4 months

2/24/09

MVP is 4 months old today! She is such a fun and bright little girl...she can hold her head up now of course and she is taking interest in her toys and will sit and pay attention to having a book read to her. (Just one and then she's done with it!) She loves music and her Yo Gabba Gabba! show and she gets her little legs kicking faster and faster! She laughs a lot and as a friend recently witnessed, I will do embarrassing things just to hear the music of her laughter! Patrick spends a great deal of time saying "Da-Da" over and over again in the hopes that it will be her first word. :-)

Our Little Valentine

Valentine's Day was extra special this year because it marked the one year anniversary of Margaux's creation at FCI. I said it before and I will say it again, it is AMAZING how much more your life can be blessed in the span of just one year! We recently had her three month photos taken at JC Penney and while we got a few good shots, we weren't really impressed. So this time, our good friend Dale and photographer extraordinaire did a photo session with her. It was a nice afternoon spent visiting with he and Bex and Margaux was able to relax and have pictures taken at her own pace. The result was a ton of gorgeous pictures and if you go to the link posted on the right you will see a handful of our favorites! Thanks for your expertise Dale and thanks Margaux for your incredible cuteness! ;-)

Yo Gabba Gabba!

Foofa

When we need to get things done around the house we put Margaux in her bouncy and she will watch her Baby Einstein dvds or this show on Nick that Patrick discovered called Yo Gabba Gabba! She LOVES it! She gets especially excited and screeches and kicks her little legs when this character called Foofa comes on. She has a really cutesy girlie voice that Margaux just loves. I will have to try and get her watching on video. :-)

3-Month Appointment

I took Margaux to her 3-Month appointment with DrG this past Monday and it went very well. She hit all of the milestone markers perfectly and she now weighs 14 pounds 2 ounces (81%) and measures 24 3/4 inches long (86%). The poor little thing had to endure 3 shots, but she handled it quite well I thought! I still need to scan her recent photos that we had taken and post them. We are also having our friend Dale take some pictures on Valentine's Day as it was exactly one year ago on February 14th that she was created at FCI! Amazing how much more blessed life can be in just the span of one year.

Three months old!

Grandpa P. making her laugh.

Cousin Anna & Margaux.

...She smiles and laughs all the time now. She has times during the day when she jabbers nonstop. She likes to play and she is very alert and aware to sounds and follows with her eyes. She is a good sleeper at night. She LOVES her Fisher-Price Aquarium Bouncer! She's our angel.

Inauguration Eve

Looking forward to tomorrow's Inauguration festivities because I think Barack Obama is going to do great things for this country and the sense of joyous celebration around the world right now is a nice diversion from the doldrums this country has been in. Back to dealing with the mess on Wednesday, but tomorrow is going to be a historical day to remember. What I am not looking forward to is reporting to work tomorrow morning. My maternity leave is over. 12+ weeks sure does fly by when all you want to do is be with your baby! I feel very fortunate to have my job and I adore my coworkers, but it is going to be difficult to be away from Margaux for 14 hours. I keep reminding myself that it's ONLY three days a week! My mother-in-law is here this week to help us out and my sister-in-law and the kids will be arriving on Wednesday morning for a visit. Margaux will be 3 months old on the 24th and she is so much fun! She is very aware of her surroundings now and she laughs and jabbers and is learning what "play" is all about. Stay tuned for picture updates later this week...

Happy New Year

It looks like she's excited about some of her Christmas toys!

Booties from Auntie Bex.

Snow Baby.

Daddy & Margaux up north.

We returned on Tuesday night from a week with our families in Michigan. The drive up north took us 12.5 hours due to horrible weather conditions and we were both sick, so that was no fun! However, it was so wonderful to spend time with both of our families and have Margaux meet more relatives.

I hung the new calendar today and I could hardly believe how quickly 2008 flew by. It seems like just yesterday that I was starting this blog with one of my first posts featuring a countertop full of fertility meds. Here it is a year later already and so much has changed. I am nowhere near as fit as I was on 1/1/08, but that will come back with time and hard work. My house is a lot less organized than it used to be and I am actually okay with that because my diverted focus is on Margaux. I don't want to miss one snippet of this time with her because my priority was the dust. Best of all, I have realized my fullest capacity to love because of my daughter. She makes me want to be the absolute best person I can be.

We had so much to be thankful for this year and we appreciate you, our family and true friends, and wish you all the best in 2009!