One Month Old

In some ways this feels like the longest month of my life-- I can't even imagine not having Isabella in our lives now, it seems like she's been with us for much, much longer than a month. But at the same time, the month seems to have flown by, just like each day flies by.

I can just imagine her making this face when she's 13...


Bella's first real bath (luckily for us, she has grown to like it more than she did this first time!)


Tummy time with Daddy


The last time my mom was here, she asked me if I like being a mother. When I signed up for the mommy job, I had NO IDEA how hard it is. But it's also so much more wonderful than I ever imagined. I love being Isabella's mommy, and it's becoming much more fun now that I can do more stuff with her. I think my recovery is taking a couple of weeks longer than usual because of the anemia, and it was really frustrating for me when I couldn't even carry Isabella. But last week I gave her a bath by myself, and started cooking easy meals and doing some light housework, so things are getting much better.

Mother's Day with Isabella (Isabella gave me a present of her own-- she slept four hours in a row for the first time that night!)


Everyone wants to know what kind of father Stephen is. Since I couldn't do any of the babycare in the beginning, other than feed her, Stephen has had a lot of opportunities to bond with Isabella and learn how to take care of her. He's changed 90% of her diapers (and was the first one to diagnose her first diaper rash), given most of her baths, rocked her to sleep, read to her, washed and folded her clothes and dressed her, sang to her, given her rides in the stroller... so I would say he's doing a great job!