Last Illustration Friday for this year.

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I knew one day I would be starting a silly baby series. And I have been trying to write down those cute silly things Isabelle does but I haven’t illustrated any of them yet. So here’s the first. I couldn’t decide whether or not to call it silly baby or cute baby. Maybe she won’t like being called a silly baby when she’s older. But I have my silly parent series so I didn’t want to change the name too much. So silly baby it is.

And you’ll also notice that she’s wearing clothes here. Usually when I draw us, I draw us with the same clothes on. It’s quicker then trying to pick colors and different outfits. And drawing a diaper for Isabelle is quicker than drawing clothes. But maybe this will be a new change. It’s nice to see her with more hair and clothes since in real life she does have more hair and does where more than a diaper!

Ok onto the silly baby post. I gave Isabelle some water in her sippy cup. There’s a little piece inside which keeps the water from coming out too fast. I must have put it on upside down because the water was coming out entirely too fast. So what did my silly baby do? She stood there with the cup upside down watching the water just pour out. And when it slowed down a little she would give it a shake so it would come streaming out again.

Hmm…maybe this could have been a silly parent too. Silly for standing there watching Isabelle pour all this water out and not doing anything.

Update: The series changed to cute baby.

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I hope everyone enjoyed their Christmas. On Christmas Eve we went to Alan’s sister’s house. We stayed past midnight and opened presents. We even let Isabelle open presents. I would start it and let her pull at the wrapping paper. She doesn’t get it yet…the whole present thing but seemed to enjoy pulling at the paper. We didn’t get home until after five in the morning.

And then on Christmas day we had dinner at my friends Jennifer and Bob’s like last year. We had so much fun. I made Kahlúa truffle triangles. We don’t drink and the recipe only called for 2 tablespoons of Kahlúa so what do I do with the rest? How long will it last? Shall I make Kahlúa truffles every few days until I run out of Kahlúa?

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I just changed over to the new Blogger. My archives weren’t working for a little bit and there was some scrambling around while I did a temporary fix by copying and pasting. But now I seem to have figured it out. I hope everything is working…

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Isabelle turned fifteen months old last week. I know she is becoming her own little person but this month it has felt more so. She has become very demanding and let’s you know exactly how she feels. From foot stomping (where did she learn that), or screaming her disapproval (like when we take things from her). Here are some pictures I’d like to share from this month.

I got this big bulldog toy as a gift ages ago. It’s about Waldo size. I thought Isabelle might like it. But instead she was scared and kept staring at it out of the corner of her eye as if it would come after her.

One day Isabelle was very quiet. She was sitting by her toybox but not making any playing noises. I looked over to find that she had gotten into some chips Alan had left and was quietly sitting there eating them.

I love the expression on her face, like why are you always taking pictures of me mama?

And our family picture where she’s holding one of her favorite toys, a spoon. And look! We’re all looking at the camera…(thanks to Photoshop).

Not a day goes by that we don’t marvel at how amazing Isabelle is, how big she’s gotten, and how much we love her.

Read month fourteen.

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I found drawing the topic mask for Illustration Friday last time very relaxing. I think it was the repetitive lines. It’s very soothing to draw them, sort of like knitting. I couldn’t stop drawing them so this week’s topic has water like last week’s.

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I had a rough day out with Isabelle with presents and last minute made Christmas cards to be mailed. The trip to the post office was a bit of a challenge with the capper being Isabelle bursting into tears when the postal worker took back the pen she had been lovingly holding. So I wouldn’t be surprised if some people do not receive Christmas cards. It was just one of those outings. I’m surprised I even remembered to take these pictures today. I’ve been meaning to get some decent pictures for days.

Ok…on to it: the fat, one brokened arm (as Alan sees it) bunny. I added a face and gave her a dress so I deem her FINISHED! Alan thinks she is creepy. He says it looks like a dead bunny. Maybe it’s her eyes?

I usually like to embroider faces but I got lazy since this was a test bunny. I just used felt and didn’t even stitch her eyes all the way down. They are just held by the little knot in the middle. They’re just asking to fall off and make her look more dead. Or maybe it’s her smile. I wanted a big smile like my original sketch but it’s a little wobbly and it doesn’t help that I didn’t stuff her head enough.

But I love her.

Down to the gathers on her dress,

the button loop on the back of her dress that she’s practically bursting out of (fat bunny),

and her blind stitched hem. (Yes I figured out the blind stitch on my machine!) I love my fat, creepy, dead looking, broken armed, bunny.

Isabelle on the otherhand does not love fat bunny. In fact I had put fat bunny down on the ottoman and turned around to find Isabelle screaming at fat bunny and beating the crap out of her. Ok not really. But she was screaming and pounding on her. I don’t know what that was about. Wish I had a picture of that!

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