Maylee's First Thanksgiving

Maylee says, "Happy Thanksgiving!" She even tried to eat her turkey (evidence on the bib).

Shopping at Daddy's Favorite Store

Pre-Thanksgiving

We had Pre-Thanksgiving up at our house with Great Grandma Linda, Grandma Shirley, Grandpa Dean, Uncle Craig and Tabitha.  Grandma Linda showed Maylee her first snow storm.

Daddy's Little Softball Player

Kev has softball plans for Maylee's future.

First Week of Daycare

Maylee is being watched by our neighbor Allison who is a stay at home mother with three young girls.  It is so nice to be able to just walk across the yard to drop her off and pick her up.  Her first week went really well.  Maylee takes a bottle and sleeps great for Allison.  Her little girls really like Maylee.  I think having Alison watch Maylee for 4 half days towards the end of Kevin and me staying at home with Maylee helped with the transition.  We also started practicing with a bottle after she had a great established latch and was about 2 weeks old.

We had arranged for a lady up the road to watch her.  However, when I called this lady to see if they could meet and get to know each other she informed me that she decided to go back to work two weeks prior.  I wanted to say "You didn't think about calling us since you knew we were planning on you for daycare since August!"  Kevin and I panicked since many places don't take newborns.  We probably just dodged a bullet with that situation since Allison is working out so great!

Family Pictures - Maylee is 9 weeks old!

Great Great Aunt Ruth

Here is a generation picture of Maylee, Grandma Julie, Great Great Aunt Ruth, and me.

Strong Maylee!

Maylee has always been very strong.  When she was burping on my shoulder at two weeks old, she put both hands against my chest, pushed back, and then looked both directions over her shoulders.  Here she pushed herself up off her Boppy Pillow.  Cinder was also very impressed with Maylee and had to get a closer look.

8 Weeks Old - First Shots

Maylee had her two month appointment for a check up and to get her first set of shots..a total of 3 in her legs.  She got Tasmanian Devil band-aids. She weighed 10lbs 10oz and was 22.5" long putting her in the 50th percentile in both categories.

That day she was kind of fussy and her legs hurt her a lot.  She also woke up in the middle of the night, but not to nurse.  Since then she has gone back to sleeping through the night.  I'm glad Kevin took her to the appointment because I was in tears just from him telling me about it. 

I returned to work the previous week (a short school week due to conferences) and Kevin stayed home with her that week and the following.  Our thought was she would be a little older before putting her in daycare and she would get used to the idea of me not being with her all day long.  Then she would have to get used to not being home all day long once we start daycare.

Showering with Maylee

Maylee hates her baby bath tub.  The water is warm but when the air hits her wet body she gets really mad!  After the tub experience, we switched to showering with her.  She loves the sound of the shower and the skin-to-skin contact.

She is showing off her big muscles!