The Day Before Izzie's First Birthday

Well, Izzie finally turned one on June 27th, 2008. All anyone says is "time has gone by so quickly" and I would have to agree. It did go by pretty fast, but when I think about it, it wasn't as fast as everyone makes it out to be. I mean, we did a lot in the last year, and I don't really think that this year went by any faster than any other year. So while I agree that it seems to have gone by fast, it's no different than any other year which means that it went by at the normal pace.

I did learn a lot in the last year, and I have definitely matured a little bit. I guess becoming a father will do that to you. I'm not going to lie; being a dad is the greatest. I have a blast with Izzie. We hang out all of the time, and everyday when I come home from work she starts chanting "Dada! Dada! Dada!" as soon as I walk in the door. It's great.

I'll get down to business. Since my friend had my camera for two weeks in Israel I couldn't wait to take pictures of Izzie once I got it back. After all, she learned to crawl in that two week time period, and she nearly started walking. Here are a few pictures of Izzie the day before her birthday.

Here she is banging away on her music-table thing. Amazingly she still loves this it. I thought for sure that it would have gotten old by now (IT'S GOTTEN OLD FOR ME!)a.


Here we are taking pictures of ourselves and then looking at them in the camera screen. She loves it.


Here's Izzie taking a few shaky steps towards me.


Here's Nell and Brandee untangling balloons after they got tangled up from the car ride.


Here's a couple of videos of Izzie giving the crawling and walking thing a try.





Sometimes when she tries the walking thing she falls forwards and just hangs out like this until she can figure out what to do next:


I had to get a cheesy picture of the birthday supplies:


And of course... the cake.



I'll stop there for this post since it's already too long (yeah I know that hasn't stopped me in the past). Hopefully I will post the birthday pics soon.