Sick Little Girl

We officially have our first baby sickness... Madison made it 15 weeks without being sick. She started having some congestion on Friday, along with pretty much everyone else around here. Gotta love the Texas weather! We did saline drops, nose aspirator and a humidifier this weekend. Sunday night she woke up around 4am very congested.  I fed her and she went back to sleep until 7:30 when Eric had to take her to school. She wasn't impressed...

Monday night, Eric was up with her from 2:30-3:30. Finally I decided to feed her to see if that would help her go back to sleep. About 5 minutes after she finished, she projectile vomited everywhere...all over me, her, the boppy, the couch, blanket...everything. Into the bath she went! I thought maybe she ate too fast and was congested. She fell back asleep until 8 am. Eric sent me this picture before he left to bring her to school. Her face cracks me up!

She went to daycare on Tuesday and had a good day. She slept more than usual, but no fever or throwing up. As we were leaving daycare in the afternoon, we were standing on the side walk waiting for a car to leave. Madison started throwing up again. I was trying to catch it with her blanket, but it was pretty much a lost cause. 

When we got home, she went straight to the bathtub again. She loved getting to lay in her bath while I poured water on her. She has been pretty puny this evening. We talked to the pediatrician nurse and she said to try Pedialite and monitor her diapers. As of 10:00pm, no wet diaper in 6 hours and she won't take any Pedialite. 

5am update: Little miss slept all night. She fussed for a minute around 2, but fell back asleep quickly. Not sure if she has had a wet diaper,  but she may be staying with Daddy for the day! Poor baby girl is breaking my heart. 

Five on Friday

Happy Friday friends! I cannot tell you how happy I am that it is Friday. I can't wait to love on my baby girl all weekend long. I may not put her down... just hold her all weekend.

One. This has been a hard week for me. It was my full first week of working. I love being back at work and while I'm at work I'm having a great day and enjoying all the people that I work with. But I sure am missing my little girl. We are having to find our new normal and get used to not getting to spend as much time together as usual.

Two. Here's Madison on her first day of school! Wednesday they made reindeer with paint and their foot prints. Thursday was Polar Express pajama day. It has been a great first week!

She has been so worn out each day!

Three. As hard as this week has been, there have been some really great things that have happened also. Wednesday night we went to go visit Santa Claus at the mall. It was kind of a last-minute decision but it turned out to be very good. Madison wasn't scared at all and went right into Santa's arms. She even gave us some good looks for pictures. She was so cute and we will always love her first picture with Santa.

Four.  Last weekend I found the Bread Pudding Community Coffee I had been looking for. I was a little unsure what it would taste like, but the box said brown sugar and caramel...I knew it had to be good! This flavor is only for a limited time, but I hope it becomes permanent. 

Five. We have a small Christmas tree in our bedroom and I love it! Every night l look forward to laying in bed with the Christmas tree lights on. 

Madison's 3 Month Birthday {Christmas Pajama Style}

Madison–- All of a sudden you have developed quite the personality!  You love to squeal and smile.  We have had so much fun playing with you this month.  We love you so much baby girl!

 

Date: December 6, 2013

Weight: You weigh 14 pounds and are 23.5 inches long! You are long and skinny. You are still wearing 0-3 month clothes but starting to fit some 3-6 month clothes.  You are still in size 2 diapers.

Sleeping: You are a great sleeper!  For most of the month you went to bed at 9:30pm, woke up at 3am to eat and went back to bed until 6:00am-7:00am.  The last few days of the month you had 3 nights when you slept from 10:00pm-8:00am!  You got a little fussy around 3:00am, but went back to sleep quickly.

Eating: you are still such a good eater!  You usually eat 4 oz every 3 hours, but have some 3.5-4 hour stretches. 

Milestones: You are so close to rolling over!  You can roll to your side from your back, but not all the way to your stomach. You have started to grab the toys on your playmat, suck your hands and laugh a little.  You still love the car and your bath.  You like to listen to books and look at the Christmas tree.  You still love to sit in the bouncer and look at the lights.

Special Moments: This month we celebrated Thanksgiving at Uncle Michael and Aunt Heather’s house.  We also celebrated MowMow and PawPaw’s birthdays.  Mommy went back to work at the end of this month. Lolli and Pops stayed with you during the day while Mommy went to work on Thursday and Friday.  You start daycare on Monday!

