Allergies gallore and so much more

I can't believe it has been so long since I've posted anything. The world has seemed to stop and yet go so quickly all at the same time.

We've been taking care of our Pop pop and Meme since our last post. Pop pop is out of the hospital - thank heavens! And Meme is now cancer-free (she was diagnosed with breast cancer a few weeks ago.) So now, I have time to write about Baby Girl!

Isabel is doing so great. She is running everywhere and dancing every chance she gets, and sometimes when she doesn't even have music. If she is riding in the grocery cart (her favorite), she moves to the rhythm of the wheels. She also is very fond of "singing" with her mother.

Also, she has become a bit of an allergy freak like her mother. I told Jeff that it should be expected, but we are hoping she'll grow out of most of them. Izzy is allergic to milk, egg, fish, dogs, cats and grass... so far. We are also staying away from nuts, just in case. So needless to say, mommy is attempting to cook a lot more and read labels like it's going out of style.

Isabel is also going to be staying home with me. I'm putting her in parttime program in the fall, but she'll be mostly trying to stay sane while home with her mother. Daddy loves the pay-raise we'll be getting without paying for full-time daycare, and I've started my own marketing business to fill in the gaps where I can.

I'm very excited about staying home, which is surprising to me. Never the domestic-type, I'm really enjoying getting to know more about Isabel. Every day is something different, and you never know where she is going to do or say. I'm also going to work on her little "mean" streak. Boy, does she ever like to get her way!

She is now talking furiously to the dogs through the deck windows and french door. (which is as close as she can get to them). She is talking a lot more - mostly in her own language, and she only likes to eat her food when it is on an official plate. We are still trying to figure out the utensils... very dirty job.

We are taking her to the lake this weekend for July 4th, so I'm hoping to get some great pictures of her and her best friend Catherine. I'm also adding some shots of her with her "boyfriend" Will Tindall to this post at Will's family's mountain house. What a pair those two make! Oh, and Izzy is having a Cheezit, because we didn't know she couldn't have it at the time. Oh, how she will miss those.