Our Weekend in Pictures

You always hear that with life comes death.  Unfortunately this past week we lost two people dear to our family . . . Jon's step-father Steve and our neighbor Dennis.  It was a hard week followed by a very busy weekend.

{Dennis and Maddie}

On Friday Madeline went on her first car trip.  We packed up and headed to Bellingham for Steve's viewing.  Madeline had a chance to meet Jon's family and we had a chance to see Steve one last time.  Although Madeline loves her car seat, she was tired of being in the car and we needed to take a little break to just relax and cuddle.

{Maddie's first trip to Starbucks}

On Saturday Madeline went to her first wedding.  Our friends, Anna Rittmueller and Chris Elder got married in Lynden.  We were so excited to have the chance to attend their beautiful wedding and everyone was excited to meet Madeline.

We are glad to be back home and back to working on establishing a schedule.  Unfortunately Maddie has decided she does not like to nap anymore.  She has been fighting them for the past few days and today was more of the same.  Luckily she's still sleeping at night :)

2 Week Update

  

Wow! It's hard to believe little Maddie has been a part of our family for two weeks.

The first week was a blur as I was in the hospital for the majority of the week :(  This left plenty daddy daughter bonding time for Madeline and Jon.  Luckily I got my wish and we were out of the hospital just in time to celebrate our 5 year wedding anniversary (on August 1st) at home with our little peanut.

During this past week, we had an opportunity to spend some quality time at home with Madeline.  There has been lots of cuddling and sleeping :)  Maddie is a great eater and sleeper.  As such, we are getting between 8 and 10 hours of sleep each night.  We are crossing our fingers that we can get her sleeping through the night soon.  Although she loves to be swaddled, she always finds a way to free her arms.  It's adorable because she gets super excited when she gets her hands free {she loves sucking on her hand/thumb}.

{morning cuddle time with dad}

At Maddie's 2 week check up we learned she broke the 6 pound mark. . . she was 6 lbs. & 3 oz. and 19 1/2 inches.  She also had her foot pricked for her second PKU test.  She cried a little when they pricked her foot, but then she was just grumpy.  It's so weird to see so much of myself in her facial expressions.

She's Here!

Madeline Grace Cooper arrived at 5:17 pm on July 26th.  She weighed 5 lbs & 14 oz and was 19 inches long.  She has beautiful sandy brown hair and her eyes are getting bluer each day :)