9 weeks baby!

Talking

Over-bed

Post bath time: Sleepy daddy, wide-eyed babe

Cuddles

cute outfit from Aunt Nelly

relaxin- lookin at the light

All smiles!

Seeing Katie!

In Isla's 9th week, much time has been spent with the family just hanging out together & enjoying each other's company. There is truly something beautiful to be said for relaxation and normalcy. We are really starting to figure out as a family, what it means to be us, with all the wonderful idiosyncrasies that make us who we are. This week Isla has begun to LOVE her "paci," as we are calling it. It seems to help sooth her in just the right way she needs, sometimes. She learned how to scream/screech this week. Boy is it cute?! Luckily she reserves this for secretly self-determined special moments. We have 100% determined her love for a lamp in our living room that Taylor calls the "east coast-west coast" lamp. Isla spends a good bit of each day staring at it and talking to it, as if it is human. It may be one of the best baby toys that we inadvertently own. Isla is back to sleeping in her "snuggle nest" at night, as she has officially out grown sleeping propped on her side on the "boppy" pillow, which was her fav sleeping spot for the first 2 months of life. Isla's 2 month pediatrician visit revealed her at a healthy weight of 12 pounds & 7 ounces (yes, this is the 90th %). Go breast milk! Isla held her rattle for the first time this week, and made a sorry excuse of an attempt to shake it. She is loving being read to, and absolutely devours the pictures with her eyes. This week we read a lot of Where the Wild Things Are and Eloise in Paris. We also had a lovely, mid-week visit from Katie, up from NYC, and had to say a sad goodbye to friends Hilary & Fabian. Isla is growing and changing everyday, and we are enchanted. She is certainly king of the wild things & throws some serious rumpus when she wants!