26 weeks and Christmas.

All smiles because we made it safely on Christmas Eve!

All the stockings hung at Grandma and Grandpa K's. Isabella got her first sock here.

Izzy on Christmas morning with Chicco the traveling turtle.

Christmas Day! Here 6 mos birthday.

Mommy and Iz.

Second day opening presents. She's getting the hang of it.

Grandpa and Isabella

Great Grandma and Grandpa Brown on Mommy's side.

Great Grandma K.

Grandma Doering(Mark's mom)

Back at home in Elkhorn playing with all her new toys.

Daddy was so happy Isabella was home.

Playing with daddy and the new toys.

We decided to try solids when we got home from Christmas. She had sweet potatoes and couldn't get enough. She would attack the spoon.

All done.

Well we made it. I had to work Christmas Eve until 10:30 a.m.. I headed home with the thought in mind that we were just staying home. The roads had gotten pretty bad and Mark was on call and unable to come with us. I was really bummed but knew that was the way it was going to be. Mark didn't know if he would get called out or not so he didn't want us sitting alone if he did. We hurried and packed the car and off to GI went Izzy and I. We did pretty good from Omaha to York and then from York to GI was a bit to be desired. My dad couldn't take it anymore that Isabella and I were on the interstate so he made us pull off at York and met us there. He drove the rest of the way in front of us to give me an idea of the road conditions.

Izzy enjoyed Christmas. She got a little off schedule but is doing fine. She is sitting up really well in her Boppy now so she sat up and kind of tore at her packages. She needed a little help though. She was the world's slowest present opener. She got all kinds of neat toys and clothes. She was spoiled but she sure is not rotten. This little girl just melts my heart along with her daddy's.

Back to the old grind on Monday. Isabella's 6 month check up is on Wednesday. We'll let you know how she is progressing. Happy New Year!

25 weeks!

Happy Santa!

Tuckered out after a long day at school.

Our friend the goose that camped out on our front porch for a day.

Mr. Goose from inside the window.

Daddy feeding Izzy while sitting up. Such a big girl.

Well, I'm officially done nursing. Mark and I got deathly ill on Thursday the 17th with the stomach flu. We took Izzy to daycare for the day so she wouldn't get it. Mark started feeling a little better and went and got Lysol to dysinfect the house before we subjected Izzy to it. My mom and dad came down that night and took care of Izzy. Mark and I quarantined ourselves in our bedroom and didn't come out until the next day. I really appreciate my mom and dad coming down because I don't think I could have taken care of Isabella. We spent the whole next day deep cleaning and trying to recover. It ruined the whole weekend because my mom and I were suppose to finish up our Xmas shopping and we only got a little done on Sunday. I was also suppose to take Izzy to see Santa and never made it there. Ugh. First Christmas and no Santa picture. What kind of mom am I?

The rest of the week we were all feeling better and anticipating the bad weather that was headed our way. We were praying that it would hold off so we could make it home for Izzy's first Christmas. We'll let you know if we made it. Have a great holiday.

24 weeks and counting

She loves her Jeep!

Getting ready for Santa!

Our buddy napping.

Daddy and Is.

As the week went on Izzy"s congestion and cough got worse. I thought something just wasn't right. She has been in good spirits and smiling, but I just couldn't take it anymore. Morning feedings have been a bear because she can't breathe. I had to work on Saturday so Mark took Izzy to the doctor. Diagnosis.....double ear infection and sinus infection. Ugh!!! Izzy is now on an antibiotic and takes it like a champ. I hate putting her on meds this young but I want her to get healthy.

I am slowly moving Izzy to all formula. It has been 6 months and I'm ready for a piece of pizza and some ice cream. With the holidays upon us it has been hard to stay out of the candy. It has been very mentally challenging for me to wean her, but all-in-all I think it will be good for all of us.

I bought her first jar of solid food and we are going to try it this weekend. Because of her MSPI, the doctors adivise against cereal so we are to start with orange veggies and then move to green. I'm getting excited to see how she responds. I will let you all know and post pictures of her first solid foods. Hope you are all healthy and doing well.

Ariann

23 weeks

Izzy and her pal Cletus

Izzy loves her new Jeep that the Launs gave her. She honks the horn with her mouth.

Mom was two days late with the picture. Hopefully she didn't change too much in 2 days.

Mommy's photoshoot with Izzy.

This is where people were driving through a vacant lot instead of down the street because the snow was so high. You can see the stop sign in the upper right hand corner where they should have been turning.

After Mark snow blowed 3 times in 12 hours.

Our little snow bunny wasn't sure what to think of her snow suit.

This is taken out of our bedroom window. It's kind of cool to turn out the lights and look out the window with the Christmas lights and all the snow.

Our tannenbaum.

Chillin' watching the Huskers.

For Izzy's 23rd week we did what we've been doing for quite a while. We watched Nebraska football. We were sad they lost but they played hard. We went to our friends', Mandi and Brandon Hoys', to watch the game. Izzy did great and went to bed just like if she was at home.

On Tuesday we had a bad snow storm and daycare called and said they were closing at 2 o'clock. Mom was really excited she got to leave work early and hang out with her girl. Also, all of mom's patients cancelled for Wednesday morning and she has Wednesday afternoons off. So....WE GOT TO SPEND TWO DAYS TOGETHER!!

Now we quickly roll out of and into another week of Izzy's life.

TTFN