My baby is ONE!

I cannot believe that my little baby is 1! Well I guess she is not a little baby anymore. She is growing up to be a beautiful, opinionated and loving little girl. We were very blessed to have so many friends and family that have helped us through the first year of her life. This past week I have had some health issues that have put me on limited activity, but honestly how could I rest when it came to my baby's birthday?!?!

Her birthday party would have not happened if it were not for my amazing mom. She shopped, created, baked, cleaned, cooked, decorated, etc and made her birthday happen! I am so thankful for my mom. She is in the middle of a couple of clients houses' and stopped all that for Hadley. Thank you mom! Also, Victoria and her mom (and Maddox) came over to help get the house ready, baked, decorated and entertained me! Thank you! It means so much to me for all the help during this time. Oh and Stacy.. poor Stacy! She came over on the worst day! It was actually Hadley's Birthday and Stacy came over and went grocery shopping, but the worst part is we had to take her to her 1 year appointment. Stacy had to witness this awful appointment. I'm just glad it is all over.

At 1 years old, Hadley is still in the 99% for height, 67% for weight and 22% for head circumference. Those percentiles have been about the same for the last few appointments. She is into giving kisses, pointing, looking at pictures, and looking out the window. She is all over the place, but not walking yet. At her doctor appointment, I told the doctor what she has been doing lately and she said she is just going through some terrible two's at one. She is very strong-willed (no idea where that came from :-)), independent at times and then very needy at times. The one thing she has started doing that I am not a big BIG fan of is screaming. She will crawl around and scream. She is not upset, she doesn't want anything... she just screams!

On to the fun stuff - her birthday party! It was a great party with tons of friends and family! There were about 50 people in our little house! She has a new wardrobe, tons of new toys and motorized/non-motorized vehicles. We are so very thankful for all the gifts and everyone coming out to celebrate. Victoria took pictures and I managed to snap a few as well. You can see the ones I took here:

Hadley's 1st Birthday

Paris and back in 72 hours

I'm back! I spent the last 3 days traveling to Paris, attending a meeting and back to Houston. It was a very jam-packed few days. By the time I arrived in Houston, I had already been awake for 16 hours but there is no way I could rest and not spend time with my family. It was a long 24 hours but so WORTH IT!

Last time I went to Paris Hadley was with me :-) well she was only 16 weeks gestation, but still I was not completely alone!

 Hadley in Paris! :-) 

This trip I didn't have much time to do the tourist thing and it thunderstormed making getting around a bit harder. I tried to go shopping at the Galeries Lafayette, but they are closed on Sunday. I was going to splurge a little and get Hadley something very stylish from Paris... I ended up at Baby Gap and bought her a cute french inspired shirt. Ha! I think I could probably order it online here, but that was all that was open besides ridiculous tourist shops with expensive junk. Paris was good, but I am so glad to be home! I missed my family very much. 

Today, Hadley is 11 months! Here are a few of her favorite things to do:

• point
• clap
• wave
• talk (gibberish)
• say "oh" a lot
• get really excited, pant and kick her legs
• get into everything and then when you say no look and smile at you!
• teeth! she loves to grab your teeth

I took some pictures last night and to my surprise I found a few Matt took while I was gone. Lets just say that there is a legitimate reason he is not in charge of dressing her. 

I give him some credit for matching the bib to the shorts. And I know it was over 100 outside and they had been out riding in the golf cart.. so I am hoping that has something to do with the outfit choice. ;-)

Here are some 11 month pictures: 

At 11 months, Hadley is doing great. She loves playing by herself as well as with us (Matt keeps saying how sad it is that Hadley plays by herself and that she needs a brother or sister.. oh boy!) I think from the pictures below you will see she is perfectly fine having her daddy all to herself!

Hadley's white trash wagon!

And if she gets bored with daddy there is always...

Zoe is a good sport and took the beating petting!

And if all else fails...

She can play with her COUSIN in January! 

Another Wordless Wednesday

So much to do this week so I will just update with pictures! Pictures are the best part anyway :-)

This is her new favorite spot in the house. 

 

No one will mess with our house with these scary guards on watch

The pictures below are the result of me asking Hadley to smile: 

Matt kept saying she was repairing her "car" and we will probably get a big bill!

Koda doesn't look so hot in that picture.. promise he is ok! Also, that is not her outfit for the day.. that was her jogging stroller outfit. Pants are just too hot!!

She is slightly narcissistic :-) I have a video of her talking to the picture of herself and then kissing it! She is also into everything as you can tell by the pictures. 

She is a very good helper in the kitchen!

She is into EVERYTHING these days! She is so much fun. Every stage is fun, but I just can't stop smiling and laughing around her. We are in disbelief that she will be one in 38 days. This year has flown by.

Wordless Wednesday

 

 

 

 
 

Death-trap furniture

So our house is not really baby proof. I mean we covered the outlets and keep the dog kennel door closed so she stops going in there, but other than that our furniture is rod-iron, stone, glass, and wood with sharp edges and that is just the coffee table. It is getting pretty bad... Hadley has started getting stuck when she crawls through the kitchen table chairs because of all the metal. Last pediatrician visit I told her that no we don't let her pull up on furniture because we had death-trap furniture. She laughed and said she does too and all three of her kids are fine. I have been wanting to get a new coffee table that was also a storage ottoman. I want something Hadley can pull up on and we can finally take the baby gate pin down from around the one we have. My MIL has been bringing me these great Home Decorators magazines and yesterday we found a super cheap rug that we both really liked, so I went to buy it online today. Once on their site, I went and looked at the furniture section for a baby proof ottoman/coffee table. So this is what I find that I just LOVE:

Yep, not exactly baby proof.. in fact the complete opposite. Do you know what the name of this collections is called?! Holbrook! No joke! I think it is a sign. http://www.homedecorators.com/P/Holbrook_Coffee_Table/950/

Too bad it is not in my budget and it doesn't quite meet the safety standards for a almost 1 year old (gulp, ONE! yikes). I love mixing old and new pieces and this would be perfect. Oh well, maybe in 10 years! 

Break!

I don't know what is wrong with me today.. I cannot keep my eyes open! It looks like rain and perfect napping weather, but I think going to sleep while working from home is a big no-no. I will take a "cigarette break" and update my blog. We call roaming the web cigarette breaks in our office... heck the smokers take 15 mins every other hour.. so we think we can do the same :-)

First and foremost, Maddox Jeffrey Lind made his debut Monday at 10:17 p.m. weighing 7lbs 4oz and 19 1/4" he is just perfect and very healthy!

In this picture I think he looks like Victoria, but in person you definitely see Jeff in him, too. I forgot how little newborns really are. He was so good the whole time I was there and just squeaked a little, cried a second and then went back to sleep! Victoria is having a harder recovery. After a long active labor and c-section she is recovering well, but just sick from all the drugs they gave her. Prayers for a quick recovery for her!

A few updates about Hadley 

• She has decided hand feeding the dogs is a lot more fun then feeding herself
• She has a new bump on her head every day.. she gets into everything
• We had to take the adorable mobile off of her crib, because she will just sit up, pull it down and play with it instead of sleeping
• She sleeps with her stuffed pink lamb, lamby, every night and squeezes it and holds on to it tight.. it is the cutest thing to see
• She is in a pick me up okay put me down okay pick me up and repeat stage
• She thinks everything is funny
• She absolutely loves the puppies' tails - she loves when they wag them and she scoots around grabbing them

I am sure there are a lot more things about her, but my cigarette break is up so I am going to get back to work! 

Baby Lind

I am so excited Baby Lind is on his way!!! I am sure there will be plenty of pictures here once he arrives!