My little girl is one today

I'm so excited to say that my little baby girl is one today. She was brought into this world with a bang and she hasn't stopped since. Her original due date was October 21st, but the doctor had scheduled her c-section one week before. The morning of the 13th, I went in for my routine visit and they said "today's the day". Wow!

So one year ago today, we were blessed with a little baby girl. She is perfect in every way to me. She's happy, sweet, snuggly, smart, inquisitive and impatient (which I love). She's stubborn about everything and so hard to get dressed.  She loves to look at pictures and loves her family. She is just such a huge blessing to me every day.

I love my Maddy girl. My hootie. My sweetie. I hope one day she will understand how much she means to me.

Cubbies rocks

Reagan LOVES Cubbies at church. It's so cute. She bounces on the way in and bounces on the way out.  She sung all the songs to me tonight after she got home. I loved listening to her sing to me. It just makes my heart happy.

Sleeping

About a month ago, we started a new bedtime routine with Reagan because we were struggling so much to get her to sleep. Not to bed - sleep. So we put some classical music in her room and I started working with her to learn how to relax. It is definitely an skill. She fought me for a while, but now I think she's starting to get it.

We cover her up and read only when she is still and calm. It works most of the time. Sometimes she just can't unwind at all. Those nights I just walk out and not worry. But most nights, she will relax. I was really encouraged tonight when she asked me to read and rub her back. She's starting to get it.

I'm hungry now

Maddy started getting fussy tonight about 7pm. I told Jim that she needed to get "moving towards dinner". She kept fussing until we got her in her seat. Once we put her in her highchair, she clapped and giggled. Guess she was hungry.

Kissing

My girl is just figuring out so much stuff at once. She is so snuggly. She leaned over tonight and just gave me a kiss. It's so cute. She doesn't make any noise. She actually leaned in with her mouth and then sat on my cheek until she pulled back. Awwww Maddy loves Mama.

Maddy is walking

Showing no fear everyone. She is walking. She does so much better when she stabilizes herself on a table or chair before she starts walking. When she pulled up tonight on the coffee table, we called to her. "Walk to mommy or daddy". She would! She'd walk right to us, no matter the number of steps. I think her max tonight was 5 or 6. But she was so much more stable and confident.

The other funny thing is that she does not want to sit. She wants to walk or move. I tried to pick her up and carry her. She got so stinkin' mad at me. It was funny. She did everything she could to crawl out of my hands. As soon as I'd put her down, she'd giggle and start moving. Love it.

Moving to Milk

We moved on to milk today. Starting half and half.

My daughter eats like a dog

We all went out to eat tonight to Bob Evans. Maddy is starting to enjoy the table food options now. She scarfs up just about anything we put in front of her. The funniest part is that she tends to eat like a dog. She will lean forward, when her hands are full, and eat straight off the table. It's hilarious to watch.

Diaper size 5

Diaper size five? Really?

Next up

Maddy took five steps in a row. Holy cow. Now what. It's about the right timing as Reagan too. He hee like sisters.

Two steps

Maddy took two steps by herself today. I put her down and she stood up. Then walked two steps and fell.