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