Baby Madelynn

Hug-A-Hero

2011-02-17T11:12:00.000-06:00

Hug-A-Hero

Please look at this blog post.

This is something I really want to do and need ideas on.

Please take a moment to read, then give me your thoughts, reactions and I'll let you know how the process is going!!

Welcome Back Me!

2011-02-17T10:59:00.003-06:00

From here on out I am going to post more. Promise!

I've got a few ideas forming in my head.

How many of you made New Years resolutions?

I did and I didn't. I didn't promise to lose weight or stop smoking or not drink as much Mt. Dew (I wouldn't have been able to do that Mt. Dew one at all!!).

My resolutions were more personal growth.

Help others more often --- This is something I am going to share a link on and would LOVE for you to read! I will need your ideas and possibly your help.

Get myself organized --- I'm working on this one. I've thrown a lot of paper out and I've gotten rid of some stuff. Still a long way to go. Jeff has a possible deployment coming up and I think that with him gone that I will possibly get this one accomplished before he gets back.

I also want to learn more about my camera, cook more (learn new recipes) and I need to redesign this blog page.

Latest Picture of Maddie!

2011-02-17T10:48:00.003-06:00

I can't believe she will be 2 in two months!

Wordless Wednesday - 1st Birthday Photo

2010-06-09T22:07:00.001-05:00

Wordless Wednesday

2010-05-05T23:17:00.002-05:00

Wordless Wednesday

2010-03-24T21:36:00.000-05:00

Wordless Wednesday

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Ole Blue Eyes!

2009-11-06T22:08:00.001-06:00

Six Month Comparison Shots

2009-11-06T22:03:00.004-06:00

So Behind!

I have the kids three month comparisons so I guess I should put up six months (I have four and five too).

Maddie

Dillon

Whoops!

2009-09-25T16:17:00.004-05:00

I haven't updated in over a month! Shame on me!!
Maddie is getting bigger trying to crawl. She is amazing.
Here are some updated photos of her.
August

August

At Dillon's flag football game in September

End of August. The little boy on the right is two days older than Maddie.

First bite of carrots in September. Really didn't like it to much!

Wordless Wednesday

2009-08-05T13:28:00.003-05:00

Three Months!

2009-08-01T17:08:00.004-05:00

Ok! Way past time for three month comparisons!!
Here is Madelynn at three months.

Here is Dillon at three months:

Wordless Wednesday

2009-07-08T22:26:00.001-05:00

Wordless Wednesday

2009-06-17T11:45:00.001-05:00

Tuesday Two Month Check up!!

2009-06-17T11:43:00.001-05:00

She is healthy, active and beautiful her pediatrician said!

She is now 10 pounds 10 ounces and 24 inches long.

Tall and skinny! Just be taller than me is all I'm asking lol!!

Day late Wordless Wednesday

2009-06-04T11:36:00.000-05:00

One Month - Comparisons

2009-05-26T14:14:00.003-05:00

I guess before Madelynn turns two months I need to post these pictures lol.

Maddie is in the top picture and Dillon is in the bottom picture.

Dillon was a chunk at one month wasn't he!?!

Been awhile

2009-05-24T22:58:00.009-05:00

I was told today that I needed to post new pictures because Maddie is growing so fast! :)

Maddie asleep in her sling. I really needed to make dinner and she really wanted to be held. This way we both got what we wanted. :)

Robby had this blanket made for Mads (as Dillon sometimes calls her). It's a beautiful blanket and I wish you could see it in person. I did take a picture closer but you will have to go to: http://www.shonaandjeffbyrd.blogspot.com/ to see it. This picture Dillon really wanted to be in and I love the photo of both of them. Maddie's eyes are so blue against it.
I went to Baby Depot the other day and I bought a dress in a 2T. Yes it's neurotic. However the dress was normally 40 dollars and I got it for 15. It was the last one and it was to cute. I don't care that it will have to be in the back of the closet for a few years. At least when she wears it she will be the only one that has it. :)

Check back in a couple days. I'm going to scan Dillon's one month photos in a day or two for the comparison of him at a month and Madelynn at a month. Boy was Dillon a chunk! :)

Wordless Wednesday

2009-05-13T22:03:00.001-05:00

Monday Update

2009-05-05T23:03:00.004-05:00

I took Madelynn in for her weight update. She weighs 8 pounds and 7.5 ounces. Yay! She's gaining weight. We had a long day and she was such a trooper. I have been saving all my errands for when I got out of the house. So we went to her doctor, my doctor, Sams Club, Office Depot, Target, my work and Kroger then to pick up Dillon. She did so well! Not cranky at all.

