Our Family
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Happy Belated 4th of July!
Sorry this post is a bit late, but we went out of town on the 4th and just returned today. We went to the lake with my parents and I got to see some of my other family that I haven't seen in 3 months. I didn't take my lab top with me this vacation so I'm just now blogging. Here's Madalyn celebrating the 4th. Thank you to all that have served and still serve to give us our freedom!
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Madalyn's Favorite Accessory
Madalyn loves to play in the laundry, especially the clean clothes before I am able to get them folded and put away. Something she does every time is she will pick up my underwear and put it around her neck and wear it around the house. She has done this for months now and it just makes me laugh. So I finally took a picture of her, (I didn't want to take one at first to show a picture of my underwear which is why I haven't blogged about this before now, but it's just too funny. And we never showed her how to do this. Sometimes she will get a pair of Kevin's boxers and wear them but she mostly prefers my underwear.) I tried to get a smiley picture but she was took busy jumping on the couch to sit still long enough. Also, something new Madalyn has discovered is the water and ice dispenser on the outside of the refrigerator. Oh boy, and yes that makes a mess! What will she do next? :0)
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Madalyn 15 Months Old
Today is not only our 4 year anniversary, but Madalyn is 15 months old today. She has broken out on her tummy now. So hopefully, she will start to clear up soon.
-Monday when Madalyn went to the doctor she weighed 24.4 pounds.
-Some of her favorite things as of right now:
-Favorite TV show: Blue's Clues (she will almost sit still for the whole show)
-Favorite TV commercials: anything with real animals, especially dogs and cats
-Favorite Vegetable: English Peas
-Favorite Fruit: Any fruit really, but loves applesauce and bananas
-Favorite Starch: Mac 'n Cheese and Rice (white, brown, yellow, with or without gravy)
-Favorite Sandwich: Grilled Cheese and Pimento Cheese
-Favorite Drink: white, organic milk and apple juice or white graph juice
-Favorite Snack: Cheese Its, Cherrios, Teddy Grahams, or Go-gurt
-Favorite Animal: all animals, especially dogs
We have Madalyn on organic milk because when we first switched her over to regular milk, she did find, but developed a rather large knot in her right breast within 2 week of being on regular milk. I was concerned about it and her doctor said that it was too early for a breast bud to be developing, but one theory was that she was reacting to the hormones in the cow's milk. So as a suggestion, we switched her to organic milk. It took about a month for the knot to go down. Once, since then (that was in March at her 1 year check up) the knot started to get big again, but went back down. So hopefully that's all it was and the knot has stayed small. We will get that checked again next week at her 15 month check up. She loves milk, and I'm glad she doesn't have to have it "doctored -up" with chocolate or anything to get her to drink it.
Here's what she is up to these days:
-She can open the doors inside the house.
-When you tell her "no" she shakes her finger at you and babbles something (when she gets to talking a lot, I'm afraid she will be quit sassy.)
-She doesn't listen to well at times when you say "no", she can be stubborn and she is very determined to do what she has set out to do.
-If you tell her "no",she will stand on her head ( she will put her head down on the floor and put her rear-end up in the air and go across the floor on her head).
-She babbles all the time
-She loves to push buttons, constantly turns off the TV
-She loves cell phones, and has even called people. (Last night Kevin's phone started ringing and he asked me why I was calling him and realized it was Madalyn. She had my phone and was calling Kevin. Once, during school, she called my and her Papa at 6:30 in the morning. Bless his heart, he thought something was really wrong. The funny thing was she had hung up and Kevin didn't know she had called him. Papa called Kevin wanting to know what was wrong.)
-She has almost all of her teeth by now. In May, she had 8 coming in at once, and now the rest have started to come in. Bless her heart, she sure didn't take her time on getting her teeth in.
-If she sees you do something once, then she will try to repeat it.
-She is always doing something new and makes us laugh. Sometimes it's something she's not suppose to do, so we have to turn our heads so she doesn't see us laugh.
-Monday when Madalyn went to the doctor she weighed 24.4 pounds.
