TWO MONTHS WITH HADLEY

Age: Two months

Stats: Weighs 12.4 lbs., and almost 24 inches tall! Homegirl likes to eat!

Nicknames: Hadley Roo, Roo, Hadley Girl, Hadley Hiccups- she gets the most adorable squeaky hiccups!-Little Roo (I will post the story about how she got the nickname Roo later!)

Milestones: She had been sleeping 5 hours at night since she was around four weeks old, at six weeks she started sleeping seven hours a night. Now she typically sleeps for 7.5-8 hours at night. We thought this was awesome- maybe a little too good so we called the doctor at six weeks to make sure this was okay for her to be doing (yes we are those parents). He said, "Bravo! You've got a good one!" :)
She took her first bottle at 7.5 weeks like a champ! We were in the car and I pumped her a bottle and gave it to her while we were driving. Zero hesitation or resistance and she slept the rest of the way there and just about made it home before she lost her sh!& (approximately 2.5 hours).

Likes: Eating, being close to mama-especially in the Solly wrap, sleeping, stroller and car rides, mama and dada singing and dancing, getting burped-or just having her back rubbed or patted, being in her swing, playing her piano, and looking out the window.

Dislikes: Getting changed, being put in her car seat (once she's in she loves it!), having to wait for food, and commercials on Pandora.

Noteworthy: Even though it breaks mama and dada's heart when you cry, the way you stick out your bottom lip and crinkle your eyelids when you are upset is just so adorable! You are so strong, you've been able to hold your head up for short periods of time since you were four days old! Now, at two months, for even longer time periods!

Hadley Girl, we are so in love with you! We sit and stare in awe of you on a daily basis and we are so proud of all the leaps and bounds you've made already!

SMALL BATHROOM REMODEL

We have slowly been updated our house room by room. Most recently was our second full bathroom. This bathroom is relatively small but we wanted it to have a clean, spa-like feel and look anyways since there is not a dedicated master bathroom in the house. This is the original blue bathtub and wall tile that has been in the house since it was built in 1971. Here is what we were working with when we started…

The bathroom was taken down to the studs and we had a blank canvas to work with!

The new tub was put in and the tile is going up! We decided to have the tile go up the wall about halfway around the entire bathroom in the hopes of making it feel more cohesive and not chopped up- again, due to the size. The purple is actually the waterproofing drywall that was put up in the whole bathroom (and then coated in the actual tub/shower area), but we liked the way the purple went with the marble look of the tile so we went with a lighter shade with the paint. 

I love the way it turned out. The floors are probably my favorite thing we did-LOVE that it's still tile but with a wood look. 

 Flooring|Wall Tile (not available online, linked to a similar style)|Vanity (I couldn't find this one online, linked to a similar style)

Any remodeling projects on your radar? Our eat-in kitchen is next!

MY FIRST MOTHER'S DAY

My first Mother’s Day was beautiful. For me, it really started on Saturday when we went over to my in-laws’ house for dinner and I heard my own mama’s voice, then turn around to see that she had flown in from Michigan to spend my first Mother’s Day with me! Talk about being surprised!

On Sunday we had an amazing brunch which was followed by a big ole plate of desserts-I’m seriously obsessed with dessert y’all- overlooking the river and then walked around our cute little town and made it down to the ocean to watch the waves break for a bit.

 

There is nothing else in the world like being a mama. It is overwhelming, terrifying, rewarding, selfless, and so completely wonderful. I couldn’t feel more blessed to be the one that gets to be this beautiful baby’s mama!

I hope you had a fantastic Mother’s Day!

I would love to hear how you were honored, or how you honored your mama, on this special day!

SLEEP DEPRIVATION + THE STORIES THAT GO WITH IT

Probably the biggest change to bringing home a baby? Sleep. As in, you won’t get any. And it will be fine. Because mamas are given superpowers. One of those superpowers is fully functioning with no sleep. During the first week home I got maaaaaybe four hours of sleep a night. People will advise you to sleep when the baby sleeps. Which is solid advice, except, you have a baby now. Who can sleep when you made a perfect little human (you did that!) to stare at all. day. long? And this is what you will do… all while wondering why you feel great and daddy explains over and over again how tired he is. Superpowers y’all. It eventually catches up with you in the form of hilarious, middle-of-the-night/morning zombie mombie experiences.

Like the times you think you are feeding your baby but she is still crying. Because she is still in her crib. And you never actually got out of bed yet. 

And the time(s) you try to scoop up your husband thinking you are scooping up someone under 10 pounds.

Then there’s that time your husband wakes up to you lifting the body pillow but something doesn’t feel right so you try to explain to him that it must be because your arm isn’t working properly and when he tells you that your arm is fine and your baby is still in the crib you tell him that you know this…duh.

And then, because of the whole ‘arm-not-working’ thing, your husband accompanies you into the nursery to make sure that you think your arm really will work this time now that you are actually going to be lifting the baby. But when you get to the crib the baby is not crying so you ask your husband if she was crying and when he says, “no…” you ask him, “why are we in here then!?” He kisses you goodnight and you both go back to bed.

And you look at the monitor and see this…

Until 20 minutes later when you wake up again because this time she really is crying.