Isabelle is 11 months old!

Can't believe she's almost 1 already. Gah.

Weight: 18 lbs. 4 oz. (14th percentile)
Height: 29 inches (56th percentile)

 

  
Likes: baths, crawling, Baby Einstein, Sesame Street, Elmo, dancing, cheese, playing in the fridge, escaping out the back patio door

Dislikes: holding still, car seat, wind, closed doors

New things this month: cut 5th tooth, walks along furniture, stands on own

 This has been a busy month, and Instagram has done nothing but feed my compulsive picture taking habit, so bear with me.

I can't stand that my kids are growing up so fast.

 First Easter egg hunt with the Murset cousins

 With Grandpa Rich

She still gets so excited about the cat. Tiger does not return the sentiment.

  

 

 Love those baby snuggles when she first wakes up!

She is such a cheeseball! Check out those silly faces.

  

 

 She is such an active little thing and cruises everywhere, but when she ends up on her back, she just flails around until someone rescues her. Never really got the hang of rolling over...

 We gave back the gadget chair we were borrowing from Maria and switched it for her walker.

That first night we got it, she just took off!

She hasn't been as interested since, but she's almost walking on her own now anyways. (She does love to watch herself on video, though.)

And now for the obligatory

Mess of the Day

by Isabelle

She has truly embraced the whole 

"Don't leave a room without leaving your mark on it" way of life.

She has this on her to-do list at least 3x a day.

Ripping/eating magazines is a new favorite. She has munched her way through several of Madelyn's National Geographic Kids issues.

Something I forgot to post last time was that we had to tape a piece of cardboard over the power button on the computer because she liked to turn it off as you were using it.

She is clearly so pleased herself.

This was a celebratory Easter morning unroll.

 Baby wipes....

SIGH

Emptying the silverware, as you're trying to load it. Her specialty!

This picture (she was crying because I wanted her to hold still--THE HORROR) made me laugh because it reminded me of this picture Madelyn drew of herself with a fu manchu:

Once she had discovered that plant and its yummy dirt, there was no going back. We had to find it a new home at grandma's.

She loves to empty the baskets and then swim around in the dirty laundry/rub the clothes on her head.

 

 And one lucky day, she managed to eat half of a Red Vine (and get red drool everywhere) before she was caught.

The toddler years are going to be fun! Pray for me!