My Toddler This Week

Apparently when you put your baby down the night before her first birthday she wakes up as a toddler. At least that is how it seemed to work for Isabella. For the last couple of weeks she has been walking like nobody's business. And she loves to walk! She seems a bit more like a little person than a baby. And when BabyCenter sent me my weekly update on what my baby should be doing it said "My Toddler This Week", it kind of freaked me out and made me a little sad. Isabella is also saying a lot more words. It might be jibberish, but we've heard mama, dada, hi, bye, uh-oh, thanks, yum-yum. I swear I've heard her say on multiple occasions "thanks, dad" at appropriate times. We are also trying to expand her food horizons away more from baby food. We tried that a while a back, but after the "string bean incident" at HuHot (we had eaten lunch there and she had a string bean. In the middle of the night I went into comfort her because she was crying a little more than normal and there was vomit all over her crib but laying in the middle of her room was one lone string bean, in one piece, undigested, how it got all the way over there, by itself, we'll never know...), so we went back almost exclusively to baby food. She'd much rather feed herself, but she can't be trusted to always chew her food. She also has a hard time understanding to take a piece of food, eat it and then take another piece of food. She'd much rather take everything on her tray and shove it into her mouth at once. Her favorites right now are pizza and bananas, and we recently just started to give her a large chunk of banana and just had to video how funny she is with it.