Growing up!

Isabelle still loves her baby swing and doesn't mind the occasional nap in it. However....

We went to play at cousin Collin's house and he has a big swing. Isabelle had the time of her life! She would squeal and smile so much. I haven't tried the baby swing since. I'm interested to see if she'll go for slow speeds again. She's growing up so fast!

Never a dull moment!

Isabelle is so hilarious with her faces. She has discovered her tongue, teeth, and lips. In the process she makes the funniest faces. I love to just sit with my camera and just take a gazillion pictures. Here are last night and tonight's results. Click on the collages to see them larger.

So exciting, SOMETIMES!

Isabelle notices EVERYTHING! She sees it and grabs it and then tries to get it to her mouth! Her face is so cute when she concentrates. Isabelle's now at the age where she's impossible to have on our lap while we're trying to do something. She mauls all the cards when playing games, not to mention screws up anything in reach. She pulls my plate off the table when we're eating. The list goes on. It's such a fun stage when we're playing together, but has it's challenges other times. I've loved watching her figure things out. She enjoys chewing on a bottle or sippy cup of water and has the coordination to get it in her mouth by herself over and over again. She really likes to grab my glass of ice water and give herself a bath, I mean drink. She's at the classic immobile baby stage and it's SO much fun! I have a feeling the immobile part will so be gone soon, so I'm enjoying every second! Isn't she so cute being Mike's partner?

Teeth, for real this time!

Isabelle has the weirdest teeth! At 7 weeks, she got a molar, yes a molar. She had all four molars as white spots in her gums and one actually came through and the other 3 went back up. After about 2 weeks, the molar went back up. Then about a month ago, she started to get another molar, but it didn't poke all the way through. We were wondering when she would actually get the normal teeth in the normal order. She was chewing on Mike's finger in Sacrament Meeting when he whispered a painful, "Ouch!" After further investigating, we found she has started to get her front two bottom teeth. She was sick last week from a cold, but during it all was also teething. Poor Baby! No wonder she was quite so miserable. On Sunday they had both cut through. Well, today I noticed one has gums over it again. Who knows what is going on! Anyway, the point of the story is, she officially has one bottom tooth and maybe another one.