Hooray for summer!

Baby K is growing bigger and stronger every day. She has outgrown a few of her newborn clothes and according to our bathroom scale she now weighs about 11 & 1/2 lbs. She now holds up her head on her own without wobbling and she smiles back when either Malone or I smile at her. In the past few days she has even started giggling! It's so fun to watch her grow and it's so rewarding to have her interact with us. It does make me sad to pack away some of these tiny clothes though. Sometimes I just wish I could slow down time with this kiddo!

In other news, we had our first hot dog roast of the season for FHE this week with a handful of my siblings and their families. It was a bit chilly (which is why Baby K is all bundled up like the kid off of "A Christmas Story" in the picture above) but we had so much fun! It really made me excited for summertime and now I'm just itching to go camping.

This summer we have a lot of really fun plans. Mostly those plans include being more active: hiking, swimming, camping, gardening, and so on. But we're ESPECIALLY excited for our summer vacation this year. It's going to be a couple of cram packed weeks, but it's going to be so fun. This vacation is going to hold a lot of firsts for me. I'm going to the Gulf of Mexico for the first time, I'll be going to Disney World for the first time, and best of all I'm actually going to get to meet my husband's Nana for the first time! Toss in a bunch of time with our family and close friends, and I really don't think you can beat it.

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.