Random Acts of Cuteness

I was looking through the pictures on the video camera tonight and realized I had several pictures that I just liked, but that had nothing to do with each other... except that they all had Maddy in them. So here's random acts of cute Maddy-ness.

So the other night I realized I was out of clothes. This has been a bad week and I just haven't done laundry and Maddy... well, Maddy is Maddy and was completely out of clothes. So, I started going through her drawer. I figured she was a little bigger and there had to be something in there that fit her (other than the yellow jumper that was handed down to her from someone. Not her best look.). So, I'm pulling out big shirts and big pants and than I find this cute little blue outfit. It looked Maddy size and lo, and behold! the tag said newborn. Not only that. It fit her perfectly!! It wasn't even, huge-newborn size on her. She looked like a regular baby, which totally merited a picture.



Isn't she great!?

Now, I have the best quilt in the world. This quilt was made by my Auntie Di and words cannot express how fabulous this quilt is. It's made of denim and velvet and it is wonderfully heavy and just warms my soul every time I take it out. And, boy, does this quilt come out, especially in the winter. So, this is my annual shout-out to Auntie Di for how fabulous she is for creating such a magnificent piece of art and to show her that the second generation is already enjoying it!



Next, we have Maddy sleeping. I have a lot of pictures of Maddy sleeping because, well, she seems to be the cutest when she's sleeping. (I say this with Maddy currently fussing in her swing. Not a pretty picture.) Well, I took her over to mom and dad's the other night after she had been crying ALL day. Not just when she wasn't sleeping, because she never slept. She stayed awake ALL day and cried because she was mad that she kept almost falling asleep. Finally she passed out and since we didn't have a bed for her over at mom and dad's house, we used the next best thing. A laundry basket.



Since then we've moved the Port-a-crib there, so next time she'll have a proper bed. So far, she still hasn't needed it. I thought babies were supposed to sleep 16 hours a day.

Lastly, Maddy does the impossible. She's so hip, she dances in her sleep. Sleeping during musicals, she SO my girl!!

Maddy on the Move

Maddy took her first road trip on Monday. We went down to Southern Illinois to visit some friends of mine that were visiting from Florida. We were pleasantly surprised by how well she did. She slept most of the time in the car. She put up very well with being admired by EVERYONE who saw her. And, she even did well at her first restaurant. It was the best restaurant too. Maddy went to Fitz's. She wasn't very impressed though. She says that root beer tastes like milk.

How to knock out a baby

This is Ash with a guest post.

How to knock out a baby.

Step one: Feed her lots of warm formula from a bottle.
Step two: Put her on a dead sheep and put her in her swing.
Step three: Enjoy the quiet.

The Year of the Tiger

Madelyne was born in the year of the Tiger. Here is her Chinese horoscope, courtesy of her great-grandparents.



According to grandpa, tigers sleep during the day and are aggressive at night and I have proof! Here is Maddy once more passed out on her dead sheep in the middle of the day.



I'm glad she likes her dead sheep and her little nap gave me some time to relax and practice the piano, but let me show you the little tiger that came out at night. Pay close attention to her fingers in this video in which Maddy has finally found her thumb after a good fuss and is finally starting to settle down.



*sigh* My aggressive, stubborn, little tiger.

The Face of Evil

Now, I know what you're thinking. How could this sweet little picture of a precious baby sleeping on a dead sheep represent the face of evil? Well, let me tell you about a little night owl baby.

This is the story of a little baby that sleeps all day, which is good for her mommy, but when night rolls around, she changes. That's right, like a werewolf. She turns from the nice, sweet, sleepy baby that I know and love, to an upset, crying baby that her daddy gets to take care of all night. So, being the nice mommy that I am, I've been trying to keep her up during the day more, so she will sleep more at night. But, let me tell you about a naughty little baby that doesn't like to stay up. Sometimes, she expresses her dislike by crying. Sometimes, she will just pass out regardless of what position she is in.

This afternoon was one of the latter. I had her up and I was carrying her and dancing with her and talking and that baby just passed out in my arms. "Well, I'll show her," I thought. I put her on her lovely new dead sheep from her Aunt Sarah. She'll get some tummy time, and wake up, and thrive. Well, let me tell you what that bad baby did. Not only did she not thrive, but she didn't even wake up. That's right, she kept right on sleeping with a nose full of dead sheep. Poor daddy. No quiet night for him.

Revenge of the bear

It's been nice having Ash work nights the last few weeks. That way, I can be up during the day with Maddy and Ash is up at night with her and I actually get some sleep. I got up this morning though and Ash said that baby had been up all night, which I believed. She's really a little night owl. I have the worst time trying to keep her awake during the day and then by 8:00 pm, she's starting to get pretty perky. So, I asked Ash what they did all night. He said they played some Fallout 3 and they played with the bear and that there were pictures. So I looked at the camera and found this:



I'm thinking, this time, that Maddy didn't stand a chance.

