6 MONTHS OLD

I can not believe that my baby girl is already 6 months old! Seriously... Half a year has already gone by. She has been pretty busy this past month. So I'll get right to the point.

6 Month Stats
weight: 16 pounds
height: 25 1/4

• Rolling all over the living room.
  And wants to crawl so bad she can taste it!

• Finally in size 2 diapers

• Can still wear size 3 month clothes however is also wearing 6 months as well

• Teething like crazy but no pearly white yet.

• Holding her bottle herself

• Eating cereal for breakfast, veggie or fruit for lunch, and veggie or fruit for dinner.

• Taking 6 ounces every 4 hours still, however some days she will go 5-6 hours.

• Moved to her crib from the pack & play in our room last week. And seems to be doing well.

• Goes to bed between 7-8 and for the past week has slept anywhere from 8-10 hours at night. **KNOCK ON WOOD**

• Started sitting up this week

Macy,
This is a hard month for me to swallow. I can not believe that you came in to our lives just 6 short months ago. Our lives have changed so much over the past 6 months but I would not trade any of it for anything in the world. You seem to have changed from a infant to a little girl this month. And as excited as I am to watch you grow and learn new things, it breaks my heart a little. So if you could slow it down just a bit I would really appreciate it. ;)
We Love you to the Moon and Back
Mommy & Daddy

LOL

Just came across a couple of funny pictures that I thought I would share.

I LOVE THIS PICTURE!!!

CRACKS ME UP EVERY TIME! SHE LOOKS LIKE HER MOMMA HERE.


SWEET SWEET GIRL!

5 months old

Geez Louise...... Macy Moo you have done it again. Where is the time going? Seriously! I absolutely can not believe that we now have a 5 month old. What are you up to now.....

• Finally moved up in diaper size. You are in a 1-2, not officially in 2's yet but it wont be long.
  

• Still wearing size 0-3 clothes, although you really cant wear any pants/shorts/skirts... as you have no waist or hiney to hold anything up. ;)
  

• Rolling over from Back to Stomach
  

• Taking 6 ounces every 4 hours..And you are NOT late for a meal EVER!

• You started eating cereal and baby foods this month. You didn't care for green beans or peas at 1st but now you are eating what ever we give you.

• You are chewing on everything.... I don't think it will be much longer before you have a little pearly white shining though. Which breaks my heart because I love your gummy grins and I sure will miss them. :*(
  

• Your reflux issues are much better and you take your medicine like a CHAMP every morning.

• Over the past couple of weeks you are starting to nap during the day a little better. Instead of 5-30 minutes at a time. You are now taking a long morning and a long afternoon nap.

• You are pretty attached to mommy and seem to only want me to put you to sleep at night. Cant say that I mind though. =)

• I ended up having to take you to the doctor today and you were diagnosed with a upper respiratory infection and you were started on amoxicilln twice a day for the next 10 days. Your weight today was 14 lbs. 13 oz. YAY you finally doubled your birth weight!!! ( by 5 ounces) and you are also 25.5 inches long!
  

Macy,
You have really started showing us who you are this month. Your little personality sure has started to shine through. And for the most part you are a happy/smiley baby girl. We look forward to seeing what surprises you have for us over the next month.

We love you to the moon and back,

Mommy & Daddy

Did I mention that you are WAY more active this month and you DO NOT SIT STILL!

1st Mother's Day

My Heart
(anonymous)
You little one, are mommy's heart
I knew it right from the start
the way you hold my finger tight,
when we we're alone late at night.
When I cradle you in my arms
you smile and show all your charms.
Then when you drift off to sleep
sometimes I can't help but weep,
how lucky I have become
to actually be the chosen one.
To have and hold a child like you
now life seems too good to be true.
So I look up at the sky so blue
and thank the heavens for giving me you!

BoRn To bE WiLd

I don't even know what to say....... she's just so dad-gum cute

and she stands on her own at 4.5 months old

Bow Addict:

Hi my name is MACY......

and I am addicted to BOWS.....
or at least my mom is











I admit.... I have a bit of an addiction!
.....dont't judge me.

MOMMY'S MIRACLE

I don't think she will ever know how true this is.

