Walking For Real

Dear Isabella,

Well I guess it's official: you are a walker. You still crawl when you're in a rush but you are walking more and more every day. I'm so proud of you and I love watching you grow and develop your personality. It's funny to get to know your little mannerisms.

I'm a little sad too. This year has gone by so fast. I hold you at bed time and think of the little wiggle worm with a floppy neck you once were, bundled in your magic blanket. Now you're a curious little monkey just like Curious George. Can you please slow down my little Bean?

Love,
Mommy

Mommy's Engineer

Hi Isabella!

The other day I showed you how to stack your Playskool rings a couple times and you seemed to sort of understand the concept.

Then today you took your rings and just started stacking them correctly all by yourself! You are so smart!

You always want to see how things work and you sure do learn quickly. I tried to get you to do it again but you lost interest pretty quickly. I hope you're not like me when you grow up - once I figure out I can do something I don't care as much about doing it anymore.

Here's a video of you doing it until you lost interest:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHW83MaBSz8

Love,
Mommy

Almost a year - already??

Dear Isabella, Can you believe it, we are getting ready to celebrate your FIRST BIRTHDAY! How exciting! My Bean, you are the sweetest thing in my life and make me smile every day. I know everyone says this about all kinds of things, but TIME has just been FLYING by. This year has been such a whirlwind. I love you more every single day, can you even believe that? Lately you have been having fun talking to your friend Other Baby in the reflection, and you even offer each other your toys. Somehow she's always wearing the same clothes and always has the same toy. And you sure interrupt each other a lot. But you're always SO happy to see each other. You have also been having fun putting your toys inside each other. The other day you tried to put Minnie Mouse in your oven, and you kept putting your yellow kitchen spoon into your green garbage can. You also love to put your crab and octopus tub toys inside your bath cup. You are learning how to put the stacking rings onto the pin, and you love mixing and matching your stacking cups by putting them inside each other. You're getting to be quite the character, sweet pea, and I love watching you learn and grow and discover. What a year it has been! Love, Mommy

Practice practice!

Dear Isabella,

You've been practicing your walking a lot! Grandma got some video of you this weekend and then you got even better when you practiced with Daddy yesterday.

Grandma's video 3/3/12

Mommy's video 3/5/12

You're growing up so fast!

I love you!

Love,
Mommy