 

Now, we don't usually wear hair bows with pajamas, but we figured might as well get a 2 for 1 special and take pictures of Madison in her Christmas pajamas for her 3 month pictures!  I was having the hardest time finding Christmas pajamas in 0-3 month size that were cute and didn't look like they were for a boy.  I finally found these adorable Mud Pie pajamas at Buy Buy Baby and knew I had to buy them.  They look so adorable on Madison! Since they don't really look like pajamas since the top is so fancy, Madison had a pajama day on Sunday! Here are some of the pictures of sweet Madison in her Christmas pajamas:

 

 

It is so exciting when you discover feet!

{Five on Friday}

Happy Friday friends! Today's 5 on Friday was late...this mommy went back to work yesterday!

 

1. Guess who's 3 months old today?!?! I can't believe I have a 3 month old baby! The past 3 months have forever changed us and our family. Madison is so perfect and such a sweet girl. She has grown so much developmentally this week. Since Monday, she has began to grasp things, notice toys when she lays on her play mat and roll to her side. She is so close to rolling from her back to stomach!

       

        

    

   

2.  Other big happenings...I started back to work yesterday.  It was a wonderful 1st day back.  My parents watched Madison the past 2 days and she will begin daycare on Monday.  We feel wonderful about the daycare we chose, but this momma's heart wants nothing more than for her teachers to know what a special girl she is and be able to learn her personality quickly.  Overall, Madison is such an easy baby and I think she will love daycare.

I started my day with flowers from Madison (my parents) and coffee in my new mug from Leslie.

                  

We were very happy to see each other at the end of the day!

                  

                  

3. We are having some cold weather in Houston right now! The highs are not supposed to get out of the 40's for a week, which is very unseasonable for us. On Wednesday, the temperature was 82 degrees and yesterday it was 45 degrees by dinner time...welcome to Texas! We are looking forward to staying warm this weekend and wrapping some Christmas presents.

4. It's hard to believe Thanksgiving was just a week ago! I tried out two Pinterest desserts during Thanksgiving week and they were both delicious! I made German Chocolate Bars and Pumpkin Crunch Cake. The nice thing was that we were able to take the desserts to other people's houses so we didn't eat the whole thing ourselves!

5. She's her momma's girl...

Christmas Traditions

Now that we have Madison, I have been thinking a lot about Christmas traditions that I want to start for our family of 3.  As a kid, I always remember putting up our Christmas tree as a family.  While this is not necessarily a tradition, one thing I remember was that there were many years we would go to Marble Slab afterwards and get ice cream.  Not sure how the tradition got started, but it was always fun.  I also always remember when my parents would get out the Christmas books and put them into a wooden book holder my mom had that was shaped like a house. Lucky for me...a few weeks ago my parents surprised me with all our the Christmas books from when I was a kid.  I also remember going to Christmas Eve church, eating at Black Eyed Pea afterwards and listening to the Boston Pops radio show on the way home. 

On Eric's side of the family, we have developed a tradition over the years of going to Christmas Eve church service and then going to eat Mexican food with his family afterwards. Since his family is so large (15 people with kids, spouses and grandkids) we have also started to do a Christmas gift exchange. Each person brings a gift worth around $30 and we do a gift exchange where you can get or steal a gift.

I have been thinking a lot lately about traditions that we want to start with Madison as we now have our own family of three. One thing I want to do is to buy a special ornament every year.  It will be fun to look at the ornaments each year as we decorate the tree. The teacher in me has always had a love for books. I want to get a special Christmas book for Madison every year. Since I always remember getting out our Christmas books as a kid year after year, I want her to have the same memories. I think our Christmas Eve tradition each year will be that she gets to open her new Christmas book for the year and we were read it together as a family. I also want her to have a pair of Christmas pajamas each year that she can wear during December and also on Christmas morning.  Eric and I always enjoy going to get a Starbucks drink and driving around to look at Christmas lights. I found these two Christmas lights scavenger hunts on Pinterest the other day and thought it was such a fun idea. I'm hoping that we can do one of them this year as we drive around and look at lights.

  

What are some of your family's Christmas traditions each year? Any special ones that we should add to our list?