Wow, 3 weeks have gone by since the last post. And I think I have said that before too. These little ones don't leave us enough time to do these no critical projects. Sure, this update is critical for you, but for us, it has to fall below diaper changes and laundry.


David rolled over for the first time today. And today also happened to be his 5 month anniversary/birthday. Which is more appropriate for a baby of 5 months? Birthday just seems to mean a yearly anniversary to me, but then again, anniversary seems to be tied to marking accomplishment with respect to a project one initiates. OK, that was way too formal for a blog about kids.
Anyway, David rolled from his belly to his back today for the first time. A little milestone, but a milestone none the less.

Isabelle stumped me with her little speaking style as well. In fact, I needed to call Julie at work to ask her if she could translate. Here's the story, Isabelle came up to me and said, in her little girl voice, "march de celery?"
Of course, I know she didn't want to take celery out for a walk, nor did she want to watch the celery march, although I tried to figure out where she may have seen that sort of thing. Very puzzled, I asked her to repeat herself again, to which she replied, " Idabel march de celery?"

I literally asked her to repeat herself about half a dozen times, and most of the time, she repeated herself multiple times, for a total of about 30 requests, and I really couldn't make heads or tails of it, despite her persistence. Once, she even put her hands on my cheeks to make sure I was listening to her, and asked again. So I called Julie, since this was really something Isabelle needed. Fortunately, Isabelle was in a talkative mood, and didn't clam up when I put the phone to her. I asked her again what she wanted, and she said into the phone, (you know what don't you? Yep.) "march de celery?"

After about five more of those, Julie says, "Watch Cinderella?!?"
"Yeah!" says Isabelle.
"Oh," says me.

Then we watched Cinderella.