...actually every day is worth being happy and thankful for, but there's no harm in me listing some great new things going on!
1) We had our first camping trip with Maddy and it went great! Getting her to fall asleep was a challenge the first night, but that was understandable as she's never slept outside in a tent before! Also, there is nothing for peaceful than swaying your baby to sleep while looking out at the lake and listening to the birds chirping with PERFECT weather! Its moments like that when being a mother just couldn't feel any better. Once she fell asleep she slept all night (well, at least until 6am....ugh). The only bummer is that I ended up with heat rash on my face and neck, despite using sun screen all day and spending the majority of my time in the shade. I got the same thing when I was pregnant in Hawaii, and the common thread here is the SPF 70 Aveeno facial sunscreen (actually, its Target Up and Up brand pretending to be Aveeno.) Either way, I think it needs to go in the trash! And I hate my skin!!!
2) Madelyn started doing this!!! I can't believe how fast my active little girl is growing up!
http://www.youtube.com/user/LumsdenFam#p/a/u/1/piDAbL5JLF0
By the way, I looove these little sweatpants she is wearing. They are from her Aunt Kathy. They are 6-9 month size, which I am so amazed she has grown out of, EVEN without her cloth diaper butt! I can't believe my daughter is wearing 12 month size clothing!
3) Ross and I are soo soooo sooooooo happy with his new work schedule. It is working out better than we had ever hoped. The only babysitter needed is for 6 hours Wednesday afternoon; otherwise Ross or I are with her. Ross and I even get to have a "weekend" off together (Sunday anbd Monday). This means we get to enjoy Sunday and go to church as a family again. God is good! Its amazing how if we stay faithful even if we think He is ignoring our prayers; he blesses us with more than we could have asked for. We got what we didn't even realize we wanted. He knows what we need better than even we do! I had surrendered and was willing to work more hours while Ross stayed home which is the last thing both of us wanted. Now he works 30 hours a week and I work 24. It is the PERFECT set-up for our family. I always thought I wanted to be a 100% stay at home mom and envied those who got to do that. Ross thought he wanted to be a work-a-holic and spend all day at the office. We both learned that is NOT what each of us were meant to do, and this balance is just so amazing for us.
4) As of my last weight check on the Wii Fit- and *ahem* I weighed myself the morning BEFORE the family camping trip where I indulged in chips, SMores, and a margarita made in a Gatorade bottle (compliments of my brother-in -law..) Anyways...I am down 11 lbs since I started working on losing the extra baby weight! And that would make me, um 42 lbs less than the day I walked into my OB's office 38 weeks pregnant and started crying when the medical assistant weighed me. Even a patient's wife (who I hadn't seen in a few months) saw me today and said, "wow! You lost weight!". I feeeeeel gooooood.
5) aaaaand...Tonight for the first time since she was BORN, Madelyn went to bed without a single tear or protest (or without having to be rocked for 45 minutes and set down like a delicate explosive). Tonight, after our play time and bedtime routine, I rocked her for 15 minutes or so because I wanted to, and so we could spend some more quality time together. Not because it was a necessary task to get her to sleep, without even a guarantee of that. We do the same thing every night, and she's starting to get it. Hopefully she has learned there is nothing to fear, and we will be there when she wakes up (whenever that may be!). The nights are already a lot less tense in our home.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
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I am so happy that things are going so well for y'all!!!!!!
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