At Elliot's party last weekend Isabella got a Dora tattoo for us to apply sometime. She kept looking at it and saying sticker and would try to put it on herself as a sticker. We explained to her that it was a tattoo and it would go on her skin. We asked her where she wanted it and she pointed to her chest, still not understanding that it had to go on skin, not clothing. We decided to go ahead and put it on her arm and she was not thrilled with it. She kept pointing at it and saying "owie". She had sort of a love/hate relationship with it. She would get excited and point at it and say "Dora", but then she would also say "Owie".
Due to basic laziness of never getting around to taking Isabella to get her haircut, I had Jeff grab the hair scissors the other night so I could give her bangs a trim, even though I don't know a thing about cutting hair. To my surprise, Jeff came down with the scissors, went over to Isabella and started to cut her bangs. About 1/2 way across he stopped and said, "hmmm, maybe you should be doing this". I finished it off, probably doing a worse job than he did. It is obviously choppy and not straight, but overall, I think it is pretty darn cute. We can see her eyes and it buys us more time before we have to take her out to get a "real" haircut.
We had our 3rd ultrasound today. This was the later one we had to have to determine if I still had a low lying placenta. As far as the tech could tell, the placenta had moved to the side! Yippee! We still need confirmation from the radiologist and my doctor, but it sounds like it will be pretty good news.
As usual it was wonderful to see our little girl on the screen. (We confirmed again and indeed it is still a little girl). Her nose was right up to the placenta, so it was hard to get any good face shots, even with the 3d ultrasound. Her hand was up by her forehead for most of the ultrasound. She looks like a total cutie. Of course, she reminds me of Isabella. Jeff thinks her nose is a little different. Her estimated weight right now is 4 lbs 15 oz. Her due date came in as 4/10, three days earlier than her official due date.
The just printed out photos and didn't give us a cd or anything, so I scanned them in, but I don't think they came out too clearly. The 3D images look like a blob at first, but if you adjust your eyes, you can see her face.
We went to the Quad Cities to celebrate Elliot's 4th birthday. Isabella had an absolulte blast. It was at a place that has a bunch of inflatable jumping things. Isabella was a little hesitant at first, but had fun jumping around.
They had a super huge slide and I thought maybe we'd get her to go down it with Jeff. We did and after a couple of times, she was totally comfortable climbing up the thing and going down completely by herself. She wouldn't even pause at the top, she'd just immediately go down on her stomach.
After lots of jumping, we had pizza, cake and ice cream. Rather than bring gifts for Elliot, we brought cat and dogs toys because Elliot was donating them to the Humane Society, so that was a neat idea. Isabella got a balloon and a book and she was really excited about both of them. We changed her into pjs for the ride home, assuming she would fall right asleep, but she was pretty hyped up. I guess that's what happens when she basically had cake and ice cream for dinner.
The first video is of Isabella jumping around
This one is of Jeff and Isabella going down the big slide together
The last one is of her going down the slide all by herself. The video is kind of dark because they had turned of the lights at this point and had a disco ball going (I hadn't know we'd be going clubbing that night.... but it sort of seemed like it).
Born 2/17/2010 at 5:10 p.m. 9 pounds 5.5 ounces 22 1/2 inches
We went last night to see the new baby. He is a total cutie pie. Cried a bit when I first held him, but then settled down. (the baby cried, not me...) Isabella seemed more interested in watching "According to Jim" on the tv rather than looking at the baby. I can't believe it will be a short while before we have a newborn of our own. If we go exactly 6 weeks (that's how far apart Aiden and Isabella are) that means we'd have the baby on March 31st. Two weeks early. So, I'm not really expecting that to happen. Like I said when Aiden and Isabella were born, who would have ever imagined we'd have kids so close in age and then now we are doing it again!
Congrats to the Davis family!
Monday, February 15, 2010
Isabella loves to draw with her bathtub crayons (thanks, Grandma Linda and Grandpa Jack!). Check out her recent artwork!
Of course, with tub art comes the challenge of teaching her that it is not okay to draw everywhere. We also have had some coloring on the wall, the floor, and a new pen mark drawing on our recliner.
Here is a video after Isabella drew on the floor. Poor little Cinderella.... Luckily, at least that is very easy to clean up with a Magic Eraser, not so sure what to do about the recliner yet. At the end of the video you will see Isabella laughing, it is because Mom accidentally dropped a bowl of oatmeal on Papa.
Isabella would like to thank everyone for their Valentines. She had a good day. She's been really excited about a purple bear that Grandpa sent her.
