A Valentine's Day Card for Isla Anne from Momma

To My Sweet Little Valentine Baby:


Isla Anne,
You are the center of my world and the center of my heart so it's pretty simple to say that you're my valentine this year!  You and Daddy make me happier than a rainbow on a sunny day!  Your smile melts me over and over again, I spend every moment that I'm with you just trying to make you smile or laugh.  Right now you are big into mimicking so whenever I laugh, you laugh.  I mimic you back with the sounds you make and you get a big kick out of that too!  We're quite the team together!
I am so proud of you with every little achievement you make, whether it's your 1/4 turn from your back to your side or if it's a big ol' spit bubble you made that's sitting on your rosy little lips! Your everyday activities and changes make me smile and beam with pride!
I am so thankful and appreciative that you love me!  Seeing the warm love in your eyes makes the longest of nights with you worthwhile.  You're not a great sleeper, but I still get the greatest joys in seeing you wake up for the day!  My favorite time of the day with you is watching you grunt and stretch, wiggle and then slowly open your eyes to see me.. and then the big ol' gummy smile that I love so much!
Isla, you have made this Valentine's Day the best ever!  My heart has officially topped off the love scale because of you!  Thanks for being the sweet, precious baby that you are!  Happy Valentine's Day 2011!


I love you very, very much!
Momma

Isla's trying some foods!!

We're doing BLW (baby-led-weaning or baby-led-solids) with Isla.  The basis is we give her solid foods and she feeds herself as much or as little as she wants.  We offer her all nutritious foods like fruits and veggies and she has a lot of fun with it.  For the first year of a baby's life, their main nutrition should come from breastmilk so anything past that is for fun and learning.  And goodness is she doing both!!
Her first food was avocado, then she's had banana, wheat rolls, pickles, broccoli, apple, pineapple, and cantaloupe!  So far her favorite was the wheat roll and pickles! Her least was broccoli. 
Here are some cute pics with her first food and a couple other foods!

mmmm, avocado!

Avocado Face, so cute!

LOVED the wheat roll!

yummy pickles, she didn't even make sour faces!  She is just like her Auntie Yaya

Isla's 5 Month Photos

Nolan Family

Hilarious picture!

dimpled buns



Momma and Isla




Daddy & Isla



Some cute pics of my cute girl

I'm wanting to keep my blog up to date and I wanted to add a few sweet pictures of Isla that I really love!


Napping on Christmas morning




Isla doesn't like paci's but she loves nibbling and sucking on her fingers!




Isla Anne loves taking baths while sitting in her bumbo pod now!



Bubble bath hair

Daddy dressed Isla and put a diaper on her head and called her the "Princess of Persia"

Isla and Averie are holding hands as BFF's

Isla fell asleep with her babydoll at her highchair

Isla got Baptized!!!

Isla Anne Nolan was baptized on Feb 12, 2011 with her best friend Averie Ann Henson. 
Her Godparents are Averie's parents: Shawn & Michelle Henson while Aaron and I were Averie's Godparents!
It was a beautiful day and the girls were a riot ofcourse!
Here are a couple of pics!

Our only family pic, not so great! haha

Momma & Isla, Chel & Averie

some silly pics of my silly girl!

 She's straight hood!

 Isla chillin' with her Daddy!

 First time in the new shades

 Ornery!

 Diaper Baby!!

My all time favorite silly picture, she is quite the funny little lady :)

Isla Anne

Dear Isla, you have now been an official member of our family for 13 weeks & 6 lovely days! Your Daddy & I love you with all our hearts! You have far surpassed anything we have ever wished & hoped for in a daughter, you simply amaze us! We love watching your expressions & seeing you learn your new world, you are so alert & curious! You are a very sweet baby & you coo so gently & peacefully so we hope that means you love your home! You may be a sweet gentle cooing baby but you sure know how to "rumble your drawers" as Daddy says! We find you to be quite funny & you always know how to make us smile! One of your favorite things to do is take a bath, you kick your feet like wild & splash around! You are so use to your nightly routine that you get really happy when we carry you into the bathroom! You have a singing turtle that you kick & watch in the tub also! Daddy & I love watching you so happy in the tub & we've probably taken too many embarrassing photos & videos for proof! We happen to think you are the most adorable baby in the world, we always talk about how beautiful you are! You have the sweetest little button nose & rosy little lips!! Isla, we are so blessed to have you! My favorite thing you do right now is gaze into my eyes as you drift off to sleep, it melts my heart everytime! I always want you to know that I'm your Mommy & I will love you forever & ever no matter what happens in life! You are my baby, my everything! I love you!