Life with Baby Week 7

My oh my what a busy week we have had! Ellen left on Thursday to head back to GA and me, my mom, and Madigan followed right behind her! Madigan did great on the almost seven hour road trip. She even cooperated for us to take a little trip down memory lane. We drove by our old house and I am so happy that they have kept it up. It looks awesome.




My Pappaw was so excited to see/meet her. All he could say was that she was "nice and solid" and that I had a "nice little play pretty".




Uncle Tim and Uncle Dennis wanted in on the holding action. AKA got stuck with her while I ran around and did other things.








On Friday we made a trip up to Atlanta for Madigan to meet all of her cousins. She is the first granddaughter and she is going to have to be tough to play with these boys!




















Wilson didn't want to miss out on the action either. He had a fit to hold her and when he finally got to he was so happy. Adorable!!!
On Saturday we managed to surprise my nanny. She had no idea that we were in town and coming to see her. She cried a few tears of joy when she saw us walk through the door.




Amey and Keri even stopped by to meet the little princess.




While at my aunt Susie's Madigan took her first dip in the pool. I think she loved it.












Sunday consisted of me helping host a baby shower for Julie. We went with a little man theme and everything came together nicely considering the shower was planned completely through email! It was great hosting with these ladies!




I can't wait for Julie to join me in this journey of motherhood because it is so freakin awesome!




When the shower was over we headed back to NC. Madigan did super on the road trip back. The weekdays were spent getting the house in order and holding Madigan. I finally had her all to myself. I love having all the help but was so ready to have just out little family together.
Madigan is sleeping through the night and in her own crib! My mom hated that she was sleeping in our bed, but I loved it. I told Doug once she starts sleeping 6 hours straight at night we would put her in her own crib. Well that is where she is sleeping now! I spend hours just looking at the monitor to make sure she is ok. I hope that changes soon because I need some sleep too!
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Life with Baby Week 4

This past week was our last week living in Washington!  It was sad to say goodbye, but we are so excited to become residents of North Carolina and move into our new house!

Madigan got all dressed up to attend her first friends birthday party!  I love this little ruffle dress that my mom got her!

She is starting to take about 2 bottles a week.  She can even feed herself some of those times.

It took me forever to find someone in Washington that could do my hair the way that I liked.  I finally came across Kelli and I wanted to make sure to get her to do it one last time before we moved.  So this is how you get your hair done with a 4 week old…

Madigan has been having tummy time now and I swear she might be crawling soon.  j/k  She does move her head all around and practically rolls over to her back.  She will lay on her stomach for about 5-10 minutes before she is over it and wants to be back on her back.

We have been letting her take some of her naps on her tummy too.  I don’t like to swaddle her every time she sleeps and her sleeping on her tummy is the only thing that makes it where she doesn’t throw her arms and legs all around to wake herself up.

While my mom was here I wanted to take her to lunch at the tea place.  She says that she ate a lot of things she has never eaten before but that it was all really good.  I’m going to miss having girl dates at this place.

This little girl loves to stretch!  I think she might be a yoga instructor.

I can’t believe that my baby is almost a month old.  It really is going by so fast.  She is getting chunkier and chunkier by the second.  She is almost out of her newborn diapers and newborn clothes. 

For the most part she is a really easy baby!  She likes to fight going to sleep and gets really mad when I don’t feed her right when she is hungry.  She is starting to talk to us some and I think that she is starting to focus on us a little more.  I am ready for the cross eyed stare to go away.  She has the prettiest blue eyes.  I don’t think they are going to be as light as Doug’s, but def. not hazel like mine.

We love this little girl to the moon and back!

Life with a Baby Week 3

This week we have learned that Madigan likes to spit up!  My mom says that she really doesn’t spit up that much, but that she fills her belly up to full and has to spit up what won’t fit.  I guess Madigan just doesn’t know when to stop eating…kinda like her mama and daddy!  She is still in her newborn clothes and diapers, but can fit in some three month onesies.  Her arms and legs are starting to fill out.  She will have thunder thighs before we know it. 

Madigan went to her first birthday party over the weekend.  Of course she had to get all dressed up for it…big bow and all!

