Feeling the weight of delinquency lifting...

I was up ridiculously late last night trying to catch up this blog.  Granted, I've still got tons of stuff from vacation, but I'm OK doing that when I get the chance.  It's been driving me batty that I've got all these videos and photos that I want to show off, but couldn't seem to find enough time to do it.  So, I suffered through the day today from little sleep, but felt MUCH better because I'm almost caught up, and I'd say that I'm completely caught up after this post, so please excuse the randomness...

We were at Babies R Us the other night to pick up some baby gates....not for Izzy, but for Rosie :)  Anyway, here she is running through the store with one show.  I don't condone this, but was pretty much powerless to stop it...

Oh, I almost forgot these.  Joacim came home from the grocery store on Saturday night and told me to go outside to take photos of the moon.  Well, I'm always up for a challenge, and the moon is one of my biggest, so I thought I'd give it a go.  When I went outside, though, I couldn't see it yet because it was so low in the sky, so I took a little drive out to the country to see if I could get some good ones...

I love that you can actually see stars in this one

and you can actually see craters here..so. cool.

This is actually a picture of the crappy retention pond behind our house.  Looks so much better in the moonlight, doesn't it?

Ok, that's all I've got  :)

Just because she's so damn cute

I think this was while Joacim was gone too.  We'd get home from work/daycare, and just play outside...

Doesn't this just light you up from the inside?  

And I love that she's out there playing with the dogs...totally unafraid.

She's like a mini Elton John in these sunglasses

More bubbles

And Izzy after I told her that there would be no more bubbles for that evening (btw..we go through a bottle an evening :)

Some lazy weekends.....

We've been pretty low-key the last couple of weekends, spending a lot of time hanging out at home.  I just wanted a little downtime...it seems like it's been so busy lately, and weekends have been flying by...I needed them to slow down a bit :)

Here's Izzy taking some interest in the Dora doll she got for her birthday.  She spent a good part of the evening brushing Dora's hair.  Luckily, Dora's hair gets messy so fast that she was occupied most of the night 

She IS a good helper when it comes to shucking sweet corn!

Bubbles.  What kid doesn't like bubbles????  I raided Toys R Us's summer clearance sale the other night, stocking up on bubbles...

She wanted to sit on my lap during dinner, and then she started eating the corn off my plate, so I got another ear for her and we cut it off.  She was just so focused on it....

And a funny smile in the tub after dinner....

She's a very polite little girl.  Here's an example:

And she still loves to swing

Joacim just told me that the apple tree that Izzy was swinging from in Sweden was blown down by a storm.  She'll be pretty disappointed when we go back and sees that it's not there anymore....good memories, though

Oh, I almost forgot these 2 videos....this one was taken on our morning walk with the dogs when Joacim was travelling to Canada a couple of weeks ago.

And then we went to the mall later that same day.  Izzy saw the jumpy trampoline thing and wanted to try it, so I let her....

yeah, maybe next time, kiddo!  But I'm proud of her for trying!

And when Joacim got home, we went out to eat dinner.  Izzy wanted to wear her clogs....she's getting MUCH better at walking in them now

Oh my...she's such a little GIRL now....no longer my baby....sad and happy at the same time.....