TEN MONTHS!

The teeth have arrived!! Just a week before her 10 month birthday her two bottom teeth popped in (at the same time!!) We had two nights of her waking quite often, but all in all, she was a trooper with those teeth breaking through her gums! She looks so cute!

In the past two weeks we have noticed a growth spurt! She seems so much bigger to us. In a couple months we'll find out her actual weight. We're guessing she is around 15-16 lbs. We can’t believe it, but our little baby is becoming a little girl now. It’s amazing how fast she has grown up.
She loves to climb up on things and into things. She also talks ALL the time. In addition to “mama” and “dada,” she says “uh oh” when something drops and “buh, buh” when someone leaves (still about 2 minutes after they have left which is really defeating the whole purpose of bye bye). Her latest and greatest is pointing to everything in sight. She is so curious and I think she just wants to learn the names of everything around her. She is definitely learning vocabulary and seems to understand a lot of what we say. If you ask her she can get her teddy, the ball, her book, her baby, the elephant. She knows where “outside” is and she always tries to put her sock back on when it falls off.
We had a couple months of crawling and suddenly Isabelle can get on her feet and stand for a few seconds on her own. With just a little help she can walk.....

Here she is telling us all about her travels with her pushcart.....At this point, we knew she would be walking really soon!

For some reason she is totally fascinated with shoes and spends forever playing with them and picking them up. Maybe this is a sign of walking?? Is she suggesting we need to go buy shoes for her??
Christmas is approaching so I decided it was time for Isabelle to meet Santa. If you can't tell from the photo, she pretty much wanted nothing to do with him. I've never seen her eyes get so big....