It makes me so angry that she would risk other people's lives like that!
The good news is that everyone is ok!!

This video is a little boring but I find joy everything she does!

Amanda got Isla this cute hat. Cute but dangerous. I got a phone call this evening at work from Amanda saying that the strap from the hat had made Isla's neck all red and swollen. I left work immediately and drove quickly home. Of course when I rushed in the door to look at her neck I could hardly see the little scratch it had caused. Amanda isn't one to over-react so I had taken her very seriously and to her it was a serious scratch! At least we know we can trust her to pay attention to Isla's every detail!! I'm also glad I'm not the only one who is a little neurotic over our little princess!!

Look at my Easter sweetie! What a cutie-belle! We took her to Easter mass this morning and she was as good as she could be since it was during her nap time.

Over the weekend she has really started pulling up on things to stand. Pretty soon she'll be cruising!