Road Trip

First things, first. My baby girl is two months old! (plus a couple of days) When I took Maddie for her check up, she weighed 13lbs 15oz, (99%) and she was 23" long (73%). We missed posting the two month photo on Tuesday because we left on our first road trip. Maddie and I went to Kentucky to visit the Kennedys. It's so nice having family so close, just a mere 3.5 hour drive. Ha! We had a blast and Maddie was so perfect, she slept the whole way there and the whole way home. Our efforts were greatly rewarded as we had some of the best potato soup known to man and Sarah, Sloane and Clay kindly drove us out to a pumpkin patch so we could capture Maddie's first Halloween costume in the proper setting.

I'm pretty sure she was loving the costume on the inside.







Clay and Maddie checking each other out.



Sloane showed Maddie what she had to look forward to when she's big enough to play "dress up!"

Holy Moly

Maddie is 8 weeks old as of yesterday, and she celebrated the occassion by SLEEPING THROUGH THE NIGHT! It was amazing! She slept from 9 to 6:30 this morning. Before last night, she was getting up twice in the time frame to eat. Of course, I did not sleep through the night, I was up every two hours checking to make sure she was still breathing. I don't really hold out any expectations that this will be the beginning of a new routine, but I feel like there's hope!

Cutie Pie

Well, we don't really have an exciting event to share with everyone, but I felt the messy room post needed to be replaced. I meant to follow that one up quickly with a cleaned up room, but these days if I don't do it right then, it could be days before I remember something like that. I did clean the room up, though, just in case anybody was worried about how we normally live.

I would have some exciting pics to share from Maddie's first birthday party experience if I'd remembered to bring the camera. River and Skye (our nieces) turned 2 this weekend and we helped them celebrate. So far River and Skye haven't been very interested in their little cousin, but this weekend, Skye kept saying, "Cute Baby." Then, she brought everyone over to see her. It was adorable!

I did capture Maddie's cute outfit when we got home. Thanks Aunt Kelli, we got lots of compliments. And since, it's impossible to decide which of these 3 photos is the cutest, I decided to share them all.

Sleepyhead

We are lucky enough to be a couple of years behind our twin girl cousins who have some serious style, so we get lots of great clothes handed down. So today, Maddie and I were sorting through our latest haul and organizing our clothes by size when suddenly I looked over and she had fallen fast asleep in the middle of the mess. I suppose she was overwhelmed by the task.


Or perhaps a better explanation would be she was thinking, I hope she doesn't think I'm going to clean up the giant mess she's made, I think I'll just close my eyes and stay quiet for a while.

Happy Birthday, Gigi!

Friday was John's Mom's Birthday, so we celebrated with dinner out. We had a great time seeing everyone for a couple of hours. Happy Birthday, Gigi!

Here's a video of Maddie smiling... Finally, I got it on record. You can mute your sound, now I'm the dork talking in the video.

Bath Time

Maddie is 6 weeks old today. She does enjoy her bath. We have an absolutely tiny bathroom and we run the heater for her, so it's toasty warm and relaxing. She's been sleeping for 5 hours at a stretch at night these last few nights, so we've been super excited. Here's a few photos of our favorite towel! Obviously it's a flower, but I think it kind of looks like an Indian Headdress.

Dressing Up

Just a few pictures to show everyone how adorable she continues to be. The weeks are flying by. We've made it out of the house a few times on our own for important trips to Walmart, Target and Sonic. She's been sleeping 4 hours at a time at night and that's pretty big for us!

I think Scrappy's trying to say, "What is it about this baby that requires ALL your attention?" Poor dogs! I didn't think I'd love them less after a baby, but it has indeed happened. I still love them though, so that's got to count for something.