Starting to Wean.....

off of Isabelle's heart medicine tomorrow! I'm excited and a bit apprehensive. It is VERY unlikely that she will have a repeat SVT episode until she is a teenager... but it's still nerve racking. Here is Isabelle wearing her "holter" heart monitor. She wears these every so often to make sure that her heart beats are normal and that she isn't going into a SVT rhythm. She will wear them more often after she is weaned off the medicine so we know for sure that she isn't having episodes without us knowing. This condition will be easier once she is older and able to tell us if something doesn't feel right. Keep us in your prayers that all goes well and Isabelle is weaned off of her medicine without incident!

Family Vacation

We just got home from an amazing vacation in Missouri :) We met our friends, the Melin's, halfway across the country. Since they were coming from Wyoming - MO was about half way. We rented a beautiful lake house on Pomme De Terre Lake! The kids had so much fun playing together :D Here is video of Isabelle's first boating experience. She was bouncing and talking when Justin pulled the boat out onto the lake. I'm telling you, this girl is FEARLESS!

Stumbles and success - Isabelle's first attempts at walking :)

Taking her first steps about a week ago, Isabelle is desperate to perfect her stride. Check her out this morning at the park:
Building on her previous momentum, Isabelle took about 6 steps and successfully moved from the foot of Mommy and Daddy's bed to the computer desk without falling :) Please excuse the mess in our bedroom ;D SHE IS GETTING SO BIG!!!! Can someone please tell me how to press the pause button?????

Coloring!!

We know, we know - she's still a baby... but we decided to break out the crayons anyways! We were too cheep to buy those round baby crayons - so we bought just regular fat crayons... Now, she's no Picasso, but I can see some real artistic merit in her colorings :) I'll have to restrain myself from wallpapering our house with her creations!

Applause please :)

Isabelle learned how to clap a few weeks ago. Mommy and Daddy showed her how to put her little hands together... and it didn't take long. However, Isabelle has been learning to clap for MONTHS! Mommy (an old woman at heart) LOVES watching Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy at night. So, Isabelle has always reacted to audience applause. This video was shot a couple days after Isabelle learned to clap... Now she claps with the audience on the show :) SOOOO funny!

Running

We got Isabelle a new toy that changes from a little push car to a shopping cart like walker. The first time she used it she didn't walk with it... she RAN. Feeling all of the freedom this walker would give, Isabelle jumped in head first and ran down the hallway to Mommy :) (Sorry the video was shot in the wrong direction)

Spider Girl!

Isabelle is going to walk any day now! Her newest accomplishment on the way to walking is a weird spider-like crawl. She gets up on her toes and crawls without her knees touching the ground. What can I say... she's.... Special ;)