5 weeks

5 weeks! Can you believe it??? We had quite the adventures this week! We went to my cousins baby's birthday. This is her on the way out. She was loved on by everyone there! She was so good! She also took a ten minute nap in his crib. My dad carried her around and she was like his trophy. She still loves hanging out with her daddy. She has inherited the trait of getting these serious looks on her face. I loved the fact that I got this one... it made me laugh so hard! She is a beast! She now weighs 11 pounds 3 ounces (probably more now) and she's in the 95-97% for her age. She also got her second hep b shot. That was harder on me than it was on her. She did one of those silent crys before she started to scream. I felt so bad for her i lost it when the nurse left. I just held her and cried with her.
We started tummy time with her (her doctor said it was fine to start) She loves it! I could probably leave her there for hours and she'd be fine, but if you put her on her back she gets mad at you. She is in love with her bouncy chair. (Its the reason why half of her pictures shes in it.) You bounce it she calms down and tends to fall asleep for hours. She doesnt sleep on the sofa with me anymore at night we now sleep in the bed together at night lol! Why not? Six hours pretty much off and on??? I mean there are times when I put her back in her bassinet and she keeps on sleeping, but half the time she just stays in bed with me. She grunts in her sleep a lot tho its kind of cute
Some stupid people broke into our car and stole the radio, went through the glove box, took a tool out of the back seat, went through the trunk... The radio cost about $100 five years ago which means that they will probably get $10 for it at a pawn shop if that. We filed a police report but theres not much that they can do about it. It'll cost about $130 to replace the window and $20 to get a cheapo radio... Thats why we have savings right???
So my mom is going to watch Madison today for an hour while I get it fixed... Yippie for having my mom so close!!!

poop

So this is how my night went last night... I was holding Madison then I felt sudden woosh of warm. No sound just warm. I thought that she peed and I lifted her up to look.

Well this is just what was on her. Never the less it was on her legs and feet and completely COVERED me in it. She pooped so much she filled her diaper then over flowed and covered me in it.

I deemed that it was so messy that she needed a bath. I stripped her down and she just sat there the whole time. She tends to cry when you change her diaper but this time she laid there and was like "ha ha look what I did!" Yes her belly is getting bigger

So she got herself a bath. I played with her hair to get the little curl in the front. She likes her baths a whole lot more. I guess all I had to do was raise her bath temperature to almost the same temp we take our showers at. I guess she enjoys a hot tub feeling.

She now gets mad when you take her out of the bath

I cuddled her while I tried to not put her in a diaper. I try my best post bath to let her air out to prevent diaper rash. Well the cuddling turned into her falling asleep in her towel for a little while which freaked me out a lot because I could see a second bath in my future if it went wrong

I got some baby booty pictures once she woke back up and I figured I would take a picture of the utter destruction that happened... everything I was wearing (All the way down) plus the boppy cover... This is my life now... Doctor trip today! We get to see how big my monkey is now!

1 month

Can you believe that its been a month already? She just is getting so big! I find out on Friday how big she has gotten but I'm guessing she's at least nine and a half pounds Ryan thinks that she might be bigger than that.

She loves sitting up. She gets cranky when you don't have her sit up. Its like she feels entitled to be able to see everything thats going on and be able to participate.

She's starting to like her baths more. I had to turn up the temperature quite a few notches... I almost have her bath water to my temperature. I even let her hang out in the water for a little while longer. It was cute.

I seriously LOVE her in her teddy bear outfit. She only woke up twice in the night when I had her in it. I seriously love it and am grateful to Ken and Alicia for letting me use it.

She still eats like a champ.

She will be asleep for a while then be awake towards the evening. She's most awake from 4-10 in the day. She naps and eats during this time but she only sleeps for like ten minutes at a time.

We sleep more in the room than in the living room. Its nice I must admit...

She does spit up now but its not every time she eats... actually you don't really know when its going to happen its like a surprise

She loves her daddy, she still enjoys sitting on his chest looking at him

my doctor cleared me today. She says I'm healing perfectly which is good. I got put on the pill because yeah I love Madison but I want to cherish Madison as an only child for a while longer. I'll think about it again when she's approaching nursery or something.

Its amazing how much money you save by cooking all the meals... I just need more recipes... I feel like I cook the same five things over and over again

Isn't she cute? I mean shes amazingly cute!!!!

