First My Memory, Now My Eyesight...

So, I have been blaming my lack of memory on "mommy brain" for quite a while now. These days, if I don't write it down, there's a good chance I will forget it. It seems mommyhood has struck again. Or, maybe it's age, but mommyhood is a convenient excuse, so let's go with that. I've gone 28 years without needing glasses or contacts, but it now seems that my eyesight has decided to join my memory on vacation. About a month ago, I started getting a lot of headaches, and was taking tylenol or advil pretty much everyday, which is really unusual for me. I mentioned it to my mom, and she said it could be my eyes, but I didn't really think I was having a hard time seeing. Then a few days later, I went with Griff to pick up his new glasses, and I was complaining about another headache on the way there. I wasn't even thinkning about my eyes, but he suggested that I get them checked while we were there. So, I did, and sure enough, I needed glasses. It's not like I need a seeing eye dog, as the doctor said, but my left eye is weaker than the right, which was straining my eyes, and probably causing the headaches. I've been wearing glasses now for about a month, and I think I'm going to have to end up getting contacts too, and make it full-time. I can tell a big difference now when I take my glasses off, and the headaches have gone away. On another note, I wonder what I would have been blogging about ten years ago. I'm sure it would have been much more exciting than eyeglasses. Man, I'm getting old!

More Holiday Pics

I know the holidays have passed, but I just had to post these pics. Check out Izzy and her mini-me doll. My mom used to make a lot of clothes for me and my sister, and she made matching dresses for our dolls one year, so she decided to keep the tradition alive with Izzy. In keeping with tradition, she stayed up until 4am the night before Christmas Eve to finish the minature dress. See, I come by procrastinating naturally! ;-)

Look how sweet they are! Thanks, Meme!

Izzy usually pulls off her own bow. Now she has someone else to mess with.

She was the best present this year!

Slippery shoes=baby splits!

Her shirt says Happy New Year!

10 Months Old!

Have you ever seen a cuter 10-month-old??? I certainly have not! I just realized something...I think I skipped posting her 9-month pic. Oops! It's crazy to think that we only have two more of these monthly pics until Izzy is an entire year old. So, her 10-month tricks include rolling, scooting, and pivoting across the living room floor like a mad woman, putting anything and everything she gets her hands on into her mouth, sitting up like a champ, still blowing raspberries, letting out a few good belly laughs, and she's thisclose to crawling! Oh, and she has two teeth now! She's also becoming a much better sleeper. We've finally found a naptime/bedtime routine that works. Woot Woot!!! It's not magic, but we read her two books, sing two songs, then put her in her bed with her little musical seahorse gloworm thing, and she's good to go. The song plays for 5 minutes, and she's usually out before it ends. She's never been a marathon napper, but she's taking hour long naps now, which is waaaayy better than before. The nights are usually pretty good (sleeps about 12 hours), but she still has a few bad nights here and there...don't ya just love teething!

Izzy's First Christmas

I can’t believe Izzy’s first Christmas has already come and gone! Since she is such a special baby girl, I thought it was perfectly fitting that her first Christmas was a white one…so cool!

We made our way to three family Christmas celebrations in addition to a small one with Griff’s family at our house on Christmas Day, and Isabelle is officially spoiled (as if she wasn’t already). We haven’t been taking her many places, so many of her cousins met her for the first time over the holidays, and she had a blast with all of them.

Izzy is talking to Nanny

And laughing with Paw
Griff and Trent got a special Christmas present from Uncle Johnny this year. ;-) Very funny!
Izzy liked it too!

Here's a present just her size!Izzy with her loot from Papa and Meme's house. She was asleep for presents over there, so Meme wanted a picture of her with all of her goodies.

This holiday season was a little bittersweet for us because as excited as we were to celebrate with Isabelle, we couldn’t help missing Lily and imagining how much fun the girls would be having together now. We visited the cemetery and got a picture of our two little angels, one in Heaven and one on Earth. Papa and Meme had been to visit Lily’s grave a few days before us and left her some presents. So sweet!

Merry Christmas!

Playdates!

I got together with my friend Hillarie for lunch last week. She has a new baby at home too, so we met at her house. It was so nice to put real clothes on (I don't care what Clinton and Stacy would say....if I'm at home, I'm wearing sweatpants, people!) and go somewhere for lunch! We had a great time, and the babies had fun too...I guess, I mean we didn't really ask them... Alex is 3 months old and he is so tiny next to Isabelle. She was being all loud and dramatic, and he was just calmly staring at her, probably hoping she would shut up. You know, typical male-female interaction. ;-) Look how sweet they are!

Becca, a friend I met at the hospital, and her sister Amanda came over on Saturday to make hair bows, and of course they brought the adorable Miss Hadley with them. We keep in touch via facebook and phone, but this was the first time we had seen them since summer. Hadley is just adorable, and it was so fun to see the girls together. Isabelle started out the smallest of her NICU buddies, but the little stinker has a good 2 pounds on Hadley now! We forgot to take pictures of the bows we made, but we got plenty of cute pics of the girls together. Enjoy!

Half-Marathon

I ran my first half-marathon on November 15 in San Antonio, and aside from two black toenails, I survived. It was a bit harder (okay, a lot harder) than I had imagined, and the first words out of my mouth upon crossing the finish line were, “Never again.” I did really well until mile 10, and then I started getting a little worried. Mile 10 is where the course splits, and the full-marathon runners and half-marathon runners part ways. I remember thinking there was absolutely no way that I would be able to run 16 MORE miles at that point like the marathon runners. I was lucky I only had 3 left because I was running out of steam! I finished what I started, but it wasn't pretty. At one point, my goal for this race was to finish alive, so goal accomplished! It’s funny how quickly you forget pain. Somewhere between San Antonio and home, I talked myself into the possibility of doing another half-marathon in February. This time my goal will be to finish alive and under a certain time (haven’t decided on the time yet). Our friend Janean took some pictures during the race, but she didn’t get any of me. I'm guessing she had a hard time catching me because I’m just too fast. ;-)

Run Griff Run! Griff has always been the easiest person to spot in pictures. His newly bald head makes it even easier. ;-)

Do you see Griff in the pack of runners on the right??? They are about to cross the finish line, and the dude on the left is about to finish his FULL-marathon at the same time - both races started at the same time. That's just craziness!