Our First Month!

Yesterday Bella hit the one month mark. I can't believe how time is flying, especially with still getting up 4-5 times a night! So here's a bunch of pictures to show you what we've been up to this month. Above is a nice artsy photo of Isabella, Daddy likes taking these....a lot... Daddy also likes playing Guitar Hero, here's a great shot of my father and Eric playing a round while Nana holds Isabella. Where am I you may ask? Taking full advantage of not having a baby in my arms and doing chores. Oh the sweet life!


















We went to visit Eric at work but those pictures are on another camera so this is the one I have of the cute outfit I planned to take her to GCSAA in. It's says Daddy's girl, however, during one of our diaper changes the pants were an innocent bystander to a drive by pooping. We then switched to the cute green sweater she's been going out in a lot. It was made by Beth Deringer and we've had more compliments on it then I can count. Thanks Beth.

















Last Friday we took full advantage of the beautiful weather and took a short trip downtown. We first stopped into Salon Di Marco so I could get my bangs trimmed (No Eric YOU MAY NOT TRIM MY BANGS) Perhaps I'll let him have a try at Bella's when she gets older, I hear Jonsey has become quite the Daddy hair cut artist, I suppose he can teach Eric a few tricks. Here is Isabella with my Stylist and friend Tara, Then us at Lunch at Vermont street BBQ. It was fun but I spent most of the time worrying about whether or not she was hungry, odd since she slept right through it. While discussing Vermont Street BBQ I need to give a shout out to the Mac and Cheese Bites. Wow, I loves me some mac n cheese bites, if you've never had them, fix that problem pronto.


















Later that night we heard Jack was in town so we headed down to Johnny's for a bite and some socializing. Jack and Brenda didn't know we had a baby so it was a pleasant surprise. Isabella slept the whole time which was amazing since it was so noisy. But we got some great time with Jack as well as with the Jones family.
Here are the boys having a beer and holding a baby.

















Evelyn got to meet Isabella, She was pretty curious but a little more interested in the task of putting as much marinara on her cheese stick as possible before it got to her mouth. It's okay, They have plenty of time to become best friends and then fight over Grey!
















A Jones Family portrait.... with our baby as well!

















The Girls

















In addition to these outings, I've started going to a couple of support/play groups with Bella. It's been great to meet more mom's and babies. The groups have been really fun and a great way to let my social butterfly out of the house. Yesterday we took a picture of all the babies to look back on in a couple of months. I'll try to get a copy and post it on the blog. Isabella was the smallest, she's so petite!

Here's another Eric Arsty photo, Isn't she perfect!






















We started a bottle a few nights back, we're adding one every other night to start getting her used to it. She's done a fantastic job and did a full feeding the other night. Here is Daddy's first time feeding the baby. He loved it (I on the other hand had to stand in the background and hide my tears, It was weird letting someone else feed her, although it will be very nice in the future)

















So that's what we've been up to this first month. She still hasn't quite worked out her days and nights so I'm up every two hours or so, last night she did a 4 1/2 hour stretch which was great. Hooray for 3 hours of sleep in a row.
I'm currently researching and talking to people about the use of a pacifier, I haven't decided if we're going to give her one so if you've got any tips let me know.

~Trish