Happy Half Birthday Madelyn!

So it is official, today Madelyn is six months old. We are celebrating her half birthday by taking her to Toys'r'us and she gets to pick out a toy. This process happens by putting different toys in her hands and then whichever one she screams louder for she gets. Okay so that might sound funny but it has worked in the past, she is not spoiled or anything I promise. The sad thing is she does not even realize how spoiled she is yet, lol. At six months old she is rolling around everywhere! She is not crawling yet but she is definitley moving. She has started on solid food and she loves it and she also loves her sippy cup. She can hold it herself and she doesn't let it go very often. In the last few weeks she has even taken her pacifier and it havs been amazing. Sleeping through the night is still hit or miss, more misses, but we are still working on it. I don't mind though because everytime I go into her room at 3am she just gives me this melt your heart smile that makes it all worth it. We have enjoyed the last six months, more than I ever thought we would. She has been the best blessing for our marriage.
Look at how much she has changed in the last six months.

Madelyn one day old



Madelyn Six months old

So you might be wondering where is her bow? Well I took her bow off to take the picture so it is similar to her newborn pictures. Don't worry the bow is back on her head now :)

Madelyn's Fashion Shoot

This is our morning fashion shoot. This cute outfit had been sitting in Madelyn's closet for a few months now and we have not worn it because it was too summery, so I had the idea to put a long sleeve onesie and leg warmers under it and ta da...it turned out way cute! So we had to have a fashion show this morning. As you can see from those smiles Madelyn loves it too :)

Happy Halloween Maddie!

Maddie is eating rice cereal and she loves it! I can't believe how fast she is growing! We had a great Halloween in Fargo! Madelyn went as Raggedy Ann and her cousing Logan went as Ragedy Andy, and they were adorbale! We went to Trunk-or-Treat at the church on Friday night and Madelyn and her cousin Logan were definitely the hit of the night. We had multiple people come up to us and say, oh I heard about these costumes and I had to see them in person. And of course we are not bias when we say that we thought they were just adorable. The best part of the weekend, however, was when Brandon surprised and and showed up on Friday night to spend the weekend with us. We could not have asked for anything better than that. Maddie just loves her dad and there is no one that can get her to laugh as much as Brandon can. I also do not think that Brandon put her down the entire time. They are definitely stuck together like glue, those 2 are. We are still in Fargo until Friday and are just having a wonderful time!

Mommy and Maddie

We sure have fun together and we love the Bumbo :)

Time Flies....

So I can't believe that my baby is already 4 months old, time really does fly. She is such a happy baby and unless you are her uncle Brad she will go to everyone. (For some reason every time Brad holds her she screams like an evil clown is going to get her, lol). It has been quite funny to see them interact. Even when she is sleeping if Brad is around she will start screaming. Her sleeping has not gotten any better, in fact it has almost gotten worse. She has learned how to roll over and everytime she does it wakes her up. I am lucky if she sleeps for 4 hours in a row anymore, what happened to my baby who use to sleep 8 hours????? We purchased a Bumbo and it is the greatest invention ever, Maddie just loves it. She is also putting everything she can grab in her mouth, which has resulted in us being alot more careful in what we put in front of her. I am still working the football games but I sure miss my baby everytime I have to go. Brandon has progressed and she now has clothes on when I get home from work, now we just have to work on the matching clothes issue. Brandon dressed her this morning and I almost wanted to put a sign around her kneck that says "My Daddy dressed me today" so that everyone could understand the choice of clothes, lol. I can't complain at least she was wearing clothes this time :) Life is still good at the Hendrickson's. Enjoy the pictures our precious HAPPY baby.

Mommy Daddy Kiss

This has become my new favorite picture for a lot of reasons. First it shows my happy baby, and who could ask for more than that? She is really happy and spends the majority of her day just smiling and now laughing. Except when you put her in her carseat but that is a whole different story. Second, it shows her chubby cheeks. She is definitely a well fed baby and I just love her little baby rolls. Third, it shows how much her mom and dad love her. Raising a child is best when it is done by a man and a woman and this picture shows me how idylic that scenario really is. So enjoy my new favorite picture!

Future in the FBI?????

So I have decided that I have a future in the FBI. Let me explain. On Monday I went grocery shopping with Maddie. I carried a load of groceries and Maddie up to the apartment, put away the groceries and got Maddie out of her car seat and put her on the couch. because I knew I would only be gone for less than a minute. I then went down to get the last load of groceries from the car. Since I was leaving just to be extra safe I locked the door behind me. So I ran down to the car and grabbed the groceries and came back up the apartment. When I put the key in the door (We have an electronic key that has a chip in it, you put in the chip key in the slot and it causes the dead bolt to move to open, but a little background info). Well I put the key in and the door does not open. This has happened a few times before but I have always been able to get in within 2-3 minutes top. I spent almost 15 minutes trying to get in, I was frantic. At this point I can hear Maddie crying on the couch and I just could not get in! So I run to the clubhouse and I am ticked off at this point (understatement) and there is a huge line of people at the clubhouse because alot of students are moving in. I walk up the front of the line, interrupt the worker and say " I have an emergency, I have been trying to get into my apartment for almost 20 minutes and my 9 week old baby is inside, you need to fix it now. Let's just say he jumped up grabbed my key and pretty much ran to get me another one, He could see the look of death on my face. So he got me a new key and told me to let him know if it did not work. I was thinking to myself, oh trust me you will be hearing about it. So I run back to apartment and try the new key and it still does not work! At this point I can hear Maddie screaming through the door. I then proceed to break the door down. Yes, I literally broke the door in. Hence the reason I think I could now work for the FBI. Let's just say the damage was pretty bad. They had to pretty much replace the entire door. It turns out the battery of the deadbolt was broken. I was pretty proud of myself that I was able to break down the door, but with adrenaline and my screaming baby on the other end, the door did not stand a chance. It was a choice reunion when I got in. I did make Brandon call and tell out apartment complex what happened and to let them know they would be paying for the damages. Which they did. They sent someone over to fix it and we had a note saying it was worth then the thought and they would be replacing everything in the morning. It took the guy over 4 hours to fix everything. I was not kidding when I said I broke the door down.