Maddy the Moose

Maddy got back from her one month check-up yesterday and we're so proud of her because she is bulking up. OK, well, she weighs 6 lbs 7 oz, but for her that's huge!! We're so proud of our little moose.



So, Saturday and Sunday night, Maddy decided that she just wasn't going to sleep. She decided that it would be way more fun to cry. She's very good at crying too. In fact, I think if there was an Olympic sport for crying, Maddy would take the gold in all events. The 1 minute cry, the 5 minute cry, the hour and a half cry, the zero to hysterical in 2 minutes. She is the best. Well, when you don't sleep for two days, you end up passing out all day on Monday. So today, we're trying to keep Maddy up and get her on a better schedule.

First, we went to the mailbox and found out that Maddy needs more hats. The two hats mom made when she was born were great, but she's out grown the Totoro hat (once more, so proud!) and one hat is not enough, especially when the house is covered in baby stuff, which can make finding one hat difficult. So Maddy went out to the mailbox in her Strawberry hat from Aunt Kimmie.



Maddy says she needs more hats, although this one did a great job of keeping the sun out of her eyes by covering her whole head. So, I'm doing a shout-out for hats. If you make her one, it will totally get featured on Maddy's blog. I'm going to start one when she passes out this afternoon. Head circumference is 34.5 cm. The big moose. :)

After the walk to the mailbox, we had some tummy time and while Maddy is not particularly fond of tummy time, it is a good way to find your thumb.

A complicated ordeal

Baby clothes that are too big for a baby are funny things. The baby just gets lost in them. No matter how many times you put their arms and legs in the right place, the limbs just seem to disappear in folds of fabric. Dad was having this problem today trying to get a clean jumper on Maddy. It started out like this:



Then this:



And finally a baby emerges:



Ahh, the miracles of life.

Maddy vs. the bear

This is the bear on Maddy's changing table.



He's really a very nice bear. Maddy got him as a present a couple weeks ago and I thought he was sweet, so he has taken up residence on her changing table. He makes the table look nice and can occasionally nibble on Maddy when she is getting changed.

Well, yesterday, Maddy was mad!! She was mad at me and mad at the world and, oh, the kicking and the flailing when I laid her down on the changing table. Before I knew it, the bear was caught up in a tornado of arms and legs and ended up like this.



He never stood a chance. Poor bear.

Babies don't know when to stop

Here is a picture of a happy, full baby, that has just been changed, massaged with lotion and is cuddling with her Nan.



This is completely different than the baby I was wrangling last night that was upset and burping up milk every time you picked her up, or turned her on her side, or laid her down to get changed or to take a bath. She had milk EVERYWHERE!! I was actually a little worried about her yesterday because she's really not a spitter.

Well today I found out what happened. I was feeding Maddy and asked mom to make a bottle because we've been supplementing Maddy to help her grow. I didn't think much of it because mom had made a bottle for the baby yesterday and had read the instructions: 2 oz of water to one scoop of formula. Then she verified that we usually just give Maddy two ounces. Well, mom goes to the kitchen tonight and comes back with a 6 oz bottle that's full. I said, "Wow, you made a lot!" and mom looked at me and said, "I just made two ounces, right. She drank it all yesterday." *sigh* That explains so much. So I had mom add two more scoops to the bottle and then only let her drink two ounces because apparently Maddy just doesn't know when to quit.

First Day at Church and Other Stories

Maddy finally made her social debut this Sunday. She went to her first Sacrament Meeting. Now, as we have established, Maddy is small and none of her clothes fit her, so I realized about the middle of last week that if we were going to take her to church, I was actually going to have to do some clothes shopping for her, so I got mom to come over and watch her, while I took a trip to Wal-Mart. It was kind of fun actually. Mom came over to baby-sit and I got out of the house. It was my first time driving since Maddy was born and I got to crank up the Ben Folds and enjoy a little time to myself. Ok, who am I kidding, it was weird being out by myself and I actually got my shopping done pretty quickly and came back home to hang out with Mom and Maddy. I got a really cute dress for Maddy though, so she was already when Sunday came.



Maddy was totally a hit on Sunday!!

In other news, Maddy had her weight re-checked on Wednesday and she is back to her birth weight and actually exceeds it by 1 oz! I'm so proud. She is starting to bulk up a little bit. Ash says she has to get ready for a cage match. I told him no cage matches till she's at least 5. Really, we have to set some rules.