Half a Year...6 months Old

And I can hardly believe it!

Madi-girl is so curious and lively.  I think we are going to have our hands full when she starts crawling.

She sits all by herself.

She sits up very straight most of the time.

She loves playing with and watching her cousins Lydia and Liam.

She rarely swings for me anymore.  

She likes to be rocked to sleep and stay in my arms.

We have reverted back to the rock n play for bedtime sleep for now.

She loves to be carried around on your hip or in a wrap to see what is going on all around her.

She loves going for walks in her big girl stroller so she can see.

She so badly wants to eat everything we are eating.

She can get onto her tummy from sitting position, but not often and not very easily.

She rubs her feet together until her socks come off.

We have a little tikes piano that she loves to bang on.

I Love My New Toy...

need I say more. 

At 5 months old

Madelyn is trying to be so big and sit up by herself now.

 But, sometimes she falls over.

She wants to be big so badly!

She joins us at the dinner table now.

She is becoming a little more vocal.
Instead of just blowing raspberries all the time she talks a little- which sounds more like she's trying to sing.
She loves to snuggle.
She will greet me with big kisses and cuddles- grabs me tight and smooshes her head into my arm.
She loves playing with her daddy.  She will just stare at him and watch everything he does.
She notices Jackson more now- likes to watch him with an inquisitive look.

Weekend Food Swap

Our plan for the new year has been going really well!

It has been so nice to just pop something in the oven or dump it in a pot on the stove to heat up.

We have swapped twice now and have ended up with a good variety of foods including: soups, burritos, pork and beans, meatloaf, eggrolls, lasagna, etc...

We are meeting again today to swap- 

2 weekends ago I made Chicken Taco Wraps and Collard Green Soup.

This weekend I made Chili and Enchilada Casserole.

We are only meeting every other weekend which is working out great.

Looking forward to many more yummy and easy meals for our busy weeknights!

Thanks to my wonderful family for wanting to participate!

PS- For dinner little one is now sitting with us and she loves it- Yay! 

(I used to hold her or she'd lay in her bouncy on the floor next to us)

Here's to Little Triumphs!

So, I've been working really hard at trying to get Madi girl to enjoy sleeping flat on her back. Ok- maybe not 'really' hard- but at least trying. For the first two weeks or so that we brought Madelyn home from the hospital she slept in the bed with me. It worked so well- I had just had a c-section and was not going anywhere so I was not worried about rolling over on her or anything like that.  

She was a good little sleeper.

Only woke up a few times a night to be fed and would go right back to sleep. She is a little bit of a schedule baby when it comes to night time. Around 8pm is her bedtime- her choice- not mine. Around that time she gets cranky-so we go upstairs in my bedroom in the pitch dark to lay down and I feed her.  

Out like a light every time.

She wakes up pretty much ever night between 2 and 3 to be fed and goes right back to sleep.

Then, she is up for the day between 7 and 8 am.

After sleeping in the bed with me for the first couple weeks- when I was more mobile and able to get in and out of our big bed easier- she began to sleep in her Rock n' Play Sleeper right by my bed.

Rashes...Rashes...and more Rashes...

Had to take little love to the doctor.

She was just there for her 4 month well visit.

Her doctor saw her rashes while we were there the first time- we did what we were told,

but they only continued to get worse.

Eczema.

Poor lovey.

I hope it is something she out grows.  

Thank goodness he gave us some good ol' medicine to heal her poor little skin.  

She hasn't been sleeping well at night for the past week...

or napping.

My happy, little, easy going baby for the past week has been a little bit of a drama queen.  

Happy go lucky one minute, whining and whimpering the next.

Let's hope her skin clears up soon so she can feel comfortable again.
And Boo to stupid rashes!

Finally...

Madi girl finally had her 4 month well visit.

Even though she is almost 5 months now.  

The doctors office does not do well visits the last 2 weeks in December 

which is when she needed to go, so the next available day they had was today.

She was such a good girl.  

She even showed the nurse how she loves to blow raspberries.

She did not like much of the visit other than being able to be naked and held by her momma.
Her daddy came too...he knows how awful shot visits are.