Pictures as requested!

Just because.

Just posting to put this picture up that Michael took. It's adorable.

Maddie went to her first Doctor's appointment today! It went very well. She's 9 pounds, 9 ounces. She was 9.6 when she was born, so she's doing well. She is healthy and in good shape!

Her cord stump fell off, and the doctor cleaned her belly button all up for me and gave me the okay to give her a regular bath.

That's about it for now. I spent the entire day trying to wake her up to eat. She sleeps like the dead I swear. Now she's eaten a good meal and she's sleeping, so I have some me time. Going to do nerdstuff with Mike. Tata!

So far so good.

Little girl is HUNGRY!

Little girl is a POOP MACHINE.

We discovered that it's not only boys that pee upwards while their diapers are being changed. Apparently, girls can do it too, and Madison taught me this yesterday. Despite her peeing all over me while I'm changing her, it was hilarious.

Feedings are going well. She only eats around every four hours during the day, every five or six hours at night, but we weighed her and she's gaining weight and she's also pooping and peeing like crazy, so I'm not too worried. They say babies her age eat once every 2-3 hours... my nipples aren't complaining at the extra free time they're getting.

Today everyone is at work, Mike is out running errands, Madison is napping, and I have a free moment to myself. I'm liking it. No offense to anyone that comes to the house, but having a quiet day to myself is fantastic. First one I've had since this whole thing went down.

Tonight when it gets a bit cooler outside we're going to bring Madison out in the stroller and go for a little walk. This time I'm hoping that I get a bit further than just down the block and back to the house. Yesterday and today though I didn't have to take any percoset. I might have pushed myself a bit too much yesterday because today I've had some discomfort, but nothing too bad.

But yeah- going to play some games and veg out before senorita poopypants wakes up to feed again. I actually think I need to change a diaper... At least she lives up to the nickname we've so affectionately given her.

This is Madison with the hiccups!!

Everything's good so far!!

Awwe, Daddy and Maddie takin' a little nap together. Shortly after this cute scene, Maddie's fist was in Mike's eye. Should have gotten a picture of it. Freakin' adorable.

The two of them are very alike when it comes to sleeping. Both of them sleep with their arms up above their heads. Last night they were both doing it at the same time. Should have taken a picture of that too to put side by side in a comparison.

I'm supposed to be giving the little bug a bath, but I'm taking a break to eat an apple. Whenever I stood up I got dizzy for whatever reason so I took a vitamin and now I'm eating something. Don't want to pass out while she's sitting on the changing table.

But yeah... things have been going extremely well so far. Before she was born I got worried a lot that I wasn't going to be able to take care of her. Breastfeeding is going awesomely... she sleeps, she's a poop machine. The only thing I'm having trouble with is waking up for nighttime feedings. I'm awfully cranky if I'm woken up out of a dead sleep. Last night wasn't bad though since I went to bed at like... 8. When she woke up to eat I wasn't as tired.

She's got an awful habit though. Sometimes she'll eat from one side for 15 minutes and pass out. It's like, next to impossible to wake her up and I'm left in pain until she wakes her butt up to eat from the other side. I'm currently feeling that right now. Going to try and get her sleepy butt up so I can get some relief.

Until next time!

Update!!

Look at this little girl. ADORABLE.

So today I'm attempting to put the video I shot onto a DVD. It's been a project that's taken the entire day so far. It's okay though, I got plenty of sleep.

Turns out Madison likes her sleep. Last night I finished feeding her around 12:45am, and she slept right after until 6am. Then we did a 30 minute feeding, and she went right back to sleep for another 3 hours. It was definately superfantastic. 8 hours of sleep... freakin' sweet dude.

Michael is currently playing with the little girl on the bed. We took out the gymboree thing that Danielle got her out and she seems to enjoy it. She looks up at the mirror thing. Doesn't do much else, but she's not even a week old yet. Won't be doing much for awhile.

Just incase anyone wanted to know, Madison is a poop machine. She makes biiiiig stinky poopy. Mike is on diaper duty, so he gets to change them all.

