Grammy's Birthday and Isabella at 9 Months

Today is my Mom's, aka Grammy's, birthday. We celebrated on Saturday night, and when I say Saturday night, I basically mean Saturday late afternoon! We went to Philip and Jackie's house (my brother and his wife) and were in good company with runny noses and coughs. I guess when one gets sick, they all get sick. Anyways, it was a good time! I tried to get a good picture of Grammy with all her grandkids, but this was the best I could do. And no, Isabella is not floating by Grammy's shoulder; Joe is back there holding her up!

Isabella turned 9 months on Saturday. As always she has learned and picked up so many things over the past month. She is practically a professional cruiser. Even doing it one handed now. She can stand on her own for a few seconds and can even take a few unassisted steps. Being sick last week kind of put a hault on practicing for a while. She has got the wave down for sure. Now that doesn't mean that she will do it every time you want her to. But when I noticed her waving back to the people behind the set at Good Morning, America, I knew she had it! She says Mama, but only when crying in the middle of the night. I guess desperate times call for desperate measures. She says Dada a lot more too. She loves to be read to and her current favorites are Goodnight Moon, Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See? and 10 Little Ladybugs. She pays pretty close attention most of the time and will even turn the page if you prompt her by tapping it up and down with your finger. She officially has 5 teeth now, but you can only see 4 of them well. Joe "built" her a tent (ie blankets thrown over her activity mat) upstairs and she LOVES it. She likes to go inside and peek her head out and wait for you to say peek a boo. And she likes to take things like the remote, my wallet or anything else she shouldn't have and "hide" them in the tent. She thinks she is pretty darn cool. And if I say so myself, I think she is too:) Here is a funny picture I snapped of her today. I'm pretty sure she is saying, "Put down the camera and feed me Mama!!!"