December 2009

Blogging about Christmas in March? I know! I just don't want to forget Izzy's first Christmas and since I didn't blog for three months I have to do it now! Christmas was so fun this year! There is nothing like the holidays through your children's eyes. We went to Justin's parents for Christmas Eve dinner. This year was fun because we had both boys, Izzy and our niece Gianna (4) was there as well. My brother and Greg came over as well to celebrate the holiday.Christmas day was at our house. It was so nice! We had Justin's family, Ty, and Greg over. It was so relaxed. We had a fire going, played games, and lounged around. I even took a nap with Izzy. Roy was hanging out with Izzy all day. So cute. At 6mo. he really started to take interest in her. Only thing missing was my mom. She went down to visit Tala, Brian, and Trey for Christmas. Even though Christmas was so nice, it just isn't the same without your mom.

Justin's Step sister Dani had a baby Kohlton in September. While they were up from Aspen, we had dinner with them and had a photo op...

For New Years Eve, we had the Graham Family over. It's been our tradition now for 5 years. We get Chinese take out and the boys get fireworks for midnight. Leading up to midnight, we play game after game. Love our little tradition! Izzy woke up 5 minutes before midnight, so she brought in the new year with us! It was perfect! All the kids... Ty (19), Katie (18), Connor (14), Tyson (13), Isaiah(9), Liam (9), Gianna (4), and Isabella (6mo.)

6mo. vs. 9mo. Stats

We had Izzy's 9 month well check yesterday and once again, Dr. Wu is very impressed with Izzy's growth and skills!

Izzy at 6 months:

Weight 16 lbs. 14 oz. (50-75%)

Length 26.5 inches (75%)

Head Circumference 43.5cm (75-90%)

Izzy at 9 months:

Weight 19 lbs. 10.5 oz. (50-75%)

Length 28 1/4 inches (50-75%) Slowing down... will she be short like mom?

Head Circumference 45 3/4 cm (90-95%)

The Doctor isn't too concerned about her head growth. If Izzy was behind in her milestones or if it was above 100%, then she would be concerned about extra fluid in the brain or a mass. However, no worries! Izzy is clearly hitting all of her milestones...even a little earlier than expected.

At 9 months Isabella...

loves to dance

loves music

loves her brothers and grandmas

giggles like crazy when playing peek a boo

is waking up once a night at 5:30am

loves to eat solids

is really into feeding herself...not so much into the baby food anymore

signs Milk and All Done

likes to walk around the table, couch, etc.

likes to hold onto our fingers and walk

looks for Roy and attempts to say his name

attempts to say hi

favorite word is da-da
points to things

waves hi and bye

loves to swing

It is so fun being a parent to Izzy and the boys! I love the days were I get to be home and do my favorite role...mom.

Zeek playing ball.Justin and Zeek in the dugout.

Hanging out with Tyson at the baseball park!

Hellllloooooo Again!

Wow! Life has been so busy. I haven't been able to sit down and blog in so long! Glad to be back and have so much to catch everyone up on. Last post was about Izzy crawling... she is everywhere! Along with being so mobile, Izzy has three teeth and three more about to break through. It has been a tough month in our house to say the least. Izzy's first tooth was the left incisor. Weird right? Next came the two bottom front and now following are the top two and right incisor. I've been trying to take a picture of her pearly whites, but she won't let me. UGH! A couple of days after getting her first tooth, Izzy waved for the first time and of course it was to Grandma Meredie! Made Grandma's day! We have her 9 mo. well check next Thursday. I figured I'll post her 6mo. stats at the same time to see how much she has grown. Baseball in the Andrews house has started up again! Izzy enjoys being at the ball park while her brothers play. Justin decided not to coach this year... but somehow he ended up "helping" both teams. "Helping" means he is coaching. At least that is what it seems to be to me. He isn't the head coach, but he isn't sitting with me in the stands either. He is in the dug out. Hmmmm... I'm a baseball widower again.

Bare with me over the next week or so...I'll be posting all the way back from December!

In the meantime, here is a clip of Izzy crawling at the beginning of February!

A mom can brag right?

