Madeline is doing great! She's a wonderful baby. She's eating about 3-3.5 oz. every four hours. She wakes up, gets a clean diaper, drinks her milk, plays for a few minutes, then falls asleep. She's such a sweet cuddler and loves to be held close. Just like me when she's sleeping in her crib she slowly scoots herself until her head is touching something soft, like a stuffed animal or the crib bumper pad.
I still love my little sister, and want to see her all the time. I don't quite understand why she sleeps so much. Tonight, after Mommy fed her, I got to sit on the couch and hold her. When I hold her, I talk to her and give her hugs and kisses. She even kisses me on the cheek. While I was holding her tonight, she started closing her eyes like she was going to go to sleep. I kept telling her "Don't go to sleep Madeline!" and "Madeline, you don't want to take a nap." I really wanted her to stay awake and play with me.
Mommy and Grangie were explaining to me that Madeline has to sleep a lot so that she can grow up big like me. I told them "Madeline will grow big like me so she can drive a trash truck!" They thought it was funny for me to say that, but I'm not sure why. What little kid doesn't want to grow up and drive a trash truck?
This afternoon, while Madeline was napping (again!) and Grangie was helping clean our house since Mommy can't, I helped Mommy put together the birth announcements and baptism invitations to mail. I put pictures in the envelopes, sealed the envelopes, and put stamps on them. (So when you get your's in the mail, and you notice a not-so-perfectly-placed stamp, you'll know it was put there wtih love by me!)
Tomorrow we have a few of Mommy's friends coming over to see us and to meet Sweet Madeline. And since Mommy's dying to get out of the house, if she's feeling up to it in the afternoon, Grangie said she'd take Mommy to one small store. She doesn't want Mommy to overdo it and start feeling bad.
A few people have emailed or called to see if we're up to having visitors. Mommy asked me to let everyone know that we're definitely up for visitors anytime, but please call Mommy before you come just to make sure its an okay time.