Now some pictures of the adorable reason why the door was broken down in the first place.Maddie sleeping on Brandon while he studies, I just thought this was so cute so I had to take a picture.

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Our last month

We have had a great last month, but it has been busy.Madelyn was blessed on July 4th and we were so blessed to have all of Brandon's family and my parents and Rachel share in that special day with us. Madelyn is now seven weeks old day! Where did the time go! She just grew out of her newborn clothes and is in 0-3 months and moved up a diaper size to size 1. Madelyn and I just got back from visiting my family in Fargo for two weeks and we loved being with her cousins Landon and Baby Logan who is only seven weeks older than her. Brandon also flew out to be with us for a few days and  Brandon being like he is managed to get us $1200 in free tickets by getting bumped. I am actually pretty excited because we have some plane tickets to buy in the upcoming months and who does not like free tickets? Madelyn is growing and growing and eating and eating. She still does not like to be put down at all and likes to be held 24/7 but it seems like it is getting better. She went in her swing for 20 minutes this morning which is huge! When I was out in Fargo I bought a sling so that I can "hold" her and still have my hands free. It has been working pretty good so far.  We just got Maddie's new born pictures back and I will share them now along with some other pictures from the last month.

Brandon and Madelyn after her blessing

What we love about Madelyn

Our little baby girl is only 10 days old, but there are still alot of things we have learned about her:

• She hates to sleep on her back. We have to put her on her boppy in the bassinet otherwise she would never go to bed.
• She loves taking naps with daddy, I swear that is the most content I see her when she is sleeping.
• Mommy calls her little love and daddy calls her princess.
• She stretches alot just like her daddy, it is so cute to watch her move her little body like that.
• She hates having her diaper changed, you would think you were torturing her the way she screams. However, mommy likes changing her diaper because then she can comfort her afterwards.
• She does not like to be put down at all for any reason, even to sleep. There have been a few nights I have ended up on the couch just holding her so that she could sleep.
• She is definitely a Hendrickson baby and looks like her daddy. Go figure.
• She is such a good eater, she could eat and eat and eat. We are happy she eats so well and that she continues to get bigger.
• She has a thing about peeing on daddy about everytime when he changes her, I can't help but laugh. It has only happened to me once, but we have stopped counting with how many times it has happened to Brandon.
• She has very feminine features, we just think she is adorable.
• She is a very loved baby.

Welcome to the World Madelyn

I realize that Madelyn is now five days old and I should have posted sooner, but I am just now getting to posting. Sorry :) Madelyn Lucy Hendrickson was born on June 3rd at 4:23pm and weighed 7 lbs 13 ounces. We went into the hospital at 5:00am on Thursday where they started me on pictocin to get my contractions started reguarly. My doctor came at 6:45am to break my water which really got the contractions going. It was about 8:00am when I decided I was ready for my epidural. My nurse said I was progressing enough and that she would call the anesthelogist and we could get that started. I knew I wanted an epidural and after having some pretty hard contractions, I was definitely ready. Unfortunatley, there were mutiple girls laboring at the same time and I had to wait until 9:45am to get the epidural. Waiting was not fun! But by 10am I was feeling pretty great and even slept for an hour. My favorite part was Brandon telling me I was having a contraction while I was just relaxing. I progressed about a cm an hour from there on out. When I was about a 6 the nurse came and checked me and said that she was face up, not face down like she was suppose to be. We hoped that by the time I was a ten she would have turned herself. She eventually came most of the way but did need a little help with the remaining little turn. By 2pm I was a full ten and ready to push. Even though I had an epidural, I had really bad back pain. It was almost worse then the contractions in the morning. It was how Madelyn was laying that was causing me the back pain. My nurse said that maybe pushing would help and since I was ready that we should do that. I was more than ready to start pushing :) I pushed for about 3 hours, that was quite tiring and honestly I was not prepared for how long it would take, but I was able to make it through. Our doctor was called and she was born at 4:23pm. It was an amazing experience when they placed her on my belly. All I could see was her big cone shaped head. Everyone said she was perfect except for her cone head. I begged to differ, that was one of my favorite parts, I worked hard to produce that cone head and I thought it was perfect. When she was born, I heard the nurse say "Doctor there is a true knot in the cord" I was not sure what that meant but I could tell from the tone of the nurse that it was serious. I am not sure what the doctor did but he took care of it right away. After the nurse came and talked to us and said it is rare that there is a complete knot in the umbilical cord and it can be quite serious and even fatal, but thankfully it turned out just fine and there was nothing to be concered about. It has been great having a little baby and I feel so blessed that everything went so well. Enjoy the pictures!