3 Months Old

Madeleine was happy and hamming it up this morning, so I took advantage. She has her three month checkup tomorrow morning.

Madeleine's First Food

The doctor told us at Mady's 2 month appt that we could begin giving her cereal whenever we wanted. I was not ready to do it and still am leary, but I gave her some today for the first time. I mixed it with a little apple juice. She loved it.


She is still eating right at every 2 hours during the day and sleeping all night. It seems by now (she will be 3 months tomorrow) she should be able to go a little longer than two hours between feedings. At two hours she starts screaming....no warning that it is coming, other than the fact it has been two hours! We will see how she does before we decide if we will continue feeding it to her.

She ate it off a spoon and did a great job. She would laugh after every bite, so about half of each bite would come out when she smiled. She picked up eating off the spoon rather quick and really seemed to enjoy it.

Traditions

I remember growing up my Mom had a charm bracelet that I was in love with. I loved to sit and look at it and hear what all of the charms were from. I was trying to think of something special I could start now and give to Madeleine on a special day (sweet 16, graduation, wedding, etc). For some reason my mind went back to Mom's charm bracelet and I decided that I wanted to do a charm bracelet for her. I want to get a charm to represent all of her "special" days. I got her first one this past week, to represent her birthday.



I also got her this adorable personalized snow globe:

Beaux

We picked up our new puppy, Beaux, last night. We were hoping having him would help Bella. She has not eaten since Wednesday (the day before we put Jake down). We were a little nervous introducing them last night, but did it anyway. They sniffed each other and Beaux immediately started trying to nurse. Bella laid down to let him!

She has really been mothering him and he accepts it! He sleeps on top of her when he is out and climbs all over her when he is playing. When he whines, Bella goes to see what is wrong. She bathes him. He follows her where she goes, and the few occasions he hasn't, she has gone and herded him to where she wants him. It is really cute seeing them together.

While she still has not eaten much (she did eat a hamburger at dinner), she is accepting the distraction. Hopefully over the next few days they will both begin adjusting better.

Johnathon and Andrew

The boys were much easier to take pictures of than Mady made it! They really hammed it up for the camera! Hard to believe that Andrew is two years younger.