Life with Baby Week 6

Ellen came to visit this week and she was a life saver! She arrived on Thursday and I was so glad to see her. I was feeling so overwhelmed with all the boxes scattered about. I got most of the boxes unpacked and most of the rooms in order because she was here to watch Madigan.

My parents came down on Saturday and the painted continued. We painted our room a “clean blue” as my mom calls it. I love it! I hope that I can keep the “clean” feeling going throughout the downstairs. I want to lighten up the downstairs since the furniture we picked out is a deep brown leather set and the kitchen cabinets are dark as well.


The living room furniture arrived on Tuesday and I think we made a good choice when we picked it out. Now we just need an end table and a coffee table to finish it up.





Madigan’s big milestone this week is that she is smiling at you when you talk to her.










She loves when people talk to her! Sometimes she will jabber back! She is such a cutie! She is out of newborn clothes completely and in size 1 diapers. She only wakes up once during the night and usually goes right back to sleep. We have us one easy going sweet baby girl!

Life With Baby Week 5

Boy oh boy what a busy week we have had. Madigan went to her first birthday party, said goodbye to her Washington friends, took her first plane ride, moved to NC, and painted her new room.
Madigan got all dressed up for Eastin’s pool party.








We went out to dinner to say goodbye to all of our lovely WA friends.




We took the redeye from Seattle to Greensboro hoping that she would do better at night than during the day. She did so great on the flight from Seattle to Atlanta. She didn’t make a peep. On the flight from Atlanta to Greensboro we almost made it the whole way with another uneventful flight, but when the plane starting going down for the landing she went a little crazy. I think that her ears were bothering her and then she realized that she was hungry. She cried and cried until we got off the plane and I could feed her. Over all she was amazing on the trip and even earned her wings from Delta!




My dad picked us up from the airport and we headed straight to Chic-fil-a for breakfast. Oh how we have missed chicken biscuits and sandwiches! After breakfast and a little pit stop at Nana and Pop’s we headed down to our new house to start painting. We began with Madigan’s room and finished up with it on Sunday evening. I love how the stripes turned out.




On Monday we back to paint the front guest room. We were trying to paint as many rooms as possible before the furniture arrived. We only got two of the four rooms painted before the movers delivered the furniture on Tuesday.








Doug drove from WA to NC with his dad and Wrecks. At first I thought that it was going to take him over a week to make the journey, but he booked it across the country. He left WA on Saturday and was asleep beside me at 2:30am on Wednesday morning! We took it easy on Wednesday. I was exhausted from driving from my parents house to our new house and back 4 days in a row and Doug was tried of driving too. We did manage to do something productive…we bought a new washer and dryer! I am so excited about this purchase.
We came HOME on Thursday and have been unpacking and organizing ever since!
Madigan is pretty much out of her newborn clothes and is in size 1 diapers. She is still being a good sleeper and loves to take catnaps in her swing. We are so glad to be raising this girl in the South!

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!!!