Mommy's little helper

If you've spent time with Isabella, you know she's a busy girl, always curious about her surroundings. Her ability to crawl at warp speed helps her move from one task to another. Here are photos of some of the things Isabella gets into. She likes to help (or create more work, depending on how you look at it) with putting away groceries, folding laundry, unloading the dishwasher, putting away bakeware, feeding herself, washing the floors with her tongue, and I somehow managed to delete photos of her filing. She also likes to clean the toilet seat by taking a used kleenex from the trash can and polishing the seat, sometimes even cleaning the inside of the bowl with her bare hand. If anyone needs help cleaning, I have a baby for hire!

Another win!

The San Diego Chargers (football for those who don't follow sports) won another game last night. Isabella's daddy was happy. We attribute the win to Isabella wearing Tony's Charger's jersey last night.

Another then and now

Isabella use to be the size of a roll of paper towels. Now when people ask us what size she is we say, she's the size of an 8-pack of beer. So if you're looking to buy her some clothes, look for size: 8-pack.

Let's Go Raptors!

On Nov 19, Isabella attended her first Raptors game. Tony and I used to go quite regularly but things have changed. The game started right at Isabella's bedtime, 7pm. She was a bit fussy, but once all the light came on, she started looking all around and was amused. We only made it to half time though, by that point she had enough. We borrowed the earphones from Fred and Jing, so that the loudness didn't hurt her ears. She was quite disoriented. We're looking forward to taking her to more games as she gets older.

In between Thanksgivings

This past weekend we went to visit Babcia and Dziadzia in Oshawa. Chris was at work in Alberta when we had Thanksgiving, so we celebrated Thanksgiving while he was back. Isabella sat at the table with us and then played with her wojek and grandparents.

Another Lesson in table manners

Todays lesson is posture.

Isabella is always too busy and distracted to eat her food. From completely turning around in the high chair to slouching, she does everything to get out of being restricted to sitting still.

Then and Now

On Nov 7th James celebrated his 2nd birthday. We put all the kids on the couch again for a photo opportunity. These are the same children as the April 19th post.

Halloweekend: Monkeying around

Isabella finally got to wear her Halloween costume out in public. She wore it to every single outing we went on.

On Friday we went to my school for the Halloween parade in the afternoon. A friend of mine from work, Erin, brought her 12 week old banana (baby boy) named Matthew. I dressed up as the Man in the Yellow Hat and Isabella was Curious George.

Saturday we went to Cooper's Farm. There we went through a corn maze and saw some farm animals. Being the animal lover she is, Isabella giggled at the goats and cow. Anna and Brad came with us. Our friends Beth, Dave, Steve, Sandy, Lisa and Andrew came with their kids also.

Saturday evening we went to the Wychwood Barns for a family Halloween party. The Barns are old TTC barns that have been converted to a type of community/art centre. We then ordered dinner at Fred and Jing's place. Julie, Chris and Owen were there too. Owen was a shark (very apropos since he's got so many teeth). Amira was a cat burglar.

Sunday we mostly stayed home. I took Isabella to the grocery store in her monkey costume. They had trick or treating there, so I got to do groceries and get some candy. Of course I ate the candy, but it was healthy candy cause it was at an organic grocery store. In the evening I took Isabella for a walk around the block so she could see kids in costume. There were no kids. I think I had to have gone deep into the more residential areas. But by then I was all Halloweened out.