2 months

Isabelle is 2 months old! She is getting to be so much fun! She smiles so much and she's talking up a storm. I cant wait until she starts laughing but I'll defanitly take all the smiles. I'm pretty sure she doesnt want to be a baby any more. She's always moving her arms and legs and she wants to sit up so bad. She's a pretty busy baby. She still doesn't have much hair but if she's anything like me she wont get hair until she's 10. She's in love with her hands right now. She sucks on them like crazy, its mostly her left hand but sometimes her right hand finds it way to her mouth as well.

Isabelle had her 2 month appointment and man is she growing. She grows so fast i cant believe she's not my little newborn baby I brought home just 2 months ago.

Here are her stats:

Weighs: 12 lbs 1 oz - 81%

Length: 22 1/2 inches

See what I mean about getting big. She's my little chunky monkey. She has so many rolls she look s like a popped pillsbury dough boy can. She sure is cute though, we like them on the chubby side. We're going to be blessing Isabelle this sunday so I'll post about all the fun of blessing our baby next week.

Road Trip

Almost 2 weeks ago my mom and I took Isabelle on her very first road trip. We went to see my sister and her cute family in Mesquite. Isabelle is actually a very good traveler, she slept almost the whole way. :)

It was so fun showing Isabelle off to them for the very first time. The all seemed to love her especially Drew. It was funny to see Drew with Isabelle. He would sing "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" to her and tell her "It's Ok" and rub her head when she would cry. Preston however wasn't to sure about her. He was definitely curious but I'm not sure if he was more curious about her or her bouncer. Preston would bounce her in her bouncer like she was headed for the moon. It was even better when Isabelle wasn't in the bouncer, Preston would take her place. Since Preston is just a bit heavier his bum would almost touch the ground. Then he would start bouncing in it and hit his behind on the ground and say "weeeeee" it was hilarious.

I enjoyed our little trip to Mesquite. Courtney and Doug's new home is so beautiful and the weather was awesome. We even got to go swimming. Ok so we didnt really swim, we sat in the hot tub but the weather was in the high 60's. I hope we get to go visit them more often since the live a lot closer now. Of course they're always welcome up here... Hint Hint... :)

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.