What's next?

Melanie will be returning to work full time on April 15th and Jeffrey will get to spend his days with Madeleine until June when her Grandma Susan will be taking care of her for awhile.

New people in Madeleine's life

Madeleine got to meet her Grandpa and Grandma Sommer this week. Everyone was very happy to finally see eachother.

She also met her cousins, the Hanchette girls.

What's Madeleine up to these days?

Madeleine loves to bounce and play so she spends most of her times in her family's arms bouncing and dancing or she is exercising her legs with her daddy.

Happy Easter. Busy, busy!

Who knew that having a baby was so much work! Sorry to those of you who have checked in recently only to find old posts. We have been updating the picture website so if you don't have the link, send us a email and we'll send the link.

We are all doing great. Madeleine had her two month checkup and is doing really well. She is now 9 lbs, 1 oz,10th percentile and 22 1/4 inches long, 50 percentile. She is often awake so she is ahead of the curve on responses and intelligence (as of course I assumed:)). Madeleine is really reacting to the world around her and is smiley, smiley, smiley. Coming up this week, she will get to meet her Sommer Grandparents, who are coming for a visit from Washington.

Madeleine is growing fast!
She had her 2 week check-up over a week ago now (February 5th). The doctor said that she was very happy with her weight gain and growth. She was up to 6lbs. 8oz. and measured 21 inches. That put her in the 5th percetile for weight and the 50th for height! Tall and skinny! I'm sure she's grown a lot since then too. It seems like some days you can almost notice the difference from the day before! She is very busy lately eating to keep up with her growing needs.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Good Dogs

Those of you who know the dogs know that while they are friendly to a fault, they are high energy and perhaps not the best behaved dogs. This caused more than a little worry before Madeleine was born because we were unsure of how the dogs would react. Fortunately, Digby and Bowie have been excellent with Madeleine. Digby wants to give her kisses (which we discourage) and guard her and the rest of the family. Bowie has discovered her maternal instinct and acts as Madeleine's nanny. When Madeleine is feeding, Bowie will not allow Digby within five feet of Mel and Madeleine and stands vigil nearby.