Mother's Day

What a wonderful day! I must say that I probably have the most wonderful family out there... hands down. My mother's day started Thursday, when beautiful roses arrived from Bridget (mum)... Everytime I look at them I smile. Events continued last night when Dad and Pam gave me a really special card with a gift card! Woohoo! :)

Then to today... I woke up to Maddy and daddy handing me a card... "Mommy~ Happy Mother's Day :) Daddy and I love you very much. Thank you for being the best mommy in the whole wide world. #1 Mommy. Maddy and Daddy." There are no words for how beautiful that is. We then left to take a quick trip to Crane Beach. I had a project to do for one of the mommy's on JustMommies... She is gathering photos of her daughter's name written in the sand from all over. Her angelic daughter passed away at 23 days old, this month marks her 2nd birthday.

We then took at trip to Portsmouth, NH and Newburyport, MA. A really funny side note... my mom was at Newburyport with Auntie Carol and we never ran into eachother! I wish we had known! After having a late lunch/ early dinner at my favorite Not Your Average Joe's it was time to go home. Maddy pooped herself out with constant raspberries that she ended the day...

Happy Mother's Day to all the mom's out there. And thank you to stars for allowing Ray and Madelyn to be a part of my life.

Poor Baby Girl...

This is what we put our baby girl through...

Yes, she has a diaper on her head.

Yes, she now has her pants on her head.

Yup, there is the diaper again.

And now she is in Mommy's pants WITH her pants on her head. Poor baby girl. She is just so freaking adorable that we can't seem to help it most of the time!
I am also on a "Mommy Board." You can request to have signatures made for your posts... You can use pictures, poems, anything you'd like... Here's ours...

Isn't it great?

Grateful

I am grateful. My daughter is wonderful.
She smiles when you do a funny dance. Laughs when you tickle her. Coos when you enter the room. And rolls around when you let her. She is perfect and I am grateful.

Amby Pamby

Sunday night we attempted the Ferber CIO... never again. After an hour of "ferberizing" she was soaked, near vomiting, and swollen from her crying. That just does not seem ok! I am a firm believer that kids are all different... go figure! Madelyn seems to be a high-needs baby, she loves to be held, comforted, and cuddled with- I don't see the horror in it. One day she will want nothing to do with cuddling, why do I need to force her now?

Long story short, we may have found the nighttime solution... The Amby Bed.

This hammock like bed mimics "swaddling." When Maddy was teeny-tiny she loved being swaddled, but then grew out of it. I really feel that this may be the answer.

There is no book at Barnes and Nobles that tells you the hands down, correct way to parent- trust me I looked. Ray and I just want a happy, secure child. We want her to have the world.

Maddy Baptism

What a beautiful day!

Rev Deb held an amazing service where during Children's Time our beautiful baby girl was baptized as a Child of God. We received beautiful mementos to remember this day, including a candle that daddy lit that will also be lit on her wedding day were presented to us.

After the special baptismal service we went back to Madelyn's house for delicious food, cake, and time with friends and family! Thank you to everyone for joining us on this special day.

Little added humor... Friday night, Maddy was crying and crying... I went to the kitchen quickly to get something and finally heard silence... no crying... I went back into the bedroom and found Ray like this... Anything to make his little lady happy :)

Rainy Wednesdays

We now have two teeth! But she is still in pain... I can't figure it out. To cope with the discomfort she does a very intense "sucking" motion. I feel as though a binky would be perfect for this... Only problem she has completely rejected pacifiers. Ray and I joke about the fact that their is a binky epidemic in most other households, but then there's Maddy throwing her own pacifier away at 3-months. While I am very happy that I do not need to tackle a 5-year with a pacifier in a couple of years, it would come in handy now! I just want my baby girl to feel some relief, this Tylenol/ Motrin cocktail can't go on forever.

A few weeks ago we had our portraits taken at JCPenny. I can honestly not praise the job they did enough... I won't go on about it, see for yourself...

And because I'm feeling a little reminiscent...

Upside Down Baby

Funny enough... Maddy likes to be upside down... sort of. We sit her boppy on the bed and sit her in it. She then does a sort of back-bend and looks around upside down. Yes, I am now certain she is our daughter. :)

On a much more scary note... she scarred me for life this morning. I will not go into detail but type two words... blow. out. We have had many minor blow-outs and daddy has actually taken care of a few major ones, but I personally have been lucky.... until this morning. Literally in her hair?! It went so far up her back that it got into her hair. Wow. Was that my initiation into Motherhood?