On a recent visit to "The Plantation" as Sandy refers to her parent's house where she grew up, Izzie had fun running around in the grass with the dogs.
This is a look from her level as I was chasing her around the yard!
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Friday, August 14, 2009
Thursday, August 13, 2009
"DUE DATE" Update
NUTHIN'!
How's that for an update?
Sandy went to see her Doctor yesterday, Wednesday the 12th, on her due date, and he said she was "slightly dilated, cervix is a little soft and the baby has dropped, but still not enough progress."
So, we wait! And wait!
Sandy is doing well, although getting more uncomfortable by the day, and she is definitely running out of steam quicker and quicker as the days progress. But, just like with Izzie, it's a waiting game.
We have another appointment next Wendnesday the 19th and if we don't have a baby yet, Dr. Richer will schedule Sandy to begin induction on either the 20th or 21st!
For Sandy's sake, I hope it doesn't go that long.
I'll keep everyone posted as much as possible.
I'll be posting updates from the hospital to the blog from my phone, so be sure to check in to see what's going on!
More to come.... hopefully SOON!!
-JB
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Mmmm Watermelon!
There is nothing like a piece of watermelon bigger than your head to refresh you on a hot Summer day!
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Point Sebago 2009
We just came back from our annual trip to Point Sebago, Maine, and while the weather didn't really cooperate with us for the entire week (2 days of full sun, 2 days of rain, 3 days overcast) we enjoyed ourselves nonetheless!
And surprisingly enough, she enjoyed all of the characters and wasn't freaked out by them at all. She even gave kisses to each of them at the character breakfast on Friday morning. Which impressed the counselors that she so young and wasn't afraid.
Izzie really enjoyed playing in the water and playing in the sand with her cousins and spending time with MEM.
And surprisingly enough, she enjoyed all of the characters and wasn't freaked out by them at all. She even gave kisses to each of them at the character breakfast on Friday morning. Which impressed the counselors that she so young and wasn't afraid.
As for updates, Sandy is STILL pregnant! Any day now (she hopes). As you can tell by the pictures... she is definitely pregnant and ready to go!!
More updates soon.
-JB
Thursday, July 16, 2009
New Location, Same Great Stuff!
It's been a long time since our last post and things have been crazy.
So, here is a really quick update:
Izzie will be 18 months old at the end of July.
Sandy is now 8 months pregnant and is due on or around August 12th.
Daisy (our Beagle) turns 3 August 4th. Happy Birthday DAISY!
Wyatt (our Puggle) is a hyper 16 months old with no signs of settling down.
And they shut down our old blog website so, I had to find a new place to post our blogs and updates to keep everyone in the loop!
So, this will be our new site. I'll try to re-upload the old blogs to keep everything in one place. That way we can provide updates and keep a record of Baby #2 when he/she arrives as well!
Here's a picture of Izzie playing in the dog house in the backyard.
Since the dogs don't use it much, it might turn into a cute little play house for her. We'll see how much she likes it. Right now she steps on the "porch" and the pulls at the door molding, and then quickly starts whining because she needs help getting down. Good times!
I hope to provide more updates pictures soon.
And I'll be sure to post information about the new baby as soon as things progress!
-JB
So, here is a really quick update:
Izzie will be 18 months old at the end of July.
Sandy is now 8 months pregnant and is due on or around August 12th.
Daisy (our Beagle) turns 3 August 4th. Happy Birthday DAISY!
Wyatt (our Puggle) is a hyper 16 months old with no signs of settling down.
And they shut down our old blog website so, I had to find a new place to post our blogs and updates to keep everyone in the loop!
So, this will be our new site. I'll try to re-upload the old blogs to keep everything in one place. That way we can provide updates and keep a record of Baby #2 when he/she arrives as well!
Here's a picture of Izzie playing in the dog house in the backyard.
