The social girl

So my little Isabelle is totally social! Not that her parents are not at all, but we have nothing on this one. She loves people and seems intent on making them smile and interact with her. She has to date also made the two little men in her life cry. Both Olan and Logan have been so overwhelmed by her attentiveness and exuberance, hence the screams of hello and grabbing hands, that they have been reduced to tears. I would probably feel the same were I faced with that kind of agressive attention. To that end, we attended the library sing a long this week for the first time and I realized that even though her mother is kind of reluctant to attend these "check out my baby sessions", she seems to love them. Ugh. Inevitably mothers are checking each other out, the babies, the strollers, how much hair each one has, how much they are eating, sleeping etc. etc. etc. She has no clue about all these intricacies and seems to love the other kids and the sing song sessions. Her mother, of course, had no idea what over 3/4's of the songs were and felt like a complete ass, but I guess I should get used the the feeling. I told my friend Renee that should anyone ask, I was French Canadian and therefore had a completely perfect excuse for my ignorance - I grew up with only French nursery rhymes. I hadn't really worked out how I was going to explain the lack of an accent.......

The next day we went to Dad's work as they had the Candian Freestyle Ski Team in to do a show. It was great - two big trampolines in the lobby, and five of the team, past and present. Isabelle was the youngest fan there and even got her photo taken with the Olympic champion Jennifer Heil. Gilles wanted her to meet a past Olympic champ as one to a future champ, we're just going to give her a few years. Most of you know the story.....Girl grows up on the canal, and becomes a speed demon on the long blades. He thinks it's a made for tv movie!

We also set up a huge, of course this is relative as she is fairly small, play area for her in the main room of the house. Bought those big foam letters and made a big square so now she has a spot for all of her toys. She loves to roll around and is trying desperately to crawl and it solves the hardwood dilemma for us. It's nice to be able to spend more time downstairs and she can't hurt her little noggin if she falls over from her seated position. Shock of all shocks though that she seems to be upright and having no problems all of a sudden. We also bought a baby to toddler swing and hope to get it up on the front verandah this weekend.

She has started really vocalizing a lot of late. One of her fav's is "Ma Ma Ma Ma". I, of course have decided that this is her first real word, and it's Mama. Please, no killing the fantasy.

On a completely unrelated note, I fear that my days of cereal scooping are now over. Gilles and I both love the PC Xtra Raisins for breakfast, and I especially like the sugared raisins. He opened the new box last night to get his breakfast ready and started to shake the box. I promptly responded with a NOOOooooooooooooooo. Unbeknowst to him, I like the box to stay as is since he pours from the top and gets most of the bran flakes. I head directly to the bottom, with my hand, and scoop out all the raisins which have a tendency to stay at the bottom of the box. Agh, he now knows that he has been getting screwed on the raisin ratio.

Isabelle would also like to send out a thank you to her Great Aunt Janice who sent a lottery scratch and win ticket for Easter. She has won a windfall 3$ and it's now in her piggy bank, where it will not collect interest, but will be indeed a large sum of cash to her when she eventually heads out to the convenience store with her friends for a candy run...............