Speaking of Mike changing diapers, Mike was changing a pee diaper and then got peed on. Nice.

Off to try and figure out how to get this damn video on DVD. See ya.

A New Arrival!

So... I was going to post the morning before we went to the hospital for the c-section, but I ended up having my water break at 3 in the morning instead, and had to go to the hospital earlier.

Madison Leigh is beautiful. She's perfect and everything we ever could dream of. We had a good 4 days in the hospital, and now she's home. Today is our one year wedding anniversary... bringing home the precious little girl was the best gift we could ask for.

I'd post more, but I'm very sleepy. We need to do a diaper check. She had explosive poopy earlier. Let's see what little gift she has for us next!!

She's coming!!

Thursday afternoon... around 2:00 I'm going in for a scheduled c-section. Little girl is upside down, so they won't deliver her naturally.

Just wanted to say that for now. I'm very sleepy... so going to nap.

Bye!

Pictures!

The crib and her dresser. The crib is pretty, the bedding is gorgeous, the mobile is ugly. Trust me though, it's very stimulating. I wouldn't be using it if every parent I've talked didn't say to get this or die.


Nintendo DS, Rocking chair, doll, diaper genie, changing table. The DS is there for when I get bored and sit in the chair to play Pokemon. The chair was the one my mother used in both mine and my sister's room when we were babies. The doll was hand made from scratch by a friend of my mother's. The diaper genie is new, and the changing table has been used with all the babies since my little cousin Holly who is now 15. (And so is the crib for that matter.)


These two pictures have been used in every baby's room in my family since my Aunt Linda was born. She is now 56. That's my 2 aunts, my mother, my sister, me, 3 cousins, 2 nephews, and now Madison.












If you all haven't gathered, my family is fond of hand-me-downs.





Here's me... waiting for her to GET OUT!

Turtle!!

The pic isn't the greatest quality, but this is the cutest stuffed animal... ever. Mike and I have this friend, Eeva, that we met in Dark Ages. She is extremely awesome and she decided to knit this little guy from scratch and send it to us from Finland. She also sent us some awesome soap, and two chocolate bars made with chili peppers that I'm afraid to try. I'm making Mike the test dummy to see if they're spicy.

Today we also got some video footage of us and the baby's room while I was showing him how to use the new video camera we got. Debating uploading it to youtube. It's kinda boring... but it does show what the rooms look like for those that will unfortunately not be visiting them. It also features me in my big belly splendor.

I've been going to bed early... around 10:30-11 or so, but then I wake up at 1-2 in the morning. I can only sleep in chunks. It's 3 now, been up since 1. I'll probably try to go back to sleep tonight though instead of staying up until 6 like I've done the past two nights. Roseanne marathons on Nick at Nite are just too good to miss!

So due date #1 passed. August 8th. Nothing. Granted, it was just a chart that told us that bit of information. Due date #2, the 10th, is determined from my sonograms. Seriously though, it's a two day difference. On Friday I go in for a non-stress test just to monitor the baby's heart rate to make sure she's alright still being in there. She's moving around and all that good stuff. Everyone seems to think that she's coming here on Saturday. I'm pushing (hah, pushing... get it?) for sooner. Although, I have gotten rather attached to the belly despite my desperate need for mobility once again. I will miss it.

Going to try that sleep thing again. Tata!

So!

... Nothing going on! Just lots of resting. Today is cleaning/laundry day. Doctor's appointments are good. Just gotta stay in bed a lot, although I already do so little that being in bed doing little gets too boring. So I've been sitting in the chair downstairs instead. Being downstairs all the time caused me to get lazy upstairs with cleaning though so today I'm up here... cleaning up. All I did was carry the laundry downstairs and it wore me out. Then again... I did only sleep 6 hours. I don't know why I sleep so little at night. I've been having to take naps during the day. I hate it.

I like that everything is done. Other than just general upkeep, the rooms are done. All we need is a baby to put in it! Everyone is getting excited, including myself.

... Nothing much else to say. Pretty stagnant. So, bye!