One Month Old

Monday marked the one month mark for Mallory. Its been a great month with our baby girl. She's grown and changed so much already. I told Matthew that sometimes when I go to pick her up, it looks like she grew since the I had put her down to sleep. We had pictures of her taken yesterday. The first one is my favorite.

I have been watching A LOT of daytime TV in the last month since I'm home. Matthew and I actually had a conversation today about the wonderful commercials on during the day. I think that 75% are probably for weight loss products. The rest is a combination of technical schools, workers comp lawyers and a sprinkling of feminine products. Our favorite ad is the weight loss product that actually says "We couldn't say it on TV if it wasn't true." So persuasuve!

HI HO, HI HO, ITS OFF TO WORK HE GO

OK so I had to change that up a just a little, but after being off three weeks Matthew went back to work on Friday. I had really been dreading his going back, because prior to that Mallory had not been going to bed at night very well at all. I got some feeding schedule tips from my sister (and her friends that read my blog) and it seems to have helped because she has been a totally different girl the last three nights.

The other thing I'm thankful for is that we finally got out of the house today. I think the last time we had been out was Wednesday and I was going crazy! I have decided these last few days that I don't want to have another baby during the winter when its too cold to get out or when its freezing getting out of bed during the middle of the night. But I guess it could be worse and I could be living in Green Bay where its -4 degrees with a -24 wind chill. THAT'S COLD!

Since I'm sure you're dying to know where we went to today, we went to Target of course. I saw an Adventures in Babysitting DVD for only $5.50. I was very tempted to buy it, but the 29 year old Marcia talked the 10 year old Marcia out of it. I'm sure the 31 year old Matthew will be pleased with my restraint.

BECAUSE HER AUNT WANTS SOME NEW PICTURES

Matthew was getting on to be for not updating my blog today. This afternoon Anita was complaining that it had been WAY to long since she had seen new pictures of Mallory. So, here are some from the last few days.

I took this of them a few minutes ago. Her little hand holding on to his thumb was too cute to pass up.

It isn't the girliest of outfits, but I couldn't pass this one up when I saw it. The shirt says "hello, I'm new here". After my last post you might be thinking that Mallory is only going to wear clothes with sayings on them. I promise that will not happen. I think these are the only two shirts with saying on them. They just happen to fit her better than a lot of other things she has right now.

Unfortunately, we see this face from Mallory too often from 9 to midnight. She is very sweet and doesn't cry too much during the day, but some nights she falls apart and just screams. Matthew goes back to work on Friday so I'm hoping she will decide to save these colic fits for when her Daddy is home.

Our sweet girl!

A Week at Home

We've survived our first week at home. Here are a few pictures (since that's what you really want) of our week. They're all out of order, but I don't think you'll complain too much.

Last night we ventured out for Life Group. We were only 30 minutes late by the time we got there, but other than that it was a successful outing. She was wearing her "I Was Worth the Wait" outfit that Anita bought her. She was definitely worth the wait and the kidney stones too.

We bought this onsie for Mallory hoping that she would be born this year. It says "Tax Deduction". Good job little girl, that's more toys for having a '07 birthday.

Mallory got to have her first bath yesterday. You can tell from this picture just how much she loved it.

Mallory's cord fell off on Saturday. Here is a shot of her Daddy and her brand new belly button plus her growing belly.

Matthew is not a fan of bows. Finding Mallory like this in her car seat last night didn't do anything to change his mind but it sure did make him laugh.

This one is for Kim. She wanted a shot of Mallory's feet.

After letting us have Mom for a week, Dad and Aunt Ruby came back to get her on Friday. Here they all are on Saturday getting their last bit of Mallory before leaving.