16 months going on 30

New words for Izabella include:

Uh-oh

Ta-da!

Backpack (thanks Dora)

This

Old words that continue to get used all.of.the.time:

Doggy

Bankie (blanket)

Dada (for Joshua or me)

No

Yesh (Yes)

Titty (kitty)

Ba-ba (bottle)

Body parts she can say and point to:

Eyes

Cheeks

Teeth

Nose (working on saying it)

Belly (she says bey-yee)

Just pointing to:

Feet

Hands

Head

Fun things we do:

Play dress up with mommas clothes

Pretend play with her stuffed animals (feeding, loving them, clothing them)

She can "shhh" you with her finger to her mouth

When I say "night night" she grabs her blanket and lies on the floor

When I say "Let's eat!"she goes to her seat and waits to sit down

Izabella can open any type of door now ...

Any other command I give she shakes her head no. Haha. No really, she does :)

Nicknames for Izabella:

Izzy

Izz

Poop monster

Ba-dunka butt

Sweet cheeks

Baby girl

Pick-a-tures

Up & Coming events for the Zicklefeesters:

July 27: Baby Doc, will be 20w3d

July 28: VA Beach!

August 8: Ultrasound, will be 22w1d

September 8-15: Boise bound!

♥For your viewing pleasure♥

 Getting ready to go for our only bike ride of the summer so far, and boy was it a beautiful ride! This just happened to be on the only night where the temperature fell below 90 before 9pm. I just can't ride in the heat /humidity while pregnant, I'm a wimp, but only for the sake of the baby :)

 Izabella sporting her NYY onesie purchased in NYC while shopping with Pappy. Super cute! Just wait until I get her to stay still long enough to take a picture of her in her new NYY hat. Cuteness from head to toe. AND, yay for CC coming back and doing a great job, now everyone stay healthy ya hear me!

Izabella's band of choice is Collective Soul right now. She is gettin' down with the help of her dad. I love every second of it, which is evident in my hand-that-is-holding-the-camera dance.

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It's getting hot in here. So take off all your clothes.

These past few weeks have made me think of those lyrics often. Sweaty, sticky, eew.


Crazy. This past weekend most certainly warranted those song lyrics. Not the song, just those lyrics. 
Friday night we had an intense storm pass through, crazy intense. Our power went off at around 10pm. No biggie, right? Not for the first night. As we all got up for the day to survey the damage outside, we quickly realized that our apartment was the same temperature as the muggy, toasty outdoors. Gross.
So we thought, "Hey, why don't we spend the day in Richmond, walking around in air conditioned places, and come back after dinner, our power will surely be restored by then ... ". 
Man, we thought wrong. We came back at around 7pm to find our complex empty and dark and waaaarm. 
I politely suggested to Joshua that we get a hotel room for the night so his pregnant wife could get at least a little sleep. After driving to every hotel in Fxburg, we quickly found out that they were ALL booked due to a swarm of people from up north scrambling down here to find room and board after their hotels were without power. Yay for a northern invasion. Ugh.
We then thought, "Hey, I bet Richmond has vacancies, lets go there for the night!"
Wrong. Again.
After driving around for most of the day and then sleeping in our 85 degree home, the next day we woke up nice and sweaty, a tad cranky, really thirsty, but very thankful that our car had AC that kept us cool for most of the previous hot & miserable day.
Our power came back on on Sunday morning at 5:45am. How do I know the exact time? I had been awake since 3am, rolling around in my own sweat, praying for a cooler day. Prayer answered!
I am, however, very thankful our power was out for only that short time. Some people are still without power, and not expected to get power back until this Sunday. Over.A.Week.In.This.Heat.  Yikes.


We had yet another day over 100 degrees, but still ventured out for the fourth!

 Little Lady Liberty!

 Trying to get Izabella to try the water tent ... 

She ended up loving it and getting soaking wet!

Joshua and Izabella waiting for the trolley, and sweating, a lot.

This post is a little, (a lot) later that I wanted, but, here are some pictures from our PA family vacation to see Joshua's parents and siblings and Izabella's cousins!

 Cousins, cousins everywhere!

 Two zonked out babies at Knoebels amusement park!

 Joshua won a prize because I guessed how fast he could throw the ball!

Izabella with her "I'm free!" smile.

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