Mabry's 2nd Month

 

Month 2 is in the books, and we love having you apart of our family!  You are a great sleeper and overall, pretty easygoing.  How is it possible that you are already growing out of your newborn clothes?  Time slow down!

Weight:  9 lbs. 7 oz.                                            Height:  21 1/4"

Firsts:
* First Easter
* First time meeting Aunt Rachel
* First smile
* First time sleeping through the night
* First trip to the zoo

Milestones:  
- Communicating- smiling, trying to laugh, and cooing
- Sleeping- slept through the night for the first time and started sleeping through the night consistently at 7 1/2 weeks

Like Mommy: You like being on a schedule.  You're doing great sleeping and eating on a regular schedule.

Like Daddy: Your ears stick out a little like Daddy's.

Mommy's Favorite: Loves seeing you smile whenever we walk over to you.  You are such a happy, joyful baby!

Daddy's Favorite: Loves holding you and snuggling with you.

How We Spend Our Day: We spend most of our days at home and sometimes venture out on Tuesdays/Thursdays while your brothers are at school.  You have started sleeping through the night from about 11PM-6AM, yay!! And are stretching your feedings out to every 4 hours.

Best Memory:  Easter weekend- You met your Aunt Rachel and had your first trip to the zoo with the whole family.  We had a great Easter Sunday at church and dinner at Aunt Connie's house afterward, where you got your first Easter basket with a stuffed bunny, a lamb pacifier, a carseat toy and a Peter Rabbit book.

Biggest Challenge: You went on a small nursing strike this month where you wouldn't latch for a day or two, but I think we've got that all sorted out now. 

Smiley baby

 

There were 3 in the bed.

Happy Easter

Mabry's 1st Month

Wow!  How has it already been a month?!?  You have been the perfect addition to our little family. Your sweetness is already starting to balance out all the crazy energy we have around here.  Your brothers adore you, although Brooks did have to warm up a little.  They want to hold you all the time and like to help pick out your cute outfits.  The adjustment to 3 kiddos hasn't been too bad, but then again we've had a lot of help this month!

Weight:  about 8 1/2 lbs.                                              Height:  ?

Firsts:
* Met Grandmommy and Granddaddy, The Dentons, The Romans, Aunt Connie, Nena and Poppy, and more!
* First time to The Move Church (you stayed wrapped around Mommy)
* First time taking a bottle
* First time staying at Grandmommy's and Granddaddy's (Daddy went to a conference in Charlotte)
* First St. Patrick's Day
* EVERYTHING!!!


Milestones:  
- Recognizing Mommy and Daddy
- Getting on a regular eating schedule

Like Mommy: Sometimes your brothers scare you with how loud they are!

Like Daddy: Your eyes.  Except for the color, they are an exact match!

Mommy's Favorite: Dressing you in little girl clothing! And bows! We're not very girly over here, but we are drowning in testosterone so pink is a welcomed change!

Daddy's Favorite: Just looking at you! And seeing your brothers interact with you.  

How We Spend Our Day: You are settling into a good feeding schedule, eating every 3 hours during the day and are able to go a 4-5 hour stretch at night! You sleep most of the day either in your swing or pack n play.  You do like to be held A LOT.  And that's a-ok!

Best Memory:  The Friday after you were born, we went on our first family outing to Five Daughters Bakery and Kohls!  It was fun getting a glimpse into what our new life is going to be like, and Mommy was proud to be out (and functioning) of the house so soon!

Biggest Challenge: You can be pretty fussy at times and Mommy only has 2 hands!  You seem to like the wrap pretty well so that helps.  You also have pretty bad baby acne or ezcema.  

How We Celebrated Your 1st Month: At home!

                                    

First bath at home!

                                      

                                   

                                   

                                    

                                    Both brothers wore this!           Mommy's baby outfit!

2 Weeks!

We love you, baby girl!  Happy 1 Month!

Welcoming Mabry Rose!

Well, it's no longer an all boys club around here anymore!  There's a new lady in town, and we are all very smitten!  Mommy loves all the bows and pink; Daddy loves cuddling his little girl; and the boys adore her.  She makes our family complete!

Mabry Rose Hawk was born on February 24, 2017 at 1:08 PM, weighing 7 lbs. 4 oz and measuring 18 inches long!  She was born via c-section after many prayers that she would come naturally. Mommy was hoping for a V-BAC, but because they don't allow inductions with a V-BAC, we waited for her to come on her own and she had other plans.   But she's here and she's perfect and the rest is just details.  

                                       

                 

Once she was here, she had to spend a little time in the transition nursery on oxygen due to having some fluid in her lungs.  She was reunited with Mommy just a few hours later and due to a quick recovery from surgery, we went home a day earlier than planned!  We are loving our new little family of 5!


                                        

             

       

Brooks- 11 Months

Happy 11 Months!  You are in to everything.  You love to climb and pull toys, tupperware, books out of the cabinets.  You LOVE the bathroom and make a beeline for it anytime the door is left open.  You had a big month learning to walk, wave, and clap.  You've started saying a few words like "ball" and "stop". You had your first stomach bug this month and were sick for a week and lost two pounds.

Weight:  17.5 lbs. (weight dropped due to a nasty stomach bug)    Height:  ?

Firsts:
* First beach trip
* First time walking on own
* First time waving
* First time clapping
* First stomach bug :(
* First 4th of July (we spent the weekend at Nena and Poppy's)


Milestones:  
 -Walking!- you started walking around 10 1/2 months
 - Clapping and Waving


Like Mommy: You LOVE to eat!

Like Daddy: You get really fussy when you're hungry.

Mommy's Favorite: She loves how your face lights up when you see her or Daddy and when you wave or clap.  You are so proud of yourself.

Daddy's Favorite:  Daddy loved watching you learn to walk and your life-giving personality.

How We Spend Our Day: You wake up around 6 and immediately want a bottle. After breakfast you play until your nap around 8:30/9.  You sleep until around 10:30, get another bottle, and have lunch around 11.  You go back down around 1 (and hopefully your brother does too) and sleep until around 2:30.  We have dinner around 5:30 and your back in bed between 7:30-8.

Best Memory:  You starting to walk and our beach trip.

Biggest Challenge: Keeping you from climbing on everything and keeping you from falling and hitting your head on everything.

How We Celebrated Your 11th Month: At the beach!

Eating at Edley's while Kayla was in town

This picture was taken minutes before the stomach bug got Landry :(

Happy 11 Months, Brooks!