We are blessing her the first Sunday in March

She now wears 0-3 month onsies but wears newborn everything else

I just started her in size 1 diapers

Cuteness

Now the question at hand is how can you even handle this cuteness?

sleep

In case anyone wondered how my nights go...

Ryan caught us sleeping this morning. Yes quite often I do fall asleep with my glasses on

3 weeks

Madison is my love... she is so cute and I believe the most beautiful baby out there... I've seen some ugly babies and she doesn't have an ugly bone in her body...

*She loves sitting up... well she loves being propped up

*She looks all around when shes awake

*She loves her Daddy and always seems to wake up right before he comes home

*She just started spitting up and she has had some epic spit ups every once and a while

*She sleeps a lot better when she's held

*She loves to fall asleep on your chest while you are holding her

*She tends to fall asleep in the car if shes in there for more than five minutes

*She slept through sacrament meeting when we went Sunday and everyone came to look at her

* I now "talk" to her by making cat noises when she makes cat noises

*She goes on eating beiges at night and will eat off and on for three or more hours straight

* We have been sleeping in the same room with Ryan for most of the week

*We had our first slumber party at Grandma's last night

*She met Patches, but neither of them seemed to care much

Well Saturday night I went out to throw something in the washing machine and I noticed a big puddle of water and I hear dripping noises. Well I freaked out and had Ryan come look at it and he decided that our water heater had broken and was leaking. Thankfully it didn't explode! So Sunday our apartment complex came out and told us that we would be getting a new water heater on Monday because they didn't have any on hand right then, but it meant our heat would be out because our gas goes through the water heater. So Ryan decided that Madison and I would spend the night at my mom's house because he didn't want her to get cold at all. My mom of coarse loved us coming over so she could hold her and play with her for a while. My old man kitty (who is now fine and actually gained some weight) got to meet Madison... he didnt really care and she didn't notice him really. I'll give it six months and her pulling his ears before he really cares too much about her.

Ryan is a wonderful fantastic husband. He got me roses and a little balloon with hersey kisses in it. He also got Madison a little stuffed animal because she's his valentine too! He's too cute and wonderful!

We are going to bless her the first Sunday in March and I'm getting excited because two of my cousins said that they would be in the circle with us. My cousin Jeremy and his family are going to come down from Provo to be there and my cousin Ken said that he would come too... Its nice to have family around for things like this!!! I want to ask a couple of people from my old ward if they will come and do it too but I'm not sure if they will be able to.

We went to church on Sunday and I discovered even though I feel pretty darn good I can not sit on the church benches for any amount for time longer than five minutes before I begin to hurt and by the end of the hour throbb... Side effect I'm not that happy with but its going to happen I'm hoping I can sit through a full meeting in a couple of weeks, but I'm not going to try til after her blessing

2 weeks

Well its been 2 weeks and heres some more tidbits we've learned about Madison.

*She hates her baths... she screams so badly through it it makes me laugh over how dramatic shes being. Ryan can't handle hearing her cry like that so he leaves the room.

*She's still a good sleeper

*We still sleep 9 out of 10 times in the living room. I like my sleep a lot more than trying to make a full night in the room in my bed. So we sleep in the living room where we both sleep a lot better. I might be spoiling her and making a lot more work for myself later but oh well.

*She loves sitting on her Daddys chest and looking at him. He tends to make faces at her while he does this and she looks at him like he's crazy.

*She can eat for hours straight... I think proportionality she can eat more than a teen aged boy... I'm not sure where the heck it all goes tho...

*She knows how to blow out her diaper... its surprising when I went to go change her diaper and she had poo on her foot

*I'm thinking about adding dairy back into my diet sloooowly. I miss cheese and I have a big thing of yogurt in my fridge with my name written on it, but I don't want her gassy so being stuck on bread and rice might be my diet for another month or so.

*Her daddys parents have come down to see her a few times now. I love having them come over! I just wish that they were closer so that we could all see each other more.

*My parents also come around a lot... my mom will come by for hours at a time, same with my dad

*My sister makes sure that I'm up to date on posting pictures of Madison and keeping up on my blog, so far she hasn't needed to nag me to post something new... I guess I have stuff to update on so it isn't that hard.

