Isla's bday party

Get ready for about a thousand pictures to follow (courtesy of my awesome sister heather)

We decided to do Isla's drive-in theatre for her first birthday party!  And it was a blast.  I got boxes for all the kids and made wheels and license plates ahead of time.  When the kids arrived I had stickers and markers and glitter glue for them to decorate their cars.  I think they could've spent an hr just decorating their cars.  

Isla was the last attendee at the party.  She decided to have a weird nap day and only slept about 30 min before we woke her up to go to her party (at our apartment clubhouse).  The lack of sleep did not seem to phase her when she saw all the excitement.

After we decorated for awhile I sent them over to Isla's Concessions to get hot dogs, french fries, and popcorn.  Then they ate while we watched a little cartoon.  We were supposed to watch a Little Einstein's episode.....but of course the disc didn't work.  So, we had grinch for a back-up.

Isla was the youngest....but we had lots of other 1 year olds and then kids all the way up to 4 years old.  Everyone loved sitting in their personal car and eating their food.  They all stayed in the boxes for the whole 30 min.  It was the cutest scene!

After the movie we sang to the cute birthday girl and let her dig into her cake.  Isla was very ladylike with her cake (at first).....she first just picked all the sprinkles off the top.  And then with some encouragement from friends started to dig in.

After the cake we all went outside and opened presents (and my sweet friend cassie and her husband drew started to clean-up the clubhouse).  Our gift to Isla was a little car thing with tons of buttons to push.  All the kids wanted to try this car out.  So, I took turns giving everyone a ride in the car.

My sister, Heather, was so sweet to not only come early and help me finish setting up but then stayed late and took Isla and her girls back to our apartment to play so Bryan and I could get the clubhouse all cleaned up.

I was so happy to see that Isla loved her party and of course loved eating cake!  

Happy Birthday to my no longer baby :)

10 months

She WALKS!! At 9 months and 1 week she took her first step while standing on her own. Since then she has progressed and 3 days before she turned 10 months she took 8 steps to her daddy. I love watching her face before she takes a step. I can tell she is trying to decide if she wants to let go of whatever furniture she's holding onto and take the step. She only lets go about half the time. (video below of the first day that she took multiple steps).

She is an awesome waver. She waves at everything all the time. I think her dad loves that she waves to him when he leaves in the morning for work.

She is still a people person and loves other babies. She has started giving hugs (putting her head on their chest) to other babies. Pretty much the cutest thing ever.

She is loving music more and more everyday. I love having dance parties with her. She bops her head, waves her arms, kicks her legs and bounces up and down. We are in primary and she will even dance during singing time. It's so funny

She has become a daddy's girl. She prefers him to me whenever he is around. It's pretty adorable. He loves it too......except for when he walks in the door from working all day and she immediately goes to him and won't leave his side. I think he would like to change first but she won't have it.

She is babbling a ton. I think she is beginning to try to imitate sounds she is hearing. I'm not sure if she knows mama and dada yet. She says them all the time, but I'm not sure she is saying them to us. So, she's not really talking yet.

I do think she understands a few words though. She knows: milk, food, bye, hi, goodnight, nap, wave. She might know: book, story, kiss.

She is getting better at napping everyday! Which is heavenly!!!!! I live for her long naps now - I feel like I can do so much.

She got her first doll for Valentine's day and loves it. That baby gets all sorts of hugs and it has a binkie that is magnetic to it's mouth and Isla loves to try to give the baby it's binkie. She also tries to suck on it too :)

She just seems older this month. I think she looks older too. I love that she is getting older and older. It just means that we get to do more fun things every day!