Alan’s on vacation for the next two weeks. Posting may be sporadic, may be. We aren’t traveling but are planning for Isabelle’s first birthday party on the 16th. We’ve invited family and friends. Have I ever mentioned how big Alan’s family is? He has a total of nine oops ten, we miscounted, aunts and uncles. Then if you count their spouses that’s eighteen oops twenty. And oh let’s not forget their kids. And they’re all invited!

And so this isn’t a pictureless post, here is a picture of Isabelle. She’s playing with this, push the green part and the balls spin around in there, toy. She didn’t use to know how to push it. I showed it to her months and months ago when she was new and just a lump and couldn’t push anything. The other day I pulled it out of her toy bin and pushed it to show her and she copied me. Wow where’d my little lump of a baby go? In her place is this little independent person who willingly crawls away to another room. Away from me! WOW. This whole past weekend Alan and I have just stopped and stared at her amazed that it’s almost a year and she’s grown so fast. Ok off on that little tangent I went when I just meant to post a picture and then hop off to bed.

Goodnight all and maybe you’ll be hearing from me before two weeks. MAYBE…