To brighten your day.
In every possible way.
Momma and Daddy laugh at these every day. 
It is official I can now sit up on my own without any help. I accomplished this task at Mr. Mika and Mrs. Kristin's house this past Friday night. My Daddy has been saying it would happen soon and he was right. I know that it makes him proud to see me sitting up. It is alot of fun to sit up on my own. I cannot figure out why Momma and Daddy laugh every time I fall over it must be reverse psychology.
This gives Daddy a chance to eat oysters and Momma to enjoy her hot dog. Usually I sleep through the first few bands in my sling. I know when it is time to wake up because Daddy starts dancing with Momma and I am in the way sort of. I think it is Daddy's way of saying he wants to dance with his little girl. I love dancing with Daddy it is so much fun. He always holds me close to his chest to make sure I stay warm.
After all the dancing was done we took some time out for a family picture since this was my First Wildlife Benefit. I was ready to go home at this point but Momma and Daddy would have liked to stay.
My Daddy has blue eyes you see
Just like my momma I have a tendency to be a little bit obsessed about some things. My Momma likes things to be just right and as you can see here I had to make some adjustments to my dog on myExerSaucer for it to be just right.
Sleeping with Grandpa Ray
Roll over practice with Grandma
Playing with Aunt Michelle before bed 
When I was at Grandma's she really enjoyed feeding me. At Grandma's I was really only eating squash and rice cereal. Grandma taught my Momma a trick about keeping my head still when we don't have my high chair and that is holding my head. When Grandma was not holding my head in place I would try to move as much as I could so she couldn't get the squash in my mouth. Momma was glad to see Daddy put my high chair together when we got home. Now it is really hard to run away from the spoon. The next phase in my learning to eat is the big battle with Momma and the Spoon.
oatmeal and banana's for breakfast. I am not a big fan of oatmeal, Momma says it taste better with sugar on it but I am not allowed to have sugar just yet. I kept trying to get out of eating the oatmeal but it was not working. The banana's were much better than the oatmeal but Momma insisted I had to eat oatmeal too. Momma didn't realize that I was practicing ways to steal the Spoon away from her. Finally all of my practice paid off. It just took patience in waiting for the right opportunity when Momma wasn't paying as much attention to me as she should have been. That is when I WON the battle! I grabbed it right from her hand. She tried to pry my hand off of the Spoon but I wouldn't let go. I think she was tired of trying to get it from me and just gave up. Thinking that I would let her keep feeding me but she was wrong. I knew once I got my hands on the Spoon I would not have to eat anymore oatmeal. I didn't have to finish my oatmeal but I did have to go take a bath because I had oatmeal all over the place even in my ears. 
Momma only lets me play with my Baby Doll when she is right there with me. I think she is afraid Bailey (my dog) will try to get her. I am still trying to decide what to call my new doll. I have a some time before I get to play with her without supervision.
Finally I get to see what all the hype is about with the Christmas presents. Momma, Daddy and I unwrapped all of those presents Momma was wrapping. I got a lot of new toys from Daddy and mostly clothes and girlly stuff from Momma. Daddy was having fun when we were unwrapping presents he kept putting bows on my head. It was alot of fun. When I got to Grandma and Grandpa's house there were more presents. I helped Grandma wrap her Christmas presents. My momma must have told her what a good helper I was when she was wrapping. Something extra special happened when I was helping Grandma though..I rolled over! Grandma put presents all around me so I could see the pretty bows and after a lot of trying I rolled over onto my belly. Now I have been rolling all over the place. Since I have started rolling over I realized that I can get to all of my toys with out Momma and Daddy helping me.
Well guess what happened this past Sunday. I finally laughed for Momma and Daddy. It happened when Momma was fixing to change my diaper. Daddy was at work. So Momma said "We are going to call Daddy and tell him to come home." Then it happened I just started laughing. Momma grabbed her phone and called Daddy so he could hear too. They both were laughing with me. It was a lot of fun. I haven't done it since that one time. I am talking a lot especially when Daddy is trying to relax and today while Momma is trying to work. It sure is fun to try out my vocal chords. I know that Santa is watching so I better behave, but Santa should know that I am watching him too.
I had my 1st taste of rice cereal this Sunday for dinner. It tasted yummy. Momma and Daddy had alot of fun feeding me. They got awfully excited about me eating rice cereal. They tell me that I will soon get to taste many different vegetables and fruits but first I have to master the rice cereal. Momma wants to make sure I taste lots of new foods so that way I won't be a picky eater like she is. I know one thing that I like that she does not like and that is my fingers. I like putting them in my mouth and chewing on them. Momma says that it is nasty but she knows it makes me happy. That is all that matters is a happy Isabella equals a happy Momma and Daddy.
Christmas Time is here. I can see it all around my neighborhood. Everyone has bright lights up all over their houses. I am glad that we got our Christmas lights up and on our house. I wouldn't want to be the 1 house on my street without lights. We put up our Christmas Tree last weekend so Momma insisted that we had to get some presents wrapped and under the tree, that included me being a present.
I wore a 'vintage' baptism gown that my Great Grandma Sieta crocheted for my Momma on her baptism.
Well it finally happened, I got to go on an airplane ride for Thanksgiving to New Orleans (NOLA). It wasn't as much fun as I thought considering I slept most of the time. Daddy was sure to get a picture of me before we took off. I did really good on the flights. That is after the 1st one I spit up all over Momma's jacket, so she decided not to fed me anymore at take off.
got to meet the rest of the Garrity Aunts, Uncles, and cousins that I had not met yet. Everyone made sure to come to Aunt Sandra's house to see me, even before they went home from work. I thought that was kind of funny. My cousin Rowan, who was the youngest Garrity cousin until I came along, kept saying "I love him." He will understand later that I am not a him. He wanted to hold me the whole time he came over to see me. Aunt Kay (his Momma) had to explain that everyone had to have a chance to hold me. Boy were there ALOT of hands to hold me. My Momma made sure that I got some floor time too because she knows how I get after a week like that. I think that I have to be held all the time and that makes for a LONG few days after a trip or visitors. That didn't make too many people happy but I know my Momma knows best.
I had my very 1st trip to the French Quarter. We had 'coffee and donuts' at Cafe Du Monde and walked around Jackson Square. Someday I will be able to enjoy this more especially when I get to blow powdered sugar on Daddy and Momma from the donuts.
I have had a busy week meeting lots of new people. On Tuesday night, I got to go out to eat with Momma, Daddy and the scheduler for my Daddy's project. I think we might have stayed out kind of late because when we got home I wanted to take a nap on Daddy's shoulder before going to bed. Daddy has the best shoulder for napping.
The Bumbo is really cool because it helps in strengthening my stomach muscles. Since my parents got me the Bumbo they figured it would be nice to have a family picture. The only problem is that some of us didn't want to look at the camera.
While I was in my Bumbo seat I was having a lot of fun with Momma when she was singing and talking to me. I am sure glad Momma and Daddy decided to get me this Bumbo seat. It is nice to get to be sitting up instead of laying on the floor looking at the ceiling.
