Have I ever mentioned that Isabelle hates bibs? HATES THEM. When we put them on her she tugs at them and makes the most horrific noises. She just does not like them! Sometimes she will even knock her food off the table in her mad rush to try to get a bib off.

Go read cute baby #7, wipe.

Isabelle turned 19 months old yesterday. There were so many pictures I loved this month that it was too hard to choose just a few so there are a lot of slideshows here.

I know there’s a lot to talk about this month but I can’t think of anything beyond how much Isabelle enjoys playing. Maybe because as I type this she is trying to drag me off to play, prying my fingers from the keyboard, and tugging at my hands. This past month has just been full of playing! Isabelle is always constantly pulling me off to play, play, play.

Playing outside:

Hiding in tiny places.

The slide! Sometimes she will go whooo as she’s going down with this startled look on her face. And no hitting her head.

Running around the play structures. Pulling at us to help her onto the bench. Play with me! Play with me! her tugs scream.

And playing inside:

Silly baby.

Isabelle’s favorite toy. She is constantly dragging me over there to it. I’m surprised I even have time to post with the constant come and play with me tugging.

Oh that’s all for this month. Impatient little hands are pulling me away…

Read month eighteen.

We had a very nice weekend. It was the Cherry Blossom Festival in Japantown so we met Olinda there for lunch. We thought Isabelle would enjoy it but I mostly wanted to go here, where I got to hurriedly flip through books (hurriedly because of little tugging hands of course). I wasn’t planning on getting more children clothing books but I did. I actually wanted to get a book to make clothes for me but I ended up getting these two.

My favorite dresses from the book on the left, are this and this. And my favorites from the other book are this and this. Maybe we’ll go back next week for the parade and then I’ll get a book for me…maybe…

Anyhoo back to what I was saying. We had yummy food and walked around and then later that evening we had dinner with my father, sister, and nephew. And when we got back to my parent’s house Isabelle played with her cousin Ebow in his little car. And that’s the video I have to show. I missed it all. I was downstairs helping my dad but Alan got it on video using his camera phone! Yay!! So here it is,. I love the part where Isabelle pushes the button and claps her hands and shakes her head to the music.

Shanna sent us a goody bag for making a block for the quilts for the Kims. Isabelle loved the bag!! It kept her entertained for quite a bit. She pulled everything out and I do believe she stuck everything in her mouth except for the Pez candy. She drew in the little notebook and flipped through it’s pages. She chewed off the eraser from the pencil and chewed off the ears on a cute little eraser and bit up crayons and sadly broke them into pieces when she sat on them with her not so tiny butt. She was having so much fun scribbling with them. She chewed on the bracelet and happily wore it on her arm. And I let her play with it all except for the Pez because I didn’t want her to choke on candy but hey I let her put everything else in her mouth! ;-D See she would have actually tried to swallow the candy whereas everything else she spit out.

My favorite part was when she stuck the pencil in her mouth and shook her head back and forth, my silly girl. (hmmm…me thinks that she was copying the dogs, you know that shake they do with their toys) Thank you Shanna! Your goody bag was a huge hit here!

I was reading Secret Agent Josephine this morning and she was saying how Baby Bug can take phone calls on anything. Isabelle does the same thing. Hee hee hee! Except instead of putting say the shoe by her ear she puts it in her neck. And sometimes with her other hand she waves it in the air quite animatedly, like her mama.

Go read cute baby #8, hates bibs.