Izzy has been trying so hard to get to her toys that are out of reach. For weeks she has been scooting around on her tummy and rolling around. Well today she crawled! So exciting! She also pulled herself up to a standing position tonight! She is growing and learning so quickly. Izzy started saying Ma-ma around New Years and for about a week she has been saying Da-da! At first I was thinking no way is she talking yet, but it's getting clearer and clearer. Justin will walk into the room and Da-da will slip out of her little mouth. Then best thing happened to me this morning...at her 5:30am wake up I put her in bed with me and at 7:30 I woke up to her saying ma-ma and looking at me! I love you Izzy! Thank you God for such an amazing daughter!

Zoo

Last Saturday, Justin took Izzy to the zoo for the first time! They went with his sister Lori, brother Blaise and his daughter Gianna (4). It was the perfect sunny beautiful day for December. The jaguar gave them a good show. It was running back and forth in front of them and them jumped onto a branch. Justin said Izzy was having a blast tracking the Jaguar. Izzy was a perfect little girl for her daddy! Gianna was a bit jealous becuase Izzy was getting a lot of the attention. On the way home, Gianna had enough of that baby named Isabella! She picked her nose and was flicking the boogers at Izzy! HA! I laughed so hard when I heard this. Poor Izzy. She had no idea what is going on! We love you Gianna...even if you flick boogers at your baby cousin! No more though, okay?!

Hiatt Family Christmas

We have had a busy month...as usual! The first weekend in December was my families annual Christmas party. Our family has grown so much. This year there were three new additions to our family. Natalie who is 8mo., Izzy 6mo., and Trey 2mo. Both Tala and Sarah came up for the party. We have been spoiled to see Sarah so much this year with Izzy and Trey's births. Next year hopefully she will be home a lot as well...she can't miss their first birthdays! I'm so excited for Christmas this year. Christmas is so much fun with children. We get to experience it again through Izzy now that the boys are getting older. They are always with their mom on Christmas morning too, so this year will be especially fun to wake up with Izzy! Trey, Izzy, Great Grandma Hiatt, and NatalieGrandma, babies, and all her children together. Ty (19), Tala (27), Me(28), Sarah (31)

Izzy opening her first Christmas present from Aunt Tala and Uncle Brian. Books!!!! We love books! She was very curious about the gift. More interested in the paper more than anything.

What have we been up too?

Once again...I've been a horrible blogger. I don't know why. The boys lost in the championship football games, 2nd place out of 32 teams is great though! Both teams had articles in the Kirkland Reporter. Isaiah is pictured under the "A", #94. Tyson is third one in from left in the front row, #22. They both had a really fun year and LOVE football.

Watching Tyson's game bundled up in the sweater my Aunt Polly knitted her.

Not much new with Izzy. She is eating cereal now. The first time she did NOT like it, but it seems to be growing on her. Izzy is full of laughs and hugs lately! I love it! She is still waking up a few times a night. Ugh! We have tried different things that friends and family have suggested like giving her cereal, cereal in a bottle with extra milk and nursing, staying up later, etc. Nothing has worked. Maybe it is time to have her cry it out? Not looking forward to that! Her favorite toy... tags! She loves tags and will seek them out on all her toys, blankets, etc.

Justin and I celebrated our 3rd wedding anniversary on November 11th! We went out to Daniel's for dinner while Grandma Meredie was home with Tyson and Izzy. My friend Erin took our family pictures at the end of November. They turned out awesome! She took over 400 pictures so it has been really hard choosing our favorites! I highly recommend her if anyone is looking for a photographer. She was fantastic with our "crazy crew". I mean crazy too! Roy had his "lipstick" out the entire time, Justin was crackin his normal sick humorous jokes, and the boys joined in. I love my family. It was actually the best time we have had all together in a long time. We hosted Thanksgiving at our house. We had 12 people in all: Justin's parents, his 3 brothers, and sister, my sister Tala and her husband and son, my mom. It was great to be all together. We played games, drank, and stuffed our selves. Then on Friday we went to my step-dad's for dinner. To end the weekend, on Saturday we had a friend's Thanksgiving at the Haigh's house. It was a wonderful weekend.Grandma and 2 of 4 grandchildrenTrey curled up with his daddy and dog. "Friends Thanksgiving"
Izzy and Roy