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Mady loved staring at the clock in the living room for the first 4 months of her life. It was her first "friend".
As stated here before, she shakes her head with such abandon that you'd swear she knows what we're talking about. "No, no, no."
Her kisses. Open mouthed, right on your face, on demand. So sloppy...and so wonderful.
The little noises she makes in between fighting sleep and actually falling asleep. Little moans that must mean, "Okay Mommy, I don't want to sleep, but, you're right....I think I need to."
Giggles when we dance.
Her hatred for the hair dryer. I thought it was the loud noise but it isn't. The vacuum cleaner running right next to her doesn't phase her. It's the fact that she thinks the hair dryer is hurting me. She screams so horribly. I know she's just trying to protect me.
Sweet chubby thighs.
High pitched noises from her crib...that she only makes when she's ready to begin her day. They're not screams, not cries....just a special noise almost to say, "Mommy, come get me now!"
When we blow gently in Mady's face, she takes a deep breath in and gives us a big smile.
If I brush Mady's hair with MY brush, she loves it. No reaction with her brush, but my brush makes her smile so much.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Sweet Potatoes and Rolling
May as well post the pictures....I'm so sad she loved them and we can't continue right now. On the UP side, cereal was a big hit today. Including Mady opening her mouth wide for the spoon and finishing the entire portion I made for her. I think she was hoping for more sweet potatoes. Hahaha.
Yesterday Mady really started rolling from back to belly on a consistant basis. Today, she rolled 4 times in a row. Back to belly, belly to back, back to belly, belly to back. This is fantastic for development, but now we really have to work on sleeping unswaddled. I put her in her crib unswaddled for a nap this afternoon and when she woke up, I found her like this:
Yikes. But, Yay Mady!!!
Yesterday Mady really started rolling from back to belly on a consistant basis. Today, she rolled 4 times in a row. Back to belly, belly to back, back to belly, belly to back. This is fantastic for development, but now we really have to work on sleeping unswaddled. I put her in her crib unswaddled for a nap this afternoon and when she woke up, I found her like this:
Yikes. But, Yay Mady!!!
Monday, July 11, 2011
She's 5 Months Old
I say it every month. I just can't believe Mady is already 5 months old.
Mady seems to have changed so much in just the past two weeks. She shakes her head "no" with such gusto you'd think she knows what she's doing. She had rolled from back to belly 4 times now....I'm conflicted on this one because it means we're going to have to stop swaddling as she gets better at it. ::Gulp:: Her fine motor skills are really starting to develop. She knows what to do when she sees her bottle (Opens her mouth and holds her hands out to put it in her mouth), she still loves music and loves to "Shake it, shake it, shake it".
She's so funny I can't even stand it.
Still not sleeping through the night, although we seem to be getting down to waking only once MAYBE twice each night now. Yay. She started solids and isn't a great fan of cereal. I started sweet potatoes yesterday (one day after hitting 5 months old) and about 12 hours later, she had hives. All over the trunk of her body. I'll spare you the pictures, but it was horrible. Of course this happened at 10:30 at night, so I called the nurse line, she suggested cool compresses and hydrocortisone cream and a trip to the pediatrician in the AM. She was breathing fine and the hives weren't really bothering her, so I was okay with that. This morning the hives were gone, but I still called the pedi because she's had a rash on and off for over a week now. Long story short, the dr. doesn't think the hives are from sweet potatoes, she says it usually takes at least two exposures for an allergy to something like potatoes. She thinks the hives may be part of a mild virus Mady could have had. Just to be safe though, we'll stick to just cereal until she's 6 months old. Then we'll start again with sweet potatoes to see if anything happens then. My poor baby. It's too bad, because she LOVED the sweet potatoes. Oh and the rash? More of her exczema. This kid and her skin.
Mady weights 13 pounds and our unscientific length measurement says she is 23.5 inches long. That probably isn't very accurate though, since we had a squirmy baby and a tape measure.
Mady is just a delight and is getting to be so much fun now. I keep telling her to stop growing up though. =)
Mady seems to have changed so much in just the past two weeks. She shakes her head "no" with such gusto you'd think she knows what she's doing. She had rolled from back to belly 4 times now....I'm conflicted on this one because it means we're going to have to stop swaddling as she gets better at it. ::Gulp:: Her fine motor skills are really starting to develop. She knows what to do when she sees her bottle (Opens her mouth and holds her hands out to put it in her mouth), she still loves music and loves to "Shake it, shake it, shake it".
She's so funny I can't even stand it.
Still not sleeping through the night, although we seem to be getting down to waking only once MAYBE twice each night now. Yay. She started solids and isn't a great fan of cereal. I started sweet potatoes yesterday (one day after hitting 5 months old) and about 12 hours later, she had hives. All over the trunk of her body. I'll spare you the pictures, but it was horrible. Of course this happened at 10:30 at night, so I called the nurse line, she suggested cool compresses and hydrocortisone cream and a trip to the pediatrician in the AM. She was breathing fine and the hives weren't really bothering her, so I was okay with that. This morning the hives were gone, but I still called the pedi because she's had a rash on and off for over a week now. Long story short, the dr. doesn't think the hives are from sweet potatoes, she says it usually takes at least two exposures for an allergy to something like potatoes. She thinks the hives may be part of a mild virus Mady could have had. Just to be safe though, we'll stick to just cereal until she's 6 months old. Then we'll start again with sweet potatoes to see if anything happens then. My poor baby. It's too bad, because she LOVED the sweet potatoes. Oh and the rash? More of her exczema. This kid and her skin.
