I have beach pictures, zoo pictures, and sewing to show but just thought I’d pop in and share a little drawing and a video. This little clip been sitting on my desktop since October! It’s one of those little clips that I think, oh I’ll put that up tomorrow. Or next week. And next thing you know, five months have gone by. I’m a goober.

Isabelle turned another month older on Alan’s birthday. Here’s our monthly family picture.

She’s getting so tall. She can reach the pedals on her tricycle now.

And I know she hasn’t had little chubby baby fat legs for a while. They’re skinny little girl legs. But in this picture it’s soooo apparent.

And finally, a video I’ve been meaning to share from last month. I turned away for a second and Isabelle had grabbed my camera. Not a cheapo I don’t care about camera, but my camera that I love and use all the time. But instead of grabbing it away from her, I just held my breath, hoped for the best, and grabbed the camcorder. And here’s the video (totally worth the feeling of terror to capture this moment on video).

She enjoyed playing with my camera so much and it was so cute that I dug up my old i-zone Polaroid camera. And now she plays with that instead. She stands there saying “cheese“, “snapping pictures”, and working the little switch.

I’ve been trying to get a picture of her doing that for a month. Every single time she does it, I grab my real camera, and try to take a picture. But once she sees the real camera, of course, she wants to hold the real thing. She stops saying “cheese” with the little i-zone and tries to chase me down to get the real camera. Finally…FINALLY today I got this picture of my little wannabe photographer.

Go to month twenty nine.

Isabelle is so funny. I wish I had this on tape. But sometimes she does things so quickly I cannot grab a camera fast enough.

Yes. She tickles herself and laughs. And yes she actually says “tee-cull” as she’s tickling herself. Hee hee!

I keep meaning to upload videos of other things she does that make me laugh or put a smile on my face. I want to put them on here so I can always watch them whenever I want. But I always say tomorrow then get distracted. Well today, I managed to focus and actually got a few of them off the camcorder.

* Update * I’ve added a password: izzybear. I’ve decided I don’t want my videos search-able on Vimeo but I do want to share them with anyone who reads my blog. I’m new to Vimeo so I don’t think that option is available. This is the only solution I think.

**UPDATE 2** videos on Flickr now.

We had a fun Super Bowl Sunday, not watching the Super Bowl. Well that’s mostly true. We did watch a little bit. We got home in time to watch the last quarter. Before that we were at a museum for a Lunar New Year celebration.

Isabelle got to make her own little paper lantern.

She was so proud of it, carrying it around.

And she also made a little Chinese hand drum.

Which of course she was so proud of too. Alan loves them. He wants to keep them forever.

And oh we already know how much she loves watching a lion dance. She was so excited, screaming, and jumping up and down. I used Alan’s cell phone to capture a little video of her screaming at the lion.

* Update * I’ve added a password: izzybear. I’ve decided I don’t want my videos search-able on Vimeo but I do want to share them with anyone who reads my blog. I’m new to Vimeo so I don’t think that option is available. This is the only solution I think.

**UPDATE 2** videos on flickr now.

We had so much fun. I think we’re going to go to all the family exploration events at the museum.

My hands have been bothering me for the past three days because I’ve been drawing a LOT. After the first day I decided to rest them. But instead, I’ve been surfing on the computer and drawing some more. So today I thought I’d get serious and really rest them. I’d do my daily drawing and that’s it.

So I’m working on the first pane. It’s of Isabelle saying “daddy”. That got me thinking about the cute way she says daddy. And I know I have a video of her saying it so I thought I’d share. Hmmm….what happened to resting my hands?

But it didn’t stop there. Oh no. I like posts with pictures so this post had to have one. But the video was from Alan’s camera phone and a capture from there doesn’t make a nice picture. So of course I’d have to go searching for a picture of Isabelle with Alan, even though it doesn’t have anything to do with the video or of her saying daddy. It’s just a random picture of her with daddy. Oh no, more use of my hands!

Oh well. Here’s the video. And the daily comic coming in a bit. Poor poor hands.

Another video?! So soon? It’s unheard of!
Well that’s because the other day, when I put the dinosaur post up, I was watching this ice-cream video on the same tape. I’ve been meaning to put it up for a while. So seeing how I was already downloading I just kept going. Smart thinking…finally.

So here it is, the Isabelle NOT sharing ice-cream video. I love how she doesn’t like messes and is wanting to be cleaned up. It’s so funny because she is such a messy baby.

Ok. I’m getting back into the rhythm of blogging now. I actually took pictures today! Here’s the felt dinosaur (I have a very large head and I have very small arms. Love that line from Meet the Robinsons) from earlier. The pattern is from 0307345416. I used felt from my stash. I wish I had paid attention to the felt I bought. The darker green was either some wool felt or anti pill felt from a bolt. The lighter green wasn’t the same and you can tell he’s pilling up. Well at least he’s finished! Or I should say he has been finished for a while but I didn’t want to share pictures of him because he was a present.

Yes WAS a present but isn’t anymore. He was supposed to be for my nephew Ebow. But then my sister said that she didn’t want anymore clutter in her life, didn’t want to feel guilty about throwing away something I made, so didn’t want Christmas presents this year. That worked out great for Isabelle because she kept wanting to play with him. She recognized that he was a dinosaur right away. He wasn’t even finished when she grabbed him saying, “dine. RAaawwrr!” And look! I have video of her playing with the dinosaur.

You can hear the little monkey noises she makes now. Yes, our little monkey, climbing and jumping off of everything. She must have gotten the noises from Curious George. She loves Curious George! Oh my god, have I told you that she wakes up and asks for George? Yesterday she even did it IN HER SLEEP. I was laying there and I hear “George“. I look over, I kid you not, and her freaking eyes were closed! So yeah. Go look at the video of her making her dinosaur and monkey noises.

And this was also a present not to be. It’s the sewing I kept procrastinating with.

Well actually only the blue and white, Amy Butler belle, fabric. It was destined to become a present. I was going to make a dress for a niece but that never happened. But again, Isabelle benefits. She has a nice new dress now (pictures to come). Oh and the Amy Butler lotus wall flower green fabric is for me. I don’t know what I’m going to make with it but IT’S MINE! Mine bwa ha ha ha!