Technology Sucks!

Once again I have made a mess of the blog. I tried to change the layout with the pyzam layout and it deleted all my links. Then I tried to go back and reset everything and made an even bigger mess. For a few minutes I thought that I had lost the whole thing. I now have everything back but I can't edit some of the stuff. Hence the ticker showing up in the middle of the page. The dashboard doesn't give me the layout option anymore so until Jai gets home to help me out I am stuck with this disaster. Sorry!

Happy Thanksgiving

We went to Tony and Angela's house for Thanksgiving to enjoy a great dinner and wonderful friends. Isha just hung out and relaxed while all the cooking was going on in the background. Here is Isha's first Thanksgiving meal. She had already eaten her turkey and rice baby food because she couldn't wait for dinner. Since she had already eaten, Isha just had a sampling of all the good thanksgiving fare. She had some turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, mac-n-cheese, green bean casserole, stuffing, and cranberry sauce. She liked everything that she tried! After dinner, when we were all wishing that we could put on some stretchy pants to relax and let dinner digest, Isha was able to do just that. I put her jammies on and she had a good time playing and rolling around on the floor. A very happy baby. I hope that you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day!

An Evening Out

Yesterday we went out to dinner with our neighbors, James and Karina. They have had a very busy travel schedule these last few months so it was great to finally get together with them! I'm not sure what is up with the hand gesture from James. I'm sure that it was meant for Jai! There was a tree lighting going on at the mall so we thought we would check it out. We figured we would put our name on the list at P.F. Changs, do some wandering around the mall and then come back for some dinner. At 5:50 there was a 2 hour wait. I figured we might as well eat there because if we walk around and then go somewhere else we will still have a long wait on a Saturday night. So we bundled Isha up and took in the sights. We headed back to P.F. Changs a little before 8:00 and still had a 45 minute wait. But after 2 hours and 45 minutes we finally got a table. Isha was great. No fussing at all and the food was great. She didn't go to bed until 10:15 last night and she is still asleep at 8:30 this morning. Here is a picture from the other day. I wanted to get a picture of her showing off her cruising skills. She loves to use the bottom stair to stand up. She had these adorable tights on under her dress and her new little shoes on. I wish you could see the shoes, they are these adorable mary janes from Robeez. I will have to have her model them for you in a future post.

Ten Months Old

It is hard to believe that she is already 10 months old. She is crawling around everywhere and getting much better at standing up and walking around the furniture. She is still toothless, but who needs teeth when you are this cute. Here is the little fish that she holds onto all the time. He goes everywhere with her. Isha loves to play with us. She thinks it is lots of fun to crawl around on the couch and try to have us catch her. Now that she gets around so well it is a ton of fun to play with her. At first I was all stressed about her getting dirty or hurt and then I realized that you just have to let them do what they are going to do. You never learn anything or have any fun if you can't get a little dirty. Isha is also talking up a storm. It is all just babble and baby talk, but it is great to hear hear making new sounds and expanding her vocabulary. Here we are letting an escaped convict hold Isha. Actually if you look close you can see that it is Aunt Laura in her rain gear she got for going to Hokie football games. Isha isn't buying it, she still thinks Laure looks like a convict in her orange jump suit. Today we got a phone call that our friends from Fredricksburg where in town so we ran down to Carytown and met up with them. Then we went to Bottoms up for some pizza and visiting. Here's Isha getting a little snuggle time with her Uncle Tony. After lunch we went to the Children's Museum of Richmond. It is really cool, but geared towards older kids and jam packed on the weekends. We will definitely go back when Isha is older.

Visiting Daddy At Work

Capital One had a Halloween party for all the little ones. We dressed Isha up in her monkey costume and Daddy showed her off to all of his co-workers. Here is a picture of Isha with Jai and the guys he works with. Isha loves the men and she is such a flirt. She kept giving lots of smiles and giggles to all these guys. Dad is going to have his work cut out for him when it comes to keeping the boys away from Isha. Last night we dressed Isha back up in her costume and I walked her around to see some of the neighbors while Jai stayed home and handed out candy. My little helper. Isha pulls the clothes out faster than I can fold them and put them away. Now that she is crawling she keeps me very busy. It is definitely more work, but I enjoy watching her try new things and figure things out for herself. She is always so proud of herself when she discovers something new. I have been begging Isha to say mama and she finally did it the other day. She had been saying baba and over the last few weeks it has finally become mama. I was putting her pajamas on her on Tuesday night when she said it. Even thought I don't think she realized what she did, it was great to hear that sweet little word come out of her mouth.