"I will spend most of my life and eternity knowing my children as adults,
but for a few short years I have the privilege of knowing them as children."
- Hilary Weeks

Thursday, February 28, 2013

February - Month in Review

The best part about February was that Maddie was finally born! I already blogged about that, so I'll just put my favorite newborn Maddie picture here. She looks so chubby, like a baby sumo wrestler.
Jared and Hayden had fun making their Valentine's Day boxes for school.

And we had another wild hail storm. This one didn't do any damage, though. Thank goodness!


We also celebrated Clint's 35th birthday, but I was ginormously pregnant and I don't even remember what we did, and apparently I didn't take any pictures. Sorry honey!

The worst part about the month was that Nathan got really sick. He was diagnosed with pneumonia and was almost admitted to the hospital. Fortunately some medicine and breathing treatments were enough to get it under control. It took a few weeks (and some really long nights), but he finally made a full recovery.

Sunday, February 17, 2013

2 Weeks Old

Our little Madeline is now 2 weeks old. 
Here's what we've learned so far: 

*She's a great sleeper. She only wakes up once a night to be fed. Unfortunately I'm up every 2 hours in a coughing fit, so her sleeping habits aren't doing me any good. 

*She can sleep through loud noises, like my obnoxious coughing fits. 

*She is double crowned, just like Jared. I don't know if it will be easier or worse with girl hair. 

*She doesn't cry every often, but when she does it sounds like a dying cat. A really loud, dying cat.

* She hates her car seat. She screams non stop from the moment she is buckled in until she is finally let out. Nothing like driving a dying cat around town.

* Nathan is getting more used to her. We've gotten him to stop hitting her, now he just likes to hug her face. She doesn't like that very much.

* Her belly button cord stump finally fell off so she had her first bath today. I got the baby tub ready in the bathroom and while I was getting her undressed Nathan decided to help by stirring her bathwater with the toilet cleaning brush. So I put her on my bed while I disinfected and filled her tub again and of course she peed on my bed. And she hated being in the water. I think all my kids cried during their first bath, but she was fighting to get out. I'm glad baby baths don't take very long.

Tuesday, February 5, 2013