Isabella 30 Months!

My oh my, what a little lady you are becoming! At 2 1/2 you are a sweet, affectionate, strong willed, goofy and funny kid, and we just love you to death. You try our patience more than we have ever known. And yet you fill our heart with a love we have never known.  Here's to 2 and a half!

Happy 30 Months Isabella Rae!

 30 Month Highlights:

-We took advantage of great GA weather and it still amazes me that we can play outside with a light jacket on!  You love being outside, running around and riding your car.  

 As a side note, you are a great big sister (though you do have your moments!), and it's so sweet watching you two together!

-We also took advantage of some lazy, stay and home and stay in our jammies kind of days. Those are nice sometimes!

-Our heat broke for 2 days (unfortunately they happened to be on the coldest 2 days so far!), and we enjoyed lots of snuggles in front of the fire, in several layers, and under blankets : )

-We made cookies together for the first time and you LOVED it!  You always love "helping" in the kitchen and you were just in your element. Not to mention, I gave you a beater to lick at the end!

-Probably the highlight for you all month was setting up our Christmas tree, singing songs, and just getting into the spirit. You LOVE the Christmas lights, and every morning your first request is to turn the tree on.  

"Touch it Aubee, it's beautiful!"

 

-You also got to meet Santa for the first time at our annual church Christmas luncheon. I expected you to be afraid and have some tears, but you were so excited and asked about 10 times when we could go see him! You marched right up, sat on his lap, and not a tear was shed. You did stare him down skeptically the entire time, but I was proud of you!

 

Sleeping: You have definitely lost your groove in sleeping this month, and naps as well as nighttime sleep have been all over the place. We still put you down around 7:30pm but you haven't been falling asleep until 9 or 9:30 most nights!  We started using the door lock again b/c the whole game of you coming out, us putting you back, was NOT fun. About 52 times a night, not fun! Since we started using that it has helped a ton, and you just sing in your bed (for almost 2 hours...still amazes me!) or play occasionally. You usually wake up around 7 or 7:30 am.

You nap at 1pm and it lasts an hour and a half to 3 hours!  And no, you don't fall asleep any sooner at night if you take a shorter nap...we tried!

 

Eating: You love oatmeal with berries, runny eggs and toast, squeezies, fruit (ALL DAY EVERY DAY!!), greek yogurt with berries or fruit preserves, fig bars, green smoothies, olives and cherry tomatoes. Outside of those things, one day you may love something and the next you hate it.  You're just fickle like that. We are also still working on you eating whatever I make for dinner, and once again, sometimes you devour it and other times not so much.

Isabella Loves:
-Singing, dancing, listening to music

-Daniel Tiger, Dora, Word Party

-Christmas movies and music (thank you Daddy)

-Playing outside

-RUNNING! Anywhere...through the house, in the yard, at parks!

-Baths

-Coloring with a pen

-Reading books

-Snuggling and rocking

Isabella Hates:

 -Not being able to do something independently

30 Month Stats:

Height: 36.5 in (approximately 50th percentile)

Weight: 29.7 lbs (approx 50th percentile, no weight gain again this month)

*Wearing 2T pants, 2T or some 3T shirts
*Size 5 diapers at night