7 Weeks

Well this counting of weeks is going to have to come to an end here soon…and then we will count the months!  You continue to be a very good and happy baby…well…most of the time! I feel that you are trying to laugh…and it is the cutest thing!  I am trying to catch it on video, but no luck yet! You are a sneezer and boy is it funny to watch you! After you are done sneezing you let out this “whooooooooo” sound. I will also try to get that on video as well!  The past few days have been a little rough on your old mom. You haven’t slept well at all during the days…just when I think that it is safe to put you down in your crib or bassinet…you wake up!  BIG SURPRISE! You have to have that human contact to sleep. Mom is highly considering trying to start you on a schedule!  This is more for your mom than you…since I have to go back to work in 5 short weeks. We still haven’t found daycare for you and it is really stressing me out!  There are not that many options here…and the ones that I am ok with you attending are full! 

7 weeks old

Working hard with Tummy time!

Lefse!

 

Today was your first experience with LEFSE!!  Your uncle Ian provided the potatoes and cousin’s Kieran and Freja provided the entertainment and copious amounts of kisses and hugs!  You did pretty well throughout the process…I was able to roll out some lefse a handful of times and I manned the griddle for a while. I tried to put you in the baby bjorn, but you were not having it today!  You slept well today…and by that I mean we were able to put you in the bassinet and your slept (versus us ALWAYS holding you)! 

Dad and Uncle Ian (notice dad just standing there while Ian works!)

You soaking in the whole experience

Cousins Kieran and Freja watching ELF

Uncle Ian and Mom rolling some Lefse

Uncle Ian and Dad…more rolling…

Keeping watch over the lefse to make sure no one steals it!

Final Product!

That was an exhausting day!

Thanksgiving 2011

We spent Thanksgiving in Billings this year with Pappa and Munga!  You again were a great little traveler and slept the entire time!  You even slept through dinner…so I was able to have a hot meal!  Thank you…just one more thing to be thankful for this year!  It was a quiet Thanksgiving with Pappa, Munga, us, and Mommy’s uncle Dale. Later in the evening Mommy’s aunt Julia and Mike came over to gawk over you! 

 

Finally Munga was able to snuggle with you without you fussing!  We had some good laughs over it!

Pappa would rub up and down on your back and you would fuss, but if he would rub your back in circles you were quiet! 

Henry and Maggie enjoying the SUN!!!

More smiles

Daddy’s little girl!

6 weeks

6 Weeks Old!

 

Today is a little bittersweet!  You are 6 weeks old today, but that also means that in 6 weeks I have to go back to work and you will be heading to some sort of daycare. You continue to grow like a weed and you are gaining weight. At your 6 week appointment you weighed in at 10 lbs 4 oz, which is 3 lbs 4 oz more than when you were born!  We went into the doctor knowing that you would get your shot for pertussis (as there has been a breakout of it here in Bozeman), but little did we know that they gave you all of your 2 month shots!  You were a trooper through them though…you cried really hard, though soothed easily with breastfeeding…your Mom and Dad were so proud of you! We just had Grandpa and Grandma Anderson visit and I really think that you loved the extra attention and especially the cuddling and kisses!  They were so thrilled to watch you smile and “talk.”  Today we are headed to Billings to spend Thanksgiving with Pappa and Munga Reinhardt. They are going to be excited to see how much you have changed!  Auntie Brooke and Uncle Jeremy were here last night with Bohdan and Meridian on their way up to Missoula! So needless to say, we have had a busy past week. You are still a really good baby. You are sleeping well and eating well. You still get so mad when we feed you a bottle. As soon as we take the bottle away to burp you, you cry. The instant we put the bottle back in your mouth, you are as happy as can be! We were able to catch a small video of it, but it does not even compare to how mad you actually get. You have been smiling now for about 2 weeks and it is so fun to get you to smile!  It just warms my heart!  You are even starting to have some reciprocal “talking” and your pediatrician was even impressed with it!  Tummy time is going well and most of the time you even seem to enjoy it!  You get your legs moving so hard and fast that you have almost rolled yourself over…even though it would totally be an accident…it is still fun to watch! You continue to awe your mom and dad with your growth and development!  We love you so much!  

