Maylea 3-6 months

Our favorite part of every day during this time was opening up the little blanket cocoon Maylea and see our adorable daughter stretch. Oh it always melted our hearts. We recorded it like a billion times. So I thought it was only appropriate to start out this post with a video of it.

( little Maylea in her cocoon)

Well because this is a blog so it's kind of 'personal' and not totally 'public' I feel it is also appropriate to talk about poop. Yep that's what I said, poop. Because that was what our world revolved around during the next three months when Maylee came home.  Because she was born early she had to take iron supplements and be supplemented for growth with one formula bottle and you can imagine that plugged our girl up quite a bit. A lot of our conversation during this time was much the same"Did she poop today? How long has it been since she pooped? Ok its your turn to give her a suppository. Oh crap,its everywhere!"

Ya and she was known in the NICU for getting it EVERYWHERE.  Why do I feel like one day she is going to hate me posting this. Oh well. I dealt with it , one day she will too:). Anyways I was always worried about her because she would cry a lot and grunt and you could tell she was in a lot of pain. Her face was always red so when she pooped on her own it was a big deal. A really big deal! So big in fact that we would take pictures of it: (VIEWER DISCRETION: the next image you see might be totally gross-you were warned)

(also it was always BLACK!)

anyways I promise to never post a poop picture again. Unless needed too of course. Onto the happier things.

Some of her favorite things at this age:

-playing bicycle

-when I would sing to her and make her dance while I did

-scooting

-tummy time ( should would enjoy this but only for a little bit but would get fussy because she couldn't hold herself up or scoot fast enough)

-Food! she loved food

We also wrote in her journal about the personality traits we saw in her:

-curious

-determined

-talkitive

-hungry

( she had some clogged tear ducts for her first couple months as you can see her eyes are a little bit goopy from the ointment we had to give her and swollen from the clogged tear ducts)

On April 12  she had her blessing. It was my first official mothers day, what a beautiful way to spend it. My Mom and Dad came into town and sister Nicole and brother -in-law Brandon. It was so fun to spend mothers day together and to celebrate Maylea. ( photos to come soon)

I am going to type it up for memory sake:

"My darling Maylea, we bless you with happiness and capacity to bring happiness to other in this life. The world is already happy because of you. We bless you with sensitivity to truth and that you will spread truth to others. I bless your spirit that it will be blessed with sensitivity of the Holy Ghost. Follow truth throughout your life. You are a very special soul and your family loves you so very much..."

( she was crying alot right before but when Stu started to talk she quieted down immediately)

  ( this was a thank you picture that we sent to all the family because everything they had done for us through these last couple years)

 

Now these next two pictures re pretty funny. This is our first family outing and lets just say it was a bust. We paid like $15.00 to play miniature golf and all we got in was 2 holes. It was cold and as you can see in the picture of Stu, Maylee was in an awkward position everytime he tried to bend down to golf. Ya it was pretty funny. Oh and this is pre-baby bag. Yes that is a hiking back pack on me. We were a sight, we did get some pretty funny looks.

First Fathers day->   

We had to go to Sacrament for Maylee to get her hips checked because she was breached. And good news - HER HIPS DON'T LIE:) sorry lame joke, had too. But their fine. We visited a cute vintage clothing store. Obviously Stu begged me to go in (note hint of sarcasm) but he is a good sport. (note the photo above)