Since the dogs don't use it much, it might turn into a cute little play house for her. We'll see how much she likes it. Right now she steps on the "porch" and the pulls at the door molding, and then quickly starts whining because she needs help getting down. Good times!
I hope to provide more updates pictures soon.
And I'll be sure to post information about the new baby as soon as things progress!
-JB
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Just Teething... We Think!
The past seven to ten days have been pretty brutal. Not in the fact that things are going badly or that any major changes have been happening, there is just one thing that has been making the last week or so really tough… Lack of Sleep! 
Isabelle, is teething. At least we think she is teething. So, she has not been sleeping through the night very much since the Friday before last. She has been waking up between 1 and 3 a.m. a bit fussy and then when you settle her down, she just doesn’t want to go back to sleep, she’s ready to party. At her daycare, they actually call her “party-girl”, I hope that moniker goes away by the time she’s out of pre-school, God help me!
Whenever this happens, Daddy has night-time duty. So, I get up with her and I either bring her down into the living room and put her into the swing and we watch a little television, while Daddy tries to catch some more z’s on the couch. However, this method that used to work like a charm and lull her back to sleep has failed miserably in recent attempts.
She now begins throwing her binky and monkey blanket about the room and leans over and looks at me while I sleep on the couch with her arms dangling over the edge of the swing like a monkey swinging by its tail off a tree limb.
As cute as this really looks, it’s not so charming or cute at 3 in the morning.
The next phase after this 45 minute failed attempt is to bring her back upstairs to her room, and try to see if she’ll rock in the rocking chair for a few and put her cute little head on Daddy’s chest and fall asleep. Once again, in recent attempts, miserable failure!
Izzie pushes away from me and wants to get down and play with her toys and “read” her books. I mean why not, she’s wide awake right? So, I put her on the floor to play with her toys and she starts walking around her bedroom carrying any number of books or stuffed animals in a dizzying circular motion. I don’t know if the dizzying effort is for her, for me or to lull the stuffed animals into a false sense of security, but either way, my head starts spinning and Daddy needs to lie down on the floor.
While we are both now on the floor, Izzie starts handing books to me to read to her. I do my best to keep my eyes open and be at least mildly entertaining in the state I’m in. She usually gets bored rather quickly at my mediocre late night/early morning reading skills and takes the book from my hands barely halfway through and discards it immediately. She then picks up another book or toy and comes back over and basically sits on my chest or hip, bounces a few times, gives me a look and a giggle through her binky-filled mouth and goes back to playing with her chosen toy.
Our next fun step is cranky time. We’ve now been up around an hour and a half to two hours and we’re both getting sleepy again. Isabelle starts getting tired and rubbing her eyes. Daddy starts yawning and rubbing his watery eyes as well. It’s hard to tell which one of us is crankier at this point, but I’m going to have to lean toward Daddy.
Now, as much as you’re told not to give your baby a bottle in the middle of the night because they will get used to waking up to eat, you’ll do anything to get them to settle down and get back to sleep. To add to this, Isabelle hasn’t been eating very well lately because we think her teeth and mouth have been bothering her, so, she probably is waking up hungry as well, and that bottle isn’t going to hurt as far as I’m concerned.
And it’s a proven fact in the Daddy science book (that I am currently writing) that warm milk makes you sleepy and want to snuggle up with your stuffed animals. So, warm milk it is, and it usually does the trick. Lately, however, her awake times have been a little longer so, Sandy, aka Mommy, has been getting up at the four or five o’clock hour and giving Izzie the bottle.
To be honest, Mommy does have more of a magic touch when it comes to bedtime than Daddy does. It usually takes Mommy about 25-30 minutes to get Izzie back to sleep, and I welcome the peace and quiet and comfort of my bed after a long couple of hours awake in the middle of the night. Of course, getting back into bed and having to jockey for position with the two dogs is a story for another day. 
