Family – Page 2 – Kotter Family

We decided to bless Isabelle on December 30th, as some family was already going to be in town for Christmas/New Years. It wasn’t the best timing, with Kryssi having surgery just a few days before, but it worked out. The weather also wasn’t the best but luckily everyone got here safely.

It started to snow right before church and started coming down pretty heavy once we got back home. Made things a little slick getting back to cars

More Isabelle pictures

Getting to feed Isabelle for the first time

Christmas

Everyone ready to go see what Santa brought

Christmas Eve

Paul had put together this trailer for us to ride in, from an old manure spreader

We don’t put very many presents under the tree until Christmas Eve, so the kids always love bringing them all down

December fun

Someone liked eating the candy as much as the decorating

We finally got enough snow to make a snowman

Having lunch with McKinley at her school

The letter to Santa McKinley wrote at school

Helping out with the gingerbread activity in McKinley’s class

Opening a little present that Kaitlin sent

2 weeks old!

We’ve made it 2 weeks! Time has sure flown by. Isabelle is growing and changing, though still not sleeping great at night. For her two week doctor appointment, everything looked great. She’s gained some weight and is healthy.

Getting her first bath at home (more of just a wash down)

A more real bath. She didn’t really like it

She’s gained some weight since she was born, which is great

Christmas decorations

We were a little behind on when we normally decorate for Christmas this year but we did eventually get our tree up and other decorations out.

Isabelle Leigh Kotter

Isabelle Leigh Kotter was born on Tuesday, November 20 at 2:27 AM. Kryssi woke me up at about 12:30 AM that morning, saying we need to get to the hospital now. Two hours later, we had a new baby.

She’s healthy and happy, sleeps okay (depending on the night) and we are so happy to have her in our family!