Isabelle is 11 months!!

                                         
Stats: 16 lbs as of this past Saturday's sick day dr visit! Not sure how long she is though. 

Clothing Size: She is officially in 6 months and it looks like will be quickly jumping to 9 months!!

Currently Eating: This girl can eat! She loves just about everything, but she doesn't like the same thing over and over (so my plan of one or two different fruits for the week isn't working out). She LOVES strawberries and mandarin oranges, baked beans, and popcorn! She basically eats whatever we are eating (unless its spicy). 

Sleeping Habits: Usually she sleeps pretty well, still likes to get up around 4:30am - 5am but we usually bring her to our bed about that time and snuggle for an extra 5 or 10 45 minutes.

Firsts and Milestones: This past month has been crazy!! She took her first steps!! (very dark video below)  She shakes her head "No" at everything! Gives high fives and knuckles! Climbing whatever she can! She is EVERYWHERE! 

Favorite Things: Food, straws, play (plastic) cookies, my phone and the ipad (uh oh)

Number of Teeth: Still just two but we can see the top two coming in! 

Signature Moves: Memaw taught her the head bang while they're dancing to music! Its so funny. 

Best Mommy Moment: Cuddling while watching Christmas movies and eating popcorn during cold rainy days, I will cherish these memories forever!! 

She refuses to sit on the seat in the carts!

Waiting in line for a cabbage patch doll at Target! lol

Being silly (and complete bums) in the yard!

First Birthday Party! and blow up slide!

Isabelle and Uncle Cory

Christmas is coming!!

and we CANNOT wait!! 

All the yummy food, cookouts with friends, fires in the fireplace, oysters, and Daniels AMAZING crock pot cider to just name a few things I'm looking forward to but there is something magical and amazing about the holidays once you have children! I don't think I've been this excited for Thanksgiving and Christmas since I was a little girl. Isabelle will not even remember these days but we definitely WILL!!

This coming week I will be getting a break from school for Thanksgiving break (finals week is fast approaching though!! ugh) so we will be heading home and getting the decorations out and up!! The sad thing is I can't even remember what color theme I have! This time last year I was huge and pregnant with Isabelle so I had no desire in decorating and considering the Christmas we had I am glad we didn't.

When it comes to Christmas lights I am pretty boring, I like the classic look with straight lines and each one has to be perfect!! lol Hopefully Daniel is up for my "plans" and has the Christmas spirit as much as I do! -- Ok Ok I highly doubt he is excited for all the work decorating!

I want to make these so bad!! I think they're all pretty creative!

Love this little tree!

Coal for all the adults!! 

I would hate to clean this up but to see the look on our little ones face in a few years would be priceless!!

1st Birthday Prep!

I cannot believe we are so close to Isabelle's FIRST Birthday and her FIRST Christmas!!

It feels like it was just yesterday we were bringing her home from the hospital!

We have had so much going on but I've tried my best to get started on the birthday festivities! Here are a few ideas I've had for her birthday. Hopefully it all comes out as planned! 

We are trying our best to not associate Isabelle's birthday with Christmas so we could focus on her during her special "day" and of course focus on our Savior's birth on his day! So we decided to have her party on December 20th. The scary part is we will be in New York the week before visiting some family! I'm praying I will have EVERYTHING done! 

Birthday gift ideas!!

(Just can't decide on which one!) 

(I keep telling everyone this is the only birthday I get to choose her theme! If she is as opinionated as her Daddy we will be having a Frozen theme or what ever fad is going on that year (which I've always said wouldn't happen)! LOL ( I can't wait though!) 

Oh how we LOVE Fall!

Fall has finally made it to Florida and I couldn't be more excited about it!

The crisp cool air - just kidding - it has been pretty warm here in Florida up until TODAY. lol

We finally have some cool weather to enjoy! I'm just a tad excited!

We have been looking forward to a few of these:

Pumpkin Spiced EVERYTHING

Using the Fireplace

Roasting Marshmallows

Playing in the leaves

Baking OYSTERS

We kicked off our fall festivities a few weeks ago by visiting the pumpkin patch down by St. Augustine with the family and while we were there we ran around in the corn maze (seriously, it took us forever), took a hayride, played with some piglets, and ate kettle corn! We had a blast and we cannot wait to go again next year! 

We also had some fun Trick or Treating on Halloween with Maddox and Memaw! 

(I'll have to add more Halloween pictures off of the camera later)

She wasn't very happy about her 3rd eye! lol

She passed out before we could get her costume off! 

Does this make us bad parents?! 

Isabelle is 10 months!!

FINALLY, I am caught up!! Yay! 

Stats: Possibly 16 lbs?? and I have no idea how long!  

Clothing Size: Still rocking the 3-6 months and some 6 months!! 

Currently Eating: Still her usual! - Lots of Veggies and fruits!! Her favorites include butternut squash, pumpkin, peaches, and devours strawberries!! We did start on little bits of rotisserie chicken and she absolutely loved it! I suppose we have a carnivore! Oh and Cheerios! She loves them!

Sleeping Habits: Most nights are great but when she has a snotty nose and can’t breathe is torture for us all!!  She has also figured out how to stand up in her crib! (Picture below of her not so happy but I had to get a picture!!) 

Firsts and Milestones: Isabelle is now waving and when we go bye bye she does a backwards wave. I can’t get over how much she has progressed in the last few months !! She has also transitioned to the 1 year old schedule at school! 

Favorite Things: Cheerios, cords (bad bad bad), and her cousin Maddox!

Number of Teeth: We FINALLY have TWO teeth!! They are so cute!!  

Signature Moves: Waving bye bye whenever she gets in her car seat (which she HATES)!  

Best Mommy Moment: Singing with Mommy and Memaw in the car! She has us smiling nonstop!