My little Mimic.

I have been puking a lot lately and I try to make sure that Isabella can't hear me or see me go to the bathroom to do it, but I do keep the door open so I can hear her should she pull a shelf onto herself or drown herself in water from the water cooler-again. I thought I was doing a good job, until today when she got into the bathroom and it took me a minute or two to get to her. I thought to myself "do I even have a clean shirt for her now that she's soaked to the elbows from playing in toilet water?" But when I got to the bathroom she wasn't playing in the water. Instead she was standing slightly bent over the bowl coughing into it. I guess she sees more than I think she does!

Belles New Smile.

What a delight this little face is. I realized just how long it's been since I put a blog entry about Belle and I tried to think of what I could say. She seems to have halted in her development for now, content instead to master the skills she's recently acquired. But she is developing a sense of humor, and a great one at that.

We now spend hours on the couch where she will crawl away from us towards the opposite end of the couch and we grab her ankles and pull her back while she squeals in delight. She has come to understand the game so that she squeals as soon as she reaches the end of the couch in anticipation of our grab. She has many games like that.

In the morning she may whine and whine at us to come and get her, (I confess I've started to leave her a few minutes longer than before in hopes she call for me), and although she is thuroughly upset that we didn't answer her beck and call immediately as soon as we open the door she melts into this smile.

She thinks that the sound you make when you blow your nose is hilarious.

This morning we were watching the Olympics and as the crowd burst into cheers her face broke into this grin and she dropped her cup so she could clap along. Clapping, she does that almost constantly, perhaps she has the gift of encouragement?

She now does high fives and knows how to make you chase her down the hall way. She is a funny girl, but it's hard to share that in typing. So you'll have to take my word for it, and her smile as proof.