An alien kidnapped my child!

I dont know if an alien came and switched babies with me or she is playing mind games on me, but last night Isla slept through the whole night!!! She fell asleep at 11pm and woke up at 7am!! This is unbelievable! I dont want to jinx it, but I hope this isnt a one time thing for us :)

HALLELUJAH!!!

I had a horrible sleep Wednesday nite. Isla was very fussy and woke up pretty much every hour and at 3am we went and tried to get some sleep in the living room. She was super cranky all day and only stopped crying when she was eating. We are thinking this may be her 4 week growth spurt. Pat came over last nite to say hi and give us a little relief and must have put a magical spell on her because last nite, she went to bed at 10pm, woke up once at 2am to eat, then we all slept until 6:30am!!! What a great nite of sleep..I feel so refreshed!! Let's keep this going honeybee!!

Daddy showing Isla how to rollover

Here we go!


Step 1


Step 2


Yay!!!


Oh man...that was hard!

Thug and his girl...

Isla's 2nd week

Isla is now 2 1/2 weeks old and she celebrated her first Valentine's Day yesterday.(thanks again to Sarah for her adorable Valentine's onesie!) We had a great day and went walking downtown yesterday, but it was just a little too cold. She cannot wait until summer comes!! (me too!!) We are also still waiting until all this snow is gone, so we can take walks around the neighborhood everyday. Then we had a nice Valentine's day dinner over Oma and Opa's house.
Isla is doing very well this week; I havent weighed her this week, but I can tell she is getting bigger by the day and am pretty sure she is very close to her birth weight by now. I have found that she loves to take "tours" around the house when she is cranky or fussy. She basically just likes to move around alot and she is defintely much happier when she is held by mommy or daddy. She still is a little fussy when bedtime comes, but the past three nights, she has slept for four straight hours in one stretch! Woo hoo!

Isla's First Week

Isla was one week old yesterday and we have had a great week so far. It seems like we have had her forever, but also cant believe she is already more than a week old. We have been so lucky to have my mom and dad here all week helping us with her and the cooking, cleaning and just being here for us. Thank you! Let's see...what have we been up to this week. Isla has been opening her eyes more and more each day, which we love because she just looks so different with her eyes open and closed. She has LOTS of different faces that she makes from happy to sad to mad (she HATES to have her clothes changed) and the other day when she smiled we saw she had adorable dimples!! How cute!




Grandma and I also gave her her first bath at home today too. Everything went great, but again, she hates to be naked, but loves to be cuddled afterwards. Today, we also ventured outside and took Isla on her very first shopping trip to Old Navy. WOW...it sure takes a Long time to get her in her carseat, get the stroller in trunk, pack bags and get everything all together just for a short trip to the store!! It was worth it and I am sure she will love shopping in the future.



Isla has also been doing very well sleeping and eating. She eats about every 2 hours and sleeps alot during the days. At night, she does pretty well sleeping for about 2 hours, then she gets up to eat, then back to sleep. We are usually up by 7am for good, then we watch the Today Show together and take many naps during the day. Daddy is a SUPER Diaper changer (which I love) and has become a pro at it.

All in all, we are doing GREAT!

Isla is Here!!!!

She's Here! She's Here! Isla Elizabeth Driscoll was born on Thursday January 28, 2010 at 12:25pm. She weighed 7.2 lbs and was 19.5 inches long. She is BEAUTIFUL and was the talk of the birthing center :) She has the cutest little mouth and such long, beautiful fingers...everyone says she will grow up to be a piano player!! We cant tell if she looks like either Tim or I yet, but she sure is a CUTIE! We are sure that in a couple weeks her features will start to show and become even more precious :) We are all doing just great at home and she is the sweetest baby on the planet!