the fastest month

Today our darling Madison crossed the 1 month mark. It’s been such an amazing and wonderful time in life. It started out with mom and dad falling in love at first sight and quickly transitioned to thinking that they’d never be able to sleep at the same time again. Madison’s become a professional at soiling diapers, coating clothes in spit-up, melting hearts, speed-feeding, staring at light bulbs (on or off), modeling for pictures, etc,… We’ve become professionals at changing diapers, washing clothes, staring at babies (just the one baby though), and sleeping in 3 hour chunks. Madison went from 6 lbs 9oz, to 5 lbs 14oz, and back up to 8 lbs 4oz. She’s nearly outgrown the newborn clothes (Carter’s sizes). Most importantly though, she’s captured the hearts of everyone she meets.

Speaking of capturing hearts; Madison’s met lots and lots of people:
– Mom & Dad
– Grandpa & Grandma Newstrum
– Grandma & Grandpa Hamill
– Melanie Lee
– Heid Tobaben & Joe Devera
– Geoff, Freddy, and Joy Gariando / Liu
– Amanda & Quinn Higley
– Matt, Stephanie, Sage, & Solvay Baker
– Lots and lots of neighbors at the Weiting / Venn BBQ
– Many more friends at Amanda’s 4th of July party
– Dr’s, nurses, and phlebotomists galore

How we celebrated
With our closest friends at Overlake Hospital. Turns out that Fledra had a slight complication that resulted in the day being spent back at Overlake for a small surgical procedure. Once again, we managed to land at the hospital when our actual Dr., Dr. Brown, was on call which lead to a fun 1 month reunion of the first person Madison ever touched on the outside. I’ve been forbidden from sharing a picture of that first moment, but here’s a quick capture of the reunion. More 1 month pictures to follow!