Isabelle turned twenty nine months old today. She is sweet and loving, always asking for hugs and kisses. And she is as mischievous as ever.

Here she found this pair of old “gasses”, as she calls them, from a drawer she’s not supposed to be in. She had way too much fun with them.

She’s getting into everything and in places she isn’t supposed to be. Here she climbed up onto the bathroom counter, turned on the water, and was splashing everywhere. In fact that is one of her favorite things to do, play with water, that’s why she loves bath time so much.

Isabelle wants to do everything on her own. One of my readers, Debbie, told me about a grocery store in Walnut Creek where they have little shopping carts for kids. She wanted to put EVERYTHING in her cart, mama’s little monkey, I mean helper.

And in this picture, she had piled all the pillows, from the bed, behind the rocker. She made herself a little nest. Caught red handed!

And our monthly family picture where I told her to wave to the camera. HIIIII!!! Isn’t she the cutest? I could just squish her. Actually I think I will, right now.

Go to month twenty eight.

On Saturday Isabelle turned twenty eight months old and we brought her to the Lindsay Wildlife Museum.

Isabelle had so much fun looking at everything.

She waved and said hi to the animals.

She tired herself out completely. She wasn’t freaked out by any of it unlike ME. I didn’t want to touch the dead stuffed animals (by the way which is very cool that you can touch them gently as the sign says). I was scared of the big brown bear. It’s another reason camping doesn’t sound appealing. I actually shrieked (well that sounds too loud, squeaked) in fright seeing the biggest insect, some creepy crawly thing, the size of the palm of my hand.

But Isabelle, was interested in it all. She especially loved the little discovery area where she pretended to chop up vegetables and played vet by wearing the toy stethoscope. Alan had to pry the little vet toys out of her hand when we left.

And our monthly family picture taken at the museum.

Go to month twenty seven.

I am thinking about taking Trixie’s suggestion. Maybe I’ll do wordless posts with just photos the rest of December. I’ll just do some rollover notes on Flickr, so click on the picture if you want. That way there’s no pressure for me to say anything here.

Yeah….maybe. Not like this is a good start to a wordless rest of December. But Isabelle’s another month older. I have to say that. It’s mandatory according to bylaws and statutes. Hee hee! (I’ve never used those words before so I had to throw that in there.)

So anyhoo, this is our monthly family picture in all our pajamaed glory taken at about 4 p.m in the afternoon and posted on time for a change. What?? Are you asking, what are you guys still doing in your pajamas at 4 p.m in the afternoon? Don’t you all stay in your pajamas all day? We do. I KID YOU NOT. Makes it easier if Isabelle wants milk. What? You’re still breastfeeding? Ah, yeah. That’s a post for another day.

Oh my! Can’t have just one photo for the occasion. Must put up more.

Go to month twenty six.

Isabelle turned another month older a little over a week ago. Here are some pictures from the last month.

Isabelle is full of boos. Did you know that? Not boos as in booze but boos as in peek a boo. She’s full of peek a boos. Today at the store she gave everyone she walked by a boo. Sometimes it’s the full on two handed boo. But today I was holding onto her so it was the one handed boo. She even boos when she’s being naughty. Alan says she’s trying to distract us from whatever bad thing she’s doing by being cute and doing the boo thing. Boo!

Did you know that Isabelle likes to chase the dogs around with her toy stroller? Around and around. How fun! Lucky for them she can’t quite reach the pedals on this bike yet. But watch out, she’s getting closer everyday! And when she does do you think she’ll chase them with her bike? Yikes!

Why does Isabelle run around crazy and jump off things at home but in class just wants her hand held constantly?

And I know you can’t see her face in this picture but it just cracks me up.

As well as this one. It should be titled, what happens when parents are bored. Or more specifically when Alan is bored.

And our monthly family picture.

Go read month twenty five.

Isabelle turned another month older. And I’m late with the pictures again. I keep forgetting to write down things I want to remember. But there are always the pictures.

Being silly. Insisting on wearing a hat AND a bib. Isabelle rarely ever wears bibs. But for some reason she felt like getting all “dressed up” that day. My weird little girl.

I see you!

Cute face.

Copying daddy.

And our monthly family picture.

Go see month twenty four.

Or also called mischievous monkey month. Yes our Isabelle has been replaced by a monkey. A monkey who climbs up high.

And puts stickers all over herself. And on mama’s butt (pictures not included).

And shows the dogs who is boss.

And sits there methodically making a mess.

And oh in this picture, the mischievous smile? She just kicked daddy.

Tomorrow (I shouldn’t be promising something I might not be able to deliver so scratch the tomorrow and replace it with soon) expect a VIDEO!! I finally broke down and bought a new cable so I can actually get videos on here again!! And what do you have to look forward to? Monkey likes to dance.

Go read month twenty three.

Isabelle turned another month older last week. Sometimes I can’t get it together to post our recap on time. Oh well. It’s a week late but at least it’s here.

This month Isabelle seems to be calling for Alan more and more. When she wakes up and sees him sleeping she says deh. When we’re in the living room while he’s sleeping still, she’ll pound on the door calling for him. And when he leaves for work she pulls aside the curtain saying deh as he’s leaving.

And enter a new phase: whiney Isabelle. I am sure she whined before but she seems to have taken it to a new level. She has a whiney I want my way fake cry now. Sometimes she makes it interesting by adding a little throw myself down on the floor action to go with that cry. Yikes! HELP US! With real tears and everything.

And this isn’t new but I wanted to bring it up. The shoveling of food in her mouth. When will that become ladylike eating? Sometimes she jams so much food in, there just isn’t any room to swallow. So she spits it out. Not very ladylike either but so funny and cute.

And a concern. I know all kids are different but reading about other kids on blogs and getting one of those monthly what your toddler should be doing newsletters has got me a bit worried. Worried about what? About Isabelle’s talking or I should say her lack of talking. She doesn’t say many sentences or even many words.

Some of the words Isabelle uses frequently are ball, book, wa (water), daw (dog), ca (cat), ear, cole (cold. says it while rubbing her belly), boo (booger), shhooo (shoes), ki (kick. says it when she’s kicking a ball), poo (for anything coming from that region, even farts), mama, and deh. She does have other words but I was reading that she should understand 200 words, and probably use about 50 to 75 of them regularly. Ummm…how many did I list? Thirteen regular words? Olinda says she does talk. We just don’t understand her. Well fine. Shouldn’t we be understanding her more? Like understanding at least thirty seven more words? And sentences? The only sentence I understand is come on (I say that a lot to her). So just a bit concerned.

Go read month twenty two.