HAPPY EASTER

This past year has defiantly been a whirl wind. Last year I woke up on Easter morning and took a pregnancy test and found out that we were finally expecting the baby we had dreamed so long for. And here I sat this year with her in my lap.=)

We celebrated Easter a little different this year. On Saturday we spent the afternoon with my family and and had lunch and did a little egg hunting. Then Saturday evening we went out to Jeff's family to celebrate Abby's birthday and have another hunt. Then on Sunday we had lunch with my parents and headed back home to Houston.
Ill just get straight to the point... Enjoy the pictures

Saturday Lunch:

Macy going through her basket from Nana & Papa


Connor hunting some eggs


Camryn hunting eggs


Kinley stopping by to take a picture with Macy


Saturday evening:
Macy's 2nd egg hunt


Cason and Macy


Easter Morning:
The Easter bunny left Macy's basket




Pretty Cousins


*I still can't not believe that this time last year we just found out about our special angel baby. I am so happy the Lord picked me and her daddy to be her parents. =)
Macy thinks we're pretty cool too!


We love you moo-moo

4 Months Old

I can't believe I am already writing a 4 month post. Geezz... It still seems like it was yesterday that she joined our little family.

Here are just a few things our baby girl has been up to since our post last month.

She had her 4 month check up and shots on Friday 4/8/11
weight: 12.5
height:24 1/2
2 shots
1 vaccine by mouth

• Started with the sitter this past month. (3/21/11). Macy seems to be doing ok, however I still have a hard time with it every day.
  

• Started cereal last week. And she seems to really like it.
  

• She will start stage 1 foods soon. Mommy is pretty excited about this =)

• Taking any where from 5-6 oz of formula every 4 hours
  

• Still sleeping in the pack in play in my room. She is probably ready to go to her bed but I can't do it yet.
  

• Started rolling from belly to back last month and is trying really hard to now roll from her back to belly.

• Wearing 0-3 mo clothes. And some are even big!

• Still in size 1 diapers

• She is trying really hard to hold her own bottle
  

• She hardly ever takes naps during the day. It is the strangest thing I have ever seen. She will only go down from 10-20 minutes at a time and she fights you like crazy not to go to sleep.

• She has found her Bubba a.k.a Spencer and laughs when she sees him. ( he is now becoming afraid of her, and avoids her at all cost.)

• Made her 1st road trip back to Waco since she was 5 weeks old. And did really well.

4 months old

Macy,
Mommy and daddy love you so very much. We have enjoyed watching you grow and learn new things over the past 4 months. As much as we miss our sleeping in on Saturday mornings, I couldn't trade getting up with the chickens and watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse for anything in the world. :)
I love you to the moon & back,
Mommy

Acid Reflux

The past few months have had its up's and down's with miss priss and her crying spells. I talked to her pediatrician at her 2 month check up and she said that it sounded like colic. She was just crying more often than what I felt like was normal and it seemed to gradually be getting worse rather than better.

Last Thursday I notice that she just didn't seem her little happy self. Friday started off with her waking up at 5:15 and literally screaming until 7:00 when she finally just fell back to sleep. She was off and on fussy so I figured she was probably getting sick or something. THEN Saturday showed up.. OMG when I say this this child cried ALL day I am not exaggerating at all. She woke up at 8:30AM and cried... scratch that she SCREAMED all day long. She would not nap anywhere but in my arms and even then it was just 10-15 minutes. Finally she went to bed at 9:30 PM. We were all 3 exhausted and totally frustrated by the time we crashed for the night. She woke up the next morning at 4 am and of course she was screaming again.She was fed, and changed so there was nothing physically wrong with her. Jeff was ready to take her to the ER to make sure there wasn't something else going on. But the nurse in me did not want to just jump on running to the ER for no reason. And I just kept telling myself we can make it till Monday, its only 1 more day.
Well by 2pm I couldn't take it anymore. She was eating fine, normal voiding and BMs, no belly ache no fever but I was convinced it was probably an ear infection. I decided we needed to take her to the minor ER/urgent care center. Of course once we get there and get checked in and the doctor comes in to see her. She is all smiles and coo's and it seems as nothing is wrong. He checks her over and her ears are clear. From all the symptoms that we discussed with him he said that she had acid reflux! WHAT!!!! AR babies have projectile vomiting and spit- up alot. Macy has never done either. EVER! He gave us his diagnosis and sent us home with instructions to follow up with our Pedi the next day.
So that's what we did. Dr Cox saw us last Monday and confirmed the ER docs diagnosis. She said with out vomiting/spit up it is called "silent reflux" she wrote us a prescription for prevacid. To which must be compounded at a specialty pharmacy. Macy has now been on the Rx for 10 days and she honestly seems 100% better. And if we could get her to stop fighting her sleep we would be good to go!
It just breaks my heart that my baby girl has been hurting for so long and we just thought it was colic. This all started when she was about 7 weeks old.... She'll be 4 months on Sunday. My poor baby =(


This picture has nothing to do with this post...I just love it!