A day (or two or three) in the life of...

Still no news. Damn that push to practice our patience. ((sigh)) In the meantime, cuteness helps cure the anxiety (for me). I realize my blog is all baby-fied now but my life is very baby-fied right now and that's cool w/me. She's still very shiny and new and probably will be till she graduates college. Heck, probably even after that. I look at her through eyes of a chick who thought she'd likely not be able to have her own baby. (ew, 3rd person. meh) So, yeah, she's this amazing miracle to me. I want to take her everywhere with me. I want to take pictures of her all day long because I feel like I need evidence of all of the cuteness that happens all day long (not to mention wanting to make you feel like you're here w/us each day and each cute milestone, MIL :) ). So, I'm sure a balance will eventually come back but for now... BABY!!! Is it weird that I feel like I'd be cool w/being knocked up again? Must be the hormones. Oh, and a pinch of vanity and...

Wow look how much lil Nugget changed in 2 months!      Here's Izzy at 11 weeks                                                      Here she is at 19 weeks. Here legs are like ham hocks! She'll definitely need to be involved in sports. The assumption (because of her Daddy and Tia Lisey's fútbol prowess) is soccer. Else, she'll just stomp around for the fun of it. Fee Fi Fo Fum... Gimme yo' Candy! Some very good news is on the horizon. (no, not pregnancy) We just need a solid confirmation which we're hoping we get by Friday. Patience is for the birds! More to come...

Fantastic weekend! Solid social gatherings, family time and just good quality time. We're still doing well with our slow venture into solids for Izzy. She gets an itty bitty bowl of 1Tbsp of rice cereal mixed w/about 4 Tbsp of formula and gobbles it on up. She loves sitting in her high chair. On Saturday, we went over to my Mom's for Noah's 6th b'day. We put her in her adorable dress that Guncle Jemmy gave her. She loved it. Here's her 'dancing' in her room after I put her in her dress, in preparation for the party. And just gratuitous purty dress shots: Noah's into making faces for the camera. (like most little boys do) But his are different. Here's his token '6th B'day' pic. Apparently Bilal's camera-ready smile is broken. When everyone would say "smile!", he'd look at the camera and smile w/crazy eyes. Meddy kept calling out "No Boo Boo, no smile! no smile!". HA! Aside from the f...

So, per Dr. C, I went out and got Izzy some Organic whole grain rice cereal (I'm just being pretentious now... it really just *sounds* healthier.) and we gave it a go this afternoon. I thought, 'Sure, we'll play your little 'solids' game and she'll let us know that she's not ready and we'll revisit in a few weeks'. See, we don't really eat in front of her and we need to change that up. We usually eat when she's napping or one of us takes turns eating while the other hangs out w/her and since she falls asleep so early on weeknights and we're such late eaters, dinner happens after she's down for the count. So, she's never reached out for food or made 'om nom nom' gestures at us, wanting what we're eating because she's never had the opportunity. We're going to start having dinner at the table or at least at the kitchen island w/her in her high chair w/us so that she can get a better idea of what mealtime looks lik...

Izzy's officially turned 4 months old (last Saturday) and in weeks, we're now at 18 weeks. Holy Moly! She had her 4 month appointment on Monday and Dr. C was happily giving her mad props for growing like a weed and developing her motor skills like a champ. (I'm sure he doesn't tell *all* the parents that, right???). So, here are her stats: Height 25.5 inches - 89th percentile - She's taller/longer than 88% of the babies her age! 14.65 lbs - 66th percentile - Not gonna lie here, I thought she'd be heavier. head measures 41 1/2 cm - 64the percentile - The better to grow a big 'ol productive brain in! She got her 4 month shots, screamed for 2 seconds and was over it, then we got home and the post shots fever kicked in on top of the cold she already had. Boo! Miserable bebe for a day and a half. She's better now but that cold was a doozy. Weak, defeated wimpers ruled the house yesterday. :-/ So, the Dr. also suggested getting her started on solids. HUH...

I loved her lil sporty outfit so I go to take a pic of her (she was propped up in the bed while I got ready to take her to Meddy's) and she expresses herself. As usual... 'Daddy's Girl'. Clearly.  'I'd really rather not 'do cute' right now. Come again later!'  the bird. just.take.the.picture. This netted fabric feels so smooth. I thought it was only appropriate to update this post with pictures of Daddy's Girl and, well, her Daddy. :) I don't know why he can't *not* make a face in pictures. I just don't know...