Kisses from cousin Meridian

Cousin Meridian pretending to be you

6 weeks old

All Smiles

Gma and Gpa A!

A visit from Grandma and Grandpa Anderson!

Cute!

Working so hard!

Just Cute

First Family Photo

Snuggle time with Pappa

Snuggle time with Munga

Grandpa’s first grand-daughter

Meeting grandma for the first time!

Henry and Maggie protecting you…bad dogs being on the bed!

Time Flies

So today you are 5 weeks old!  I can’t believe that 5 weeks have gone by!  You are such a wonderful baby…and boy does that drive Munga and your Aunt Brooke CRAZY!!!!  So far you only fuss when it is necessary (i.e. diaper needs changing or you are hungry)!  You are even sleeping well…you go down around 10-1030 at night and sleep until 2:30-3:30, then you are up again around 7!  And boy am I thankful…because your mom likes her sleep as well!  In the mornings you sleep for only about an hour at a time, and awake for a couple of hours (where we tell stories, sing, work on tummy time and bother dad while he works!). You are pretty consistent during the afternoons: sleep 1-3, up to eat, sleep 3:30-5:30 (and it is during this time that we head to the ponds with the dogs and walk a few laps-thanks for sleeping!). We have done a lot since you were born. Your first outing was  Sunday, October 16th, and we went to church! On October 19th, we took a day trip up to Big Sky, where Pappa wired the hot tub. You, Munga and I hung out and of course you were a great traveler! You haven’t really slowed us down too much yet! We have gone on many adventures during your short 5 weeks of life! We have ventured on a hike up Bozeman Creek Trail, stayed up in Big Sky, and the best trip so far was when we went to Billings to surprise Munga for her 60th birthday!  At Munga’s birthday bash, you were able to meet more family and everyone thinks that you are just adorable (and I do too!). We started feeding you a bottle once a day when you turned 3 weeks old. You took to the bottle with no problems…but the problem is that you get TOO MUCH milk too quickly and so when you are done we have a MASSIVE vomit!  We are now attempting to limit how much you eat…and boy do you get made (it’s those Anderson jeans…they know how to eat!)!  Maggie and Henry have taken a liking to you! They were not to found of you the first 3 or so weeks!  But know they come and check on you and Maggie loves to lick your head and ear. Henry keeps a good eye on you when anyone other than mom and dad are holding you…its pretty cute! You smiled for the first “real” time this past weekend up in Big Sky on November 12th!  It just melted my heart…and dad was even witness to it! You have even found your thumb a couple times and its pretty cute to watch you suck on it!  Though, I am hoping that it does not become a bad habit we are going to have to break later!

 

 

1 week old

 

2 weeks old

3 weeks old

4 weeks old

5 weeks old

Hadley’s Arrival

 

On October 11th around 1:30 am I woke up with “cramps.”  I never thought that this would be the beginning of the rest of my life!  Those “cramps” came every hour…throughout the rest of the day!  Needless to say, I nor your father went to work that day. We spent the day hanging out at home, ate lunch at Clarks Fork and even managed to take the dogs for a walk around the ponds, stopped by Ian and Leah’s to give Kieran his birthday gift, hit up Barnes and Nobles (where dad bought a coffee-knowing it was going to be a long night!). We finally headed home around 5pm and had dinner with Calli. Calli was a blessing to have over as she helped time the contractions while dad packed up the vehicle and got everything ready for the hospital. Finally, around 9pm we headed to the hospital and my contractions were lasting only 30-45 seconds and occurring every 3 minutes. We were admitted and really the rest is history~ though you definitely made your mom work !  You made your arrival into this world at 2:00 am, weighing 7 lbs, and you were 19 1/2 inches long!  We were so excited to meet you and also in desperate need of sleep! You came out looking a little funny, you were sunny-side up, so you were a little mushed up and had some battle wounds on your head.

Right before leaving for hospital!

Right after your warp speed arrival!

Dad and Dr. Bradford- cutting the cord!

A little cone-head!  It went away quickly!

Test blog post

Getting Started

Thanks to my sister's wonderful blog and my Aunt Sherry asking if we were going to have a blog...here is my first attempt at trying to figure this stuff out!  I will update more about Hadley and even post pictures as we go!  I am only running about 5 weeks late on this!