The Girl's First Christmas.

Well technically, it was the girls first Christmas. Last year Olivia was too young to understand and we did not make a big deal of it, she just got a few things in her stocking (which she had previously picked out at the store). This year was much more exciting. In fact, I have not seen the need for our video camera until today. I wanted to update the blog while it was fresh in my memory so I sat and watched the videos from today. I am thankful that Albert's tech obsession got us a camera because I will watch the video of Olivia opening gifts over and over again. It is too long to post but Albert is going to try to figure out how to put clips of the highlights on here. This video is a shorter one of after all the presents have been opened. Of course her car was the main attraction. She spent the morning getting in and out of it and telling us all bye. She was very protective of it too. She waved Abuelo away when he tried to touch it.

okay had trouble uploading (video to follow) :(

Izadora did very well for her first Holiday season. We went to Tia's house for dinner on Christmas Eve and were there very late. She slept the entire time and saved the feeding for when we got home and only had 4 hours to sleep :). Today she slept through most of the present opening in Tia Hizel's arms. She loved the attention of visiting family that wanted to hold her because like her older sister she loved being in arms. Her gifts were mostly cloths which is fun so she can have her own style. Oh, she also got several books and a few dolls. I can't wait for next Christmas when Olivia AND Izadora will be ripping the gifts apart.

p.s. some of the photos are from when we went to the Old Mission Candle Lights one evening.

Izadora IS HERE!

So, for those of you who did not get all the details Izadora is here now. On Sunday December 5th I started pre-labor and early in the morning 5:30 am on Monday December 6th Izadora Lavinia Palma was born. She weighed 8lbs 8oz and was 20.2 inches long. The active labor was super quick (4.5 hours) and Izadora came out with only 3 pushes. There are a lot more gory details but of the people who read this I am not sure if I should put them on here. If you would like to know just comment and I'll tell you. 

She has a full head of black hair and looks exactly like Olivia did when she was born. We had a rough first few nights where she did not know it was sleepy time and kept us up, but since we have been home she has been doing really well. She sleeps 3-4 hours through the night, all day, and feeds all day and all night. Her big sister loves her very much and says, "bebe, bebe" whenever she sees her. Olivia likes to pat her head, help burp her, and lay on the bed with her. She is so cute in the morning she comes in mama's room and lays down then pats the bed next to her for Izadora to lay down. 

Well, that is all for now. I have got to get back to playing with these little munchkins.