Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
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3:11 pm - family photos
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Friday, April 8th, 2011
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4:49 pm - Izzy's first words
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Izzy started saying "Hi" awhile back, and seems pretty intentional about it.
Today, she said "Di" to Divia a couple of times very intentionally.
She's been saying Da for a long time, but there is no correlation between the word and Dada being anywhere close by ;)
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Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011
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1:20 pm - Izzy @ 6 months eating Will's Arm with Divia
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Sunday, March 20th, 2011
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7:33 pm - pictures!
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Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
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10:32 am - Help Us Pick a School!
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Friday, March 11th, 2011
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4:11 pm - Izzy Stats, 6 months
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Weight -- 13lbs 11oz (10th percentile)
Head Circumference -- 41.6cm (25th percentile)
Height -- 26 1/4" -- (50th percentile!)
She's healthy :) Only issue is that the back of her head is a little bit flat. We're supposed to keep her off her back while she's awake for the next couple of months... this is going to be challenging since she's spent most of her time on her back up to this point, hence the flatting I suppose :P
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Monday, February 28th, 2011
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12:21 pm - baby babble!
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Izzy has started babbling, just before her 6 month birthday.
This morning she greeted me (Mama) by saying Dadadada!
I my parenting class, they said that babies typically say Dadada before Mamama, because they start off by making the noise Da when they're happy, and Ma when they are wanting comfort. Given that, I'm happy to be dadada for now ;)
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Saturday, February 19th, 2011
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3:22 pm - sibling love
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The kids really like each other. Tovar talks about how he loves Izzy and likes to cuddle with her, and Izzy is super responsive to him. She coos and smiles whenever he gets near her. The only other person I've seen her respond that enthusiastically to is her daddy :)
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Saturday, February 12th, 2011
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12:34 pm - Izzy mimicking!
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Izzy just repeated an identifiable "Hi" in response to "Hi Izzy!" four times in a row! And after that, she said nothing a few times (as opposed to, say, something that didn't sound like "Hi"). This is her first successful mimic (unless it's a parent's deranged imagination, which is quite possible), at 5.5 months.
Tovar's first mimic was at five months when he picked the word "Squeaky" out of a conversation and repeated it 5 times or so...then never said it again.
We'll see what comes next, this is probably a fluke, but I'll be surprised if she isn't talking within a few months...she does a lot of baby babbling already!
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Sunday, January 30th, 2011
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8:53 pm - glee
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Izzy and I have this great game now, where I kiss her on the cheek and she smiles and squeals with glee. The squeal is super adorable.
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Saturday, January 29th, 2011
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9:09 pm - personality progression
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Izzy continues to be an incredibly smiley baby who loves everyone. Its wonderful. Last night she was babbling away, and then our roommate Nick came by to see her. She got dead silent and just stared at him in fascination for 15 or 20 minutes. And tried to eat his shirt. ;)
The disappointing thing is that she is no longer self entertaining the way she used to be. She loves people and wants people all the time, so no more hour long periods of entertaining herself in the bassinet. I also can't entertain her by wearing her in the bjorn while I type anymore, because she wants more motion to be happy in the bjorn. She does however find it very soothing when I take her on walks in the baby bjorn, or if I pace or sway with her in it.
She continues to sleep a lot for a baby, so although she wants a lot of attention when she's up, we still get plenty of breaks.
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Friday, January 21st, 2011
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8:22 pm - can you spoil a baby? ;P
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I think we spoiled Izzy while we were at my mom's house over the holidays. Prior to that she entertained herself in her bassinet often, but at my mom's house someone was paying attention to her 24/7, and she hasn't been happy very long by herself since then. She's still a very happy baby, she just insists on having someone around. Its probably just the phases she's passing through as she gets older, but the timing is awfully suspicious ;)
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Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
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10:39 pm - awwa a awwa a
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As of today, at 4.5 months, Izzy has been making this sound constantly:
She's mostly been doing it when she's happy, so the high notes are more squeals of delight. In the video she was getting a little agitated.
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Saturday, January 1st, 2011
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9:54 pm - fallen angel
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Our perfect little angel of a baby who smiles at everyone and almost never cries has become grumpy and moody over the past couple of days. Hopefully its just teething.
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Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
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1:43 pm - smiley baby!
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Over the past couple of weeks, Iselle has become extremely social and smiley. She is happy to smile at pretty much anyone who makes eye contact and smiles at her :)
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Saturday, December 25th, 2010
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7:43 pm - Christmas 2010
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Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
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10:30 am - Mobbed by boys
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I brought Izzy to school this morning to drop Tovar off, asleep in her carrier. The 5-year old boys in Tovar's classroom were very excited. They washed their hands so they could hold her hand. 5 or 6 of them surrounded the carrier, hoping she would wake up and wanting to hold her hand and see her smile.
They progressed to kissing her forehead, and with all the noise she woke up and smiled at them, leading to squeals of joy. "Does she go to this school?" one of them asked excitedly. "Yes, Tuesdays & Thursdays", I said. "Yay!" was the response.
Eventually, one of the kids brought up marriage, and I said we weren't ready to talk about that for a few years yet.
In summary: our 3 month old charmed a class of boys while asleep such that they crowded around and fought for her attention, escalating from hand-holding to kissing to discussing marriage. I think she's well on her way to her first millihelen.
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Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
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12:41 pm - Thanksgiving Photos
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Sunday, December 5th, 2010
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3:05 pm - win some lose some
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Izzy has sadly not been smiling all the time like she was for that week or so, but she does still smile a lot, and her smiles are gorgeous.
Sleep is going really well. Last night she slept from 10:30pm to 6am, and then from 7am to 10am. She usually wakes up once during the night, but on evenings after her two days of daycare she sometimes doesn't wake up at all!
We've also succeeded on getting her sleep associated with her bed. Putting her in the bjorn and bouncing her to sleep is still the surest way to push her over the edge into sleepy time, but she will often go straight to sleep if put in her bed, and she's sleeping for longer stretches in it during the day and not being so dependent on the bjorn. However, she does still love sleeping in the bjorn and sleep for the longest daytime stretches in it, so its very convenient if we want to do something or go somewhere and have her with us :)
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Friday, December 3rd, 2010
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1:58 pm - Izzy's Passports
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Izzy was issued a temporary three month passport to leave India. So her current passport actually has her 2 week old baby photo! Unfortunately they'll probably keep the old passport when we order the new one, so I figured I'd better scan it for posterity.
Here's Izzy's new passport photo where she's 3 months old. We don't have plans to travel with her out of the country, but we get the passport upgrade for free if we do it soon, since we already paid for the temporary passport. The passport is good for 5 years, so hopefully she'll get a chance to use it :)
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