Isabella at 18 Months

I have been promising pictures of Issie to my mom, and trying to video her so she could hear her sweet little voice and all the new words she is saying. The video has been harder that I thought. I do have 2 video's at the end of this post trying to capture her little personality. I really wish our families could see the kids more often. They just grow and change so fast and I hate that they miss it but technology is the next best thing so here you go mom.

Isabella is very independent but also very lovable. She is quiet most of the time, until she is not then she can throw her voice through the entire grocery store. She is unintentionally spoiled by Jack and Kadie, as they just want her to be happy so they give her what ever she wants, which leads to her expecting to always get what ever she wants, even when no one has any idea what she wants. Thankfully she is learning some words, sadly, I am the only one how seems to know what these words mean, it is a vicious cycle. She is still in love with hats and is developing a new obsession for shoes, hers, ours, and dress up. You never want to accidentally walk by the shoe section in Walmart or Target, she seriously freaks out, throws her shoes on the ground and does some crazy moves to climb out of the cart to get to them. She now clearly says Mommy (still using all kinds of cute variations in her voice and singing it all over the house- mommy means, mommy but it also means, feed me, help me, pick me up, get that, not you, and happy) It is all in the interpretation. She also says baby, no, shoes, yes, bebe ( which means blankie and paci- the magic combination), love you/thank you- they sound the same, hello, hi, bye, and a bunch of other things we have yet to decipher.

off up the stairs to play by herself in the play kitchen
Jack took this one, when they were playing puzzles, her other obsession. She will play with her alphabet puzzle for an hour if someone will help her fit them in properly.

She loves her big sister and really loves Lucy. Both relationships are tenuous as Lucy can only handle so much of Issie (unless she as food of course) before she goes and hides in her kennel. And Issie loves Kadie on her terms, doing what she wants and Kadie likes to smother Issie with "the love" until Issie totally freaks out. It certainly keeps me on my toes.

Issie knows we think she is funny and cute so she often uses the dinner table to entertain us all with silly faces, noises and games with her food and clothes. We all feed into it by laughing hysterically.

Playing mommy.

Enjoying the sunshine.

Loving her big brother. She loves him to hold her and snuggle and he is usually happy to do this.

Here are my attempts to catch a little glimpse of Issie in action. The first one is her playing mommy, you can hear her voice and it is funny because you can see her right before a full blown meltdown when she cannot get the stroller up the stairs. The second one is her walking in dress up heels, she is so cute. We love you Issie.