At 15 months, to the day, it seems...Isabelle has reached another dimension. A dimension of sight and sound... That's right, she has seemingly entered *dum dum duuuum* The Toddler Zone.
Ok, that's cheesy, but the switch seems true enough. Izzy is now into things that I would think she wouldn't be yet. (Believe me, I am learning fast to not underestimate my little smarty...the knobs are now off the stove to nip that curiosity in the bud until she can understand what it means....) She is BIG still into mimicking...that isn't new. What's new is our realization that she sees a lot more than we think she does. For instance...our dishwasher has a control panel that works intermittently, much to my disgust. Well, the other day, Izzy was helping me take clean dishes out of the washer. When it was time to close the door, she helped me push it up, we latched it, and then she proceeded to smack the control panel....just like she's seen mommy do in moments of weakness. SO! Obviously she sees and hears everything. Guess it's time to pay more attention to what Dan and I say when we're talking about work frustrations or other things that get us riled up.
Izzy is in the middle of a language explosion. She's picking up many new words, even though it seems like me, Dan and the sitter are the only ones that understand most at this point. Also, now when she's babbling, EVERYTHING has inflection when she responds to you, and 9 times out of 10 they are what you would expect. If you tell her something that she doesn't want to hear or re-direct her to somthing she should have as opposed to something she shouldn't (which is quite often these days) she will whine something at you that sounds like 'noOOOooooooo' with the rise and fall in the tone. This, now also has become accompanied by the dreaded LIP. Yes, the lip that if it would stick out much farther, birds might perch on it. I have yet to catch the LIP on film...I hope to catch and preserve it at this early state....for embarrassment when she's 16, of course.
Here are some things that she says aside from the usual Mommy, Daddee, and Dodger...she will try just about anything if you catch her at the right time:
Ok, that's cheesy, but the switch seems true enough. Izzy is now into things that I would think she wouldn't be yet. (Believe me, I am learning fast to not underestimate my little smarty...the knobs are now off the stove to nip that curiosity in the bud until she can understand what it means....) She is BIG still into mimicking...that isn't new. What's new is our realization that she sees a lot more than we think she does. For instance...our dishwasher has a control panel that works intermittently, much to my disgust. Well, the other day, Izzy was helping me take clean dishes out of the washer. When it was time to close the door, she helped me push it up, we latched it, and then she proceeded to smack the control panel....just like she's seen mommy do in moments of weakness. SO! Obviously she sees and hears everything. Guess it's time to pay more attention to what Dan and I say when we're talking about work frustrations or other things that get us riled up.
Izzy is in the middle of a language explosion. She's picking up many new words, even though it seems like me, Dan and the sitter are the only ones that understand most at this point. Also, now when she's babbling, EVERYTHING has inflection when she responds to you, and 9 times out of 10 they are what you would expect. If you tell her something that she doesn't want to hear or re-direct her to somthing she should have as opposed to something she shouldn't (which is quite often these days) she will whine something at you that sounds like 'noOOOooooooo' with the rise and fall in the tone. This, now also has become accompanied by the dreaded LIP. Yes, the lip that if it would stick out much farther, birds might perch on it. I have yet to catch the LIP on film...I hope to catch and preserve it at this early state....for embarrassment when she's 16, of course.
Here are some things that she says aside from the usual Mommy, Daddee, and Dodger...she will try just about anything if you catch her at the right time:
- Landon (the sitter's 2+ year old she loves to play with)
- Banana (sounds more like na na na....sometimes she gets the b in there...sometimes it comes in the middle...lol)
- More
- Emily (a 2+ year old girl also at the sitter she loves to play with...sounds like ma-lee)
- Baby
- Ball
- Magnum (work in progress)
- Grandpa (work in progress)
- Grandma (work in progress)
- No no no! (work in progress)
- If you sing or babble to her in a musical way, she will mimic your notes as well or at least something very close to
Isabelle and Magnum are good buddies....until she pulls on his ears. Remember that toddler thing I was telling you about? Here they are playing with a stick together. Through it all though, Magnum is never far from either one his girls if he can help it.
Enjoying life and time outside. What does the gesture mean? It's anyone's guess.
Miss nosey pants very concerned with what Magnum is up to, but not quite enough to step off the deck and into the grass.
Izzy seems to be saying, "HEY! You're not supposed to be taking a picture of me in my swimsuit!!!"
My bathing beauty getting her squirt toys ready for the swim. LOOK at that cute butt!
In this picture, I see the coy mischief of Grandma Mabel. Anyone else see it too? Notice that in ALL these pictures, MOM is the only one in the pool. We haven't had warm enough weather to naturally warm the water for too much swimming in our shady backyard.
