Madison's Milestones

Our sweet little Madison Diane was born on April 5th. She weighed in at 6 pounds, 7 ounces.

• She was four weeks old the first time she smiled her wonderful smile at us.

• Soon after that she giggled for the first time. She is very cute when she giggles, but unfortunatly for us, she really makes you work hard to get her to laugh.
  
  
• She rolled over for the first time on July 25th, right on her 3 month, 3 week mark.
  
  
• Madison was a fussy baby, but two wonderful things happened. First I read a book called, "The Happiest Baby on the Block," which taught me how to calm a colicky baby. (The author called it, "Turning on the calming reflex"). And secondly, Madison learned how to suck her thumb. She wouldn't take a binky, and so that thumb has been heaven sent. That was around 3 months. The last three weeks have been wonderful!
  

Beck Family Journal

Just a Regular Day

I am so excited to start a blog for our family. I've been wanting to keep a journal for the whole family for quite some time now, but somehow have never gotten over the initial trouble of starting one. Somehow I feel like I have to start at the very beginning and write everything that has happened chronologically until I "Catch-Up" to where we are... That thought has been just too daunting. However, a blog doesn't feel that way to me. I can just start with today if I would like, or I can ponder on the past - at my leisure. How nice :)

We are a family of five now. Jeff, Myself (Nicole), and our three beautiful daughters; Brooklyn (age 5), Savannah (3), and Madison (3.5 Months). Poor Jeff is very out numbered. With four girls in the house, we are very emotional. A day never passes without some sort of crisis. Take for example yesterday. Jeff was playing with Brooklyn and Savannah. They have all sorts of fun little games that they play together. Just a short list of the games before I go on: Bake Cake, Car, Blurble, Ticklebug, and Kitty and Snake.

Yesterday they were playing Kitty and Snake. For this game Jeff pretends that one hand is a Kitty, and his other hand is a Snake. Brooklyn loves the Kitty, and Savannah loves the Snake. The girls hug and kiss and talk to their specific hand/animal, and Jeff plays along. This could go on for hours! The girls love it. Well, Jeff is a bit of a tease and was pretending that the Kitty wasn't a kitty. It was getting close to bed time, so Kitty finally turned into a kitty to say good-night. When Jeff said, "Okay, it is time for Kitty and Snake to go away, so you can go to bed," Brooklyn started to cry. Not because it was bed time. She started to cry because she didn't get to play with Kitty for very long. She was crying as if a real kitty had been run over by a car and died. She was hysterical. The only way we could get her to stop crying was to promise that Kitty would be able to play with her in the morning before Dad left for work. As soon as she woke up this morning, she found Dad and they played Kitty for a few minutes.

The girls need me. Bye.