A little video of little Miss Isla, dancing girl...makes me think of the ABBA/Mamma Mia song, Thank You for the Music: "mother says I was a dancer before I could walk..." haha! Sooo cute!!

Naughty mommy!

If you want to hear a naughty mommy story, here's one! Isla just hasn't been eating a full bottle at night before bed like she used to. So, night before last, I haphazardly left a nearly-full bottle out to become a bacterial breeding ground ALL NIGHT. That's not the bad part. Then last night I came upstairs with Isla to attempt to feed her a full bottle. But before feeding her, I read her a story, then reached for the bottle, which I thought had suddenly gone stone cold. So I came down with Isla and heated up the now-cold bottle. I started feeding her, without a single complaint from her, and two minutes later realized I may have heated up the yucky bottle, haha!! Not funny though. Ross wasn't nearly as freaked out as I was and threw out both bottles, and got me a new one. Of course, Isla didn't want to eat at that point, but I hoped that I had filled her full of summer vegetables, applesauce and a bit of apple yogurt to tide her over...and hoped she didn't wake up a few hours later with botulism poisoning or whatever could happen!

Needless to say, I will now always TRY to pick up my dirty dishes, especially from Isla's room!!

Naughty mommy....

Just to prove I'm not, here's a video of Isla swinging on Jenni's swing from the other week. Maybe it's naughty that she totally could've flipped out on her sweet little face, but I'll just chalk it up to her being cute and forget about 'what coulda happenend' :)

Flushed out-up

Whew, dodged a bullet last night! Rob and Ann Marie, our wonderful neighbors, said they've never seen the creek so high...and Todd, Jenni and Tyler just left for St. Louis and missed it! I think they're lucky, because it was right up next to their backyard! 

But we weren't that phased inside, as you can see, a toy monster vomited all over our living room floor.......So it begins!

Oh! And we went to Isla's 9-month check up yesterday afternoon, the "no-owwie" check-up, and she's 30.5" long/tall and 21.5 pounds! That's 95th and 90th percentile and I was most glad for her head starting to catch up, it was at 17" around, so almost 75th percentile, haha. So Isla can start having yogurt, string cheese and cottage cheese...although I've been experimenting with all of these in the last month. Naughty mommy?! hee hee hee. 

The Water is Wide...

I wouldn't want to cross over this crazy water! It's the first time our creek in the backyard has gotten thiiis close. I've always had nightmares of storms - tornadoes, specifically - and rising, raging rivers coming to sweep everything away and drowning me. That's never good! I truly believe that in my last life, I drowned in a river, most likely trying to crawl up the side of the muddy bank and never getting anywhere...I digress!

Isla and I went out for a walk in the backyard after the rain stopped, and it was a little disturbing to see raging water that close, hopefully it doesn't rise anymore tonight and we'll wake up to a babbling brook once more...

Swinging!

We went over to our neighbor's house, Todd, Jenni and Tyler's, house to swing on their porch swing and watch "Slumdog Millionaire". It was a great time!! And it was a pretty good movie! 

Poor little miss has a fever tonight, she cut two teeth a couple weeks ago so I'm sure one more is on the way. Which reminds me, I realllllly need to remember to brush her little babby teeth...

It finally hit 80 degrees in KC today, it was great. EXCEPT it's absolutely freezing in my office. Some people just like to be cold, evidently, and I am definitely not one of those people. I felt very silly walking down the street wearing a light sweater, then I got in my car and basked in the humidity. I turned on the iPod and away I went!

It's good to be home. 

Shiny Happy People!

Visiting Great Grandma Hanna on Mother's Day with Calista

Grandma givin' the love right back!

mmm...it's a girl cigar!

Auntie Teresa and Uncle Jeff opening a million presents!

On daddy's shoulders

It's been so beautiful outside...finally! So we've been all happy being outside I nearly broke down crying a week or so ago, I was so mad about being cold.  It's hard to believe that anything would welcome winter if it didn't have to, but I suppose winter and being cold is just a part of life...but not for the next 6 months!! We've been outside constantly, watching daddy mow the lawn, hanging out with the neighbors and visiting family up in Iowa. 

We have a very busy May and early June coming up, so we are really looking forward to having the next weekend "off". These photos are from a week and a half ago, when we went to the park for the first time, and Isla slid down the slide for the first time with momma and daddy! Then there's photos from Auntie Teresa's baby shower last weekend.

Some of you may have noticed we've taken off the "permissions" on our blog, mostly because it's gotten a bit cumbersome for some to sign in every. single. time. I can see how that would be frustrating, so this blog's for you!

Up on the cul de sac

ROFL!

Isla loooves her blankie

...and running into things with her walker

She started off liking getting her haircut, by this pic she wasn't having it!

We heart KY

At the races!!

Watching Benjamin Button

Soon she'll really be sayin, "Gimme the keys, mama!"

...and driving, omigoodness!!

It's summer!! Gardens and trees are in bloom, the david austen roses are safely in the ground, and the spiders are out (can't all come up "roses", can it? haha)... Isla and daddy have been home together for the past month, which has been absolutely wonderful. For three of those weeks, uncle Jimmy came over from England and we were all getting together on the cul de sac and it's been soo missed!!

So the pics here are from all over - Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky and Iowa. In Kentucky, we got to go to the horse races (sunburns in April, yeah!), in Kansas we got to do some major shopping and Missouri we did a lot of relaxing at home (although I worked the entire time!). Iowa was a bit more somber because my dad had a heart attack while out in the planter, so we went up for five days to help out and make sure everything was ok. It turned out much better than it could have - 100% blockage and a severe case of atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) but after a triple bypass and three days in the hospital, pa was back home...and trying to climb back up in the tractor to plant soybeans! Men...

What I am most proud of in the last few months is the effort my momma, daddy and brother-in-law, Jeff, who have all quit smoking together. I know they can do it because they care so much about the people around them!

After a shaky week of allergies and baaaad poopy diapers, Ross and I are off to Iowa for my sissy, Teresa's, baby shower. I can't wait to see how big she is!! June 21st can't come soon enough for Little Miss Schultz to show up!!