Sense of humor...

On the way to daycare yesterday morning, Isla started absolutely cackling.  I looked in the rear view mirror to see her holding her baby doll with it's bottle up against the top of it's head.  And Isla thought this was hilarious. 

Our little evil genius....

Isla has folding doors on her closet in her room.  Frequently a clothes hanger hangs from the knob on the door.  A few months ago, she realized that even though she couldn't reach the knob, if there's a hanger there, she can pull it to open the door. 

Fast forward to yesterday.  I had some hangers sitting on her little table in the kitchen to send home with Grandma.  Isla wanted to go outside.  I looked over and she had one of the hangers on the door knob, pulling on it.  Thankfully this experiment didn't work. 

Funny girl....

I wish there was a way to capture all the funny little things you do, Isla.  All the silly, loving, smart things we see each day.  Like how when we mention Winston you know you're going to get a sticker for her shirt and get your picture taken.  Like sometimes when you see the camera, you automatically pose and say "cheeese."  Like the way you look at us and try to say "rollercoaster" and give us a kiss when you want us to push you up in the air. Like the way you say Mo' Moush for Mickey Mouse and how excited you get when he comes on tv.  Like the way you look at Daddy and point to Momma's mouth if he gives you a good-bye kiss before he gives Momma one.  Like the way you were trying to push Momma and Daddy together on the couch the other night cause you wanted us to kiss.  Like the way you line up your stuffed animals in front of your bed and want them just so.  Like the way I heard you smooching in the back seat while I was driving this weekend as you kissed a page that the gang from Mickey Mouse Clubhouse on it.  Like the way you get so excited to see Pop Pop.  Like the way you point to the floor and tell us to sit when you want us in the floor to play with us.  Like the way you dance to music on tv and tell us to dance with you.  Like the way insist on walking at times and if there are 2 people with you, you want someone to take each hand, but you usually take them on the wrong sides so you're standing backwards between us.  Like..........

I love you funny girl. 

Winston....

Wow....22 months!  I can't believe you're almost 2 Baby Girl!

Words

In the days after the last post, it seemed that we'd missed half her vocabulary when we listed out the words she uses.  Plus she's putting words together more and more all the time.  "Oh no.  Made a mess!"  has been her longest combination I think.  She's also reasoning things out--she knows Mimi went to Washington so when Grandma was telling her that George Washington is on her dollar, she started talking about Mimi.  And when momma was talking about messes today, she started saying diaper and took one to Grandma cause we talk about her messing in her diaper (she hadn't at that point though). 

I decided this weekend that I want one of our Christmas traditions to be to buy her a new ornament each year that represents something she's interested in.  I found a nice wooden Mickey Mouse ornament for this year.  I'll either get a special box for her ornaments where I can also keep a list of each year's ornament or I'll see if I can date it somewhere discretely.  I'm thinking the box and list is a better idea than writing on the ornaments.

P had a lecture in St. Louis Friday afternoon and Saturday morning so Isla and I went to St. Louis with him.  We hung out at the hotel Friday afternoon, met Aunt Khaki for dinner, and Saturday morning did a little shopping.  Isla was chatting up everyone--waiters, bellhops, the check-in clerks at our hotel.... I especially liked it when we were sitting on a bench near the hotel where P's lecture was and Isla was playing an animal puzzle game on my phone.  Some man walked up on the way into his gym and Isla started babbling something--he stopped, understood "animals,"  looked at what she was showing him on the phone and talked to her a second about animals.  When P was done we went to the zoo.  She loves all the animals, but the monkeys, apes, and zebras were especially favored yesterday.  Two gorillas and an orangutan sat right up against the glass in front of us and the hippos kept swimming right in front of us too.  We went to Build a Bear and she picked out a giraffe and made him.  We got out of the store and gave it to her and she says "monkey?"  Guess there are reasons you don't leave big decisions up to toddlers. 

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and Elmo are still favorites too.  I think she'd prefer if all the other characters on Sesame Street were fired so it could be all Elmo all the time.  Poor Big Bird. 

More later-


We took our 22 month pictures with Winston today.  I think we'll have some good ones--I'll try to download my pictures and upload them here once Baby Girl goes to bed.