So below are two pictures:
Maddie on the top at two weeks and Dillon on the bottom at two weeks. It's a comparison of them both.

Wordless Wednesday

2009-04-29T23:17:00.003-05:00

I know I already posted today but I wanted to show my "Yoga Baby" sleeping on this wordless Wednesday. The other post was an update. :)

She fell asleep this way. Yes! I straightened her out... after I took the picture.

Weight Check Up

2009-04-29T23:03:00.004-05:00

Last Wednesday Madelynn weighed 7 pounds 15 ounces. Dr. Blair wanted us to come back today (the 29th) and weigh her again. Maddie needed to gain an ounce a day per the pediatrician. Well I brought her in today and she weighed 8 pounds 2.5 ounces. Not quite up to her birth weight yet. I cannot understand this as this girl eats constantly! I don't think we do anything else besides feed her and let her sleep. :)

I was told to start supplementing her bottles with formula. I started that three days ago. :( So today I've been trying to trade and give her a formula bottle at every other feeding. She doesn't like that so much.

Monday we bring her in to weigh her again. Here's to hoping that she has gained more weight. Hopefully she's not like Rachelle and I. Rachelle just finally got over 100 pounds and she'll be 21 in two months and 11 days (as she so dutifully reminded me today) and I got up to 100 my junior year in high school. The doctor may just have to accept that although Madelynn may be tall she will probably be lanky as well.

One Week Well Appointment

2009-04-22T15:46:00.005-05:00

We took Maddie to her one week well check today.
When we took her home from the hospital her weight was 7 pounds 14 ounces.

Today she was 7 pounds 15 ounces. Her height was 21.5 inches. She grew half an inch!!

Her weight is average but she is in the 97 percentile for her height. In a room of 100 other kids her age she would be taller than 97 of them. Wow!! I hope she keeps that height. :)

The doctor says she is perfect though. Good for her!!

Pictures of Course!!

2009-04-18T18:08:00.000-05:00

New Pictures!

2009-04-16T22:23:00.001-05:00

She is here!!!

2009-04-16T21:53:00.003-05:00

Madelynn Marjorie Ellen Byrd has made her arrival!!

I started having contractions every 10 minutes starting at 7:00 am on Wednesday, April 15th. They stayed consistently 10 minutes the entire day!

Jeff and I went to Sam's club later in the evening hoping that walking around would make some sort of difference. It didn't. :)

Jeff works nights so he went in to work at 10:00. Wouldn't you know it about 10:30 they started bouncing all over the place. 8 minutes, 3 minutes, 5 minutes. I called Jeff and told him that I thought that he'd probably have to leave work to go to the hospital but I'd call him to let him know when they were more consistent. Keep in mind we live 20/25 minutes from the hospital. He waited like 3 minutes and called me back and said that he was going to go ahead and come home and he was just going to be at the house just in case.

He got home, changed out of his uniform and we left for the hospital. I decided we needed to just go ahead and go. The contractions were really starting to hurt and intensify. Thank goodness I have a smart husband. LOL!

We got to the hospital about midnight. When the nurse checked me out she said that I was at 4 cm. Keep in mind the day before I was only 1 1/2 and my doctor scheduled an induction for next week.
She (the nurse) went ahead and admitted me and got all the IV's going. About 2:30/3:00 I got my epidural. Thank the good Lord for whoever invented that. That person is a genius! About 5:00 the nurse came back and wanted to check status. She said that she couldn't tell much because my water hadn't broke and that it was right there. She told me the doctor would be in at 6:00 to look me over and decide from there what to do. She walked out the door and 5 minutes later my water broke.

Dr. Change came in at 6:00 and didn't even really wait. The room I was in served as a delivery room but had to be set up first. He had me do my first push before the room was set up. I did my first set of pushes (3 each time) and we waited for the next contraction. Did this three more times and Madelynn came out. I couldn't believe that I was already done!! I pushed for 3 hours with Dillon.