We went over to John and Kristy's today for pizza. Isabella has been asking endlessly about Bob, their cat. Whenever we say anything about John and Kristy she says "and Bob". She had lots of fun over there. She got to play with Uncle John and Bob's fishing pole turned cat toy. She could actually reel it in.
Today I took Isabella to her 2 year old check-up. She was being really funny the whole time we were there, sort of acting like a different child. When we were waiting in the waiting room a child came out screaming and a second later the nurse called "Isabella" which sent her screaming. Then she was upset that I was making her leave a book in the waiting area and the nurse told her they had plenty of books in the room, so she decided she was okay with that.
Back in the room I chatted with the nurse while Isabella was really into the books. She kept saying "I need more books" and "Read this". Then the nurse said it was time to weigh and measure her so we went into the hallway and Isabella stood on the big scale (rather than sitting on the baby scale like I was used to). She weighed 30 lbs (80th percentile). Next, she walked about to the wall where they measure her height and the nurse made her stand up straight with her heels against the wall while she brought down the measuring device and Isabella just stood there like a champ. She was 34.75 inches (65th percentile) The nurse said she's never seen a child that age just stand there so still (I don't know if I believe that) but it was kind of strange. Then, for some reason Isabella tried walking back to the room without bending her knees, she looked hysterical.
Back in the room, the nurse took her blood pressure with a little blood pressure kit. The nurse was really good with her. The only time Isabella got scared was when the nurse was putting on rubber gloves. She had to take a prick of her finger to test for lead. The nurse was a total pro and pricked her and got Isabella's blood into a little straw and Isabella just watched, sort of fascinated. No shots this visit, hooray!
While we were waiting for the doctor, Isabella totally floored me. She looked at a picture of zebras on the wall and said "Zebras". I said "How many are there?" and without missing a beat she said "Four" and went back to reading her book. She was totally right. I don't know if it was a total fluke or what, but to say how many of something there was without counting it out seemed really bizarre to me. Then she was reading a book with an alligator in it and I said "is that an alligator?" and she said "Alligator clap" and started clapping her arms like an alligator mouth.
Unfortunately the wait for the doctor was a little longer than we would have liked. Isabella ran out of books to read (she's not one that normally likes to read the same book over and over again) and became a little restless. So when the doctor came in I was trying to talk to the doctor and Isabella at the same time and it was getting tough. When the doctor got out her stethoscope, Isabella immediately started pointing to her chest because she knew that was what the doctor was going to do. The doctor said Isabella is doing great. She said according to her calculations (not scientific) Isabella would be 5 ft 11 in as an adult (doing the calculation for how tall they are at 2) but I think she got her math wrong. When I was trying to figure it out based on calculations online I was only getting 5 ft 9in approx.
All in all, it was good (albeit strange, who is that child?) trip to the doctor.
Isabella had her first dental appointment a week ago on Monday. She did pretty well. The dentist we took her to was recommended by our pediatrician and our friend Diane, so it was nice not to have to really even research dentists, it was a no-brainer. Plus, the office is very Hawkeye oriented so that was an added plus. http://www.dentistforkidz.com/
After a short wait in the waiting room, where they had a little Kinnick stadium play area, we were called back. There are basically just 4 dental chairs in a room, so Isabella was able to watch other kids getting their teeth worked on too. (and watch as other kids were screaming) She sat on my lap while I sat in the chair and would randomly yell out "Hawkeye" (because there was a Herky statue in the room) and "brushing!" when someone was getting their teeth brushed. The hygienist came in and we laid Isabella back across me and she got her teeth brushed. She did fine with that. Then the dentist came in and we leaned her back again and he looked at her teeth. She screamed during this part. The dentist said she has all her teeth! Some of the molars might not completely be in, so they might still be sensitive, but the worst is definitely over! Because she had all her teeth, the dentist said it was time for fluoride, so he put some on her teeth and she screamed through that again. After that, she got to pick out a toy and a sticker. Next, we went into the dentist's office while he chatted with us about brushing, toothpaste, etc. On our way out we passed a little girl with tears streaming down her face walking back to the dentist chair, poor thing, it was like she was walking to the electric chair. Overall, a good visit for Isabella and now we go back in 6 months.
Last Wednesday Jeff's Grandpa "Pa" passed away. He was a wonderful man, and although he requested no service, we went to Chicago last weekend to meet up with the rest of the family and remember his almost 88 years.
I love this picture, it was the first time Isabella met Pa.