We celebrated the Fourth of July this past week.  We went to the horse races on the 3rd and saw an amazing firework show.  On the 4th we had friends over and Doug cooked some amazing ribs!

We took another bath this week and I do believe that this little girl loves the water.  She didn’t cry once while I was rinsing her off.  I made sure to let a little bit of water run over her face.  I don’t want her to be afraid of a little water on her face.

And we still love sleeping with our head turned way to the side!

I also ventured out this week by myself with her.  We went to the grocery store and Wal-mart and she did awesome in the wrap/carrier!  Only a few more days before we head out for NC!!!

Life with Baby Week 2

During week two we have figured this little girl out more and more.  We know that she likes to eat about every 3 hours.  She is a big wiggle worm.  She is a pooping machine and is the queen of the hiccups.  She gets the hiccups several times a day! 

Since we have sold our house we have been staying at Heathers.  Luckily she has two extra rooms, one for us and one for my mom.  I am so thankful that Heather has let us stay with her but I am counting down the days until we are leaving and will be moving into our new place!  Doug has compared living at Heathers to living in a college dorm room, except he has a wife, a baby and a dog!

This past week we gave Madigan her first bath.  Doug held her in the shower and I washed her off.  She did awesome and didn’t cry at all!!!  The second bath she did just as great but decided to pee and poop in Doug’s hand!

She has been a little trooper in the car seat and doesn’t mind going out and about.  Since we are stuck in our little room we try to get out of the house about once a day.

We had a couple of visitors stop by to say hello.  Thanks for visiting, John and Pav.

Madigan had her two week follow up and all the nurse practitioner could tell us was that she is perfect!  Her two week stats…7lb12oz(29%ile), 20 3/4 inches(65%ile), Head circumference 34.2cm(10%ile).  She still has a really small head but her stomach is huge!

Random Madigan facts:

• She wears size newborn diapers
• She wears size newborn clothes
• She loves laying on her side and will probably be rolling over before we know it
• The majority of her umbilical cord came off on day 10
• She is a wiggle worm
• We have found ourselves calling her several nicknames, but the main one is Biscuit…Doug came up with this one
• She has to be swaddled to sleep because if she isn’t she wakes herself up by moving her arms and legs all around
• Doug gave her her first bottle on day 14 and she took it will no problems

Life with baby Week 1

After leaving the birthing suite in the hospital we made our way down to where we spent the next two nights.  We had so many different nurses while we were in the hospital and they were all amazing!  They were all so willing to help with any questions that we had and they taught us so much about caring for the little munchkin that they were going to let us leave with.

While being pregnant I never really feared or worried about labor and delivery because I knew that it would be hard but it would eventually be over with. What I feared most was breast feeding! I have heard so many horror stories of sore, cracked, bleeding nipples that had scared the crap out of me. We attended a breast feeding class that was great, but still left me feeling unprepared. I’m so glad that Doug was so on board with breast feeding because if it wasn’t for him I would have given up after the first try. Breast feeding is HARD!!! Doug pretty much did everything during the first few feedings, I just held her. We had to try different things to wake her up to feed and then just to keep her awake during feeding was even a challenge. Once she would stay awake to feed we had to get her latched on correctly so she wouldn’t rip my nipple off. Breast feeding is not for everyone, but I am glad that we have stuck it out and have successfully made it through that first week with nipples still attached! 

Heading home from the hospital…

We were discharged from the hospital on Saturday and I have been sleep deprived ever since! Change diaper, Eat, Burp, Change diaper again(this little girl is a pooping machine), Sleep….this has been my routine for the last week and I wouldn't change a thing. Doug has been such a big help! He jumps right in to help with anything I need and is the king of swaddling!

She lost 4oz while in the hospital and at her checkup on Monday she has gained 1 of those back! We go back when she is two weeks old and I can’t wait to see how much she has grown!

I have been an emotional disaster.  I cry at the drop of the hat.  I just look at Madigan and bust into tears because she is so precious and I can’t believe she is ours.

This has been a tough week figuring this new little being out!  But my motto over the next few years maybe even 18 years is…this is just a phase, enjoy the ride!