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my girls

8 weeks old

A little someone turns 8 weeks old today. I can't believe it has already been 8 weeks. Seriously, why does time fly by so quickly?!

Little Isabelle Grace has created a place in our family that no other little person can fill. I say that because I was so nervous about how she would fit in because we had been a family of three for 2.5 years when she made her appearance. Obviously, no matter how anyone felt she was going to be a part of the family and I was anxious for nothing. Although Anna-Kate doesn't acknowledge her all the time she knows she belongs with us. When she walks by she gently rubs her head and says, "hi baby". It's so sweet to see her loving her little sister. I'm pretty sure it'll be an amazing day when Isabelle can respond to her big sisters affections. Of course, it's not ALWAYS like that. There have been a couple of times that she has told me to put the baby in her seat so I can go play with her. It's pretty funny. She says, "baby sit" or "baby swing" and points to where she wants her to go and then pulls me by the hand and says, "come on momma".

ANYways, about Isabelle. She weighed 11lbs 14 oz last Wednesday. The girl is getting so big. She's bigger than AK was at this age but was smaller when she was born. She's definitely a great eater. I'm so proud of her. Proud that she nurses well, proud that she's growing well, proud that she's healthy, proud that she seems so smart even at an itty bitty age. And I don't mean proud as in cocky, just proud to be her momma. She's a sweet sweet girl.

She eats every 3-4 hours depending on how tired she is and snacks quite often in the evening-usually starting around dinner time. How convenient ;). She usually has her last feeding around 10:30 or 11 and sleeps until around 4 AM and then she's up like clock work three hours later. It seems that around 9 AM she wants attention from her momma for a good 30 minutes to an hour and isn't satisfied doing anything else but being held and then sleeps pretty good for a couple hours after that. I'm okay to do it most mornings because she will only be this little for so long before she won't fit comfortably in my lap anymore.

She smiles and coos all the time. I LOVE it and it seriously is good medicine for my sometimes dark soul. I mean, not like dark and angry, but like dark and tired and drained. More like cloudy maybe? Anyways, yeah, it's so good for my insides.

Little Issy Grace is such a wonderful addition to our family and I'm sooo happy she's here and happy...and healthy of course!

what a Saturday

I spent my Saturday up to my nose in baby clothes. For some reason I got the itch to bring in every single bin and box from the storage shed in attempts to organize the clothes by size. It was mostly done but I had about 7 diaper boxes full of clothes in random sizes and a couple other boxes here and there. I would let a family member borrow them and then she'd give them back in the same box and I'd just toss them in the shed. It adds up to quite a bit of chaos after a while. There were actually three times that I ran out to the shed to grab or do something and I'd find yet another box of clothes-and every time it was AFTER I was done-so I thought. So I spent hours working on that. I went through all of the clothes and ended up with two diaper boxes full to give away. I stuffed all of a certain size in ONE bin or box because I refused to have more than one of a particular size. Size 3-6 months is the only size I have more than one bin of and that's because one bin is winter clothes and the other is spring/summer clothes. I had enough of both seasons to fill their own bin. ANYWAYS, as if you care, here is the finished product.
For some reason I feel like that picture doesn't do me justice. I should've taken a before picture. There are a ton of clothes in those bins. I promise. Just imagine little baby clothes nicely sorted and stacked and stuffed.

Next in my long Saturday was to get some decent pics of AK. I'm so sick of having every day pictures. LOL. I like posed cutesy pics. Not sure why, I just do. Plus, I can never get her to smile for the cam so that was my main objective when getting pics of her. This pic is my favorite.I have more but blogger is taking FOREVER and I don't have the time really.

I even got some pics of little Baby Belle. I had fun working with photoshop and talking with a friend off and on about how to accomplish some stuff on there.

Then I played outside with AK for a little bit. It was fun. We saw the moon and airplanes and birds and "bees". Anything that is little and flies is a bee and freaks her out. That's because last year there was a bee half dead on our floor that I swatted out of the window and she stepped on it and it stung her in the foot. So now she doesn't like bees.

I snapped a picture of our first bluebonnet sighting conveniently located beside our house :-).
I love Spring.

sister love

I caught Isabelle's first smile, directed towards her sister, on camera. It's not her first smile but her first for her big sissy. She was even cooing. It was precious.