She weighed in at 8 pounds 3 oz and has hair on her head! Yay! The heartburn myth is true for this one at least. She's been doing really well all day. Has had the hiccups like 6 times and sneezed several other times. Takes after her mom. Her Agpar score was a 9 out of 9 and she is doing wonderfully. If it weren't for "having" to stay at the hospital per insurance reasons I would rather be at home right now. I made myself get up and walk around sooner and more often then with Dillon. I learned a few things since then. LOL!

Dillon came to visit her this evening and already is in love with her. He helped pat her back to get her to try to go to sleep and wanted to share his french fries with her. LOL Maddie also had a gift for Dillon which he was pretty pleased with (just a monster truck, geez he's easy). Cory had a school function he had to attend for a grade in a class so he'll get to meet Madelynn tomorrow. Thanks for reading up on us and to all the good wishes!

Lots more pictures to come!!

Official Eviction Notice!

2009-04-14T21:16:00.000-05:00

Well no news! :)

I am dilated just 1/2 cm more. So I am 1 1/2 centimeters dilated and that is it!!

I asked what I should do come Monday if she's not here still and Dr. Chang said that we will induce on Tuesday the 21st.

If Madelynn decides not to come out on her own I will be induced on 4/21. So at the most I have one more week.

April 7th, 2009

2009-04-08T08:51:00.001-05:00

Went to my 38 and a half week appointment on the 7th.

Dr. says, I am 1 CM Dilated and 40% effaced.

He made my 39 week appointment for next Tuesday. He didn't seem like he thought anything was going to happen between now and then so we shall see.

:)

THANK YOU!!!

2009-02-07T16:06:00.002-06:00

Thank you everyone #1 for your patience. It took me a minute to figure out what was going on too. :)

Thank you to everyone who sent something. I love you for it. :)

Here's the latest photo of me taken Jan. 16th. I didn't like my hair so this is the photo I'm showing.
I'll take another tonight or tomorrow that way you can see my belly now.
Twice yesterday I was asked... a few weeks huh? I said yeah about 10. Then ... Are there two in there..?? THANKS PEOPLE!!! :) Good thing I know how to take things in stride.
Keep checking in on here. I will post all updates and more pictures!!
THANKS SO MUCH!!!!

#7

2009-02-07T15:55:00.005-06:00

This is from Jennifer Holt (Falke):
Sunny she is one of the twins that was at the wedding.

This is a boppy! They are wonderful and have many uses. One is for nursing, you wrap it around you and lay the baby on top. Another is so the baby can lean against the pillow and kind of sits up rather than lying on the floor or flat surface. When the baby gets bigger and is learning to sit up she can sit with it around her and it supports her in sitting up. And when they start holding their heads up they can lay up on it so that it supports their chest and their head is held up. I love this!! Thank you Jenn!!! (and Dan)

#6

2009-02-07T15:48:00.009-06:00

Holy Crap! It just erased everything I did.. AUGH!!

This one was wrapped really well!!!

#5

2009-02-07T15:35:00.004-06:00

From Nicole in Kentucky/Cincinnati

I love this diaper bag because it's neutral in color. Jeff wouldn't be embarrassed to carry it around. It actually looks bigger than it does in the picture too. It's great!!
Thank you Nicole (and Sage and Matthew)!!!!

#4

2009-02-07T15:28:00.003-06:00

From Aunt Katherine:

It's a Breast Pump which I could really use. Dillon didn't latch on so I used mine as much as I could.
Hopefully that won't be a problem this time but if it does I've got this AND I can pump and everyone can feed as well. Hee hee

Thank you Aunt Katherine!!!

#3

2009-02-07T15:14:00.007-06:00

The first thing I opened was from Rachelle:

The pictures loaded backwards... now I know.

It's a sling! Cute!! Some onesies! Even cuter! And some leg warmers which I'm going to use for knees when she starts to crawl!!

Thank yoU!!

#2

2009-02-07T15:02:00.003-06:00

My camera stinks!

It'll let me take a picture then it turns off. It is driving me crazy. It says it has full batteries and then it dies.
Can anyone guess what I'm buying with my taxes???

One minute to fix!!

Entry #1 for today

2009-02-07T14:33:00.003-06:00

I want to say Thank You first to all of you....

I swear this won't take long.

I'm waiting another 25 minutes but I wanted to let you know what you were in store for.

It's nice outside today too. It's 70 degrees and the windows are open and the boys are playing outside.

YAY!!!

Excited for two reasons!!

