Life with Isla

I can't believe we've had little Isla for two weeks already.

It has been such an incredible experience. I can't help myself from going into her room 20 times while she's sleeping just to look at her cute little expressions.

What we've been up to:

lots and lots of sleeping

She always has her hands up by her face - especially when she's sleeping. I've learned that she would prefer to sleep with someone holding her.....but she's a pretty good sleeper in the bassinet too.

a bath

Isla sorta likes the bath. She likes just sitting in the warm water (she also likes pooping in the warm water) but she doesn't like it when we start scrubbing her. As soon as we put her in the bath the first time she put her right leg over the mesh holder and right into the bath. It was too cute. It looked like she was just lounging at the pool.

two visits to the doctor

Short Bryan and I have a long and skinny daughter. She was in the 90th percentile for length and 38th percentile for weight. This will probably be the last time she'll be considered tall.....so, i'm trying to explain to her that she needs to appreciate it while it lasts. I don't think she gets it.

cuddling with family

She's had a lot more visitors but taking pictures has been the last thing on my mind. I really need to start doing better!

My mom and dad came for Isla's first two weeks and just left Friday. It was so nice to have my mom take care of me and Isla. I pretty much didn't do anything but feed Isla and put her to bed. Mom took care of everything else.

First two weeks have been pretty amazing!

she's here

baby books

where is the best place to buy books for babies for cheap?

I realize I could go to Barnes & Noble - but couldn't I get them cheaper?

I have so many books I love from my childhood and I want to get those same books for my little girl!

what are your favorite kid books?

baby question 2

Diapers

Which diapers did you like better for your newborn?

Huggies Little Snugglers Diapers, Newborn

or

Pampers Swaddlers Dry Max Diapers, Size N

I realize that every little baby bum is different and I'm probably going to try both brands. But - I just wanted to hear what the majority of you expert moms liked for your brand new babies!



Supplemental Question

How long was your baby in Newborn before you switched to Size 1?

baby question

I am looking for all the advice you mothers have :)

What is the deal with baby bath tubs?

What makes them better or worse?

For example: I'm looking at the bath tub pictured below and it's $35

And then I see this tub for $20

Is the tub above really worth $15 more? Why? What makes a tub a good one?

What are your thoughts moms??

me and the husband

My desktop background on my work computer rotates every day to a new picture from my "my pics" folder.

I just minimized my windows and saw this picture from our wedding day:

I love this picture!
I love that everyone around us is running around figuring things out and we're still just smiling at each other. I am so lucky to have such a wonderful husband. I am still as infatuated with him after being together for over 6 years as I was when we first met.

I just can't wait to make our little family even bigger. She's going to adore her daddy!

Christmas

Christmas this year was so fun. For the last couple of years my parents have come to Utah to spend Christmas instead of each of their kids heading to California. It has been so nice to not have to travel during the holidays. But, it's not quite the same Christmas feeling when each of us are in a different house through the break and we all just get together randomly. This year Elliot found a great cabin in Sundance to rent. So, we all got to stay in the cabin. It really was so fun. John and Cindy and the kiddos even flew out for the break.

Outside the cabin

Our little tree with many presents

Because we were all in the same house we did a lot of just lounging around and hanging out. Along with a lot of Ms. Pacman (the cabin had an old school arcade game) and wii and Minute to Win It games and lets just be honest....eating.

We decorated sugar cookies the first night. I think me, Katie, and Heather decorated the most (it felt like we were decorating for hours). No one in our family particularly likes sugar cookies so Katie was so kind to eat pretty much all of them. Well, I guess JJ helped a little by licking the frosting off of them and then leaving the cookies behind.

Our best creations

Dad's best creation

The next day we decided we couldn't be up at Sundance without taking advantage of the snow by sledding. JJ and Calli didn't love sledding and I wasn't allowed to sled....but Bryan and John and Katie and even Mom had a pretty good time. The rest of us were freezing and wanted to head in but we couldn't pull the four of them away.

Cindy and Calli

Bryan - after one of his many tricks

For Christmas Eve, Heather lead the family in telling the Nativity story by having the kids unwrap the different characters in the story and then setting up the manager. After the kiddo's activity we did the traditional Bagley event of acting out the Nativity. Bryan and I were Mary and Joseph of course!



Bryan and I decided that we would host a Minute to Win It competition for Christmas day. After all of the opening of presents we started the competition. Each couple was a group. We had "The Dollar Billz" - El and Katie; "Buellios" - Heath and Jeff; "Merris Magic" - Cindy & John; "Carlizzles" - Sum and Steve; "Attragedies" - Us; "Bag It To Win It" - Mom and Dad. I even started a blog with the list of the games we were going to play. It was seriously so fun and everyone really got into the games. In the end we crowned Merris Magic as the winners. But everyone really received a few extra lives to get to the last round (we asked questions about our family to get extra lives). Everyone continued practicing the games after the competition was over to see if they could beat all games.

The games were for the adults, but Aubrey and JJ couldn't resist trying them out too

The next day, Summer and Cindy decided to instigate a Ms. Pac Man competition. John and Cindy were of course the all stars - none of the rest of us even came close. I think John even got the high score on the arcade game.


Well Christmas 2010 - thanks for a great time. Next time we just need the Bagleys in Alabama with us!