5 weeks!

Sweetness: this morning with dad

She loves those hands over her face.

a little photo shoot of Isla, wide-eyed...

mommy-time

Meeting Kate!!

The stroller walk. Note: check out Isla practically falling out of the straps. We tried to keep her swaddled while strapped in... oh well.

Sorry for all the sleeping photos. It is just so cute!

Skeptical.

a little mad people!

Isla is 5 weeks old tomorrow. In some ways this is very hard to believe & in others, Taylor & I cannot imagine that we were ever without her. Life has been slow and nice this week. We had some great visits from Paul, over the weekend, and from Kate, earlier this week. Isla loves meeting her extended family. We even got to see Kate McKenna here in the States this summer from her home in Sofia, Bulgaria! I have been gradually getting accustomed to life home with Isla. I am loving every minute of this amazing time I get to share with her. We spend time dancing together around the house, it calms her. The faster the dance, the more calming. This is apparently my post-pregnancy exercise.

Isla is definitely the queen of sleeping on her side, like her mom & dad. She loves to sleep on her boppy pillow (on her side). It is pretty much her favorite way to sleep in fact. She loves laying on her changing table too. She could lay there for hours looking all around her, especially at the flag banner hanging across her room. It mesmerizes her. She is a super snuggler, which we so love.

We attempted our first walk around the neighborhood in the stroller this week. I think this is the first time Taylor & I have felt overwhelmed by a non-baby-crying matter. After getting the diaper bag, getting Isla in the stroller, leashing the dogs, getting bags to pick up doggie-do, and sunglasses on our heads, I personally felt as if we were suddenly the Brady Bunch trying to leave the house. The stroller, after weeks of baby-in-the-sling-ease, felt significantly more complicated all of a sudden. But, we persisted and after a few moments of adjusting to our markedly bigger family, bigger due to the new wheels on the sidewalk, we persevered. We put her in the stroller when she was snoozing, and after a pleasant walk- she woke up when we stopped briefly to see Hil & Fabian (she loves movement that girl!), and it was a bit shocking I guess, because she was "f-in' P.O.'d" when she discovered herself there (in the stroller). We will try this again soon...