Helicopter Ride

Okay so I am a little video happy but there has been some funny stuff lately. Josh started spinning Isabelle around and when he stops they are both pretty dizzy. Isabelle tries to get up right away and of course falls down trying. Funny stuff.

Fall Leaves

Isabelle has found the joy of leaves. Everyday she asks to go outside and play in them.

Lately Isabelle doesn't want to eat her dinner...unless its fruit, cheese or any kind of bread product. So I have been the mean mom and not giving in when she doesn't want to eat what is in front of her. This video shows one way of how she deals with food she doesn't like (the other obviously being crying) and in this case it was lasagna and veggies. For the record there was one day where she ate more lasagna than I did so I know she likes the stuff. We are in a world of hurt since she seems to be pretty stubborn ... just like her mom and dad.

You Spin Me Right Round, Baby Right Round

Here is a video of Isabelle doing her new favorite thing ... SPINNING. It sure doesn't take much to entertain her. Okay, so after watching this I realize that my voice sounds funny. You can tell I have been sick ... okay and I was using a little baby talk.

HELP?!?!

If anyone knows how I can rearange my posts so that I can put them in order please let me know. I can't seem to find the right "button". Thanks!

Knocking on death's door

Every year it seems I get sick. I go into the cold and flu season thinking that 'this is the year it will pass me by' and every year I find myself on my death bed. Okay, so maybe not really my death bed but in my opinion ... its pretty darn close. This year was no expection. It started about 2 weeks ago and I really thought that after 2 days of having a cold I was going to shake it. Then out of no where it hit me. I had a 102 temp, the chills and I was sore. Luckily all of this happened when Josh was on a 4 day weekend. If he hadn't been here I don't think I would have made it through. He took care of Isabelle and me ... and I am pretty needy when I am sick. If that wasn't bad enough, Isabelle had a cold too.

When I finally started to feel better and took a good look at Isabelle I noticed she was acting kind of funny. I figured she had an ear infection so I took her to the doctor that morning and sure enough, double ear infections. She gets them every time she gets sick. I found out from Laura that Josh had them a lot when he was a baby. He even had to have tubes put in his ears because they were so bad. Hopefully she won't have to go through all of that.

We are all finally feeling better (Josh even got a touch of a cold) and getting on with every day life. I was pretty bummed about missing out on the big weekend as we were going to finish painting in the house. Josh however, was not. Go figure. (November 11, 2008)

The Itsy-Bitsy Spider

So its finally Halloween time and Isabelle could care less. A lot of people have asked us where we are going trick or treating and I think its funny. She is 1 people what is she going to do with all that candy and seriously she isn't going to want to walk up to random peoples houses and "talk" to them. Needless to say we are staying home and passing out candy.

I did however, take her to a trick or treat on post. It was at the ACS building and all the kids got to walk around the offices getting candy from the workers. Isabelle went as a spider (mainly because that was the first costume I could find that would fit her). She didn't know what to do at first but all she needed was to see one of the bigger kids walk up to an adult and get something put in their bag. After that she was off. She walked up to every adult she saw and then watched as they put a treat in her little bag. About every 10 steps or so she had to stop and check to make sure that she stash was still in tack. Silly girl. She even walked up to some people not giving out candy and waited while they said how cute she was but when they didn't give her anything she just walked away in the middle of someone talking to her. I guess she didn't want to hear how cute she was if she wasn't going to get anything from it.

On Halloween night we went across the street to visit with Carol and her dog Logan, who Isabelle loves. Logan is a wiener dog and was dressed as a hot dog. Carol doesn't have any kids so her dog is her baby. Personally, I got a kick out of poor Logan dressed in a costume that was bigger than him. After coming home we passed out some candy but we didn't have that many trick or treaters like we had thought. We even still have left over candy. Isabelle had more fun playing in the candy than anything else. Why do I buy her toys? Maybe next year she will be ready for the pros. (october 27 &31, 2008)

Normal People

Okay okay so I am a little behind. There has been a lot going on and the sad thing is that I can't remember half of it. I really should start writing it down. That however, would be to easy.

Anyways, last night we had some friends over for dinner. At least I hope they can be friends, especially since they are normal and normal is good. There names are Mike and Kate; they have three kids, Gordon (15), Amanda (7) and Paige (5). I think I have the girls ages right but I might be off by a year. Actually they just moved here from Ft. Lewis. Josh and Mike knew each other there but we never hooked up. That is probably for the best since our last house was not conducive for guests. He is in PsyOps as well so it was nice for Josh to have someone else to talk to about Airborne School and what not.

I made dinner and then we just sat around talking. Isabelle was pretty intrigued with the girls but played more on her own than she did with them. She must have liked everyone because at one point she was walking around making funny faces and she usually doesn't do that around strangers. All of their kids were very nice and well behaved ... again with the normal! I did feel a little out of place when they all started talking about secret missions and government policies. See Kate, used to work for NASA (if I am remembering all of this correctly) and was approached by the Chinese government to work for them. She has had meetings with the FBI and all sorts of niffty stuff. Needless to say I had nothing to compare that to. Oh well.

They actually live in the subdivision next to us so they are about 5 minutes away. We were talking about having a game night in a couple of weeks. They even brought me a gift. Out of all the couples I have had over for dinner they are the first ones to follow proper etiquette. It will be nice to have some friends again.