Isadora on the Road

So Isadora and I recently got back from the family reunion/croquet tournament in Chattanooga, Tennessee. We traveled without Nancy (who had to go to a wedding), and so I got a lot of credit. My dad actually admitted to me that he'd never have travled alone with a two year old when he was a young father. Wussie.

Just before we got on the plane for the flight out, I saw a young Russian couple dosing their children with some kind of purple cold medicine. It was like something out of Rocky IV...how the Russian boxer is all steroided up, and Rocky just gets strong by lifting logs and stuff. Isadora, like Rocky, did a great job, even without drugs. While people were getting off the plane, a woman leaned into my aisle and said, "You're baby was great!" When I said, "Thanks," the woman said, "No, thank YOU!"

One of my favorite moments of the weekend was when I demonstrated for my parents that Isadora can sing some of the words to the Beatles song "When I'm Sixty-four" (notably, she can fill in the name "Dave" in the "Vera, Chuck, and Dave" part of the song). Everybody burst out laughing, and then Isadora exclaimed, "That was funny!"

The only time she annoyed me was the first morning in the hotel. She woke up before I wanted her to, and so I lifted her out of the crib and tried to get her to lie down in the hotel bed while I woke up. Instead of lying down though, she started pushing me out of bed, saying, "Time to get up!"

Incidentally, since I mentioned the Beatles, I have to add that Isadora has been learning the lyrics of various Beatles songs, and recently she was listening to one of her favorites, "Yesterday." I wasn't really paying attention to the lyrics until Isadora suddenly picked up on the word "shadow" in the line, "There's a shadow hanging over me" and started repeating it. "Shadow," she said, "Shadow." And then, in a matter-of-fact tone of voice, she said, "There's a shadow over Isadora."