J-Kids Adventures

After taking three steps in a row on a few days before Isabella turned 10 months old, she took a little break from walking. Then, on Labor day, Sep 7 as we were visiting our friends in Damascus, OR, Isabella took 6 steps. Today, she walked multiple times with up to 8-9 steps at a time. What a blessed and fun season in this house! First steps require quite a bit of concentration!  A large format video is found here:  https://youtu.be/A5PtTLzeMwo In addition to that, in the last 10 days Isabella got two more teeth - lower right broke the gum on Sep 3 (10m and 3 days) and upper right today (10m and 9 days).

Our energetic joyful baby girl is 10 months old today. It is incredible to think, that exactly one year ago my dear family threw a surprise baby shower for Isabella!!! What a wonderful day it was! Such a blessing to see our family and many of our friend at the same time, and get ready to prepare to welcome our baby girl. Today Isabella is 23.4 lbs. During the last month Isabella mastered clapping, waving bye-bye, and even made two steps without support. Most of her awake time is spent in relentless exploration, through "cruising" (walking while holding on to furniture and walls), and crawling (she completely abandoned "commando crawl" at this point, and primarily moves through regular "all fourth" crawl, with occasional episodes of "bear crawling" = hands and feet). She also enjoys "dancing," walking with her push toys, and crawling over the doggy.  Favorite toys - balls and moving boxes.  Number of teeth - 3, with 3 more ready...