festival

This weekend was another highland festival.
Our little redhead was the 'Belle' of the ball again. It just seems so unreal that so many people would say how cute she is. I guess I just feel that I'm the only one who sees it, and that I feel that way because she is MY daughter, but so many other people say it!
She had her Harris plaid kilt on, and her onesie that says "got haggis?".
We had sweet potatoes for lunch. She liked them.
She is eating pretty regularly now. She really enjoys food.
She is getting up on all fours now and rocking. Yes, rocking. She will rock and the 'leap' forward off her knees to land on her head. An interesting form of forward motion.

I go back to work on Monday. She is staying with a friend from work.

She starts daycare on Sept 4th. yuch. I would give my right arm to stay home with my daughter.

I just hope that the daycare and others are smart enough to know to NOT tell us if she achieves a milestone when we aren't there.

I like that she still prefers momma over real food. I was feeding her some potatoes, and she ate them, but whined until I breastfed her. It felt good.

This was her first time in a hotel, she slept in her play-pen, and loved it! We went swimming, and she loved that too.

wow, so much learning and loving to do. so much MORE.........

new things

So many new things have been happening.
Isabella rolled over the day she turned 5 months (July 27). We didn't see it though. Then we saw it on August 5th.
August 12 was when her first tooth broke through. Exactly one week later, a second tooth has popped in. They are both on the bottom, incisors.
So, since we have teeth coming in, I started giving her some real foods to test the waters. Her first real food was bananas. Her second real food was carrots, (with a taste of peaches in between).

I gave her the carrots yesterday, and today, they appeared on the the other end, WOW, her butt was almost as orange as her head!
Anyway, I can't believe how much fun she is getting to be. Yes, we had a tough time last night with the teeth, but not a lot of terrible fussing. (so far)

She can get around quite well. She barrel rolls from one side of the house to the other. (its not far, only about 21/2 rolls) She can get up on her knees, but then either pushes herself backwards, or pushes herself over onto her back! :)

Oh, I absolutely do NOT want to go back to work. This is so much fun. I don't want to pay someone to enjoy my daughter when I would give anything to do it for free.