one week later...

many feats are accomplished in the matter of one week.

isabel learned how to say "no". and the next day she learned how to say "yes". she highly prefers "no" though. here's a sample of one her "no" conversations: will you share your milk with amalea? "no". will you share your milk with mommy? "no". will you share your milk with daddy? "no". will you share your milk with goliath? "no". (all of isabel's responses are intermingled with big swigs of her milk)

the other night, when we were listening to "boom-boom" (bed, bed, bed by they might be giants) and isabel was supposed to be getting drowsy and ready for bed, she decided to discover finger and toe nails instead. she thought it was hilarious that the ends of her and mom's fingers and toes were covered by these clear, hard, shell-like things. isabel giggled as she went over both those on fingers and toes of both parties involved.

isabel now alerts you to the fact that she has wet her diaper by saying "bee-bee" (that's her clean version of the "p" word) and points to the diaper region. isabel will go pee-pee in the potty once or twice a day. once this week she said "bee-bee", was asked if she had to go pee-pee on the potty, and she shook her head yes in response and zoomed off to the potty. isabel sat and promptly went both pee-pee and poo-poo. utterly amazing!

isabel likes "dum-dees" (red dye 40, high fructose corn syrup, hyrdogenated oil laden gummies - really dumdees, as she has stated). she does NOT like the organic fake gummies that daddy bought.

amalea and isabel just walked by, hand-in-hand, isabel in tow, with amalea asking "do you want to come with me?" "no".

everything that refers to a near future event is referred to as "the next day" for amalea. for example: "what do we do the next day?" or "we get to go see the pumpkin eating dinosaur the next day." (you'll hear all about that adventure soon)

amalea and isabel both like to swim like mermaids in the tub (photo above of amalea's luxurious hair, and isabel's fuzzy floaties). amalea is a lot more cautious as she approaches the water. isabel nearly floods herself just sliding in and under almost every time. it comes with the 4 years of practice!