Christmas

We got some drops for Isabella's eyes and they cleaned up pretty quickly. She wasn't too thrilled about them - she got even afterwards by pretending to put drops in our eyes and baby doll's eyes. 

The flight went well, even though we were delayed for half an hour or so. She didn't take a nap, but that wasn't much of a surprise. We had a long layover in LA, and she spent most of the time running around in circles at high speed, chased by dad. She liked the "scary hats" people were wearing (santa claus hats).

Alexander and Isabella spent quite a while playing with stickers (Alexander kindly gave Isabella some of his). We tried to get Isabella to fall asleep in Alexander's room, but she woke up and we ended up, the first night at least, with her sleeping with us.

There was no end of food, and Isabella had no problems eating lots of it. Including four christmas cookies at Peggy and Gerry's.

Isabella's favorite toy so far is probably the playdoh. She can actually squish it out of the garlic press all by herself, but can't quite do the rolling pin or the other squeezy thing. She has also been playing with her puzzle (more interested in opening and closing the box than the puzzle itself) and with monster. She can stick the pieces on the monster, then asks you to have monster make a crying face. She then gives monster a hug.

She has a new book, the pet from the zoo book, which she has already memorized. She knows all of the animals and if they're too big, etc.

Cori's house is officially "Casper doggie's house". Although Isabella still won't let Casper near ("No licking! Casper lie down!"). No problems with petting Magic, though. There was a cute moment when Isabella looked at Magic's back end and said "Magic no has a tail!".

We were on the plane out of Medford and Isabella kept saying "Get off airplane. Go home Aunt Cori's house". Guess she wasn't too thrilled to leave.

We're getting closer to potty trained - she went three days with no accidents, including the plane ride home. And she's asking now. But we had a few accidents today, oddly enough after she got herself on the potty all by herself.

Alexander got an electronic battleship game. Isabella liked putting the pegs in, and Alexander showed her how to build a peg tower.

On the flight home she slept most of the long leg home, with her head on my leg. Must have been tired.