She's Here! Addison Rose

Addison Rose was born April 17th at 6:34AM. She weighed 8 lbs 5 oz and 20 in long.

I'll give a better account of everything that happened later. I only have a few minutes so I wanted to introduce you to our sweet baby birl.

Our first family picture:

Just before we left the hospital. Can you believe all that hair!

She has the most beautiful blue eyes that we've ever seen.

Isaiah and I are so grateful for adoption. It has been such a blessing in our life. We're grateful to Addison's birth family as well. They are the most amazing remarkable people. They have become an extended family to us and we have truly been blessed to have them in our life.

We also want to thank everyone for their prayers on our behalf and for helping us to promote our adoption. Children are blessing no matter how they come into your family. Isaiah and I are looking forward to the days and years to come with this sweet baby girl.

PS: Can you believe we're finally parents!!

Babies are not evicted after their due dates :(

Well, it's April 16th and our baby girl is going to be at least 1 day late. Isaiah was very disappointed to realize that babies are not issued late notices and evicted from the womb once they go past their due date :) We are all on pins and needles to get the call that she is on her way to make her glorious appearance into the world.

These aren't as exciting as the pictures we'd like to be posting of us holding and loving our little girl - but this is what we have been doing the last few weeks to stay busy...

A trip to our local barber.

Daybreak is just around the corner from us and Isaiah was happy to find a manly barbershop. Infact the shop is called Guy's Barbershop. It is so cool. The barber named Guy, is classic.

Here are a few pics...


He even has an old school barber's chair. It's really cool to look at.

My favorite part is when he puts hot lather on the back of Isaiah's neck then uses an old school blade to finish up the hair cut. He also pulls out this big massaging thing and massages Isaiah's shoulders. Isaiah comes out looking like a million bucks. He highly recommends sending your husbands there :)

This is a fun picture of Isaiah installing the pendant lights in our kitchen. Our ceilings are so tall that Isaiah had to put the ladder on top of the counter. If I was really smart I'd also have a picture of the finished product below this picture but you'll just have to use your imagination. Trust me for now - they look lovely.

This is some fabric that my mom, aunt and grandma used to make baby girl a blanket. I love the bright colors and bold pattern. No fruffy pastel pink for our little lady.

I'm proud to announce that my mom graduated from LDS Business College yesterday. I'm soooo proud of her. Great Job Mom!

Today we went to the zoo with Isaiah's brother and their kids. We had soooo much fun. Here is Makayla and me sitting on the sneezing elephant. The loud sneezing sound did make Makayla a little nervous :) She was so cute and insisted on holding my finger everywhere she went. It made my day that she was loving me so much.

I've never been to the zoo in the spring to see all the baby animals. I loved the elephants. The baby was so cute. The mom would get a mouthful of hay then the baby would stick its little trunk in her mouth the grab himself a bite. It was adorable.

I'm not gonna lie. I was pretty excited that Makayla wanted to ride the train. The boys stayed back and Leslie and I took Makayla. It's the best $1.50 I've spent all day.

I think Isaiah and I have taken a picture right here almost everytime we've been to the zoo. It occurred to me when we took this that it might be our last picture as the childless wonders. Isaiah and I have had so much fun hanging out with each other over the last 6 years of our marriage. We both are so excited to welcome our new addition...whenever she decides to get here!

Practice Makes Perfect: Thank You Kermit

One question I've had asked countless times over the last few weeks is: Are you ready? I'm not really sure how to answer that. Are you ever really ready for your first baby? We have piles of onesies, diapers, bottles, and various gadgets. I figure we have way more than what the pioneers had and their kids survived so we'll probably be ok.

To put everyone's concerns to rest I figured I should practice some general baby skills. I'd like to thank Kermit the Frog for his cooperation.

Task 1. Dressing an infant: Accomplished. He looks lovely in pink (although I imagine he'd prefer a blue onesie).

Task 2: Strapping an infant into a carseat: Accomplished.


Task 3: Putting infant in crib for a nap. errr not accomplished: (it was harder than it looks. Kermit's eye's never close)

Task 4: Soothing a crying infant: Double Accomplished. Kermit's batteries died so he no longer sings Carribean Amphibean. The binky helped too.

Task 5: Multitasking. Accomplished!

Well I suppose this means we are ready. We can't wait for our bundle of joy to arrive. The only thing I need to do now to feel "ready" is to teach Isaiah how to change a diaper. I imagine Kermit will do for that task too.

Baby Wise?

So I've been told that Baby Wise is a good book to read. Does anyone have a copy we could borrow? I promise I'll take great care of it and return it to you with a plate of cookies :)

If you do send me an email at isaiahandrosie@gmail.com

Thanks!!

Change

I'm not sure if I'm the only one but I'm not a big fan of change. I like things to be consistent and routine. You might say I'm a little boring. It seems lately there has been a lot of change. I'm not complaining - just wanted to point out that for someone who doesn't love changes things are sure different.

Here is a list of things that have changed since the beginning of the year:

New House
New Sheets (our olds ones we used for 6 years and Isaiah used them for 1 before that)
New Towels (they were 8 years old, I'd had them since college)
New car (I'd had it for 5 years and it was starting to go downhill)
New calling (I went from YW to the nursery coordinator (we have 45 kids between 18 months and 3 years!)
New Socks (jk...I'm still using socks I wore I had in highschool about 10 years ago - oddly enough they do not have any holes and are remarkably white :)

With all the changes that I'm adjusting to we're looking forward to adding a baby girl to our family. She's due April 15th and we couldn't be more excited about the change that will bring. We have truly been blessed by the miracle of adoption. More to come on that note once the best change that will ever happen to us arrives. I hope parenthood is as fun as adventurous as we'd always imagined.

Unfortunately it will bring one change that no one likes...diapers :)

We're getting a new addition...

Coming to our arms April 2010...

Observations

I feel like the morning commute was invented to give people time in their cars to ponder and to observe the world around them. During my drive the last few weeks these things caught my eye...



I think there is an appropriate way to propose to someone, and a way that says I only had $2.88 in my wallet and cups were on sale. I'm pretty sure I would have cried if Isaiah proposed to me with cups on a walkway. I'm hoping that Kelleen said yes and that they name their first child Dixie.










The clarity on this is a little rough but this car has magnetic cut outs of her kids. This might fall into the category of things I think I'll never do when I'm a mom but I will have to eat my words someday. I promise to never put magnetic cut outs of my kids on my car.









On a lighter note here are a few things I love seeing every morning...

This is what I see when I open our garage. The view of the mountains is spectacular. Every morning I sigh and think about what a beautiful place the valley is.

I also get to drive past the new Oquirrh Mountain Temple every day. This temple is beautiful! It's really neat to live so close to a temple. There is a park just around the corner from our house and you can look at the temple while you run laps around the grass field. It's pretty cool.