Seriously, for a Tuesday, I'm in a really good mood. Miss Izzy woke up at 4ish for an early brekky bottle and wanted to talk for a good hour afterwards so I hung out w/her then let her just talk w/herself for the rest of the morning convo. She's very much of a personal space baby, so she actually seems to appreciate when we give her some time to herself.  When we're in her face too much, she groans and looks around to her sides for an escape route. ((shrugs)) We've all been there.  So, I napped for a few hours and woke up to her chatting away again so we started off the day. I went in and let her explain what she'd learned in her self discovery for the morning, put her in an adorable little dress and off to tummy it was. So, I'm reading this book that Rowdy's parents recommended to me one night when we had a long discussion on faith and how I've been on walking a line in the middle of cynic and faithful for as long as I can remember. The book is Ann La...

We're waiting to hear some good news on the job front. A lot is riding on this and and it's going to decide where we'll be, whether up here in NoVA or down in C'ville, VA. There's pros and cons for both so at this point, we just need to know what the real options are and go from there. Patience... Don't got too much to share except that the workouts need more motivation, I need to lose some baby lbs and I'm tired of wearing yoga pants or the same pair of jeans. Motivation and willpower, be mine! Here's the Nugget this morning. She doesn't seem to be any worse for the wear for a Monday morning. (Nevermind the tired meltdown she had on us last night. That's in the past now. no mas meldowns, please?) Buenos Dias, World!!!

Ok, so I finally got Picasa to carry out my mission of creating a photo grid of Izzy's weeks pics from week 1- 16. Check it out! Look how much our Nugget's changed and grown! I'll get better at this photo editing thing. In the meantime, Huzzah for little victories and double Huzzah for gorgeous lil Izzy growth tracking! Remember when she was just this lil dream below? She looks so much cuter now that she has a face and all...

Our weekend away was amazing and apparently so was Izzy. :) The night that we go away and apprehensively leave her with my Mom, she behaves like a perfect angel. Doesn't cry, barely fusses and sleeps through the night! (9pm - 7:30 AM) She doesn't really do this for us. Oh Izzy... My Mom excitedly told her friends that she had Izzy w/her so cue the parade of ladies to come and visit the baby. heh. Oh Mom. :) Though lil Nugget was a super chill lil one and loved all the attention. Maybe we should invite more people to visit w/her during the day. I mean, if it's going to help her sleep through the night, right? We got a good feel for Charlottesville and we're still waiting to hear if we're going to be moving down there or not. There are a few jobs that are in strong contention for Cowboy so it's now just a waiting game. A very stressful waiting game but oh well, that's life in this day and age, right? Here's the official sweet 16 week pics: Recognize ...

Cowboy dressed his little Izzy in this adorable summer romper this morning and it was so adorable that we just *had* to take pictures. Next brilliant idea was, 'let's see if she'll stand for a second'... She did! Ha! It was a process but she stood and then it went downhill... I is standing! What's standing ? Wait, are you not holding me??? Whoa, I feel wobbly... Bah, I can't feel my legs... This isn't looking too promising. Daddy!!! Spot me! Nap time anyone? We dropped Izzy off with Medina, got some brekky and had it on our back porch and now are off to enjoy the day. Happy long Labor Day weekend y'all!

That's what Izzy cried out last night at 12:30. The night I decide to go ahead and stay up late because she'd slept through the night the previous night. So... why not tempt fate, right? I hear her crying at 12:30 and go in to see what's going on and find her at the furthest end of the crib on her tummy. She's only rolled onto her tummy twice that I've seen and she doesn't know how to roll back over yet so we just flip her over and that's that. Well, that's hard to do when you're sleeping and she suddenly must have thought she was just stuck there and panicked. Poor lil Nugget. I flipped her over and then 'WHAM', she flipped back over onto her tummy like a panicked fish! Huh?!? Again, I flip her over and again she flips over onto her tummy and whails like it's no one's business so at that point, I pick her up and decide I'll change her diaper and soothe her. Well, that didn't go smoothly either. She decided she was going to le...