Laughter, the best medicine

Our little girl is quite the joker. She now loves to tickle you back if you tickle her and just to hear that giggle makes you smile from ear to ear. I love it! We were outside this past weekend and she was being her silly self and has been trying to "skip" and then she thinks it is funny and laughs at herself. Well, we managed to snap a few shots of this. She of course throws her head back and forward when she laughs (I am not sure where she got that?)

The last few pictures are of Izzy and I playing around in the backyard with leaves, weeds, rocks, etc...ya know, the fun stuff.

The bump on her lower lip is where she took a dive into the coffee table...ouch!

This is what Izzy does if you say "Touchdown!"

Growing up

After taking a bath one evening, I was combing her hair as Chris read to her...and thought, "Wow, her hair sure has gotten long in the last few months." I immediately thought, I should give her a trim, but let us ponder that for a realistic amount of time...YA RIGHT!!!! I think I might be crazy to do it myself. She rarely sits still and pushes me away if I am combing her hair....how in the world am I going to have her sit long enough to make a nice trim all the way around? Okay, experienced moms or anyone out there....have any ideas?

These are just a few pictures I snapped one morning before school. She loves sitting in the "big chair" to have a small breakfast snack before we scoot out the door. Gotta love that smile. She is such a happy kid, and for that we are soooo thankful.

Lovely Fall

We, along with thousands of other people in the world, visited the pumpkin patch. Boy was this little girl excited to see so many stinkin' pumpkins. I will let the pictures do the talking. She is at such a fun age right now, almost 17 months. We are constantly laughing at all of the funny things she does, the looks she gives us and of course we are learning the words she is trying to say.

Someone is expecting...

another baby!! That's right, my college roommate (Chris's cousin), Becca is due with her second on April 30th. I am not going to lie...I hope he/she is early, like on the 13th or something:) hee hee.

Anyway, the other cool part of this is that her sister, Debbie is pregnant too and is due around the same time!! Isn't that cool? Congrats to you both!!