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Nashon has finally created an account on the website for me (Jamie) to post new things on here.  Now you can all see who is better at posting information, and who is (usually) right about things!

Little Isabell is making daily progress toward becoming her own independant person!  Today we practiced rolling over (we still don’t like tummy time, but rolling is okay), and sitting up (she still needs mommy to hold her hips).  She is now consistently reaching for and grabbing toys, which means I have more time to do things when I’m at home since she can entertain herself for a few minutes at a time, a much desired skill at this point.  Today she also transfered a toy from one hand to the other; though only once and I couldn’t get her to do it again.

We have also made a big step with our wardrobe.  We are FINALLY out of the newborn clothes, and most of the 0-3 outfits.  Today I pulled out the bucket labeled “3-6 months” and found some really cute dresses.  This child has so many clothes, we may just put all the 0-3 month things away since she’ll likely grow out of the 3-6 month sizes before she tries them all on!

One more week and she’ll start spending her days with Ammie when I get to go back to work!

Where to start.  Christmas was a lot of fun.  Lots of family over, and of course everyone wanted to see Isabell.  Isabell got some diapers and wipes from Santa. How did he know thats exactly what she wanted?!?

January brought us to Las Vegas for Jamie’s sister’s wedding.  More family than Christmas (is that good or bad?).  Jamie flew down with Izzy while Nashon was in L.A. for work.  Izzy was an angel and handled the airport and airplane perfectly. No crying, just a long nap through the flight.  Once in Vegas, Izzy was off to be held by relatives.  We only saw her when she needed food or to be changed.  We’ve included pictures from the wedding (which was very nice) and some from around the house in the last 3 weeks.  the flight home was wonderful as well. A very long nap starting with take-off and lasting until an hour after touchdown in Seattle.  As you can see, Isabell is a wonderful sleeper, although its mostly at night that she does the long ones. She can now sleep from 8:30pm until 5:30am, which we both consider a fantastic schedule.

Our little girl has bulked up. She is now 11 pounds 11 ounces.  With that weight gain she also put on some height.  Shes now 23.6 inches.  This puts her in the 90th percentile for height, 80th for weight and 85th for head size. Shes getting HUGE!

Isabell is the most perfect baby. I like her so much that I’ve started trying to clone her.

Attempt #4

Unfortunately there are still some bugs in the hardware that I have to work out.

Last night little Isabell went to sleep at 9pm. She finally woke up at 5 am.  Thats a full 8 hours of sleep!!  Thats a schedule we can live with. Lets hope she continues with it.

Shes only on medication for pain and has NO tubes, wires, needles in her. YAY!

Well they pulled the drainage tube from Jamies side on Monday.  Then today they made a new drain right below her sternum.  They did a CT scan and found a pocket of fluid that didnt drain with the first one.  We hope she gets released tomorrow. She can go home with the new drain but will have to return in a few days to remove it.  Lets hope all of this is behind us. Having Thanksgiving Day in the hospital SUCKS!

Dr. Sloane just came in and asked if she wanted the tube out. I don’t think Jamie has wanted anything else in life more than to have that dang tube out.  He did it right here in her room.  Jamie was happily swallowing food just moments later.  One more step closer to coming home!