Mason - Day 15 12/31

Mason - Day 14 12/30

..and a random picture of Zaney.

Mason - Day 13 12/29

Picture overload today.  This is one day in the life of a newborn baby:

Early morning sneeze

The girls get Mason dressed for the day:

Allie's expressions are funny. 

All done!

Fun - spinning in the chair

rockstar!

Maddie was a rockstar for a day at her friend's party last Saturday.  I took photos of 12 little rockstar-wanna-be's who just loved the guitar and all the hair and makeup. More at my photo site. Back to Maddie - she came with me to the doctor today - and I didn't break the news that it was also her 4 year old well check until we got there.  She was a little scared about getting shots, but since she was totally unprepared, she actually agreed (yes, agreed) to get her Kindergarten shots today.  All 4 of them. 2 on each arm.  I thought she was going to flip out and cry, but she didn't.  She even had the mind to pick out which of the bandaids went on her arm first.  She was so proud that she didn't cry!  And because we were already out, we went to her favorite cupcake store and got her a vanilla cupcake. 
She weighed 31 lbs 8 oz (10%), 39 inches tall (25%).  The doctor recommended that she get an allowance and some serious chores, along with more vegetables - since Miss Maddie is more of a fruit lover - she loves any and all fruit. Even the weird ones.  What I love about this girl is that she is willing to try anything. Broccoli, brussel sprouts, hummus. Tonight at Costco she reminded me that we needed to get vegetables to eat.  So funny!
Maddie started dance classes again last week.  She sat it out. and watched the whole time.  She promised not to do that again tomorrow.  We'll see.

10 Months and Counting

She cut her first tooth on September 29.
Before lunch.
After lunch.

She loves a nice warm bath.

I haven't posted photos of our little Maddie for quite some time! At 10 1/2 months old, she is our little, petite, eensy, light as a feather "pint of love" (as Allie says). She has a lot of tricks up her sleeve.

She has the most adorable squinty eyes and crinkly nose when she smiles. We all like going in her room in the morning when she wakes up because 9 times out of 10, she will squeal and bounce on her knees, so excited to see us. Then she will reach her arms out to you so you could pick her up. It is so cute!

She loves climbing up the stairs and benches. She is cautious enough to not have tried going down the stairs by herself yet -- she always waits for someone to be right by her to get her back down. She cannot be left alone in her high chair without a belt on for even a minute as she can get out of it. I found her out of her high chair and on the countertop recently (scary!). She also pulls anything you try to put on her head. She won't wear headbands, or clips -- just elastics to hold her pigtails, but even those she pulls off too.

She likes unrolling toilet paper rolls and prefers to play with non-toys. When she hears someone leaving the house or hears the word "bye" she starts waving and saying "ba". She will take a 3 hour nap in the morning and a 2 hour nap in the afternoon for me, which is so helpful especially on Tuesdays and Thursdays when I have preschool.

We all love her so much! She keeps us entertained and on our toes!

4 Months Old!

Maddie is four months old today. She likes to blow raspberries, rolls over to her side, and rolls over when put on her tummy. She loves her dotted blankie, she likes snuggling with it and having a piece of it next to her face when she sleeps. She also loves her exer-saucer -- we found her making cute noises while she was playing in it today. She has been quite good with sleeping through the night (yeah!), and laughs a lot more now. She likes playing peek-a-boo with Mom too. The photos above were taken right after her bath today.

Maddie's First Flight

On Saturday, February 17, Maddie flew on Southwest Airlines Flt 407 to Phoenix. She nursed as we took off and landed, and when she was not nursing, she sat happily taking note of her surroundings. What a nice baby! Here is a photo of her while we were waiting for our baggage.

Our Darling Girls

Maddie's First Shots

Maddie is now almost two and a half months old. I took her to her two-month check-up last week -- she weighed 10 lbs and 6 oz., and 22 3/4 inches long. She got five shots, one of which was an oral vaccine. She cried and cried (which made me feel like crying myself). When Kevin picked her up to play with her later that night, she cooed and pouted, when he mentioned her shots and how bad it must have hurt. I had to document it (too bad I didn't think of the video cam) because it was so cute - okay, her little pout is way cute, the picture does not do it justice.

She loves her mobile and bouncer - mostly because when she kicks the toys, they make noise. I was showing her one of the baby rattles with a squeaker the other day and when it stopped squeaking, she started kicking her legs! I can only guess that maybe she was thinking her kicking would make the toy squeak again.

Sleepy Sunday

Look at that smile!

Maddie slept thru Church for the first time today. She has been napping from 9-12 every day this last week - so it worked perfectly with our 9-12 Church schedule. She will be two months old next week -- how time flies!!! We are all having a blast having her around. She is so cute, and such a good baby too (and hoping she will stay that way!).

Yes! It's Saturday!

Saturdays are great! Last night Maddie slept for five hours straight (11-4). So this morning I woke up feeling refreshed - and had a little bit of fun getting Maddie dressed. She did like her little panda shoes - she kept looking at them while she was in her car seat!


Kevin took Allie and Collin to a basketball game (BYU vs New Mexico), did some grocery shopping for me too, which he always does on the weekends when he's home, so I can have some time to just "chill". Sweet!

Maddie's Birthday

Madison Louise (Maddie) is here! On November 29, I went into the dr's office at 12 noon, got sent to the hospital, got there at 1 p.m. I checked myself in while Kevin rounded up the kids from school and took them home. Thank goodness Aireen was able to work from home -- she and Danny watched the kids while we're at the hospital.


Kevin got to the hospital at 2:30, and at 3:31 Maddie was born! She weighed in at 7 lbs 7 oz. and 20 inches long. So cute! I love new babies!