Sip-N-See

My mom's good friends, Carol and Sue, recently threw Izzy a Sip'N'See! Let me tell you...this is my kind of party! What do you do..."sip" on alcoholic beverages all while "seeing" my baby girl! Seriously, brilliant! Truthfully, I think you are really supposed to sip on tea...lame!

Carol and Sue with the Grandma of the Day!

Everyone generously brought a book for Grandma Nancy's library for Isabel...and future grandbabies! Wow...we might have to have story time at Grandma Nancy's frequently...such good books and so little time!

Can you believe there is a series of books called "Fancy Nancy"?

Izzy giving me the look asking "Where is my drink?"

My little bug a boo... Isn't this dress the most precious?! Thanks Aunt Kathy for the princess dress...Izzy loves it!

Boys Boys Boys

We took another road trip up to Chicago to visit my friend Staci and her newborn baby, Aidan. Aidan is almost 3 weeks older than Isabel. So it was so fun to get the kiddos together to "play"!

Check out this little guys smile...

How funny is this picture?? Clearly the kids are just thrilled with our little photo shoot!

Our other friend Katie also joined in on the festivities on her day off of work. Her little man was a little over ten months at this point and he was loads of fun to watch. He was also loads of work. Staci and I looked at each other with a little relief that our babies can't move yet :)

How handsome is Jack?!

The impossible shot...this kids were probably seeing dots for 10 minutes after these photos...3 mom's with cameras = tons of flashes! In fact, some of my outtakes show the red-eye reduction from either Katie or Staci's camera :)

Here is Jack trying to feel Aidan's mohawk...or fighting over Izzy perhaps?!

I got the look of concern (the norm) after taking so many pictures of the boys.

Two

Isabel's second month was so much fun. We finally started figuring things out this month. There are two things to note this month and I can't decide which is best... First, Izzy started sleeping in her crib HOORAY/sniff sniff. My dear friend Rachel was the ultimate winner at convincing me of breaking the habit of holding Izzy when she sleeps...after spending the night with the Wiegman's I came home with the motivation to get Isabel to like her crib. I put her in it and after maybe two minutes of whimpering (not crying) she was asleep! She didn't sleep through the night or anything crazy...but a night without my baby girl in my bed was restful for me. Though it is bittersweet as those moments of listening to her breath, watching her smile and drifting off to sleep are missed.

The other major accomplishment of the month is Izzy's SMILE! She has learned how to make our hearts melt. My favorite smiles are usually at 3 in the morning when I feed her. It's just the two of us and I think she knows I need the encouragement. Seriously, with smiles like hers, I would stay up all night to feed her!

At her two month check up, Dr. Emm said that Isabel was a "healthy" (not fat) child. She weighed 12 lbs 1 oz, 75th percentile and was 22.5 inches long, 50th percentile. Her chubby cheeks are my daily indicator that she is getting enough to eat! What do you think?

Here is a link to all of Izzy's second month of pictures. Lots of similar photos...I just couldn't decide which expression was my favorite :)

Here is a two month photo outtake...I love the smile...I just can't get her to do that for the camera!

This is the look right after she spits her entire dinner up on Daddy because he thought it would be cute to play "airplane"!

Doesn't it melt your heart? It melts Daddy's wallet :)

Eat em up Redbirds

So obviously I'm a little behind in blogging...these pictures are a dead giveaway...sunny and no jackets! Don't worry...it was a beautiful fall day. Luckily the wonderful weather landed on a weekend when the redbirds were in town. We joined Grandma and Grandpa K and tailgated before the Redbird football game!

Grandma and Izzy match in their redbird red!

Izzy signing the fight song!

Isabel plays with Christian

One of Izzy's first "play dates" was with Christian and his mom Sara. I met Sara and her husband, Frank, through our church. They got married two weeks before we did...and then surprisingly got pregnant right around the same time that we did! Christian was due at the beginning of September and Izzy was due two weeks later. We were surprised when we met up in the hospital...Izzy was born on 9/10 and Christian on 9/11! Go figure!!

We had such a fun afternoon. We ate, babies ate, we ate, babies ate... These two are going to have so much fun growing up together in church. How ironic that they are only a day apart!

Checking out the camera

Can you tell that they are at the same stage...able to move the arms, but no control whatsoever!

And here they are just bored with the camera!