11 Months.

I meant to post this at the beginning of November and forgot, she is a year in just two weeks!

Madilyn is 11 months old now. yeah.
In just 30 days I will be the mom to a one year old.  yeah.
Oh, and by then I'll be about 7 months pregnant. A post about baby #2 will come at some point, but for now lets just let madilyn keep being the star of this blog.

For this whole past month she thought it would just be a great idea to stop sleeping through the night, and while she is at it, cut 4 teeth. Two at the same time, one a few days later and then apparently she is a fan of symmetry because the next one showed up just a week later.
After the teething was done, she then caught her first cold, which after a week turned into a double ear infection.  My poor girl.  She has had one rough month.  But the great thing is, other than the sleepless nights she was still her happy silly self for about 89% of the time.
UPDATE- she has still been sick ALL month, she is sleeping through the night for the most part but still has a horrible cough and a fever most of the day.
For being 11 months she is still my peite girl. She only weighs 19 pounds and STILL is wearing 6 month old clothes. Some moms talk about how their babies grow out of their clothes so fast and some outfits only get worn once or twice.  Not the case for madilyn, we have REALLY gotten our money's worth out of her clothes!  She is not starting to wear her 9 month old clothes, they are still baggy but she is growing out of a few of her 6 month old clothes just in the length part.

She is currently loving:
 standing on her own.
Trying to walk (she can take on step)-UPDATE she is now walking but prefers crawling.
Getting SUPER excited when I play 22 by t-swift.
Dancing to most other songs.
Opening and closing doors.
Shutting herself in cabinets.
Bathtime.
Hiding from mom and making messes.
Playing peek-a-boo. But only when she is doing the hiding, which is often around a corner or using her blanket or laundry.
Cuddling
LOVES LOVES naptime and bedtime right now!

 

Don't you wish it was acceptable to fall asleep after stuffing yourself with a grilled cheese? 

Lots of trips to the doctor this month . 

 First time voting!

 Seriously gets so excited when we put her shoes on! She loves going out!

 FHE ice cream night!

Cuddles to wake up dad. 

   

        

Double the size.

This is me at 26 weeks right now.

This is me at 26 weeks with Madilyn.

Maybe this time around I won't need to be induced just because of size alone.

(I was induced at 37 weeks with her, and she was just shy of 8 pounds, my doctors thought it was better to induce early rather than end up with a c-section and I am forever grateful they made that choice!)

These pictures remind me of what a long 14 weeks it could be!
And, just for the record, Yeah I know I look better this time around too. ha.

Pillow talk

Jordan talks in his sleep on nights that he is super tired.  Here are two of our "conversations" from the past couple of nights.

Last Thursday I had watched a really odd movie in class and it was giving me crazy dreams and I was having a hard time sleeping. So I decided to wake Jordan up and tell him.
Me: I am having strange dreams, will you talk to me for a second to help get my mind off of it.
Jordan: Sure, tell me about them first.
Me: Crazy diseases making us all sick and dying. (I elaborated much more for him)
He sits right up in bed and looks at me and asks- Was it on a Shaw drawing?
Me: um no?
Jordan: Tracie, nothing can happen that is not on an approved Shaw drawing, it's not on a drawing it's not going to happen go back to bed.

Can you tell what his life consists of? Looking at drawings.
He has no memory of this of course.

The next night.
Madilyn was teething and was up every few hours.
After getting up with her 4 times already and she is crying again I ask Jordan to take her this time.
His response- Tracie, will you please finish baking, I am not going anywhere till I eat my bacon.

Again, no memory of saying that or of Madilyn waking up crying 7 times that night.

flattery

Who knew that a 3 year old could make you feel so flattered?

I have one class on campus this semester for nursing school, so my AMAZING friend has offered to watch Madilyn a few hours a week for me.

She has 4 kids, and the two youngest are the sweetest little girls who are 3 and 1.
I think it is pretty safe to say her girls love madilyn.

Sidenote-I NEVER thought I could feel this comfortable leaving Madilyn with anyone, this has been such a great experience.

Anyways, my friend told me the best story the other day.
Recently when her 3 year old is playing she like to play ME!
She goes around saying, "I'm Tracie, here watch my baby madilyn I gotta go to school now."

I thought it was just the best thing that she thought it would be fun to make-believe she was me and my baby was hers. Cause lets face it, kids like to pretend they are people who they think are cool.

Still living the college life.

Background:
When we graduated and Jordan got a job we deiced that even though we had a real grownup paycheck that we wanted to continue living like college students for two years in order to put ourselves in a good financial situation in the future.  ( I realize that we bought a house so that might seem contradicting, but our mortgage is much cheaper than rent would be out here. Just for the record.) This means our mismatched couches were free, my desk was free, our lawn mower has completely dull blades but it was free, we do not have dinning room table we just eat standing up or on the couch, we don't own a TV (actually we decided we probably never will or at least never have cable), besides things that our built into our house like cabinets and shelving we either store stuff in boxes or something we already owned.

Fact:
We are trying to live cheap and sometimes it is hard.

Funny conversation with Jordan:
Jordan-I think we should get two more laundry baskets
Tracie-Hm? why?
Jordan-well wouldn't it be nice if we had a place to put our dirty clothes and somewhere to put our clean clothes that don't really have a place in the closet?
Tracie-Wow, yeah that would be nice, I'll check the budget and see if I should pick some up

A few minutes later

Tracie- wait, don't most people just have a dresser for that kind of stuff?


Living the this way is really teaching me to not take the "finer" things in life for granted.


We did not buy the laundry baskets, I decided we did not need to live that cheaply to replace a dresser for baskets.
So I just found an extra box and stuck it in the closet.