Get Excited!

Can I just tell you how excited I am about this? The Office season premier, whoohoo! Tomorrow night, there will be much laughter going on in the Field household....yippee skippee.

A Visit to the DC Zoo

Well, we took a trip to the Washington DC National Zoo for the first time with the monkey. She had a pretty good time of course, since she is a complete animal lover. On Daddy's shoulders...cute.
This Elephant is about to get a bath.

Huge Hippo. This thing weighs between 6,000 and 7,000 lbs. He is 27 years old and will probably live closer to 50 years.
Not at the Zoo, at our neighbors birthday party.

Threw these in just for fun. She LOVES to help mommy swiffer.

Destin 2008 -- First Visit to the Destin Commons Fountain

Destin Commons is an outdoor mall in Destin with a huge fountain for kids to run through.

Aunt Jenna finally convinced Izzy to try it, but as you'll see, she was perfectly content to stay with the broken fountain. If you're looking for a laugh, fast forward to about the 5-minute mark.

Destin 2008 -- First Day at the Beach

Like Mommy, like daughter. The Iz loved the beach.

Destin 2008 -- Izzy Discovers the Balcony

Again, we're way behind on videos, so here's some stuff from our Destin trip the last week of August. Lots of pictures were posted earlier.

Izzy loved the balcony of the condo. As you can see, she was pretty stoked about the ocean.

Spit Bubbles

We've really been falling behind on posting videos of everybody's favorite pet monkey. So, over the coming days, look for some new video (well, new to you anyway).

A month or two ago, our genius kid figured out that she can blow bubbles with her spit. Her parents are so proud. (Daddy was having some camera problems.)

15 Months Old

Ms. Isabella turned 15 months old today and she is weighing in at 27.4 lbs., approx. 32.25 inches high (95% for both), wearing mostly 18-24 month clothes (we have even bought 2T), size 5-6 in shoes, size 4 diaper and is saying some words, but mostly babbling every second she is awake. Some words she has been saying for awhile now are:

Daddy, Sanka, uh-oh, trees, cheese, snack, shoes, fish, doggie, teeth, and Allie (our neighbor).

She is also doing really well saying animal noises like:

Dog (pants), cat (meow), fish (smacks lips), snake ("s" noise), cow (moo), owl (who-who), horse (flaps lips), elephant (upper lip over bottom lip)

She knows where many of her body parts are and will point to them if you ask her:

nose, hair, ears, teeth, lips, eyes, fingers, elbow, knees, toes, and of course the funniest, belly button. She likes to point to mommy and daddy's too.

She does a lot of sign language too:

More, milk, eat, hat, dog, baby, please

Anyway, she is a busy little monkey and we are having so much fun with her, wish all of the family could see her. Videos and more up to date pictures to come...

Destin, Take 2

Okay, here are the rest of the pictures from vacation. I can't leave any out, the grandthings would know....and this is mostly for them since they are missing their

grandchild growing up. (Yes, I am sad and bitter, can you tell?) Izzy had fun playing at the fountain this year, however not brave enough to run under the big ones, and played with the little small broken fountain and then a little girl came along and sprayed Izzy right in the face. I don't think she did it on purpose, but Izzy was not having that. After a few brief moments of crying and dried the eyes, she was back at it and let the little girl know that was her broken fountain and there were lots of other ones she can go and spray.

The magical tongue, thanks to her Dad appears in majority of her pictures.

The gang at dinner. Not sure why Izzy is making that face.

White Sand, Clear Emerald Ocean, Sunshine, and R&R

I have been working on this post for a few days...there are so many pictures!! (I am sure the grandparents are happy about that.) I will have to post one more time to finish up all the pictures from the week.

We went on our yearly family vacation to the beach in Florida. It was wonderful, as always and we managed to avoid the tropical storms. Here are a bunch of pictures from the week. We all had a great time, but Izzy especially loved the ocean, beach, sun, toys, ocean creatures daddy found, sand (and eating it from time to time). Everything had to go in the bucket of water, then to the sand, them back again...





Lots of walks on the beach with mommy...mostly bird watching.


Say cheese Izzy...or just snarl and look confused.So tired from the beach, she fell asleep at lunch. 3 to 4 hour afternoon naps were nice...

Beach pictures, kinda. Where was Honey when we needed her?

This is what she does when you say "say cheese."


"What's that?" She says this to almost everything now.

Izzy and Daddy playing around after dinner

Yes, that is Daddy's nose.
This is my nose.

"Come on peeps, bring my stroller, we have places to go and shop and feed the fish, and..."

Izzy's first carousel ride

Ah, thanks for the (open mouth) kisses

Aunt Roni and Daddy, cheeseballs.

The Challenge of Walking on the Sidewalk

Izzy has been having trouble walking lately...over the weekend, she managed to fall (on her face) twice. She will just be walking along, and BAM, down she goes. So...we are wondering if it has to do with her ear surgery or if she is just clumsy. As cute as these pictures are, I feel really bad about her nose. She is such a tom boy. And the last ones I threw in because she is just so cute with her doggie.

One of her favorite words to say is, "Uh-oh." Sometimes she uses it in context and sometimes she wakes up saying it for no reason.

"What is out there?"

"Oh, I love you too, my doggie."