A Day in the Life

One of my favorite Beatles songs! And lots more pictures to report from a few days back...

Two more days of work left and then a week and a half off with Isla and the husband! So excited. 

Because Isla is changing so much everyday. She's on solid food a bit, rice cereal, and she's trying to roll over still. But from her back to her front. She's a funny little one! Here's some pics of her in a sweater from Gran Helen doing her rolly thing and laughing it up :) She's also learning to sit up, she can do it pretty steady but slowly sinks down to touch her toes, haha!

Oh! And there are some pics of Isla and daddy watching Mamma Mia! with mommy - GREAT movie! 

Six of one, half dozen of the other

It's CHRISTMASTIME!!! And Isla is just 4 months old, as of Friday. We all walked over to the neighbor's house and had a sweet little party, opened some gifts and had a lot of butterscotchy shots! 

To be honest, it's been really hard keeping up with posting on here, work is just crazy! Then when we're home, we only have 3 hours with little miss, it's kind of hard. And I'm a naughty mommy and bring Isla to bed sometimes, just to spend some more time with her. I'm so glad she's bigger now so I'm not so worried to roll over on her!

Five more days of work and then I have a week and a half off - paid! No, not vacation, the whole agency gets off that long, I am so excited!! So, you know what you can expect that week...hopefully a lot of fun pics and posts!

But for now, enjoy some pics of Isla sitting up in her Bumbo chair and holding a bottle all by herself - this was tonight!! And there's a pic of the beautiful stocking Ross' gran sent her, completely hand-knitted with a little knitted santa man in the chimney, it's so beautiful!! And of course, she loves, loves LOVES her jumperoo (thanks auntie Melissa and Teresa!!). It's not a very good nap spot but it'll do!

Whatta weekend

Grandma Carol and Grandpa Marvy came all the way down from NW Iowa to visit - and all in good fashion, they really helped us out! The AdFarm agency's christmas party was on Friday, so they came down Thursday night and babysat on Friday night. Isla went to bed at 8:30, amazing! And was a really good little girl. It helps that she likes her granny and gramps! 

What else happened this weekend? Well, we all went out to Target and got a bunch of stocking stuffers, then to Home Depot for a lot of insulation, which grandpa helped Ross put up in the basement. We're close to finishing it, if only we could get some help with the ceiling drywall! 

We got Isla a little baby Bumbo seat, which is a great makeshift highchair for right now. She had her first real meal of food on Saturday night (brown rice cereal) and slept that night for TWELVE hours. Not straight, she got up at 7pm, but then went back to bed til 9!

Last weekend we went up to Iowa and had a little shower to introduce little miss to our friends up there - and mom got to try on some of Isla's little presents, like a pink lion hat that grandma Carol gave her! And it snowed in Iowa that weekend, Isla was so excited to lean on the couch arm and look out the window! 

We've really been playing with that hair of hers, there's so much of it. It's fun to put little barrettes in it, but it's fun to get a hat on and control it sometimes. Here're some great pics of Isla with her hat from Auntie Diane!!

Holy Turkey!

It's been a long time since we've posted, but to be fair, I haven't been too near a computer. BUT I have been near the camera!! We have a whole new DVD to send to grandma Helen and grandpa Martin and a ton of pics, which you've probably already noticed.

Isla had a wonderful first thanksgiving. She cannot wait until next year when she can actually taste the actual meal. She got to see a soccer game before we went up there, and when we were there too! It was exciting. We had a tiny shower at the church, which was so great for Isla's momma to see her old friends - and for Isla to finally meet her wonderful Auntie Em!

21 June 09

It's official! My little sissy is going to have a baby...for those of you who know my sis, I would've never, ever thought the day would come either! We are soo excited that Isla is going to have a little playmate to hang out with at holidays and everything, it's such a great time to be a part of this world! Congratulations, Teresa and Jeff...we love you so much!!

Flip over? Who does that?

It's a battle but Isla just doesn't want to flip over. Maybe she will, maybe she won't. I suppose this is my first real challenge as a momma to get my kid to do something I want. I like to say we succeeded at getting her to sleep a full night, but did that really have anything to do with what I "made" her do? We simply feed her enough to make her happy, which, in turn, knocks her out. But that's her choice to sleep and stay asleep. Who am I foolin'? 

She's not flipping, but she's doing some major push-ups, enjoy!

I give you gold and I get squat!

Poor Isla, we take take take pics of her and she doesn't get to do much else except be blinded! Thanks to the red-eye detector, sometimes she doesn't get a good smile in. But tonight we did! It's amazing how she's grown into this exersaucer just in the last two days, isn't it!

Rhymes with Pleeb

So there's a vegetable among us, commonly known as the rutabaga in the US but goes by a COMPLETELY different name in the land of Eng... and I know the name, just couldn't think of it today at the grocery store. Ross tried to help me, with tons of hints, like: It's what you call people from a certain country...nothing. And this went on. And on. He wouldn't tell me, it was kind of frustrating. Finally he ran out of helpful hints when he said, "it rhymes with pleeb." Boy that did it, haha. It's a SWEDE, dur. And it's fabulous if you mash up a swede with boiled carrots with butter and "suzy and percy". See what I'm getting at? Hopefully I can chronicle some of the crazy ways my wonderful hubband says things. He always keeps me on my toes. But I say things a funny way too. Like he can't stand it when I say, "warsh" instead of wash. Which, as it happens, I do on purpose now. Maybe that's why he does it...gotta love him. And our baby, who is sure to inherit some asinine habits too. 

I took a pic of her hands today, they're amazing. Developmentally she's right on target and the neighbors let us borrow their exersaucer last night - their little boy, Tyler, is the cutest. Maybe someday I'll match him up with my little niece, Calista (she's on a previous post, feeding Isla). Then, last night, we were introduced to Guitar Hero. I'm not so bad as I thought I'd be.I smell a Thanksgiving show-down with my sis and Jeff!

Amazing Baby

Now, I love my baby but all babies are amazing! I just read these amazing facts in Parents magazine:

1 - At birth, babies have the ability to swim

2 - Between birth and age 2, an infant will QUADRUPLE in size

3 - Within 45 hours of birth, a newborn knows her own mother by her smell - and a blindfolded mom can identify her own child from a host of other babies by scent alone!

4- Human babies are the only primates to smile at their parents

Wow, huh! Those are just a few - if ya wanna know more, get Amazing Baby from Amazon. I might... 

BTW, I'm not able to upload photos at the moment but I will this weekend!

Fridays Off!

So, before I left for maternity leave, I set it up so I could take every Friday off for the REST OF THE YEAR!! Yeah, baby. There's always a bit to do on a Friday but at least I'm home with my baby for a bit. She was good today - we went out to Target and about got blown away in the wind up here! Then we came in, had a cuppa tea and took some sweet pics. Enjoy!

Monkey head

So funny! Ross was watching me burp Isla the other day and said the back of her head looked like a monkey, haha! And I agreed when I looked, it's so funny! I said that's ok as long as she doesn't have a monkey face. But she is becoming a chunky monkey, isn't she!? Here's a wink to everyone, we miss you all!

Oh, and for my momma, here's the curtains we found when H & M were here, aren't they great!

Another Baby!!

CONGRATULATIONS to my little sis, who's going to have a baby in June 09! That means that this baby and Isla will be growing up playing together - christmases, turkey days, oh I can't wait!! I'll post pictures later when I get them from mom - I have to see the baby bump soon!!!

Frenchie

Here's a photo of Isla looking like a "little Frenchie" as Ross would say, haha!

enjoy!