All Good Things Must Come To an End

As the title of this weeks post implies, I have to go back to work on Monday :-(. I am not looking forward to getting back into the grind, but until we win the lottery I don't have much of a choice! Dan will be taking off the first 3 days of the week so we can ease into me going back to work, so that is a relief, but I know I am going to miss Madelyn & will be anxious to get home and hold her.

It is really hard to believe that she is already 7 wks old. A couple of days ago she set a new record & slept for 7.5 hrs straight - from 10:30pm-7am! Unfortunately, she has not repeated that yet and is sticking more to sleeping for 5 hrs straight, which is still pretty good. I am sure she will start to get more of a routine down when I go back to work though. Other than that, she continues to grow and has been smiling at us a lot more when we talk to her or play with her. Her little smile absolutely melts my heart!

The pictures above aren't necessarily from this week, but I like the pics and think Madelyn looks cute in them. The picture on top is of Madelyn posing with her Valentine's day present from Nana Bev & Grandpa Bob.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Hope everyone had a great Valentine's day! Nana Bev watched Madelyn for us on Friday & we went out for a nice dinner at Saltgrass Steak House and then did a little shopping. It was really nice to spend time together and reconnect as a couple. On Valentines Day we went up to Grandma Susan's house and had a nice visit with them. Madelyn got to meet her Great Grandparents who are in town visiting from PA. This coming weekend we are going up there again to take pictures. The pictures will be of 4 generations, which I think is awesome and hopefully she will treasure those pictures when she is older. We should all be so lucky to get to know not only our grandparents, but our great grandparents as well!

In other news, we took Madelyn to the doctor yesterday for her eye - it has been leaking a lot and is very gunky, especially in the morning. The doctor said it is a blocked tear duct and we are supposed to put warm compresses on it and massage the tear duct (right by her nose) to see if we can open it up. Worst case we will have to take her to a specialist when she is a little older to have them open it, but hopefully it will resolve on it's own. She weighed in at 9 lbs 10 oz, which means she has approx 2.5 lbs since she was born! I have doubts about the accuracy of that though because she had her clothes on, and right after they weighed her she proceeded to pee all over everything and probably lost at least a couple ounces in urine alone! She has officially outgrown her newborn clothes though.

4 Weeks old!

I can't believe our little baby girl is 4 weeks old already! The past 4 weeks have been quite an adjustment, but I am treasuring every minute. On one hand it feels like she has been with us forever, but on the other hand it seems like she was just born. We are still trying to figure Madelyn out and get a routine down. We really hope that she will realize soon that she is supposed to sleep at night, and not during the day. Madelyn is growing like a weed though & is already out of newborn size diapers and has almost outgrown her newborn clothes - I think she will be in 0-3 clothes within the next couple of weeks. We have started doing tummy time with her, and surprisingly, she seems to actually like it. Waldo (the dog) has done really well with her and always tries to "help" when Madelyn cries and gets a very concerned look on her face...it is really cute.

As for me, I am feeling great (other than being tired) and have lost over 30 lbs since Madelyn was born! :-)