December 2007

I thought it would be appropriate to show some random pictures from December that haven't been posted.

Here's Izzie and Mom relaxing on the couch just before bed. If Izzie looks ridiculously enormous in the second picture, it's because she is.



Izzie and I laid down one afternoon for a cat nap. She's really good at cuddling in close, and it seems that she always sleeps longer when it's with mom or dad. Lynnell's favorite thing about this particular moment captured in a picture isn't how cute it is, but how Izzie's hair smelled like my deodorant for the rest of the day. That's right she smelled like Gillette.


Here's Izzie looking as gorgeous as can be. She finally knows when we are getting ready to go somewhere and seems to get excited about it. That's a good thing because I dread getting in the car with her sometimes in fear that this might be the time that she screams her head off non stop the whole way. Luckily it's never happened, and it probably won't ever happen. It's just one of those first-time-dad fears that I have to get over.


Here is Izzie taking her first self portrait. She finally learned how to push the camera button half way to let it focus and then squeeze it slowly for the money shot.


Ok, I'm kidding; I took the picture. Who am I kidding... I take them all. I love pictures. When I was a kid, I used to hate (read that HATE!) it when my dad took pictures. I always found them so annoying and embarrassing, but now I'm glad he did it. And now that I have a kid, I find it just as important as he must have.

Here's one of Izzie on the second night we tried to feed her food. You already saw the one where she was squeezing her mouth shut; well, she didn't do that for long. Here is her beautiful smile.


Here's Izzie standing by the couch. Yes standing. She's getting really good at balancing. She's no Olympic athlete (...yet) but she can lean against something for a while and just stand there. She likes it. It's something new for her, and it always gives her a kick.


And of course a bath picture is a must. Izzie is really starting to love bath time despite my attempt to let her drown the last time I gave her a bath. It wasn't major, so don't freak out. She just leaned too far forward and dunked her face under the water. She came up looking like she won the lottery (mouth and eyes wide open) and then she followed it up with crying. I did my best to console her. Here she getting a bath from mom.



And that's it.