As promised, this entry is about my second beautiful girl, Sydney. Also known as Sydney Bean, Syddo, Syddo Biddo, Syd, Punkin and many more random nicknames, she is our entertainer. Sydney, too, was born wide awake and ready to take in the world. She was also born HUNGRY! This is a trait that continues to this day-when you feed her you better have plenty of food at hand whether it be Cheerios or something else. She will cry and cry if you don't shovel it in fast enough, or if she has eaten everything off her highchair tray and can't see the ones stuck in her little fist.
Sydney was not much of a cuddler really until recently. She has decided that she likes to snuggle up to us, and will give kisses. That doesn't mean that she isn't loving, though. She has a million-watt smile and a laugh that is so precious to hear. One of the things I love most about my Syddo is that nearly every morning she wakes me up with her silly babbles in her crib. She is a morning person for sure, which she certainly did not get from her mother! Or her father for that matter..hmmm.. ;)
Being that she is only one, she really doesn't have many "interests" at this stage in her life. She is a very very laid back baby, and easy to care for. She doesn't fuss a lot and will generally find something entertaining everywhere we go. She loves to take baths and splash her sister. She also loves books that have some sort of texture to them so she can "scratch" the pages. Some other Sydney faves: Strawberry cereal bars, chocolate Cheerios, Juicy Juice, Spongebob, Yo Gabba Gabba, trying to get to Mama's laptop cord (Eek!), and having a blanky to rub on her face. One thing she does not like is socks. You couldn't keep a pair of socks on her if it was twenty below. She gets that from her Mom-I would go barefoot all the time if I could.
Sydney and Madi get along pretty well most of the time, which I am savoring as I know that it won't last forever. Madi can always make Sydney laugh, and then they have giggle fits together which is undescribably awesome.
My worst fear is that Sydney will feel that she is on the backburner to Madi. While sometimes it may seem that way due to Madi's extra needs, she is always just as loved and wanted. That is part of the reason why I am doing this blog. I wanted Sydney to have something to look back on that wasn't just Madi's CaringBridge site. She is such a sweet and loving baby and we are very blessed to have her.
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Miss Madi
I thought I would start out my blog with a little info about my family-namely my kids. They are my world, and the reason I am writing this blog. Please allow me to introduce my princesses, starting with my firstborn.
Madison Elizabeth aka Madi, Mads, Boog, Madaloo, Sweets, Goose etc, etc, etc:
Madi's "thing" seems to be thunderstorms. On the day she was born it thundered. On the day of her "rebirth", her heart transplant, thunder. On her fourth birthday? You get the point. In any case it seems to be her special signification that everything's going to be ok one way or another. She was born wide-eyed and very alert, and continues to be very observant with a memory like nobody's business. Madi is my cuddlebug. She loves to give hugs and kisses or sit in your lap for a snuggle. Want to be her best friend? Scratch her back and she's yours forever. Madi has always been pretty stubborn and quite dramatic. Some days it's very trying but I think God gave her these traits to help her through the trials she has had to endure. It just wouldn't be right if it wasn't done in "Madi steps."
Madi is very different in her own little ways, and in others she is your typical four-year-old. She is learning to speak her mind, much to my chagrin, as lately that consists of telling me "no" to every thing I ask of her. I do consider myself lucky that she has not yet gotten into the phase where everything is "mine!" In this house we are thankful for the small things! Our biggest struggle with Madi is her eating. She is not a very good eater and is very very picky. Some of this, of course, is due to her age. Some is from her heart condition-her body relates to eating as a chore and doesn't realize that it no longer is unpleasant to eat. Also the many medications she is on have many side effects that rear their ugly heads from time to time. She has come a long way from when she was in the hospital-we barely managed to escape without a feeding tube. But here's where things get REALLY weird. My picky-as-can-be child hates pizza and hot dogs, but will dig into a braunschweiger sandwich (liverwurst for those of you who don't know) any day. Huh? Yeah, that's my Madi for you.
