Happy baby in a cute dress. I had to put it on her for no reason because it’s not going to fit anymore at Christmastime! 😉
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Category: Maddie (Page 4 of 5)
Madison is officially 3 months old. Time flies, eh? She is a delightfully relaxed baby. Here are a few tidbits of information about her at 3 months old:
- She eats 5-6 ounces at every feeding
- She is getting very good at tummy time
- She has a low pain tolerance (the opposite of Josiah)
- She will giggle if you tickle her (although Tim is able to get her to giggle much more than I can)
- She is starting to move around in her crib, rotating herself or sliding down while on her back
- She doesn’t need her nuk to fall asleep
- She recently found her thumb this week… I think it’s just a passing phase. We’ll see
- She weighs close to
16 pounds18 pounds (I just weighed her) - She is currently wearing 6 month – 9 month clothes
- She has short legs, so a few pairs of 3 month leggings just barely still fit her
- She has crazy long hairs from when she was first born along with the fuzzy hair she’s grown. (So, she has crazy weird hair.)
- Sometimes high singing makes her cry
- She’s started grabbing at things
- She’s doing great with all the nannies that are helping this Fall
- She likes socializing lying on the floor much better than being held
- The kids STILL adore her
- I can’t imagine life without her now. 🙂
Maddie had a wonderful check-up on Friday. She’s healthy and growing, but that’s pretty obvious. We have a very slight bit of eczema to watch and be more careful about putting lotion on, but nothing serious. She is sleeping a solid 8 hours a night now and is in 3-6 month clothes (but more towards the 6 month size). The most exciting thing for me, though, is that she doesn’t need a nuk. She can go to sleep just fine without one but will take a one if she’s hungry too early or just fussy for no reason–so I’m glad we can use it when needed, but that she’s not dependent on them like Josiah was.
(On a side note, the pictures side by side at the top make it look like Maddie doesn’t have any legs… I swear she really does! I’m guessing the 2 months pictures from the others were taken further into two months… )
Now for the side by side comparison of all three kids at their 2 month appointments:
| Weight | Height | Head | |
| Chloe | 14# 5 oz | 24.50” | 15.5” |
| Josiah | 14# 15 oz | 24.75” | 16.0” |
| Madison | 14# 7oz | 24.75” | 15.25” |
I’ve created a new tab on the side of the page here titled “Adventures in Odyssey.” It’s pretty much self explanatory, but I wanted to make sure I told you about it. You can keep it in the back of your mind for later…
In other news Maddie is officially 2 months old! We have her check-up this afternoon. I’m excited to see how she compares to the other two in size/weight. She seems to be growing leaps and bounds daily. We bought her an adorable new sleep sack a couple of weeks ago and I remember saying it was a bit big, but that was ok because she would grow into it… and now she’s almost touching the bottom of it! Yowza!
I’ve had 3 of the 4 nannies come and do “trial runs” with the kids. Mostly to show them Maddie and talk them through her schedule. It’s much easier to do that now than to try and do it all on their first day here–especially if I’m trying to teach. They’ve all done great. And Maddie is proving to be just as scheduled as the other two, so that will make everyone’s lives much easier.
She loves to hold her sister…
I accidentally missed my wordless Wednesday yesterday… whooops! Oh, and I would like to wish a belated Happy Birthday to my Dad! I really should have posted a picture of him yesterday and then I would have remembered both things… ah, well. In hind sight…
Today I head up to St. Cloud to pick up Chloe from camp. I’m excited to hear how it all went and if she enjoyed it. Josiah has missed having her around more than I expected. He doesn’t like going to bed by himself–which strikes me as humorous seeing as he only started sharing a room with her 2 months ago. But he really likes sharing a room. In fact, he’s asked if someday he can share a room with Maddie now too. 🙂
Before I go, here’s a picture of Maddie doing some tummy time last night. She’s getting such a strong neck, I love it!
Guess who’s growing like a champ?
That’s right–our little Maddie girl! We weighed her on our scale the other day and she’s over 11 pounds now. She is also smiling AT people once in a while now. It’s so fun to see her starting to track things with her eyes and notice people. She’s not quite sleeping through the night yet, but she’s stretching the middle of the night feeding longer and longer. I’m hopeful it will only be another week or two. She’s also eating between 3.5 and 5.5 ounces now. Yikes! Now wonder she’s growing so well, eh? But I checked back and compared our other kids and that’s about what they were eating too, so it’s normal (for us).
She has baby acne pretty bad, although it’s been getting better over the past week. I don’t remember the other two having it quite so bad. It clears up on its own over time, so I just need to be patient.
You can see the acne spread onto her neck and shoulders
Also, she LOVES sleeping outside. If we’re having a rough day, all I need to do is go for a walk and she instantly falls asleep. I think it’s because it’s so warm outside.
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