We are a family of FOUR!

Isabel is here! She arrived first thing Monday morning...8:27 AM to be exact. I had a scheduled C-Section that I was not particularly excited about, but it seemed like the safest and best option. For those of you that know (and those of you that don't), I was worried about my anxiety during another C-Section since I had a panic attack during Jacklynn's birth. So on Monday morning I was blessed with a wonderful anesthesiologist and obstetrician who helped me stay calm throughout the whole thing with some added help from Jesus, my iPod, their words, and drugs...the best combo this side of heaven! She weighed in at the exact same weight as Jacklynn, 9 lbs. 7 oz. and 22 in. long, 1 1/4 in. longer than Jac.
This is her first picture outside of the womb...sorry if this is to graphic, but hey I'm all about what really happens!

This is my doctor, Dr. Box, showing us Izy!
The drugs lulled me right to sleep after she came out, so daddy stepped right up with her first feeding!

I was not 100% with it all morning, but by the afternoon feeling pretty good and ready to get up and about. Jacklynn was so excited to meet her baby sister for the 1st time!
Here we are...the whole Nicholas McCord Family!

Isabel has been pretty content ever since she was born...

Mommy...
Big Sister...

Jacklynn loves to hold Isabel! She actually sits still and gets so excited to be near her. Jac is very gentle and does a great job with her! Here we are all sitting together!
Precious baby girl...
Ain't it great to have a sister?!

Cara flew in from Florida to see her brand new niece and my whole family flew in from Colorado too! It was so fun to be all together!
I had to add this picture...we played a couple rounds of Balderdash in the hospital and in order to keep Jacklynn contained Nic put her in Izy's hospital crib...she fits really well, huh?!
I just love this picture of our new baby Isabel! Isn't she precious?!
This is just an update of all the activity in the hospital...don't worry there are more pics to come of my new life as a mother of 2! We are so thankful to everyone for your prayers, gifts, calls, and visits. It is such a blessing to have amazing friends and family! Everyone has asked me how it feels to have another baby girl and honestly I am just not sure yet. It is so surreal to me still sometimes that I am old enough to even be married, let alone married with a house, 2 kids, 2 cars, and a business! As far as my physical state of being, I am sore, but not too tired. Izy is a great sleeper and I have a great husband with lots of mothers and sisters around to help me with Jacklynn's need for entertainment! My emotional state, honestly, I am a little unsettled. We still have not closed on our new house and everything still seems so up in the air right now with the house and the adventures ahead involved with being a mother of two. It seems like I have a million questions running through my mind...how will we take care of 2 girls at such seemingly different stages of life? How will we love them enough? How will we teach them what they need to know, when they need to know it? And when in the world can we move into our new house? Not exactly the breeding ground for "peace of mind," but if there is one thing I have learned in my 24 1/2 years of life it is that God leads us every step of the way...even if we can only see one step at a time! Thanks again to all of you for everything...we love you and are doing AWESOME!