If your family is hoping to adopt

I have begun a new section on my sidebar for those of you who are couples hoping to adopt. If you would like me to add you to the list, please feel free to leave a comment here or email me at maloneandbrittanyadopt@gmail.com. Hopefully we can be of some help in your journey to your child!

Baby K's Bouncy Chair

So the first time we tried out the bouncy chair, K HATED it. She only took it for about one minute. But then we put the batteries in it and tried it out with the vibration setting. Now she LOVES it! So I decided to take a video of how she kicks her legs and shakes her hands around when she's in the chair. Sorry that it's sideways, I can't figure out how to rotate it.

Back on the Air

Well, I've decided to try going public again because too many of my readers were having trouble reading the blog. Hopefully I'll do better about posting now!

Wow

Holy moly, where has the time gone? My baby is going to be a month old on Saturday and it's been almost that long since my last blog post. But things are going well at our house. We are just loving every minute of having her in our family. Here are some photos of our baby over the past month.

She's Here!!!

Our precious baby girl has finally arrived! She was born April 1st. She weighed 6 lbs 12 oz and measured 18 in long. We are so thankful she is a part of our family and are so indescribably in love with her. More to come later!

38 weeks

Phew! We are at 38 weeks, a place we never actually expected to reach. But we figure the extra incubation time is probably good for the baby anyway. Hopefully (fingers crossed) this is the last weekly picture update though! Cause we know you all would rather see pictures of the baby anyway. :)

37 weeks

I am officially full term today! We are so anxious for this little girl to come, we can hardly contain ourselves! We have our bags packed and we're pretty well ready to walk out the door at a moment's notice. Now the difficult thing is to occupy myself while I wait. If you know me you know how impatient I am. The wait to go into labor is just about killing me. Being incredibly uncomfortable sure doesn't help either! But I know she will be worth it so it's tolerable.

36 weeks

Well, here we are! 36 weeks! Today we hit our very last milestone before our baby could be born. We now get to join the "any day now" club! This week my doctor removed the cerclage. It hurt like crazy but at least it didn't take her very long. She showed us the surgical string they used to stitch the cervix shut which was kind of interesting. It looks sort of like a thick, bright blue, dental floss. Anyway, after she removed the stitches she examined me and said I was dilated 1 cm and 80% effaced. Bummer. We were sort of hoping I would be at least 2 or 3 cm. Oh well, I guess this just means that our baby has a bit longer to fatten up before we meet her. The really good thing now is that I have been released from bed rest! Malone and I have been going for walks, and it feels so nice to be independent again. But we are so excited for our little girl to come. Of course, being excited and nervous and anxious just makes it feel like time is going by slower.