3 Months!

Macy is going to be 3 months next week! I seriously cannot believe that. Where did the last 3 months go?? My awesome friend, Heather, offered to take some cute pictures of sweet little Macy. I love them! Thanks again Heather!!

I took Macy to her 2 month appointment last week and her were her stats...

Length: 24 1/4" - 95%

Weight: 11 lbs. 6 oz. - 50%

Head: 39.2 cm - 50%

She is such a sweet baby and I'm so grateful for that. As most of you know, I have a pretty demanding 2 year old. :) Macy is pretty patient (as far as a little baby goes) and will usually just hang out while I am taking care of/dealing with Ellie. Greg is back in school now so he is gone a lot at night, so it helps out a ton that Macy is pretty chill. We love her and are so grateful she is a part of our family!

My Little Beauties

My fabulous neighbor, Shannon(shannonhaddenphotography.blogspot.com), took Ellie’s 2 year pictures and Macy’s 2 week pictures for us. I LOVE how they turned out. Here are just a few of my favorites.

This picture below cracks me up. We tried really hard to get a picture of the two of them together. That is not an easy task with Ellie. She doesn’t mind having Macy around, but she doesn’t want to ever touch her and definitely doesn’t want to take pictures with her. Ellie looks like she is loving her little sister, but in reality she is smelling the flower on her headband. She was gone from this pose as soon as she finished smelling it. This is really the only shot we got of the two of the together. Next time…hopefully. :)

Thanks Shannon for taking such fabulous pictures!!

One Week…

Well it has been a week since Macy joined our family. So far things are going really great. We are just adjusting to having a new baby in our house and trying to get Ellie to like her little sister. :) Here are some pictures from the last week.

Ellie not wanting to be next to Macy.

My dad and Dawn made this beautiful cradle for us. I absolutely love it and love that all my babies will get to sleep in this.

Anyway, sorry for the picture overload, but Macy changes so much everyday!

She’s TWO

Ellie turned TWO on Friday!! I can’t believe that my little girl is two! She all of the sudden seems huge to me (maybe because Macy is so little?). Here are some pictures from her birthday. We celebrated on the 7th since I knew I would be in the hospital for her actual birthday.

This girl definitely likes to be clean. We tried to get her to dig in to her cupcake, but she would only use her one finger.

I hate this picture because I look ENORMOUS (it was 2 days before I delivered okay), but I had to get a family pic with her new bike that we bought for her birthday.

Here are pictures from her actual birthday. I love these pictures because Greg did Ellie’s hair since I was in the hospital. I don’t think I need to say any more. Bless his heart…

We love you Ellie girl!

Macy Kaye Andersen

Miss Macy is here!! We couldn’t be more excited to have her. I had a scheduled c-section yesterday, which was actually quite anti-climatic compared to Ellie’s birth. It was nice to not have to go through labor, but it made me a lot more nervous because I was totally aware of what was going on. Everything went well and Macy is perfectly healthy. She was 7 lbs. 12 oz. and 20 inches long. I think she looks a lot like Ellie did, but then again she is only a day old so we will see how she actually turns out. Anyway, here are some pictures of our sweet little girl.

 

We’ll be taking a lot more pictures in the next few days so I will update this soon I promise! Hopefully we can get Ellie to take a picture with her…she isn’t too interested in her right now though.

The Little Walker

No, Ellie is not walking, but she is getting closer. She is 21 months old tomorrow! Her physical therapist dropped off a little walker this morning and Ellie has become a pro at it. It was really frustrating for her at first, but once she saw her cousin do it, she was all about it. Above is a picture of her with her walker and below is a video of her showing off her skills. Sorry my voice is annoying, but a mom has to get excited for her 21 month old that is finally walking, right?? (Please excuse her crazy hair and grungy look. Her hair goes into a fro if you don’t do anything with it. It was one of those days today.) My friend, Jill, said that I should put tennis balls on the back wheels to make it slide easier, just like her grandma's. What do you think? :)

Does this mean I get to use a handicap pass to park in handicap spots??

We Did It!

It is Ellie's third night without her paci and so far things are going way better than I thought they were going to! We threw them away Friday night and that first night was the hardest. She went to bed late because we were out at dinner. After I finished rocking her and singing to her I went to put her in her crib. She just looked at my with a really sad face and said, "Uh oh." I'm not going to lie, it broke my heart a little because I felt bad that I all of the sudden took away something she has had since the day she was born. I kissed her and closed the door and she screamed/cried for about 15-20 minutes until she finally gave up and fell asleep. We have a video monitor so I was watching her to see what she was doing. It was sad because she was laying there making the sucking face like she had her paci, but there was nothing there. Poor girl. Anyway, she slept great that night, but woke up at 6:30 the next morning. She usually gets up around 8:30, but I think she didn't know how to go to sleep without her pacifiers.
Later that day she went down without any problems and slept for about 2 1/2 hours! Hallelujah! That night she went down without a problem too and slept until 8! Her naptime is usually around 11:30, but we didn't get home from church today until about 2:15, so going down for her nap was hard because she was way overtired. She eventually gave up the screaming and went to sleep for a couple of hours. Puting her to bed tonight was no problem at all. I must admit that it is sort of freeing to not have to worry about knowing where her pacifiers are at all times. I hope things continue to go as well as they have been!
Next thing to work on...going/staying in nursery!!