Moving right along!

Our girl is on the move!  I am so happy to announce that our little mover and shaker is all over the house!  She is not only crawling, she will scoot, inch and push her way around any obstacle in her way.  We of course, had to turn our house into Fort Knox with gates, cages, etc to make sure we keep our girl safe.  I can not believe that Isabella is already almost 10 months old!  Time really does fly!  I remember always hearing from everyone to not blink, because when I do, I will feel like time just went too quickly, and they were right!

So let me get down to business on what's been going on in the Scarborough house!  At 8 months old, Izzy started rocking back and forth on her hands and knees and kept acting like she was going to crawl, and then she would fake us out.  About a week after her 8 month milestone, I was on the phone with a friend and Izzy was on the living room floor "faking" with the rocking on her hands and knees and I was loading the dishwasher and cooking dinner.  I looked down at her to see what she was doing and I actually got to witness her first crawl!  She put one knee in front of the other and took it slowly at first, and then just took off!  I of course screamed and cried and had to get off the phone to praise my girl!!  Scott got home from work and she did it again.  I thought he was going to cry too!  I guess it really is just the little things in parenthood that make you so dang happy!

We've been dealing with some other kind of "fun stuff" in our house.  Izzy brought home (and shared with us) a pretty nasty virus that for her consisted of an upper respiratory infection, double ear infection and thrush.  Oh boy.  It was pretty nasty!  As if the sleepless nights couldn't get more sleepless, they actually did, and NO ONE in our house was sleeping at night.  Not only was Izzy so sick, she was teething on her top gums.  She has been suffering with the leftovers of this nasty virus and lo and behold, a top tooth popped through about 2 weeks ago.  She looks so cute with her two bottom teeth sticking out of her gum like 2 little pieces of rice!  It still cracks me up every time she smiles really big and acts as if she wants to make sure you see those pearly whites!

Ok. so now that we've mastered the crawling thing, we have also mastered the pulling up on everything in her sight that is still and sturdy enough to allow her to, including poor Otis.  Otis has become her jungle gym and her plush toy that she THINKS she can pull on, pinch, bite, etc.  We are always on the lookout though to make sure that she doesn't get close enough to him that he can actually snap at her.  Her favorite new thing to do is to pull herself up on the side of our master tub and peer in to where all her ducks, boats, and cups are that she plays with during bath time.  She is so very curious about everything and just HAS to touch or taste anything she gets those chunky little fingers on.

Now that all of Scott's sports are over that he was playing, we are vowing to make more time for our little family.  It's so hard when both of us are so incredibly busy during the week and weekends with our jobs to make special time to do things.  It was even harder when Scott was playing every sport known to mankind and had this game and that game, and oh we can't forget practice...etc.  I'm glad it's all over.  Our days off will now be spent doing things together and introducing Isabella to new and fun things!  She just recently went to her first Astros game and was even on tv for about 30 seconds (long in tv world!).  It was such an awesome game and the guy sitting next to us even caught a foul ball!  Whew!  Thank goodness that ball didn't come near my girl or mama bear would've been on that field yelling at some stupid player.  Ha!!

In other news, I just have a few things that I would like to remember when I go back in years to come.  Izzy has started clapping her hands (at 9 months) waving bye but just sticks her arm up in the air at a tilt like Hitler, she giggles uncontrollably when Otis or any other dog licks her, she says Da Da, Ma Ma, Duck, and Boat very clearly, she LOVES peas, and she's pulling up on everything and cruising around the furniture.

God, I love this sweet child and I can't get enough of her (I'd like to sleep past 4 or 5 am though).  I look at her sometimes and can't believe that she's really ours and that we get to keep her forever, or until she either leaves for college or gets married.  She is my sunshine, my only sunshine.  I learn so much from her and hope that we're doing a good job as her parents!