Izzy is almost 2! (22 months)

Izzy is 22 months old and is embracing age 2 with a passion! She is very opinionated and throws quite the tantrum if she doesn't get what she wants. She plays hard all day and usually crashes at nap and bedtime. She LOVES her sister and wants to take care of her all the time. She even wants to wash Emma's hair every night after I've already washed it. Izzy really like to dance and wants everyone to get get up and dance with her. Her vocabulary is really growing and we can actually understand her most of the time. She is still extremely attached to "Other" her lamb that she's had since birth. He goes EVERYWHERE with us. She even insists on bringing him in the pool when we go swimming. Izzy LOVES Hannah Montana. We watch it everyday. I swear I'm raising a pre-teen!

Emma Claire 8 months old!

Matt thinks Emma has "rocker" hair, so he thought she needed a guitar to go with it. Her hair is ALWAYS sticking straight up. It will not lay down no matter what we do. I've decided to just let it be. It gives her a spunky little personality!
Emma is 8 months old now! It's hard to believe she is that old. She's been babbling, mainly "dadada" but I swear she has said "Izzy" and "diappie". I think she said "mama" today, but it was only once.

Bye, bye baby food! Hello "pick-ups"! The girl can put away some fruit and cheerios. She would rather feed herself now. I still try to spoon feed table food to her but she prefers to feed herself. 


Emma has been pulling up on everything. She's pretty steady once she's up. she can stand in the same spot holding onto the couch forever. She also really likes it when we hold her hands and let her walk around the house. She is great at putting one foot in front of the other. I don't guide her at all, I'm just there for support. She's been pulling up to her knees when she's in her crib. It is really getting in the way of nap and bedtime! She just cries until we come in to lay her back down. She sleeps from about 6:30pm-6:00am and takes 2 naps during the day.



Emma's favorite spot to crawl to is under the exesaucer. She LOVES to crawl under it and just sit there. It's pretty funny. Most kids want to get in it and lay with the toys. Not Em, sje just wants to hang out underneath it!



Here are some pictures of Emma crawling. She usually does more of a bear crawl, on her hands and toes. Every now and then she drops her knees. But she's definitely quicker on her feet.

Izzy's first works of art!

So I was running out of ideas for entertainment the other day and decided to bust out the paints! I know, what was I thinking? Well, it turned out to be entertainment for about an hour and a half. I had some canvas in my junk closet and tons of paint, so I covered the kitchen table with garbage bags, put an old button up on Izzy as a smock and let her go to town. I had to keep turning her canvas so she could reach all of it and I also tried to wash her brushes as much as possible so that the whole canvas wasn't brown. I was very impressed with her final products. So much so that I decided to frame and hang them in her bathroom. She would sometimes paint right handed, but mostly left. And she would sometimes paint with both hands at the same time. She never tried to put her fingers in it until the very end when I showed her how to do it. It was VERY messy but tons od fun! We will definitely do this again!

Izzy LOVES to play in Mommy's make-up!