My beautiful little princess! Adorable - a little innocent looking - but with a HUGE temper and LOTS of energy! Very loud day and night - speaks, laughs, giggles, squeals and screams - all loud! The same words I wrote about her at her 9 Month presentation, and the words that still hold true!
Isabella has changed a lot in her personality. She is now much more mellow and even if she still shows tantrums and has even been pulling her hair at some occasions, she is much more likely to snuggle with you now and she likes to get a book and come and sit in your lap wanting you to read it to her. She cuddles and snuggles with her lovey, teddy bears and dolls, all getting big kisses and so much love. Sometimes even when we tell her to give some "love and kisses" for Benjamin, Cassie or one of us, she leans in and puts her head close. Sometimes she now also give kisses, likes to give "Eskimo kisses" (rubbing nose to nose) especially when she's tired and off to bed. So sweet!
Isabella wakes up between 7-8am and like her brother she most of the time now sleep through the night. We have only had a few nights since their birthday, where she has been up. When she is, it takes forever for her to go back to sleep, she is very hard to put back to sleep. She naps the same times as her brother, normally around 10am-12am or around that time. Most of the time they also have an afternoon nap between 4am-5pm, but lately, Isabella doesn't always sleep in the afternoon. She cries a little bit and then you hear her up there playing in her bed for a while, banging against the wall, crying a little bit and then calming down. But, I still want them to rest/sleep at the same schedule, when they are older, we might let them split nap times up, but for now, it works the best for everyone if they are on the same schedule. Bedtime is around 8pm, and there is very little fuzz. Pretty much just putting them in their beds, love and kisses and night night sleep tight!
She LOVES music and to dance. She sits on her little bottom and turns around and around, hopping up and down and kicks her little legs and feet and waving her hands and shaking her head. Her whole body moves to the music, and it won't be long until she is confident dancing up on her feet!
She claps her hands and plays along with all the nursery rhymes like "Pat a cake", "Where is Thumper?" "Five little Monkeys..", "Itzy bitzy Spider" in both the Swedish and the English versions. She has become very verbal now the last couple of months, and she is now saying mamma, pappa, bye bye, hi, doll (dolly), baby, cat and book. She also speaks a lot while she is playing making her voice play in different tones up and down. She talks on her phone, and she can use any toy as a phone and put it on her shoulder and against her ear and talk away a storm and she always finish the "conversation" with many clear "Bye Bye's"!! She roars like a lion or she can sound like a little kitten when she plays with her cat. She can peep like a little bird when she sees one in books or in the trees. She laughs big and loud!!
She is very strong, jumps up and down in her bed or on the sofa, climbs on the sofa or other furniture, climbs up in the window wanting to look outside. She is fast crawling and she is also as fast on all 4, like a monkey, not crawling on her knees, but walking a lot on hands and feet! She started to take a few wobbly steps here between furniture and did take
her first good steps on July 18, one day after turning 14 Months. She has been practicing a lot since then, and now with 15 Months, she is getting more and more steady and dares to let go more and more. Just the other day, she let go in the living room and walked almost across the room. She is by far not as steady as her brother, but she will soon be! She is so funny, and she is so happy when she reaches out for you big a big proud smile and a big laugh! Like telling the world - "Look at me!"
She used to be our little picky eater when she was younger, but not any more! The last couple of months over the summer, she's eating very good, tastes pretty much everything that you offer her, LOVES fruit of all kind, can eat a whole banana at snack time and I'm so happy! She is also very good with fork and spoon, and wants to eat as much as she can on her own. I'm still hoping that this joy for food will rub off on her brother! She is eating much better and more than him, and therefore she's been gaining weight good as well so she is heavier and a little taller than her brother now.
As her brother she loves her bath time. She really likes the water, and loves to just sit and play. Loves the pool in the garden and also to sit in the swim ring in the big pool. Not fun when it's over though....and to put cream, diaper and pajamas on is often a true struggle. She did use to put up a fight all the time by changing diaper or such, but she is doing much better with that, is slowly getting more patient!
She is such a little girl in so many ways, likes to wear dresses and to look pretty. She puts on hats and tries out shoes all the time. She carries a little handbag on her arm that Cassie gave her and it's so cute!
Her favorite toys at the moment is the dolls, the lion and cats, her rocking horse, the little soft barnyard friends (duck, pig, cow and roaster) and she loves when we pull out the tunnel and then also fill it up with the plastic balls. All the stacking cups and bath toys are still a big favorite, even if they play more and more with them in the pool or in the bathtub, where before they would use them for everything everywhere..
She is still learning to share, just like her brother and she gets into "disagreements" with her brother all the time. Often the toy that the other one is playing with so much more fun! Even if we have two of some of the toys or at least very similar ones..She is still the one that doesn't give in that easy, and Ben is almost always the one that lets go first..I have to break up a lot of fights every day before they get too tough!
She also likes to play hide and seek and just loves when you crawl around on the floor with her. She also likes to roll around on the sofa or in the new cuddly corner that we made in the living room. I put down some heavy blankets and big pillows in a corner where they love to sit and read and to play with their stuffed animals. She likes to sit there and to bounce around!
She likes books, many books are loved more than others, and have been chewed on. But now she is getting more out of them and finding it exciting to read them and to listen to the stories and find and point at things on the pages.
Isabella has at this point 2 upper and 4 lower teeth, but is showing her 3rd upper tooth. There will be more breaking through soon, as the gum is changing in her mouth as well. Her hair is growing a lot too, very uneven, long on the top of her head and also getting longer in the neck, but is still short on the sides. She still hasn't had a ponytail or hair clips, but I'm sure that we would be able to put some in. I don't think that they would stay in the hair that long though, so they would be more of a choking hazard to her and her brother!
My sweet little girl is growing so fast and it won't be far where she will be running around as fast as her brother and it will be so much fun now when we can spend more time outside!
