The Walstra's: March 2014

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

8 Months

Happy Love Month! This is Momma's favorite month because we get to celebrate LOVE..Feb. 14th! Momma secretly thinks that we should designate one day every month for Love Day! In honor of Momma's favorite holiday, I got a new outfit...Happy Valentine's Day!

One day of warmth! Maybe a little above 25 degrees. We went for a walk. It was a short one because of the wind but it was very nice to get out of the house!

All bundled up!

Madalin is such a wiggle worm. She does not have a lot of sit in her...kind of like her momma! It was very hard to get pictures of her in her Valentine's Day Outfit.

Madalin shared smarties at daycare for Valentine's Day!

Pretty Flowers that Daddy got Momma and Madalin

We don't have a picture but Madalin got Daddy a candy bouquet for Valentine's Day! If you know Dan at all, candy does not stick around very long when he is around. I don't think I saw that candy bouquet once after we gave it to him! He loves his candy!

Uncle Jeff...

Will You...

Be...

My Valentine?

Love my bath...SO Happy!

Towards the middle of February Madalin started doing the army crawl. She has not slowed down since! She also learned this neat trick...Plank! She is so good at it! She can out do momma!

Momma's sweetheart!

I am eight months!

I can't believe it!

7 Months

The weeks and months continue to go by so fast...I am not sure I am taking everything in or remembering everything! Madalin is growing so fast and she is getting so strong! She bring so much love and excitement to our lives!

Madalin has taught me to appreciate the small things in life. The past few weeks she has really been noticing her hands and how she can make her fingers move. She has control of making her hands into fists and she can twist her wrists to see the front and backside of her hand. I don't remember the last time I sat down and appreciated my hands and what my hands do for me from day to day. I am so thankful that I have been chosen to be her momma and experience these "small" things with her.

We have been staying in doors most of the time this month. It seems like every morning and evening news we are in some type of polar vortex. Keeping Madalin sheltered from the cold has helped her stay healthy.

A few things we would like to remember about 7 months:

You are still transitioning from 3 month clothes to 6 month clothes. There are only a few 3 month clothes that fit anymore. You are getting SO big!

You remain in size 2 diapers and Momma ran out of diapers for a few days and we even got size 1 to fit for a few days. I am glad we didn't have any huge blowouts!

You continue to sleep through the night 99% of the time. I am trying to stop pumping in the middle of the night but that has been a struggle. I wake up wet ALOT or I wake up in the middle of the night because it hurts so bad! I am thankful but frustrated at times for the problem I am having, at the same time I am in awe of how God created a woman's body. It just amazes me that Madalin is alive because she is eating what I produce!

We started trying to feed Madalin food. She hates it and doesn't want anything to do with it. We will keep working on this.

You have perfected sitting up!