Life Around These Parts

First, I'd like to apologize for not being on the ball with the blog.  Part of the reason is that having a newborn is exhausting and the other part is that not much is going on beside taking care of a small baby. 

Madeleine is 7 weeks old today.  She's over 5 pounds and finally fitting into newborn clothes AND diapers.  So, what do we know about Maddie?  She loves to sleep on her belly.  I know I'm going to be in for some sleepless nights once she's able to roll over and decides to sleep that way.  I'll probably be checking her every 5 seconds to make sure she's still breathing.  Maddie is doing a fantastic job with her head control.  She can hold it up by herself for quite a while now!  She's also working hard on rolling over.  She can get rolled up onto either side, but then doesn't know what to do, gets upset, and cries for help.  She's eating almost 3 oz a day and definitely prefers Playtex Drop-Ins to any other bottles.  The Soothies are her favorite paci.  Maddie has become quite the messy eater in the last couple weeks; she sucks so much into her mouth that she can swallow it all and it squirts out the corners of her mouth.  She love, love, loves hanging out in the Boppy during the day on the couch.  Oh and she absolutely hates the Geico commercial with the squealing pig; every time that commercial comes on, she wakes up all Angry Pants McGee.  She likes being swaddled at night and if it's done just right she'll give mom and dad 5 straight hours of sleep.  Maddie received a little fleece blanket from Aunt J and Uncle Louis and she loved it so much that we went out and bought 3 more; they are used every day and every night.  She's a grunter.  She makes noises all day and all night whether she is awake or asleep.  She also makes a LOT of faces (I wonder who she got that from).  Maddie likes to look at mommy while she's eating until her eyes get heavy.  She is a very alert baby and loves to look all around; if she's awake those eyes are darting all over the place taking it all in.  She knows the voices of momma, daddy, and grandma.  She poops a LOT and they are all rocket propelled out.

Maddie has daddy's lips and his birthmark on the back of her neck.  She has Grandma Winslow's ears and my hands.  According to her father, she has the Winslow head shape.  She has the same triangle toe nails that Aunt Ashley had when she was born.  She has two strawberry birthmarks, one on her left shoulder blade and one right smack dab in the middle of the top of her head.  She has dirty blonde hair and blue eyes (although that may change).  She has big feet and really long fingers.