3 Months Old!!!

Wow i can't believe 3 months has already passed. It has been amazing to watch her grow. I must say there is absolutely nothing better than a baby smiling at you, it's the best.
She is doing great. She has been sleeping through the night since she was 9 weeks old, and when i say sleeping i mean atleast 9 hours..the other night it was 13 hours...i am waiting, just waiting for this to change, it seems to good to be true! We're enjoying it though :) She's "talking" alot, smiling all the time and i think i heard the start of a giggle today. She has no interest in rolling over yet. When we do 'tummy time' she either cries or eats her hand...which is probably her favorite thing right now. She LOVES to eat her hand..she usually uses the other hand to push it in further!lol
We're totally in love, it's been the best 3 months of our lives. She is a blessing. We think about Ashley all the time and hope she knows how she changed our lives.

Here is a little video of Bella's first 3 months, enjoy!

From My First 3 Months

Just hanging out

more videos on www.youtube.com under Bella Donsky

She is growing so quickly and I feel like as much as I am trying to remember everything..i won't! So hopefully I'll post more, if not for anything else but to have something we can look back on. Hope you enjoy it too :)

2 Months Old!!!

WOW, time totally flys by! We went to the Dr's yesterday, she now weighs 12 lbs 8oz, and is 23inches long...Dr said she is doing awesome! She had her shots, that wasn't very fun, but it honestly was not half as bad as everyone made it out to be. She wasn't happy about it, but she had stopped crying before we left the parking lot and was a sleep 2 seconds later!
Here she is just before her shots!!

Reality Sinking In

I am sitting here making a picture dvd for Bella's shower this weekend at the lake, of course the music is Somewhere Over the Rainbow...and I'm crying :)
Looking at the pictures from the hospital it all feels so surreal, so long ago not 7 weeks ago. I am still so amazed she is here. The other morning I was in the kitchen and I heard her make a noise, it's not that I forgot that I had a baby but every once in a while it catches me off guard and I just smile. She's here and we are so blessed to have her...I can't believe how lucky we are.

Bella's 1st time at the lake!

We went to the lake this weekend with Bella for the first time, it was awesome! So much fun. She said she loved it :) We went down to the village with Mike, Kristin, Dan and Colin for the Balloon Fest..it was alot of fun..awesome weather!

Happy Anniversary!!!!

Today is our 5th anniversary and the best gift i could (n)ever have imagined is we are taking our daughter to the lake for the first time! I am seriously so excited! Plus we haven't been there in forever, or so it seems. Tomorrow we're going to the Adirondack Balloon Festival, should be awesome!

Here are some new pics, Enjoy!! I'll have ALOT more after this weekend!

Bella's First Bath and Meeting her Aunties!

Our Baby Shower!

Bella and I had our baby shower yesterday and it was AWESOME. Nothing different from any other baby shower, we all agree there is nothing overly exciting about any type of shower but for me it was one more thing to help convince me of the reality that i DO have a baby now. Even though I see her and hold her every day it's still hard to believe at times.
When Jamie and I were still in NC i told him how I pictured driving home with Bella for the first time and "It's a Girl" balloons would be hanging out in front of our house, in my mind that's what happens when people come home from the hospital for the first time with their baby. Does it really happen? I don't know but it does in the movies, lol. Anyway no balloons when we came home, of course not, Jamie was with me and our families do not live close by, no biggie. So the day of the shower I go to get my hair cut, i'm driving home, turn down my street and I can see beautiful shiny balloons swaying outside my house. Seriously the smile on my face was so huge, I could have cried (first of many times that day!).




















About 20 minutes later I'm in my room changing Bella when out of the corner of my eye I see my shiny pink balloons float away!!! haha..I was sooo upset I yelled "my balloons are flying away!"...the next thing I see is Jamie getting in the car. About 15 minutes later he comes home with new It's a Girl balloons. I'm not sure he knows how much that meant to me, I know it seems so simple, it's usually the smallest details that are so important and for me that was huge.

The shower was great. The weather was awesome. I had a great time seeing everyone and them meeting Bella for the first time. I have waited and dreamed of this day for so long and honestly it was a bonus having Bella there vs being pregnant, I absolutely loved it. We received so many awesome gifts, two won the Tear Jerker Award! lol

My Aunt Annie knew I wanted to remember this whole journey so she printed my blog and made it into a book...YUP, tear jerker! I absolutely love it!

How she found this, i have no idea. Mel, this is so awesome!!

Night Time Creatures

i'm holding a crazed little monster in my arms and have 2 little fur balls circling my ankles like sharks...it's 445 and it's feeding time

09/01/08 HOME SWEET HOME

Wow, we're home with our daughter, totally amazing..and unreal. Actually it's quite real as i sit here trying to type one handed!lol
Our drive home yesterday was very uneventful, we got home about 10pm. Today we unpacked and did some errands. Jamie has to go back to work tomorrow, so i'm on my own. We wish his "paternity leave" could start now and we could all just hang out at home together but it's been long enough and he needs to go back. You would actually think after spending almost 2.5 straight weeks together we'd be sick of each other but thankfully we're not!!

I know I owe so many phone calls, I'm so sorry. When we were down in NC there was always so much going on. And like I said today was just us trying to get back to normal and get food in the house :)

Time for bed...Miss Bella's favorite time of day is 2am-4am...straight :)