Packing for Art Show

Wondering what life will be like next year when Isla is moving around......I'm thankful she let me tag all my pieces. Thanks Aunt Abby for your help! This weekend we are off to the Artful Gathering by Friends On Purpose!

Super Swimming Baby

Is swimming a natural instinct for humans...will a baby learn how to swim from experience? So far in her three months of life Isla has swam in Lake Huron, Van Ettan Lake, the Black River, the Pigeon River, and the AuSable River...I figure we live on the island...she needs to be comfortable around water... right?

Black River Baby

When should a baby learn to swim?  When can a baby swim?  Are there bacteria and bugs in lakes and rivers that are harmful to babies...All questions I ask as I introduce Isla water and nature all around us.

What I didn't know about breastfeeding...

Well all I really knew is that was how I was going to feed my baby.  What I didn't know is how many directions milk would shoot out with the velocity of a super soaker all over my baby's face...and yet it is still the most relaxing and rewarding activity I have ever engaged in...

Love my Moby!

I love my MOBY wrap.  It has so many ways I can hold Isla and she is so comfortable.  She always goes right to sleep...

6 day old gardener

What a worker...for 6 days old, Isla is hanging...literally in the moby wrap, hanging out in the pea patch tilling up weeds.

Moose on the Loose!

hmmmmmmm!  I wonder what kind of stories Isla is going imagine living on an island with a taxidermy studio...The inside of the mounts are pretty creepy looking like furless, white skinned, body less animals, hanging on the wall...then there's collection of small skulls in corner, mostly beaver and squirrels, I think...."Without bodies these creatures can't swim off the island," thinks Isla, "Maybe that's why they drink so much beer?"

Happy Father's Day!

AWWWHHH...Dads love their little girls.

Om Baby Rider

We love how Isla prepares for her boat to car ride and then ride into town...Om baby Om...

I Dream of Pregnancy

It's funny how the last month of pregnancy seems so forgotten.  All the dreaded last few days of deleria seem like a dream...and it was only 6 weeks away...It's nice to get through things and look back...my how your thoughts change.

Isla is 3 weeks old

If she were a parsnip, she'd be germinating within the next few days...and today Isla's been alive for 21 days and I've been a mom for 3 weeks...wow.

Got Milk?

So happy Isla takes a bottle from her dad...that'll make going back to work a little easier....

Isla's First Week

Isla had a busy week, after staying one night in the hospital she came home to her island and began to teach her mom and dad a thing or two about how to live her life.  She met all her pets in her family, a dog named Kelsey, a cat named Dahlia and a Tortoise named Majunii.  She took many walks around the island to try to scare off the deer that left foot prints in our garden but got sidetracked by picking wildflowers and listening to birds singing.  
For only being one week old, Isla sure is loved by a lot of family and friends.  Mimi Jo and Papa Ken, Aunt Dana and Uncle Brad, cousins Ty, Jaron and Josie, Uncle Joe and Jamie, Aunt Abby, Uncle Harry, Tim and Erin, Joe, Sausha, Kari, Grandpa Gomer, Aunt Kari, Uncle Brian, Great Aunt Sis, Jane and Ann and Amy all visited in the hospital.  We had a barbaque where she met Adam, Brandon, Melissa, and sweet little baby Maryna and Gabe.  Don and Marlana, Emily and Larry also stopped out to visit.  On Saturday when Isla was only five days old, we traveled to Grandpa Gomer's house to visit more family.  We met Great Uncle Mike and Mary, Great Uncle Tom and Kevin, Uncle Kevin and Melanie and Natalie, Drew, Matt and Steph, Aunt Lindsay, Great Grandma Virgie, Uncle Brian, Mrs. Speese, Nic, Nate and Curran,  Mr. and Mrs. Miodouch, Cousins Todd and Amy, Linsey and Aaron...and I think that was it...then we came home and planted peppers and tomatoes from our first organic greenhouse visit...all that for week number one plus Isla gained weight 7 lbs. and 7 oz.

What will we do this week?