Happenings

Isla had her 2 week appointment yesterday and she is one healthy girl! She's 7lbs14oz, 21.5in, and doing great.

I laugh when she eats. I try my best to feed her before she get's too hungry, but I'm not perfect. So she gets upset and starts snorting/crying, so when I get her latched on she gets excited she's gulping the milk down so fast she's choking, so I have to pull her off to let her catch her breath, then she gets mad. It's quite the adventure at feeding times.

Micah and I are still adjusting to the no sleeping schedules! We can't wait for the night that she sleeps more than 3-4 hours at a time :) But we're enjoying the newborn stage and seeing her open her eyes longer and longer everyday.

The new apartment is amazing - Isla and I can take naps during the day, and Micah can get some sleep whenever he wants. Our neighbors aren't too bad either! We actually live right across the hall from Micah's cousin - Michael Platt. Yes, our poor mailman has to deal with Micah Platt & Michael Platt. We've already had some mail mix ups.

But poor Michael and his wife Halle - they came over last night and said we had to come and see something. They had MUSHROOMS growing in the corner of the front room. Halle had called back in July to say that they had some water damage, but the property manager didn't get back to her. So Halle kept reporting the same problem, well she went to go and clean and moved her furniture to find the mushrooms growing in the carpet! GROSS. I'm sad that I didn't get a picture of it, but it was disgusting.

So that has been our exciting lives over the past few weeks. I still need to organize our master bedroom - have you ever noticed that's the last place to get done when you move? It is for us.

We also got Isla's baby pics (as you can see) and we're so excited to get them hung up in her bedroom and add another one in the front room! Well got to go and get dinner ready for the man bringing home the bacon!!

Isla Love

(*Gaye! We don't have a picture of you and her yet!! We need to correct this!)

We're so happy to report how wonderful Isla is doing. She's such a good baby and loves snuggling with anyone. We had her first photo shoot with Jacque and can't wait to see the rest of the pictures (the pumpkin one was the only one she sent us)

She has her daddy's nose, cupids bow lip, and pretty certain his blue eyes. But maybe she has my hair - but then again I was born with black hair, and her's is a dark brown.

Everyone has been so amazing with helping us out, cooking, cleaning, ironing, etc. My mom got to stay with us for a week and it was great to spend some time with her. Some other news is that we moved. Again. Now that's it's over it's kind of funny. Kind of.

We had been living in the basement apartment and even though it was a great family and amazing ward we just weren't getting an 8 hour block of time to sleep. They had teenagers and they would stay up til 10:30 or 11pm, and then the mom would get up at 5am, then people were up and getting ready until 8:30 am.

So now we're in Cottonwood Heights in an apartment, that is so quiet :) Mommy and Daddy are now getting some sleep. We are about done with all the unpacking and organizing. But I don't suggest moving with a one week baby! Even though I didn't do anything - lifting, unpacking, organizing. It was still stressful! Now that Isla and I are getting into a routine I'm excited to start exercising and getting my body back in shape!!

Isla Karla Platt

Isla Karla Platt
October 1, 2010
6:50 am
6lbs 15oz
19.5 in

Well Isla decided to show up last Friday. We had a doctor's appointment on Wednesday and I wasn't dilated yet, so I was a little dissapointed because I was closed tight with only a week to my due date. But knowing she was still healthier baking inside me we just shrugged our shoulders and was excited for the next appointment.

Thursday morning at 6 am I woke up with Micah because I had noticed I was leaking a little, Micah was joking that it was probably my water that had just broken. So he must have had the gift of foresight, because around 1 o'clock I called the doctor's office because I had "leaked" through four pads that morning. The nurse called back to say to go into labor and delivery so that they could check if it was my water, or mucus plug.

So I called my boss and told him that I needed to go have some things checked out and I would be back later that afternoon. Needless to say I lied. They promptly told me to change out of my cute high heels and professional work attire because I was going to be having a baby.

I was still shocked and figured I should probably call Micah once they hooked the Pitocin up to me to get me dilated. Hooping and hollering Micah left the office telling every and anyone that we were having a baby.

In fact it was posted on Facebook before I could even call my family. That stinker. I'm going to take his phone away, or atleast remove Facebook.

By 6:30 I was dilated to a 2 and in came the epidural. By 3 am I was finally fully dilated and ready to push. We did some practice pushing without the doctor and she came down fast. I was so excited that it was going to be any moment. But slowly 4:30am, 5am, 6am,6:30am passed by with me pushing and still no baby. She was so close but not moving anywhere, the doctor decided a little help was needed so out came the vacuum and he discovered that her umbilical cord was wrapped under her left arm, around the back of her neck and down the other arm, making her shoulders from being able to go down.

So he popped one of her shoulders out, and she came at 6:50am. I was exhausted from hunger, and from pushing for 2 hours straight. But glad that she was finally out.

She's healthy and been great at the breastfeeding. We love her so much and can't wait to see more of her personality.