Pizza!

Isla loves to eat pizza. I take all the cheese off and she slobbers all over it until it's mushy enough to eat. Yum!

Thanks for all the books Colin!

Colin and his mommy sent Isla a big box of books! Isla loves her new books!

This one is especially good for chewing on.

10 months!

Can you believe Isla is 10 months old already?? Here she is looking cute in her hat that her Great-Grammy made for her.

Isla has mastered the step

Albeit, not so gracefully.

Isla's daycare friend

Isla is in a room with 5 other babies (2 more starting soon). There are 4 full-time caretakers, a part-time caretaker and a part-time house-keeper in her room. Each baby is assigned to one caretaker primarily for consistency. Isla and Naomi (in the picture) are Nakia's babies and spend a lot of time together. Isla loves Naomi. They get so excited when they see each other, it's awfully adorable.


Isla is one of the older babies in the room and the most mobile. Her favorite activity seems to be crawling up to the non-mobile babies and stealing their toys.

Yummy Fried Dumplings

It all started at Stella's 1st birthday party where Isla had a fried spring roll made by Stella's Grandma. And then she got to have half of one of my spring rolls at Baltimore Pho. Last night she was inexplicably crying while in her high chair so I gave her one of my fried dumplings from Matsuri. She ate the whole thing. So it's not just purees anymore!