Such a HOOT!

First of all, I've been wanting this outfit for a long time and they finally had it on sale, so I snatched it up! However; I wanted an 18 mo. even though this little girl is still wearing 12mo. at almost 15 mo. old, but they didn't have 18 mo. in the pants. So I went ahead and got 18 mo. in the shirt and 12 mo. in the pants. Well, thank goodness I did. I still had to roll the waist up on the pants b/c they were still too long and big! Anyhoot, (ha! get it? hoot and her outfit has owls on it?) yeah, anyway yesterday was little Alex's 2nd birthday and we went to the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse party he had. He was so cute with his little Mickey Mouse badge and ears on! I didn't have my camera, but I'm sure mom will post pics! Then Candi had a pair of ears for Izzy too! So adorable! Alex was eating when we got there and she couldn't hardly wait to get a hold of him! Needless to say...I think he could wait though. Poor thing doesn't know he's going to be molested when Izzy is around! As soon as he finished opening his gifts, she was on him like white on rice; kissing him, and patting his head...a little bit hard b/c she was sooo excited...Alex took as much as he could and then Candi saved her little one from anymore abuse. Then after some of the guests left and was just the two of them they were crawling and walking all over the place with each other. Alex got ahead of Izzy one time and he turned around and motioned for her to come on and he waited for her. It was sooo super cute and sweet. I even feel like a normal mommy; we have a playdate/pic session scheduled for Friday, b/c I'm actually off from work! I can't wait...I'm sure if Izzy knew and understood she would be excited too!

Ghetto Fabulous!

This is a quick one! I couldn't help it she's so stinkin' cute! We've had our first walking injury as you can tell. She fell and her chin caught the corner of Clint & Jen's coffee table :( It doesn't distract from her cuteness though ;) The outfit and baby Nikes are from Ya-Ya and Mike. The boggin is from Frissen. The combination is one Ghetto Fabulous Girl. I've also posted pics to the "Walking Tall" entry!

I AM SICK OF VIRUSES & BACTERIA!

I've really been trying hard to keep my blog a happy and positive place, but I've just about had all I can take this week and I need to vent somehow! After over a week of not sleeping b/c my poor baby was sooo very sick with bacterial pneumonia, I've had week number two sleepless nights b/c my computer was sick with a virus!!! Growl! GROWL! So, while I was trying to download a program for the computers in the lab at the Y (which I had already spent hours on setting up and making notes on for our computer guru) a message popped up on the taskbar saying I was infected! When I clicked on the notice it immediatly started downloading "Microsoft Anti-Virus Pro 2009" which I had never heard of and didn't authorize. I knew immediately something was wrong and started deleting files...sure enough it was a big fat fake anti-virus program and a completely viral infection! It disabled my Norton and there was a fake anti-spyware program making it's way around my poor computer's insides as well! So I deleted files and tried to do what I could until 2am. The next day I took my laptop to work and starting comparing it to my desktop...the viruses had also taken over my security center! The virus set-up a fake security center that looked just like the real one (I do have to give kudos to whoever came up with this virus-it's very sophisticated)! Finally, after downloading some new and REAL anti-virus software and 43 infections later; my computer is somewhat back to normal. I'm still tweeking a few things. Well, after this I had learned my lesson so I put the same anti-virus software on my desktop at the Y. The installation, however, did not go as smoothly. For some reason I had to change some of the proxy settings on my desktop that I did not have to do on my laptop and it took several hours of trying different things (including uninstalling and reinstalling it) to figure this out! I've also been helping my co-worker set-up her new computer (that she had to get b/c her's completely and totally crashed) and since she now has Vista, certain things, like installing printer drivers, have proved to be almost as annoying as the viruses! AAAAHHHHHH! Also, I had to recover my computer to a previous day and time, which was Sunday and I believe this has also caused some bills I scheduled that day to be paid to be deleted and now I have a late payment on one! I am just sooo frustrated! Now, I am trying to get this issue cleared-up and Clark is sick with what I'm not sure, but I'm sure it's either...yep you guessed it; bacterial or a virus!

Walking Tall!

FINALLY! After months of holding onto fingers and furniture, not to mention the last month of taking a few steps unassisted here and there, we are officially walking! Usually, if we ask Izzy to walk to us (after she's already standing mind you) she drops to her knees and crawls to us. Then she started taking a couple of steps towards us until she realized we were watching and again hit her knees. Well, Saturday she took 3 whole steps to me, but we didn't get too excited b/c I didn't ask her to, and Clark wasn't looking. Then tonight I came home from work and the grocery store and she was standing at the edge of the couch. When she saw me she got excited and bent her knees to go to the floor and start crawling to me. Instead I said "walkie walkie to Mommy" and she stood back up and walked right to me!! Not only that, she had these little balls that go with her kitchen set, one in each hand! She couldn't have reached out and grabbed the couch or my hand if she wanted to and luckily Daddy was watching too! We are so proud! It may have taken her 14 months to do it, but she's been working on other things; her vocabulary is more diverse than any of the other babies around her age (most of which are older than she is). I just wish we knew when something big, like walking, talking, etc. was going to happen so we could have the camera ready! You almost want to have surveillance cameras going 24 hours a day! Hopefully, I can post a pic tomorrow. Anywho, I was just too excited to wait...I had to post it tonight!