2009-01-28T09:18:00.003-06:00

First... I got my first box in the mail yesterday.
I haven't opened it. I am being patient! :)
Thank you! I'll open it next weekend. :)

Second... I have been wanting to nest but can't do it yet.
Jeff gets home in like 3 and a half 4 weeks.

Well I got an email from target that they are having free shipping on purchases over $50.00. So I figure I will look at the dressers and see if they have anything that would match Dillon's dresser. We got his dresser at Target when we first moved to Little Rock in 2002. We bought a set but ended up only selling one at a garage sale last summer.
They have the exact same dresser!! The exact same one!!!! Which means I won't have to have hodge podge put togethers trying to match each other or buy new dressers totally! Small reason to be excited but I am! :) Now I can order this it'll take two weeks to get here and then Jeff can put it together lol.

Also! I want to thank EVERYONE who has sent us something. Jeff and I weren't really planning on having another baby. Therefore, when I heard people that needed stuff I would donate what I had. A little boy was born a year after Dillon, I gave him and another family Dillon's clothes. Another family I gave out his exersaucer because their kid was so mobile and they couldn't afford to go and get something like that... I was looking for a storage spot for mine so... off it went. I never thought that I should have saved it all. So THANK YOU!!!!

Shona here!

2009-01-25T13:41:00.001-06:00

For Christmas Dillon got a doctor's kit. It has a stethoscope, blood pressure cuff, thermometer, etc. He has gotten to where he'll come take my blood pressure and listen to the baby's heart and give her shots through my belly. It's sweet actually.So today when he was doing this I asked his if he was going to be a good big brother and help me with his baby sister. He said yes. Then I asked if he was going to help me feed her. His response:But she doesn't have any bottles to drink from... How can we feed her if we don't have any bottles.I said, we have time she'll get bottles we just don't have them yet.He said, she doesn't have a dolly either. She needs to have a dolly too.The concern on his face and in his voice was too cute. It cracked me up.So, he and I got on Target and looked at all the dolls they had. He picked out a doll that he thought she would like and we put it on the registry. I figured I'll go pick it up later but the fact that he got over his concern and he picked out the doll made him feel so much better. While we were searching for the doll he saw a cube where you can put pictures in it. He liked that too and said she has to have that too.I haven't really gone to the store to "get" anything yet. I have a ton of nesting that I feel like I need to do but the first few steps I need to complete I need Jeff here first. I want to put some shelves up in Cory's room so that I can get all of Cory's stuff out of Dillon's room. Once that's done then I can start to reorganize Dillon and Maddie's room the way I want to set it up. We are going to get a loft bed for Dillon to sleep in and roll the crib under the huge space that's meant for another bed or desk area. Thank goodness Dillon's bed was convertible, we just convert it from the toddler bed back into the crib (Thanks Sunny and David!!). Once we have the bed set up we can start to restructure the rest of the room. Obviously though all the heavy lifting Jeff wants me to wait. So I'm really waiting on doing any major shopping until he gets home. Which by the way is in about 25 days or so!!!!Once he gets home though I feel as though it'll be a huge whirlwind of stuff to get done. I keep putting this off but I think today I am determined to get started on all the stuff I want to put on ebay (finally)! I have a ton of old (not old old but books I won't be using old) books from previous semesters that I need to get rid of. I used 11 books alone last year. Dillon is actually wanting to take a nap today (he's not feeling to well) so while he is done I'll get as much as that done as I can.Anyway! I came on originally to talk about Dillon's concern but this ended up being a novel!

You lucky people

2009-01-14T13:38:00.002-06:00

Hey everyone this is Rachelle!

I have taken your email addresses from Shona's emails that she has attached me to as well. I hope you don't mind that I have included you in this fun experiment of sorts. :)

I put February 7th as an event date so that we can hope to have all shipments done by this date.

As Shona receives items she has been ordered to take pictures and post them on this blog for everyone to see.

If anyone has any questions please let me know.

Thanks!!

Registries

2009-01-14T13:30:00.002-06:00

Where Shona & Jeff are registered:
BabiesRUS: www.babiesrus.com
Target: www.target.com
Kohls: www.kohls.com

Their street address:
95 Chariot Cove
Austin, AR 72007

Due Date

2009-01-04T12:28:00.000-06:00

Baby Girl Madelynn is due April 17, 2009.

Will I be early, late or just on time??