-Some of her favorite things as of right now:
-Favorite TV show: Blue's Clues (she will almost sit still for the whole show)
-Favorite TV commercials: anything with real animals, especially dogs and cats
-Favorite Vegetable: English Peas
-Favorite Fruit: Any fruit really, but loves applesauce and bananas
-Favorite Starch: Mac 'n Cheese and Rice (white, brown, yellow, with or without gravy)
-Favorite Sandwich: Grilled Cheese and Pimento Cheese
-Favorite Drink: white, organic milk and apple juice or white graph juice
-Favorite Snack: Cheese Its, Cherrios, Teddy Grahams, or Go-gurt
-Favorite Animal: all animals, especially dogs
We have Madalyn on organic milk because when we first switched her over to regular milk, she did find, but developed a rather large knot in her right breast within 2 week of being on regular milk. I was concerned about it and her doctor said that it was too early for a breast bud to be developing, but one theory was that she was reacting to the hormones in the cow's milk. So as a suggestion, we switched her to organic milk. It took about a month for the knot to go down. Once, since then (that was in March at her 1 year check up) the knot started to get big again, but went back down. So hopefully that's all it was and the knot has stayed small. We will get that checked again next week at her 15 month check up. She loves milk, and I'm glad she doesn't have to have it "doctored -up" with chocolate or anything to get her to drink it.
Here's what she is up to these days:
-She can open the doors inside the house.
-When you tell her "no" she shakes her finger at you and babbles something (when she gets to talking a lot, I'm afraid she will be quit sassy.)
-She doesn't listen to well at times when you say "no", she can be stubborn and she is very determined to do what she has set out to do.
-If you tell her "no",she will stand on her head ( she will put her head down on the floor and put her rear-end up in the air and go across the floor on her head).
-She babbles all the time
-She loves to push buttons, constantly turns off the TV
-She loves cell phones, and has even called people. (Last night Kevin's phone started ringing and he asked me why I was calling him and realized it was Madalyn. She had my phone and was calling Kevin. Once, during school, she called my and her Papa at 6:30 in the morning. Bless his heart, he thought something was really wrong. The funny thing was she had hung up and Kevin didn't know she had called him. Papa called Kevin wanting to know what was wrong.)
-She has almost all of her teeth by now. In May, she had 8 coming in at once, and now the rest have started to come in. Bless her heart, she sure didn't take her time on getting her teeth in.
-If she sees you do something once, then she will try to repeat it.
-She is always doing something new and makes us laugh. Sometimes it's something she's not suppose to do, so we have to turn our heads so she doesn't see us laugh.
Love this one!
My Favorite!
Bloopers
She saw Wingo running around.
She saw some birds flying in the sky.
This was our signal that Madalyn was done.
Happy 4th Anniversary!
"This day I marry my friend, the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, Love."
This was the quote on the front of our wedding program. It has been 4 years today since Kevin and I said "I Do". Time has gone so quickly, yet it has been a wonderful journey so far. We have had four years full of many happy times, sad times, and our share of difficult times, however, with our faith in God, He has brought us through all of our times. Thank you Kevin for the past 4 years of marriage. Thank you for being such a wonderful, caring, loving, generous, etc. etc. etc. husband. I love you more and more each day. I hope to celebrate countless more anniversaries with you!
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Meet Wingo
Within the middle of Madalyn's hives, I haven't had a chance to introduce you to the newest member of the McCormick Family...Meet Wingo! Wingo came to us Saturday evening. (I know what you are thinking, Madalyn is allergic to Wingo...been down that road already, the doctor says no due to us having a dog before and an inside dog at that, plus her testing negative to being allergic to dogs. She has been kept away from him and is still breaking out with hives.) Anyway...a friend of Kevin's had two puppies that he wanted to give away, so Wingo found his way here. His mom is a full-blooded black, Cocker Spaniel, and his dad...well we don't know. He is about 6 months old and almost full grown. I took him to the vet yesterday and he checked okay except for some worms, which with medicine will clear up soon. He has been in a kennel since he was born, he needs a lot of TLC. Madalyn just laughs and laughs at him. He is a sweet puppy and so now I have two babies to train. His name, yes, he is named after the Carolina Gamecock baseball player, Scott Wingo, and no Kevin didn't name him, I did. The people who had him gave him the name Bear, but we decided he needed a different name, so that's what has just stuck. We are very excited about the newest member of our family and we think he's going to be a great addition to our family.
Meet Wingo!
Hives Contined
Each morning that I get Madalyn out of her crib, she has more and more hives. I am ready for them to stop popping up everywhere on my baby girl! This morning, I found that her back is now covered in them. I called the doctor because she's not getting better. She said to stay with the benadryl every six hours as long as it's helping the itching. And it would just take time for the hives to go away. It just makes me want to cry looking at her. I wish there was something I could do to help her get better faster. (I had to run to the grocery store for a few things and I just know the check out lady was thinking that poor child...even though she didn't say anything.) Pray that Madalyn will stop breaking out. Another inside day for us. But I can say, I am so thankful and blessed to have a happy baby even though she looks like she's been painted with red spots.
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