I feel like amidst the newness of toddler-dom I haven't been recording here about our sweet Isla girl. She is now a whopping 3 months old and is showing this more and more every day. She has gone from being our sweet, small fragile doll to a chubby, interactive happy baby. She has great head control, and even stronger legs which she likes to push off and stand on whenever she can. She has big hazel eyes that sparkle when she smiles, which I am happy to say is very very often. She is very talkative and loves to to coo in response to anything and everything. She is easily startled and likes to follow people and things with her eyes. She graced us with her very first laugh yesterday, on Halloween night while watching her sister play with the bubbles she got while trick or treating, and it is ridiculous how cute it is. She has done it once since then already, and there is not a better sound in the whole world I tell you. Heart melting.






She is a bit of a Momma's girl, and loves to be cuddled and kissed. But she likes to play & do exercises & talk with her Daddy. She also adores her sister, which is great since this is reciprocated probably a little too much haha-they like to laugh together, read and lay on the boppy together. She is in a hurry to do everything with Addy and it does my heart good to see how much they like each other.





She is at that stage where she likes to watch the pictures, listen to stories and rattles and take in the whole world in front of her. She loves to be outside, but at the same time she wants to be bundled up tight and warm at all time, no matter where we go. She is my sweet cuddly girl and I couldn't do with out her. She wakes up still about once a night, which is more the doable, and eats often and very easily. Its amazing how much easier it is this time around [in regards to that at least]. She loves soft things like holding on to her cotton blankets tight in her grasp, to the point that I will often find little bits of cotton in the palm of her hand from how tight she's been holding on. If she has a blanket, and a pacifier she can be soothed pretty easily. She is gorgeous and sweet and fun. At least for my part I feel like she doesn't cry to often, but still in the random times she does she can go from 0 to 10 pretty quickly and will only seem to calm down with me. Still, she has made great strides in letting others hold and play with her-especially at church everyone is so sweet about wanting to hold her and she seems to enjoy it.

I think that this being my second time around I can appreciate what people mean when they say it all goes by so fast-with Addy I couldn't wait till she grew into new fun outfits or see her do new exciting things. But with Isla, I just want her to slow down and stay my sweet Momma's girl forever. Once again it feels like she was born yesterday, and yet like I can't remember life before her-like she has always been here, and a part of our family. I can't begin to say how grateful I am for this little family of mine. Especially our Isla baby.

This weekend has been awesome, but at the same time I am a little glad it is over! On Saturday we had our Primary carnival which we had been looking forward to all month. It was a lot of work, but we had a lot of help, and over all I think it was a success. I am glad I got this opportunity to see all that goes into planning an activity like this-it gives me a greater appreciation for how hard all my leaders must have worked to make things fun for us over the years.

As of yesterday, my Adelaide is a large and in charge 2 year old! Even writing that sounds surreal-it feels like its been two seconds instead of 2 years-and yet at the same time I feel like I can hardly remember life before her-like she has always been here where she belongs, with us.

We have been computer less for the last little while, so I haven't had a chance to blog lately-which I suppose is fine in the long run bc we've been busy actually DOING things that we can now blog about!

Last year we were able to get together with some friends and go to a pumpkin patch in half moon bay.   It was great, but it seemed like everyone always talked about a place called Lemos Farm for pumpkins and holiday fun, so we decided to check it out.

While ridiculously overcrowded, I can see what the hype is for if you have kids. They had everything from train rides, petting zoo, pony rides, hay rides, jumpy houses, haunted houses, and lots more. We opted for a day pass and decided to let Addy get her fill of fall fun, especially since Lester was w us that day which is somewhat rare with his current schedule. We spent several hours there, and thoroughly enjoyed every second. And with that, I will now let a million pictures do the talking.