On the weekend we went to McNear’s beach in San Rafael for a birthday party. Me and Isabelle sat on a mat on the grass watching Alan play volleyball. Actually that’s not quite right. I watched while Isabelle crawled around playing with a toy. It’s funny. She didn’t like how the grass felt. When she got to the edge of the mats she would stop and turn and go in the other direction.

We walked on the pier and Isabelle fell asleep for a nap. We put her in her stroller and wheeled her around the park and got some ice cream from the snack bar. It was nice and relaxing.

Have you ever watched Teletubbies? They’re sort of mesmerizing. Alan and I were watching a DVD on the computer and had Teletubbies on the tv for Isabelle. But I kept turning towards the tv to watch the Teletubbies instead of the movie. They’re so cute. I’ve tried watching Boobah before. It did nothing for me or Isabelle. She wasn’t interested. But Teletubbies…mesmerizing.

Sometime last month Isabelle said her first word, bubbles. Well she’s babbled lots of different things but I count this as her first word because I think she knows what she means when she says it. She learned it from Baby Babble. I mentioned that she likes Teletubbies but Baby Babble, she absolutely adores (well as much as a baby with a short attention span can adore something).

When she first said bubbles watching Baby Babble I said did she just say bubbles?! Alan I think that’s her first word! And ever since then when she sees the bubble part on the DVD she says bubbles and has her pointy finger out trying to pop them like on the DVD. See video here. You can see her little finger out like she’s trying to pop them and hear her say bubbles!

Oh and the picture above has nothing to do with bubbles. When it gets close to Isabelle turning another month older I have this need to post the pictures in the correct month. Have I mentioned that before? Well anyhoo in this picture Isabelle is wearing a dress we got as a gift. It matches Matilda’s outfit!! What a weird coincidence huh?

Wow my first silly parent not illustrated…anyhoo…

Alan was going to give some watermelon to Isabelle to hold and eat. I told him to get a bib. Instead he cut holes in a Safeway plastic bag and used that. Not once but twice. She ripped the first one. I laughed so hard.

Go read Silly Parent #22, Baby Proofing.

You may have noticed in the bubble video that we have Isabelle’s exersaucer and walker in front of the television. That’s because she would stand there patting the tv or trying to pop the bubbles. Well we had these ottomans there for a bit but our little monkey learned to climb up onto them to pat the tv.

Since the ottomans weren’t keeping her from the tv I moved them to the middle of the room. But with the new climbing skill she acquired, she kept climbing on top of them to sit there. Or I should say try to sit because she would fall off, with me catching her. One night she kept doing it over and over and OVER. Now the ottomans have toys on top of them to stop her from climbing. She’s a regular little monkey.