Sea World Fun

Another thing that we did during my week off was go to Sea World. Isabella loves goingt there and we have passes so she gets the chance to go pretty often. Her favorite animals to see are the penguins, Shamu, and polar bear. She actually made us walk through the penguin area twice so that she could see them again. If she could I think she would live at Sea World but sadly that isn't an option. We had a coupld of wardrobe malfunctions there as well. First when we got there the heel of my shoe poked through and was killing me so I had to get new shoes. Then when we were pushing Isabella in her stroller she dragged her foot through the mud when she didn't have shoes on and her socks got filthy so she got new socks. It seemed like we spent half our time there searching for clothes. Isabella did really well though given the fact that she had no nap and we were there from 12 till 7. She did cry when we had to leave and I felt bad because she was having fun but it was getting late.

Guess who likes cotton candy?

Feeding the ducks and seeing some monsters

Finally getting around to posting pictures from last week. On Tuesday we took Isabella to the duck pond and then to see her first movie in a theater. She loved going to see the ducks but the movie took a little longer to get use to. When we first got there she wanted to leave and I kept telling her to give it a few more minutes. She sat on my lap the whole time and would occasionally tell me that it was time to go. Eventually she got into the movie and started to enjoy it. When there was about 5 minutes left she then got up and sat in her chair, which I had to help hold down because she is so small.

These are the adorable baby ducks that Isabella was overfeeding. Their poor mama had to keep protecting them from the other ducks trying to steal the bread Isabella was feeding them.

She is so cute in this picture.

This is the movie that we took her to and they had a big poster of it in the lobby. Had to take a picture in front of it. She actually was so excited to take a picture in front of it and had me take a lot.

Then she made daddy take a picture with her in front of it.

Closer to three than two

How in the world have two and half years passed by? Somedays feel so long but they are adding up to quickly. She has seemed to change a ton in the last couple of weeks. Some of these changes are a lot of fun. Like she is able to do art with me now and I am able to use all of my vast preschool teacher knowledge to do arts and crafts time with her. We are also able to have conversations together that actually make some sense. She is becomming so funny and creative and its amazing watching her come up with things and understand things that we have no idea where they come from.

Then theres the other side. She is going through some sort of sleep regression and is now having difficulty with naps and waking up between 2 and 4 in the morning. Its not a lot of fun to be doing the middle of the night thing again. Hopefully it is a short period because I am tired. Her tantrums, though luckily don't happen often, are getting more intense. She threw a good one over the weekend and I was torn between wanting to laugh because part of what she was doing was funny and lock in her a closet till she stopped. I did neither (well to be honest I did laugh a little bit but not at her) and it eventually ended. The funniest part of the whole thing is when she told me "you not allowed to tell me no mama". Umm... last time a checked thats a right of a mama so too bad kid.

This week I am off so we are taking her to the movies tomorrow which will be a lot of fun and we shall see how she does. Then on Wednesday its Sea World which will be a good picture taking day for me. She loves it there so I am excited.

Here are some cute April pictures I've taken so far:

We were building up block towers and knocking them down.

Crawling through the awesome tunnel at my work. I'm going to have to get her one of these someday. She loves it and it burns energy.

My little artist. She was very excited about using paint.