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Day 1

Day 1

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Welcome to life, Ms. Isabelle Susan Linda Bentley. Born 11/7/15 at 11:21p at UMass Memorial. Weighing 4lbs 5oz and measuring 17 inches exactly. So... she kicked Jack's butt by staying in for an extra 9 weeks... but still came 5 days early. I had been having braxton hicks on and off since 18 weeks. Very rarely did I have a real one. But I'd have 50 BH ones a day sometimes. Well a few days before today, I started having some back contractions. Not super painful but definitely different.  I went to bed around 7:00 (yes, I am a grandma). Around 8:30 I woke up and felt a really sharp pain in my cervix and had to pee. So I stood up and my water broke like a waterfall and wouldn't stop. So I screamed for Scott and told him we had to get to the hospital ASAP. I continued to gush the entire way. Gross. We got to labor & delivery and they hooked me up to monitors and tested the fluid. Baby was ok but definitely my water. So c-section was being done in the next hour.  The

Christmas card 2023

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Christmas 2022

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Christmas Card 2021

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Christmas card 2020

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Mementos

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I have keep important things for both kids. I just organized them into boxes. 

Swimming

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Jackson and Izzie are taking swimming lessons.

Christmas card 2019

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New tooth

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In a very weird turn of events... Izzie got a new tooth this week. She was missing 2... and this one just came in. I saw her chewing on her hand a lot on that side but didn't think anything of it. I don't know if it's a baby tooth or an adult tooth but it's coming in at a weird angle so... it might need to be pulled. 

Scooter

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Izzie loves to scooter!

Bus

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Izzie loves taking the bus. 

Trunk or treat

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WE did our first family trunk or treat as Aladdin. The kids loved it. 

School pic

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Isabelle's official pre-k 3 pics came in today:

Newspaper

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Great Wolf Lodge

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Great Wolf Lodge was super fun. Izzie got her nails painted for the first time - she picked her colors. The fingers were tough but she was great for her toes. 

Buddy walk

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The Lucky Few raised $7073! We were the #2 top fundraising team! And the largest team. David Muradian and Michael Moore were on our team. Amy McKinstry too!

Big girl bed for reals

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Guess who is in a big girl bed? We needed to switch her to that because this was happening:

Open house

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Izzie's open house was tonight. She's in pre-k 3 again with the same teacher she had last year. She loooooved her. We did too. Also, one of my former student's kids is in her class. 

Big girl bed

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Izzie deliberately went into Jackson's room tonight and said "light off". She fell asleep after cuddling for a minute. Such a big girl. <3 Don't worry I woke her up, changed her and put her in her crib shortly after the pic was taken. 

Potty

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Izzie has started to loosely use the potty. She will say "pee potty" and go to the bathroom. About 50% of the time she pees. She's never pooped. 

Hips

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Izzie started to have a weird gait in July so we scheduled an appointment with her orthopedic doctor. He said she looks great for a 3 year old. She's running and walking fine. He even xrayed her hips. Says she no longer needs orthotics. The gait was likey due to a minor injury.

Hanover Hero

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Scott got awarded a Hanover Hero for all the work he does for MDSC. It came with $1000 to MDSC as well as his picture posted all over the place. 

Izzie's room

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It only took me a year to post a pic of her room but here it is.