Auntie Sambo and Jackson come to Denver

Sam and Jackson made the trip from San Diego to see us for 4 days this past weekend. Isla LOVES LOVES LOVES Jackson and having him here for an extended period of time. We hit the zoo, the park and lots of wild play time in the living room. We were so happy to have them here and have quality time with wonderful friends. Only thing missing was Jay!

Mother's Day

My second Mother's Day was a great one. My brother and dad were here, as well as my friend Sam and her son Jackson. We all headed out to brunch Sunday morning at Wine Experience. I am so blessed to have a happy and healthy daughter!

Kitchen Helper

Every morning Isla loves to help me unload the dishwasher. She's almost 14 1/2 months and is changing and learning and developing so much. We work on her animal, shapes and first word flash cards daily, and she's becoming such a little chatterbox. She's no closer to walking, but she's back and forth with her Mickey Mouse airplane push toy all the time. She's mastered the up and down of the stair and is a busy little bee. She becomes more and more fun by the day and fills our lives with more joy than we could have imagined!

Easter Weekend

Isla and I headed to Eads last Thursday for a long Easter weekend with the family. Isla LOVES her cousins! She had so much fun with them heading to the store, playing on the trampoline and wrestling around with them. The best prize in her Easter basket was a carrot full of bubbles!

Getaway to Steamboat Springs

We needed a break from our day-to-day lives and headed to Steamboat Springs for a couple of days. We could have used a couple more days of relaxing! We did lots of walking, too much eating, some hot tubbing and plenty of relaxing. Isla did really well on the 3 1/2 hour car trip each way. She LOVED being in a hotel and having her family in close quarters. We're all about springtime now!

13 months old

Tomorrow Isla will be 13 months old. She's changing so much! My parents were up this past weekend and noticed so many changes in her in the past few weeks. She is chatty chatty chatty...now saying ball, 'nana (banana), Bear Bear (her beloved teddy) and bye-bye to everyone! She's mastered going up and down the stairs, which means we never had to put up baby gates...allelujah! She just started doing the bear crawl a few days ago and is walking along all of the furniture. We think it will be another month or so before she is walking, though everything is a push toy right now. She is all about her books lately and has her favorites - The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Polar Bear Polar Bear and Miss Spider's Tea Party. We've smoothly transitioned her to one nap, and she's still a super sleeper with 12+ hours at night and 3+ during the afternoon. We've gone to the zoo twice in the last month and are loving our zoo passes. She's at such a fun stage now and is filling our lives with so much joy and laughter!

Happy Birthday to You

Here's a little video of us singing Happy Birthday to Isla and the devouring of her cake!