Teething

Teething

Mady has started teething… poor thing is in a lot of pain and is taking it out on everyone around her. 
She’s having a hard time falling asleep and naps are pretty much nonexistent right now.
We went to Family Fun Fest at my school this weekend. It was fun to see so many students. Mady had a lot to look at and was a very good little girl. My kids loved seeing her, too.

Mady is hoping that Spring comes back very soon! It was nice for the few days it was here!

Five months old

Mady's five-months-old already. She's doing a lot of fun things and growing every day.


At five months:

* She drinks about 26 oz. of formula a day

* Eats two small meals of baby food, one of fruits & vegetables and the other of a mix of rice cereal and baby oatmeal cereal

* She loves sweet potatoes! That's new this month. She doesn't dig peas (who can blame her!).

* She shakes her head and lunges forward for food and makes a small grunting noise. Very funny to see how into eating she is.

* She showed us that she can crawl by crawling forward a bit one afternoon, but now she only crawls backward. Then she gets very angry because she can't move to what she wanted in the first place.

* If there's somwhere she needs to go, Mady will just roll and roll and roll until she gets there. I'm going to attach Swiffer sheets on her and have her clean our kitchen floor... just kidding!

* Mady chews on everything in site or in reach.

* She's finally really noticing and interacting with our cat. She gets so excited when Ella comes in the room, to the point that she will stop crying if Ella's around. She also loves River, our babysitter's dog.

* Mady can sit up on her own for about 10 seconds or so, but if she gets distracted or excited by something, over she goes.

* Her sleep pattern's been really messed up lately. Hopefully we can get her back to going to bed around 8 instead of 10.

* She tries really, really hard to make a shrieking noise, but can't quite do it yet. (Eric's thanking God that she hasn't mastered it yet.)

Little Black Dress

Mady in her "This is My Little Black Dress" onesie.

Outside Adventure

Mady went out in the snow for the first time on Saturday. The weather was pretty decent and we got 4.5 inches of snow, so I thought I'd dress her up in her snowsuit, mittens and hat and try it.
Eric set her in the snowbank and right away she started to bawl... I did take the opportunity to take a few good questions of her unhappy in the snow! (I know, mean Momma!)
Mady's been really, really drooly and cranky lately. Maybe she's cutting a tooth? I guess we'll see.
She slept through the night both Saturday and Sunday night. You would think that would mean that I would sleep through the night, too, but I'm up thinking about why she's not awake or wake up and listen to hear if she's crying. I've got to get over that so I can sleep, too!
Mady tried pears for the first time this weekend. The texture was a little weird for her, gritty, but she did like it and ate pretty well. She still prefers her carrots and applesauce!

Grandma's Memorial

Last weekend was Grandma Helen's memorial service. On Friday afternoon we left for Monticello. When we got to Gail's house we were greeted by lots of family. Grandma Sylvia and Grandpa Lee got there with Uncle Chris and cousin Michael shortly after we arrived.

This was the first time that Mady got to meet Uncle Chris. Boy, did she love him! Her face would just light up. Cousin Michael didn't pay much attention to Mady on Friday night. He was too busy playing with all of his cool new toys.

Uncle Norm and Aunt Linda arrived a while later and after a good meal the family watched the video tribute that I made for Grandma. It was really nice to watch it with everyone and hear all the stories. Mike and Drew got to Gail's around 10 and after they ate we watched the video again.

Mady did very well on Friday for being overtired and around so many people.

Saturday morning Daddy, Momma, Mady, Uncle Chris and Michael went to the outlet mall for a little shopping and to get out of the house before the memorial service.

At the memorial service, Mady did very well, once she was in her stroller. The service was beautiful. I especially loved the stories that people told about Grandma.

After the service Mady got to meet her Uncle Keith, Aunt Michelle and Aunt Sheri, along with cousins Ashlynn, Sasha and Matt. Once Ashlynn and Sasha started paying attention to Mady then Michael decided it was okay to pay attention to her as well.

Once back at Gail's we spent more time with the family. Michael played with Mady a lot on Saturday night and even held and fed her. Auntie Toni also spent a lot of time playing with Mady, mostly playing "up down" and watching Michael ride down the stairs.

It was a nice weekend to spend with family remembering Grandma and making new memories. I'm so glad that Mady got to spend some time with her Uncle Chris and cousin Michael.

Four months old!

Time flies! Mady's now four-months old.

Feb. 7th Mady was baptized. Uncle Bill and Auntie Kim are her godparents. The service was at English Lutheran in La Crosse and couldn't have gone any better. Mady was great through the service and when it was time for her to be baptized, she smiled each time Pastor Mark put water on her head. It was too cute!

Mady received many nice gifts to honor her baptism: a necklace with a heart and cross from Grandma Linda and Poppa, a beautiful bracelet with her name on it from Grandma Sylvia and Grandpa Lee, a Tooth Fairy silver container from Grandpa Roger and Grandma EJ, a bible from Uncle Bill, Auntie Steph and Malayna and many other things.

At four months Mady:

* weighs 14 lbs, 3 oz.

* is 25 inches long.

* eats about 27 oz. of formula a day

* enjoys applesauce and carrots, especially carrots

* doesn't dig the rice cereal.

* sleeps about 9 hours at night, getting up usually once

* reaches for Eric, Jennie (her babysitter) and Courtney (one of my students)

* loves her toy frog and Lola the pink dog.

* tries to sit up all the time.

* rolls from front to back and back to front.

* crawl-scoots backwards instead of forwards and gets mad when she can't get her toy.

* smiles and giggles a lot.

* is still the love of our life!