Madi loves her family and friends, and her cat Sheena. She is the only 4 year old diehard Jason Kubel fan (MN Twins) that I know, and she also likes the show Deadliest Catch. I have taught her well. Hee hee. She is very imaginative, loves to be outside, and will sit and "read" books for hours. She has seen the movie Finding Nemo about a gagillion times and will still watch it start to finish without so much as a peep.
Madi has recently come so far! She can count to 14, identify the letters of the alphabet, make simple matches, and has finally mastered her colors. Mostly. Yes, I am bragging, but like I said, we are thankful for the smallest of victories around here.
I could go on and on and on about Madi. She is so special to everyone, and touches the hearts of all that she meets. It's time for her nightly medication routine, though, so I will leave it at that.
Next installment: Sydney! Stay tuned!
Madison Elizabeth aka Madi, Mads, Boog, Madaloo, Sweets, Goose etc, etc, etc:
Madi's "thing" seems to be thunderstorms. On the day she was born it thundered. On the day of her "rebirth", her heart transplant, thunder. On her fourth birthday? You get the point. In any case it seems to be her special signification that everything's going to be ok one way or another. She was born wide-eyed and very alert, and continues to be very observant with a memory like nobody's business. Madi is my cuddlebug. She loves to give hugs and kisses or sit in your lap for a snuggle. Want to be her best friend? Scratch her back and she's yours forever. Madi has always been pretty stubborn and quite dramatic. Some days it's very trying but I think God gave her these traits to help her through the trials she has had to endure. It just wouldn't be right if it wasn't done in "Madi steps."
Madi is very different in her own little ways, and in others she is your typical four-year-old. She is learning to speak her mind, much to my chagrin, as lately that consists of telling me "no" to every thing I ask of her. I do consider myself lucky that she has not yet gotten into the phase where everything is "mine!" In this house we are thankful for the small things! Our biggest struggle with Madi is her eating. She is not a very good eater and is very very picky. Some of this, of course, is due to her age. Some is from her heart condition-her body relates to eating as a chore and doesn't realize that it no longer is unpleasant to eat. Also the many medications she is on have many side effects that rear their ugly heads from time to time. She has come a long way from when she was in the hospital-we barely managed to escape without a feeding tube. But here's where things get REALLY weird. My picky-as-can-be child hates pizza and hot dogs, but will dig into a braunschweiger sandwich (liverwurst for those of you who don't know) any day. Huh? Yeah, that's my Madi for you.
Madi loves her family and friends, and her cat Sheena. She is the only 4 year old diehard Jason Kubel fan (MN Twins) that I know, and she also likes the show Deadliest Catch. I have taught her well. Hee hee. She is very imaginative, loves to be outside, and will sit and "read" books for hours. She has seen the movie Finding Nemo about a gagillion times and will still watch it start to finish without so much as a peep.
Madi has recently come so far! She can count to 14, identify the letters of the alphabet, make simple matches, and has finally mastered her colors. Mostly. Yes, I am bragging, but like I said, we are thankful for the smallest of victories around here.
I could go on and on and on about Madi. She is so special to everyone, and touches the hearts of all that she meets. It's time for her nightly medication routine, though, so I will leave it at that.
Next installment: Sydney! Stay tuned!
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Bear With Me
Ok, so I have never blogged before. I write constantly-CaringBridge, journals, letters-how hard could it be, right? Heh. Well, I am quickly finding that there are a lot of things in the blogosphere that I have yet to learn.
So please be patient with me as I journey along this road. I feel it is practice for that book that I WILL get around to writing someday. In any case, I hope that you will check back here often to see what's going on in my crazy life.
If you dare.
So please be patient with me as I journey along this road. I feel it is practice for that book that I WILL get around to writing someday. In any case, I hope that you will check back here often to see what's going on in my crazy life.
If you dare.
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