HOLLYWOOD!!

The week before last we received a phone call from Michael's Aunt Diane, who lives in Michigan, saying that her, his cousin Sarah and her man Tom, are going to be in Torrance for a wedding and would love to see us (we think it was mainly to see Isabelle-hehe). So, this past Monday (August 20) it was decided that we would meet in Hollywood for lunch, since they haven't visited this part of the west coast before.

We met in front of the Mann Chinese Theater and continued being "tourons", as Michael likes to say, from there. In the 90 degree heat (and we thought it would be sooo much cooler over the hill), we checked out the Mann Chinese and all of the ghetto characters walking around trying to get you to take pictures with them (their costumes were truly awful that day and Darth Vader was no where to be found so we didn't take any), the stars on the walk of fame (can you believe Godzilla has one? Seriously!), the Kodak Theater and all of the fun souvenir stores! In the Kodak Theater mall, there was a great photo op of the Hollywood sign so, as "tourons", we had to stop too and get our own pics!

We proceed to a cafe in the Kodak Theater mall where we had an awesome lunch and great conversation getting ourselves caught up on everything since our wedding (we think we have Sarah and Tom talked in to moving out this way). Sarah brought Isabelle a bib from her Alma mater and Michael's favorite college (NOT!), the University of Michigan :) and Aunt Diane made Isabelle an adorable quilt that goes perfectly with the colors in her nursery! We thought Grandma and Grandpa O had told her what the colors were :)

It was a wonderful afternoon and we can't wait to see them again at Christmas!!

Oh Captian, My Captain

Finally got the rest of the Alaska pics back from the disposable camera. Here is the picture we promised to post of Isabelle and our captain on Isabelle's first flight on board Alaska Airlines from LAX to Vancouver.

Holy teething ring, Batman!

YES, it happened...our little Isabelle cut her first tooth today! There were none of the "usual signs"; grumpiness, fever or crying just a WHOLE LOT of drooling (which has been going on for over a month so we really didn't think much of it).

This is how I found it:

I was sitting at the computer today, finishing up some work from home, and had Isabelle sitting on my lap. Needless to say, our squirmy wormy child of ours was moving around so I switched her positioning on my lap, which didn't work because she was trying to get to the phone, a pen, some paper and my laptop (she has found out she can grab things and loves to get her hands on everything) but finally sat still when she found the knuckle of my index finger. Now usually we don't let her suck on our fingers, let alone her own since she has found her thumbs (that is a whole other story), but this time it stopped her from squirming. All of a sudden I felt something hard rubbing on my finger, immediately thinking I had something on my finger that she was getting at but come to find there wasn't anything there. I stopped and thought for a second, there is no way, there is just no way, she is only 4 and a half months old! Then low and behold, I rubbed my index finger across her bottom gumline and sure enough, there was the jagged beginnings of her first tooth!

Our baby is growing up way too fast. What's next, walking?

Our new favorite photo...

My friend Becky and I went to see The Spazmatics (an AWESOME 80's coverband) tonight at our city's Central Park and we caught my little stinker doing this, since the moment we arrived...

Needless to say, we had a great time with Isabelle being the ham that she is, up to our gourmet dinner from Ralphs consisting of a shared turkey club, macaroni salad, carrots, pretzels, hummus, twizzlers and 24oz Miller Lites! YEAH BABEH :)

Best Buds!

Need we say more? :)

Hey...look what I found!

Well, our little one has found her feet. She has yet to realize just how tasty they may be but definitely knows where they are. She especially thinks they are fun to grab and move around during diaper changing time or while Mommy pushes her around in the jogger :)