Mady weights 13 pounds and our unscientific length measurement says she is 23.5 inches long. That probably isn't very accurate though, since we had a squirmy baby and a tape measure.
Mady is just a delight and is getting to be so much fun now. I keep telling her to stop growing up though. =)
Monday, July 4, 2011
Happy 4th of July!!
**My pictures are always blurry when I enlarge them....anyone know why? I'm so not computer literate.**
I hate the 4th. I don't like the fireworks. I've never liked them. They scare the dog, and now they scare the baby. I have these irrational thoughts that people should NOT be blowing off fireworks because they're going to wake and scare my baby. It's ridiculous, I know. But the thought goes off every time a loud noise has happened in the past 2 days. Ugh.
Anyway, we went swimming at a friend's house today. We loaded up on sunscreen (that the doctor okayed!) and Mady absolutely loved the water. I wasn't sure how she'd do, but she couldn't get enough.
Then it was time to go home....don't worry she only slept in this exersaucer long enough for me to get a picture....
I hate the 4th. I don't like the fireworks. I've never liked them. They scare the dog, and now they scare the baby. I have these irrational thoughts that people should NOT be blowing off fireworks because they're going to wake and scare my baby. It's ridiculous, I know. But the thought goes off every time a loud noise has happened in the past 2 days. Ugh.
Anyway, we went swimming at a friend's house today. We loaded up on sunscreen (that the doctor okayed!) and Mady absolutely loved the water. I wasn't sure how she'd do, but she couldn't get enough.
Then it was time to go home....don't worry she only slept in this exersaucer long enough for me to get a picture....
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Updates
I hate that I never have time to blog anymore. I mean, I love the reason why, but it's no fun to not be able to blog. Mady consumes every ounce of my time....is this normal? Other moms have time for things. I have time to read blogs and such, so I guess I COULD blog myself, but then I'd never have time to catch up on my friend's lives. Oh well. Do things when I can, right?
Baby Updates: We started cereal a few weeks ago. I don't think Mady is necessarily LOVING it, but she's tolerating rice cereal. I'm trying to decide if we should move to other foods or not.
We tried to break the swaddle for sleeping. Yeah, tried. For a few days, I thought it was working. Then all hell broke loose. Screaming for hours on end at night. It was terrible. I didn't want to lose to progress we'd made not swaddling, but eventually gave in after 2.5 hours of screaming one night. (I wasn't a horrible mom, I didn't really catch on that no swaddle was the problem for a while. I thought she was just being stubborn.) We swaddled her that night and she went right to sleep. And has been sleeping better ever since. Oh well. We tried, it didn't work, we'll try again someday.
Mady's toes have found her mouth and it's adorable.
She still loves her Exersaucer and is getting really good at spinning herself around.
And one week shy of 5 months in, I think Bailey has accepted that Mady is here to stay. Bailey usually hides as soon as Mady wakes up each morning. This is the closest she's come to her...that I can think of.
What else? Not much. It's Mady's world here and we just live in it.
I'm trying to make plans for a visit home, I hope I can make it soon. It all revolves around Brett's work schedule. I can try to make the trip myself, but, an 8 hour drive with a baby AND pumping scares me. We'll see.
I don't know how national the news is, but our city, as well as the surrounding cities is greatly affected by the flooding of the Missouri River. We know quite a few people that have or will lose their homes. We're lucky enough to live in an unaffected area, but, we're only about 2 miles away from complete and total loss. It's so sad.
And finally, my dear, dear friend M is going through a tragic loss right now and my heart just breaks for her. Out of respect I won't go into detail, but, please just keep M, J and B in your prayers. They need and deserve them, I promise.
Baby Updates: We started cereal a few weeks ago. I don't think Mady is necessarily LOVING it, but she's tolerating rice cereal. I'm trying to decide if we should move to other foods or not.
We tried to break the swaddle for sleeping. Yeah, tried. For a few days, I thought it was working. Then all hell broke loose. Screaming for hours on end at night. It was terrible. I didn't want to lose to progress we'd made not swaddling, but eventually gave in after 2.5 hours of screaming one night. (I wasn't a horrible mom, I didn't really catch on that no swaddle was the problem for a while. I thought she was just being stubborn.) We swaddled her that night and she went right to sleep. And has been sleeping better ever since. Oh well. We tried, it didn't work, we'll try again someday.
Mady's toes have found her mouth and it's adorable.
She still loves her Exersaucer and is getting really good at spinning herself around.
And one week shy of 5 months in, I think Bailey has accepted that Mady is here to stay. Bailey usually hides as soon as Mady wakes up each morning. This is the closest she's come to her...that I can think of.
What else? Not much. It's Mady's world here and we just live in it.
I'm trying to make plans for a visit home, I hope I can make it soon. It all revolves around Brett's work schedule. I can try to make the trip myself, but, an 8 hour drive with a baby AND pumping scares me. We'll see.
I don't know how national the news is, but our city, as well as the surrounding cities is greatly affected by the flooding of the Missouri River. We know quite a few people that have or will lose their homes. We're lucky enough to live in an unaffected area, but, we're only about 2 miles away from complete and total loss. It's so sad.
And finally, my dear, dear friend M is going through a tragic loss right now and my heart just breaks for her. Out of respect I won't go into detail, but, please just keep M, J and B in your prayers. They need and deserve them, I promise.
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