* I still love watching her get burped. It still makes my day watching her look around

hi

Hi! I'm Madison! I scared my mommy really bad this morning! At 4am I pooped so loudly and fiercly that I overflowed my diaper... I've never done this before. When she went to check my diaper she gave me funny looks and had to change my clothes

My birthday

My birthday didn't feel like any birthday I've had before. It really didn't feel like my birthday but I think thats what comes with the territory nine days after having a baby. I had to get her to the doctors by 3:30 and I had to run a few errands. So we got all dressed up because its cold right now for some reason...

So at 2pm we left the apartment, paid rent, and went to my work. I had to fix my leave paperwork (bwahahaha to me actually going back, I'm doing the leave to keep the insurance going as long as I can) and that took almost an hour to do. We rushed to my doctors office to get more paperwork to get in the mail by 4pm so that it will have the 2nd as the post mark date. We got to her appointment on time which was a miracle and by the skin of my teeth. She doesn't like the doctor very much because that means I have to strip her down to her diaper and she gets messed with by people with cold hands... she hates anything cold. She's gained back her weight (she dropped down to 8' 6 at her first doctors appointment) she now weights 8' 14 and is 21 and 1/4 inches long. The doctor examed her and said she looks perfect. she said that it looked like her umbilical cord was going to fall off soon. They then did the pku test. I almost lost it. they pricked her heal and she started to scream. It hurt me so bad to watch her cry like that, they then squoze her heal until she had left four drops of blood on their test paper. She shook and cried and was so upset it was horrible! She fell asleep in the car on the way home thankfully
She was so worn out afterwards she kind of just passed out in her car seat. Once she woke up she ate for about an hour and a half to two hours straight. Its normal that somewhere during the evening she goes on marathon eating seasons so that didn't surprised me that much. Once she woke back up it was time to change her diaperHer umbilical cord just fell right off. I'm sure that made her extremely happy. She HATED anyone touching it. She would either cry when ever you touched it or she would give you a nasty look like "yes that is mine why are you touching it?"

Once home Ryan made me a version of Hawaiian haystacks (pretty much rice, chicken, gravy, and pineapple), I'm still extremely cautious over what I eat because I'm trying to help her not have gas because she having gas really isn't fun for anyone. I also didn't have a cake (I thought it would be too much dairy) so I had fresh and easy bread pudding which was yummy. We just hung out watching battle star galactica (its nerdy but its instant on netflix and its something that Ryan and I can do together) Ryan put together her swing because we think she will she will love it. We haven't had the chance to try it out but she loves her bouncy chair.

I've haven't gotten bored yet which surprises me. I've actually kept up with the house. I might not get dressed every day (I dont really need to) but I keep on laundry, and dishes up. I try to remember I need to drink a lot more water than I actually do because I have feeling shes sucking me dry with how much she eats.

I'm glad I'm so well built to have babies. I feel almost normal again. I don't feel hit by a bus, I'm still a little sore but hey I had a bowling ball come out of me. I bounced back, I feel good, I'm not feeling any baby blues which I'm happy about. I haven't seen my hair start to fall out yet but my doctor warned me in the beginning of my pregnancy that it will fall out once I have her. I seem to be handling the sleeping being interrupted pretty well. I sleep so much better when I hold her which is why we sleep in the living room at night, we've only spent the night in the room with Ryan once.

one week

I can't believe it's been a week since I've had Madison, time is going so quickly. I want her to stay small forever but at the same time I want to see her grow up and see what she becomes. I try to memorize her every feature, and I really don't want to put her down.

Some things about her:

I try to put mittens on her but she has the ability to get one mitten off ever time, same hand even if you put different mittens on her

She loves her daddy. They hang out a lot whenever he gets home from work.

She reeeeaaalllllly hates being cold, she cried until you make her warm again... thats why she didn't like her bath so much.

She hates getting her diaper changed because of the cold wipes. I think she has flash backs of the hospital when the lactation specialist would wipe her down to wake her up because she kept trying to sleep the entire time and wouldn't eat unless you put forth a lot of effort to wake her up then she would fall right back asleep.

I love burping her! Thats when she is extremely alert... she opens her eyes looks all around and makes the cutest noises.

She gets the hiccups every day some times a few times a day, yep she's definitely my daughter

she loves eating. she has a tendency to eat for hours straight

my sister moved to Louisiana on Saturday. I've never had to be in a different city than her before. its bizzare... I cried so hard when she left my apartment that morning it took Ryan a while to calm me down. Everything happens for a reason tho so I know shes there for something important