Random May Photos

Not a whole lot going on at the Buescher household, just the usual chasing after Isabel :). She has really perfected her walking and cannot be stopped. She loves to walk in the house and in the backyard and of course to chase after the pugs.

I've been itching to put Isabel in this dress since she got it for her birthday and a couple Fridays ago the weather warranted a sundress...though I should have thought twice before taking her outside to play in the dress. Things were fine while she spun the blocks on her miniature playground...

But then she decided to make a beeline to the teeter totter. Which would have been fine except we'd had a bunch of rain earlier in the week and I didn't think that there might be water in the foot wells. Oops. Isabel was certainly pleased to find the puddles to play in.

Just another day of Isabel head butting the pugs. She finds it really funny to ram her head into the pugs and thankfully they don't seem to mind.

My new favorite shirt. A co-worker of mine brought Isabel this shirt back from Wallops Flight Facility...check out what it says :).

Isabel is really into doors and the baby gates, of which we have 4 of. 2 at the playroom entrances, one at the top of the stairs and one at the bottom. She loves to go through the gate and then shut it. If she gets too far from the gate and realizes it is not shut, she immediately heads back to the gate to shut it before continuing on her next adventure.

A bowl of lettuce. How's that for random? Well, this is pretty special lettuce, as it is the first from our garden. The spinach isn't so happy and is already going to seed, but our romaine and butter lettuce is doing GREAT. I was thrilled when I could harvest enough leaves last week for a side salad. It will be even better later this season when we can have big salads where all the veggies come from the garden.

On Friday I snagged a sweet deal on this like new Burley D'Lite bicycle trailer from Craigslist. I took it for a short spin on Saturday to make sure I could handle it (let me tell you, hills are quite the workout with this thing). Isabel wasn't too sure to make of it at first, but seemed to enjoy it.

Monday we went to the W&OD trail and took an 8 mile ride to Anne & Jon's and back. It was so nice to be out as a family on our bikes. Eric took this picture for us upon our return. We then rewarded our cycling efforts with a yummy Memorial Day BBQ.

In other non-photo news, Isabel has been talking/verbalizing herself a lot more. Some of her words are more clear than others, but it is obvious that she recognizes many different things around her and is picking up words quickly. A prime example was yesterday while I was getting things ready for the BBQ and Uncle Eric was sitting with Isabel while she ate her lunch. He had brought a bag of goldfish over and kept pointing the the fish on the bag saying "fish." All of a sudden I heard a cute little "fish" come from Isabel. It was fun because tonight she could then say "fish" after I showed her one of her bath toys, also a fish.

And finally, a video from Saturday. Apparently Isabel had been going non stop (I was at a class) and was so tired that she started falling asleep during lunch. Geoffrey couldn't help himself and took this short video. Reminds me of being in college when you'd see students trying to stay awake during long boring lectures...

We hope that everyone has a wonderful holiday weekend! I can't believe that summer is almost here.