Ok I am trying to get Isabella on a schedule to where she eats, plays for a while then goes to sleep when I put her in her bed. It works pretty well during the day, but tonight is the first night that I have just let her cry in her crib to go to sleep. It's so hard to hear her little cry, but hopefully she will learn to put herself to sleep and in the long run life will be easier. I don't know, I wish there was a manual that told how long to let them cry... I am sure this is just one of many things I wish there was a manual for.
For the 4th of July weekend we went up North to attend the Brewer Family Reunion. The weather was soooooo nice. We had some thunder storms and light rain, but they days were just beautiful. Why can't all of Arizona be like Northern AZ. There were lots of girl cousins up there so of course we didn't have to hold Isabella at all. At one point while we were eating lunch we had a group of 6 cousins just standing around our table. I asked if they wanted to hold her and they swooped in like vultures and had her the rest of the after noon. She sure got spoiled.
We will be blessing Baby Isabella next week (July 6'th) at 9:00. The church is in Tempe just North of Guadalupe on Lakeshore. It is between McClintock and Rural, just turn North at the light and you will see the church. We hope to see as many of you there as can make it.
Isabella got her first photo shoot yesterday thanks to her wonderfully talented Aunt Jo. If you want to see more pictures of baby Isabella go to photographybyjo.com!
Friday night we welcomed into the world the most beautiful little girl ever! Isabella Louise Brewer! (Both of Stan's grandma's middle names were Louise). She was born at 5:46 pm and weighed 6 pounds 15 ounces and was 19 inches long.
On Thursday Samira went in for her regular checkup and found out the the baby was breached. That means a c-section. The doctor said we could schedule it for the next Monday or Tuesday, but Samira wanted to have the baby on the weekend so that Stan's parents could come down. The doctor was going out of town, but was very nice and offered to do the c section the next day right after work. So we went in to have the baby Friday night.
The baby is doing great and is very health. Samira is recovering very quickly. We came home Monday afternoon and are super excited to have a family. Thank you everyone who has stopped by to see her, given us gifts, or brought by meals at the hospital or at our house!
No I haven't had the baby yet but I finally quit work. It has been so nice to be able to get things done around the house and actually run my errands during the day. I am most excited about going to the pool and just relaxing while soaking up some sun. I'm off to the pool!