What we did notice this weekend is that Isabelle’s two front teeth at the top that have come through, and two more on either side of her two front teeth are close behind. It also looks like two more bottom teeth on either side of her front teeth are on their way as well. Hopefully, when these come through, things will settle down a little bit and we can all get some sleep. Because I know I need it, and I’m sure everyone else in the house would benefit too!
Isabelle, is teething. At least we think she is teething. So, she has not been sleeping through the night very much since the Friday before last. She has been waking up between 1 and 3 a.m. a bit fussy and then when you settle her down, she just doesn’t want to go back to sleep, she’s ready to party. At her daycare, they actually call her “party-girl”, I hope that moniker goes away by the time she’s out of pre-school, God help me!
Whenever this happens, Daddy has night-time duty. So, I get up with her and I either bring her down into the living room and put her into the swing and we watch a little television, while Daddy tries to catch some more z’s on the couch. However, this method that used to work like a charm and lull her back to sleep has failed miserably in recent attempts.
She now begins throwing her binky and monkey blanket about the room and leans over and looks at me while I sleep on the couch with her arms dangling over the edge of the swing like a monkey swinging by its tail off a tree limb.
As cute as this really looks, it’s not so charming or cute at 3 in the morning.
The next phase after this 45 minute failed attempt is to bring her back upstairs to her room, and try to see if she’ll rock in the rocking chair for a few and put her cute little head on Daddy’s chest and fall asleep. Once again, in recent attempts, miserable failure!
Izzie pushes away from me and wants to get down and play with her toys and “read” her books. I mean why not, she’s wide awake right? So, I put her on the floor to play with her toys and she starts walking around her bedroom carrying any number of books or stuffed animals in a dizzying circular motion. I don’t know if the dizzying effort is for her, for me or to lull the stuffed animals into a false sense of security, but either way, my head starts spinning and Daddy needs to lie down on the floor.
While we are both now on the floor, Izzie starts handing books to me to read to her. I do my best to keep my eyes open and be at least mildly entertaining in the state I’m in. She usually gets bored rather quickly at my mediocre late night/early morning reading skills and takes the book from my hands barely halfway through and discards it immediately. She then picks up another book or toy and comes back over and basically sits on my chest or hip, bounces a few times, gives me a look and a giggle through her binky-filled mouth and goes back to playing with her chosen toy.
Our next fun step is cranky time. We’ve now been up around an hour and a half to two hours and we’re both getting sleepy again. Isabelle starts getting tired and rubbing her eyes. Daddy starts yawning and rubbing his watery eyes as well. It’s hard to tell which one of us is crankier at this point, but I’m going to have to lean toward Daddy.
Now, as much as you’re told not to give your baby a bottle in the middle of the night because they will get used to waking up to eat, you’ll do anything to get them to settle down and get back to sleep. To add to this, Isabelle hasn’t been eating very well lately because we think her teeth and mouth have been bothering her, so, she probably is waking up hungry as well, and that bottle isn’t going to hurt as far as I’m concerned.
And it’s a proven fact in the Daddy science book (that I am currently writing) that warm milk makes you sleepy and want to snuggle up with your stuffed animals. So, warm milk it is, and it usually does the trick. Lately, however, her awake times have been a little longer so, Sandy, aka Mommy, has been getting up at the four or five o’clock hour and giving Izzie the bottle.
To be honest, Mommy does have more of a magic touch when it comes to bedtime than Daddy does. It usually takes Mommy about 25-30 minutes to get Izzie back to sleep, and I welcome the peace and quiet and comfort of my bed after a long couple of hours awake in the middle of the night. Of course, getting back into bed and having to jockey for position with the two dogs is a story for another day.
What we did notice this weekend is that Isabelle’s two front teeth at the top that have come through, and two more on either side of her two front teeth are close behind. It also looks like two more bottom teeth on either side of her front teeth are on their way as well. Hopefully, when these come through, things will settle down a little bit and we can all get some sleep. Because I know I need it, and I’m sure everyone else in the house would benefit too!
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