March 2008

The last few posts covered some of the major highlights for March, but I thought I should share the rest.

Izzie's new thing is standing. She loves it. At the beginning of March she wasn't too sure what to think, but I'm guessing that seeing mom and dad do it all of the time kept the motivation going. Now she's a champ at it. She loves to stand by the coffee table and just check stuff out. Here she is sometime in the first week of March balancing and tasting my hand.


Blocks are still fun. We continue to build sweet new towers and anything else our imaginations can create.... OK. It's my imagination, but I know Izzie is learning.




And of course I have to post a video of Izzie's triumphant defeat of another one of dads awesome creations.



Here's a big one: Izzie upgraded to a big girl car seat. Well, sort of. It's a big girl car seat compared to what she has been in. We headed to Target one day and picked up a sweet chair that she can use until she graduates college. No, not really, but the hope is that she can use it long enough that we don't have to fork out cash on another one. They are expensive. Here we are sizing the straps before I go put it in the van.



And of course we had to go test drive it once we got it installed. I mean, why wouldn't you?

Here's another big one: Izzie got her first tooth in March. It was her bottom right tooth in the very front. Yes, it was just as painful for Lynnell and I, but with the help of Tylenol, we all made it through just fine. Here's Izzie eating a teething tablet. For some reason she thinks they are the greatest. Every time we whipped the bottle out, she would flap her arms out of the sheer joy of eating something that doesn't taste like anything and disolves into nothing in mere seconds.


I tried one of them in the name of science. You know, testing for a placebo a.k.a. my money being flushed down the toilet (or thrown out in a diaper... I guess). Surprisingly it made the roof in my mouth go numb, but only barely and only in the spot where I crushed it with my tongue.

I know what you are thinking; Post a picture! Well, I'll explain. I refer to the tooth as "The Elusive Tooth" (you have to read that with a big booming voice coming from nowhere). It's kind of like Big Foot or the Loch Ness Monster. If I try to take a picture of it, I spook it and the picture turns out fuzzy and the tooth looks all obscured. If I try to pry Izzie's mouth open to see inside, I inadvertently unleash the beast, and it's not my favorite thing to do. So, be patient. A picture is coming.

Third big event: Izzie got her very own high chair. She actually got it on the same day that she got the car seat. If you want to get specific, we spontaneously bought it on our new-car-seat test drive. I guess we were in the mood to spend money. We had the good sense to get the cheapest one that WalMart had, so I didn't feel bad about it. Here's Izzie riding in the cart back to the van with her sweet new high chair.


Here she is sitting it the next morning for her first high chair meal: apples and bananas and then freeze dried strawberries for dessert.



Last major item for the month: Izzie is starting to phase in normal food. It's really cute to watch her try new things. Her faces are priceless, and of course, she still gets the shivers for some of the more odd things (like fish and ketchup). It's funny to watch her try to figure out the food thing too. She plays with it sometimes and stares at it other times, but most of the time, she pounces on it lit a cat on a mouse and scarfs it down like a dog eating steak. She loves food.





Here's a couple of videos. The second one shows her mad skills at drinking from a cup.





Anyways, that wraps up March's events. Things are starting to move fast, so I'll do my best to keep on top of new developments.