Father's Day!

Hadley and I want to say a very special HAPPY FATHER'S DAY to her incredible Daddy!

Graham,
We are so blessed to have you in our lives. You are such a wonderful husband to me and the greatest Daddy in the world to Hadley! We thank God every day that he thought we were special enough for you.

We love you so much and hope you have a wonderful 1st Father's Day

Hadley at 6 Months

I can hardly believe that our little sweet pea is 6 months old! I know that everyone has it but it really does seem like just yesterday that we were bringing her home from the hospital! She has been such an incredible blessing in our lives that I cant (and dont want to) even remember what our lives were like before she entered our lives.
That all being said here are a few things that Hadley is doing at six months:

• Rolling over both ways, however, we hardly ever see it because she hates laying down! She has to been sitting up at ALL times! haha.
• Sitting up almost by herself. She hits by herself for short periods of time but usually gets excited about something a tips over ;)
• Talking (babbling) ALL the time. She LOVES, LOVES, LOVES to talk! 
• Laughing and giggling at Mommy, Daddy, and the Dogs! The dogs can really crack her up for some reason. They just walk by her and she stars laughing. 
• Eating solids, baby food that is. She has been eating cereal for a couple of weeks and just started to eat baby food on her 1/2 birthday! So far she has just had sweet potatoes and absolutely LOVES them! 
• Her favorite toy is still her jump-a-roo! She is in there 3-4 times a day for 20-45 minutes at a time! She is so funny in it and jumps non-stop! 
• She is back to sleeping through the night much to our delight :)
• She loves to cuddle and is such a great little cuddlier

I am sure there is more that I am leaving out. She is growing and changing every day. She is such a little busy body and LOVES everyone. I have not met a person yet that doesn't comment on 'what a happy baby she is'. She has such a happy great personality!

We had her 6 month shots today and she was such a champ! Of course the first time G comes to the appointment she barely cried after I had told him how awful her 2 & 4 month shots were... Little stinker! haha. She now weighs 15 lbs, 15 oz and is 26 1/5 inches long. Still in the 50% in weight and 75% in height! She has gone from a little chunky monkey to a long/lean string bean! haha. The nurse was pleased with her rate of growth and had no concerns (which is always nice to hear)!

We are back in Calgary for the week and it has been SO nice to be in our own house, sleeping in our bed. I can honestly say I have missed Calgary. We are headed back to Saskatchewan on Tuesday for the summer and are hoping and praying for nice (hot) weather the rest of the summer! We will see though.

Anyhow, I hope that everyone has a wonderful Fathers Day weekend.

1st time at the pool

Going for a run!

Cuddling with the kids

Offically OVER!!!

Not an exciting post to many but for me SOOOO exciting!!!
My days of pumping (5 months, 3 weeks, and a few days) are officially over!!! Its been a valiant effort but after my 3rd stint of Mastitis a week ago, I figured it had been long enough.


Sorry this was a sucky post but I had to share my very exciting news... Now life (and my boobs) can return to normal! hahaha.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Where did all the sleep go????

So I have said it all along... "We are way too lucky to have such a GREAT sleeping baby"!!! Hadley has slept through the night since she was 5 weeks old and we are very aware of how lucky we are for that, but that now has changed :( It started about 2 weeks ago when she came down with a cold (that she and I are both still battling). Bless her heart, she was waking up all of the time because she couldnt breathe at night! We came up when a solution that helped her sit more upright while sleeping so that it would drain and she breathe better but now she has gotten in the habit of getting up at 12, 2, &4! Its so frustrating because she doesnt 'want'  or  'need' anything? We usually just give her the soother or hold her hand for a few minutes and she goes back to sleep.
I will say that I have not been this tired since the first few weeks after she was born! And poor G has been on the 7-3 shift so he is REALLY NOT getting any sleep. Unfortunately I think its going to come to the dreaded 'cry it out night'! We are really not looking forward to this but what can you do? WE are going to give it another week or so and hope that it fixes itself but who knows?

Everything else is going great! We are heading back to Calgary on the 17th for a week for Had's 6 month shots... This will be the first one G is going to be there for and he is NOT excited about it.
We are really hoping the weather smartens up soon! There is no point to being at the lake all summer if its cold and rainy every day! I am also hoping to get home again before Christmas but right now the plane tickets are OUT OF CONTROL!!!! Hopefully they will come down.

Hope everyone has a great week!