Irene's Blog: Big Girls

It is hard to believe how fast time goes by this days. This weekend we had some pretty big milestones. First Izzie turned 10 months old yesterday. I can't believe she is that old. She is walking all over the place now. She is still working on her balance but she always starts out walking and if she falls then she tries to stand up and if she can't then she crawls. But she can walk from one end of the room to another. We took the girls to the park yesterday afternoon and we put some shoes on Izzie and let her go. She did very good, it is harder walking on the mulch. The only problem was that she kept trying to sit down and eat the mulch. But she was happy to be able to walk around and follow Natalie around. Natalie was very excited too to have Izzie walking and she kept trying to get Izzie to follow her on the play equipment.

Izzie is also done with baby food. For the past couple of weeks it has been harder and harder to feed her. She wants to eat people food and wants to feed herself. I ran out of the baby food veggies she likes so last night for dinner we only gave her our food. She had green beans and carrots and some ribs that Aaron made for us. She ate a bite of each. Of course she had a flour tortilla. She loves them, we buy them at the grocery store, they make them in the store. She also had some fruit. She is a very good eater and eats anything you put in her tray.

As far as Natalie goes we ran out of diapers ;-) We have been potty training for a while now and she does very well when we are home and she is naked. The problem is that she never wants to wear underwear. She wants to wear diapers. I think it's a comfort thing. But she has been telling me when she is going pee and if she is naked and playing around she goes to the potty without me even asking. So for a couple of weeks now I have been telling her how we are running out of diapers, and she will need to wear underwear. So on Friday I hid all of her diapers and when she went looking for them very matter of fact she said to me "diapers all done" . So I said, yep they are all done and she has been wearing underwear since. Now if we are home she pulls them off and remains naked but that's ok. Hopefully she will get used to them. I think she feels like something is missing or lose because she keeps pulling up her pants. She has had 3 accidents so far, all while wearing the panties. If she is naked she does not have an accident. Hopefully today will be a good day.

Now the novelty of the underwear is fading. I have pull ups for her to sleep on and I keep calling them her bed time underwear but she has figured out that they feel like diapers because this morning she kept trying to wear them. We will see how she does when she goes to school on Tuesday and has to be on underwear all day.

Here are some pictures taken yesterday.

Here is Natalie showing off her underwear. She wanted Mickey Mouse underwear but the Mickey underwear is for boys and the Minnie is for girls. She insisted on Mickey so she has some boys briefs on.