A month old already!

1 month old!

Isabelle is a month old today!! Time is flying by, on one hand I feel like Isabelle has been a part of our lives for much longer than a month. Then again it feels like we just brought her home for the first time. She's been so much fun and also such a challenge. Being a mom is the best and hardest thing I've ever done and it's only been a month.

taking a nap with Dad

In her first month of life Isabelle has grown a ton. She's getting so chunky and cute. She's discovered her tongue, she smacks it against her lips and "chews" on it all the time. She's also started to "talk" to us a little bit. She's fights sleep, not at night thank heavens, but she doesn't like to take naps which makes her really cranky sometimes. She also is doing pretty well at holding her head up. We love her so much and cant wait to see her grow and hit all her milestones. She's absolutely the best thing in the whole world. We're not obsessed, I promise...Ok so maybe a little, alright a lot. That's ok though because we're the parents! ;)

our little BYU fan

2 Week Appointment

Today I took Isabelle in for her 2 week appointment and guess what....She's HUGE! She now weighs 8 lbs 8 oz and is 20 1/2 inches long. The doctor said that he's never, in his whole career, seen a baby who's breast feeding gain so much weight in 2 weeks. Obviously Isabelle isnt staving.

They pricked her heel for the PKU test and she didnt cry at all. She just sucked on her hand and then fussed when it didnt produce any milk. I cant believe she's already 2 weeks old. I better enjoy this time off with Isabelle, I'll be back to work before I know it. Sad! :(

Newborn Pictures.

Yesterday Jason and I took Isabelle to have her newborn pictures taken. I can not wait to see all the pictures. Julie Burton is the lady that took the pictures. She must be the nicest person ever, she was just so cute with Isabelle. You should check out her blog julieburtonphotography. She posted some sneak peak photo's of Isabelle so I'm going to repost them. Next week we should get the rest of the pictures.

Here they are..Enjoy!

Isabelle Piper Powell

SHE'S HERE!!!

Isabelle Piper Powell was born January 12th 2010 at 2:56 p.m.

She weighed 7 pounds 15 ounces

and was 20 inches long.

Isabelle arrived on Tuesday January 12th. She was 6 days early according to her due date, but I'm glad she didn't wait any longer. She was only a ounce off of being 8 pounds so she was pretty good sized. She's absolutely beautiful! She has her daddy's nose and her grandpa Quinn's forehead. Her hands and feet are pretty good size too, she's definitely Jason's daughter. We were all surprised when she came out a with hair. Okay, so she doesn't have a lot of hair but I was pretty sure she was going to be bald. Her hair also has some wave to it which I love. I just hope it doesn't all fall out, I know wishful thinking right?? Oh well a girl can dream.

We're all home from the hospital now and Isabelle's done pretty well. Her second night home was a rough one, she got up every hour :( . Last night she did really well though and I'm guessing it has a lot to do with my milk finally coming in.

It's crazy how fast you fall in love! Jason and I are loving every minute of being parents. We find ourselves starring at her in amazement a lot of the time. She's so beautiful and perfect it truly is amazing.

okay, Here's some pictures of our little girl.

Here she is right after birth, she's getting checked out by the doctors

Here's she is with her eyes open

Here she is with Daddy.

And here she is in her going home outfit!

Video of Jason making her smile

The Nursery

THE NURSERY IS FINALLY DONE!!!

And with only 9 days till Isabelle's due date. The room is Beautiful, its exactly what I wanted. When I first decided what I wanted the nursery to look like I had no idea it could look this good. Thank you to everyone that helped me with the nursery and a HUGE THANK YOU to my DAD!!! He spent so much time over here putting up bead board, molding, furniture. Without his help I don't think it would have gotten done. Thank you daddy for all your help and keeping me company while Jason was out of town picking up the twin airplane. Now all we're waiting on is Isabelle's arrival. I now feel ready for her to come! :)

OK so without further ado here's some pictures.

The Closet door

The Crib

Picture of the valance my mother-in-law made to match the crib bedding

There's a close up of the picture frames hanging on the wall above the crib, One day they have our first family pictures.

Here's the Crib with the beautiful bedding my mother-in-law made, isn't it pretty?

Here's the Hutch in front of the one pink wall in the room.

Update!

Well Christmas has come and gone. Jason and I enjoyed our Christmas holiday. We're both just like little kids, neither one of us could sleep very well Christmas eve and so we ended up getting out of bed at 6 am to open presents. Jason bought me a beautiful necklace and I bought him a nice video game. We spent most of our day on Christmas running to different houses and enjoying the time we had with family. I wish I had thought to bring our camera. I have no pictures of Christmas 2009 :(

Can you believe we've started a NEW YEAR! I can't believe we're in 2010 already. When I found out I was pregnant and that we were going to have a 2010 baby I thought that sounded pretty far way but now we're in 2010. Time has flown by and I cant believe I'm going to be a mom. We did enjoy our New Years Eve with my parents and Jeff and Sue. We spent the night playing the game "Smart Ass" and we all found out how smart Jason is since he beat us all every game. We also decided that we need to have Jeff and Sue over more often, they're hilarious!

Jason and I were also able to get a lot of stuff done over our holiday break. Luck for us our company actually closes down from Christmas Eve til after New years Day. I spent most of that time picking up odds and ends of stuff we still needed for Isabelle and we spent a few days finishing the nursery. I'll do a whole other post devoted to the nursery because I want to post pictures and I need to properly thank my Dad for all his hard work. Any way its hard to come back to work after having a week and a half off but at least I know I get to take 8 weeks off after Isabelle decided to make her arrival (when ever that will be).

Well I thought I would update everyone on our holiday fun and how things are going at our house. I hope everyone else had an awesome holiday as well.

How Rude!

So in my last post I talked a little about my pregnancy pet peeves. If you read the post you know that my pet peeve is people making stupid comments about how my face is filling out or how I waddle now. When I told my mom the comments people where making she laughed and then told me I should write them down. So here's one I got from a male co-worker yesterday that I thought I would share.

Co-worker: How much longer do you have?
Me: about 5 weeks
Co-worker: Oh, my wife never got fat like you.
Me: you mean big?
Co-worker: Call it whatever you want.

In his defense his wife never went full term with either one of their kids but still, you don't tell someone they're fat!! I wanted to throat punch him. Instead I just glared at him and walked away.