A looooong week

It's been a verrry long week for us- another trip down to CT, a variety of (now resolved) car troubles, and a few late nights at the library. I have a huge back-log of pictures to post. I may just post them all in one big chunk. But here is one I took the other night of baby girl sleeping. Note the cool lighting effect!

 

I think this is around 10 weeks old. Baby Matilda is 11 weeks old as of yesterday! My, how the time flies...

Baby and Filly

The barn where Stu boards Steven in New York has a breeding mare. She just foaled on Mother's Day (how sweet!) and we went to visit the little filly on May 26. Her name is Little Prudy and she was named for the owner's mother.

Your daily dose of cute: cute baby horse and cute baby baby

Matilda obliged us by staying very deeply asleep the whole time, despite the rather chilly and gross weather.

Dinner Time

It's hard to believe that my maternity leave is drawing to a close. I am officially back at work next Wednesday. In preparation for that time, we started giving her a bottle in the evenings at around 4 weeks old. Stu gives her the bottle and we often eat our dinner as she eats. Tonight she was looking at me with such a sweet expression on her face, I just had to take a picture.

What a sweet girl!

Angriest Bear

 When I was super pregnant and getting ready for the baby, I realized we had no outerwear for our child. "It's cold in Vermont in March!" I thought. So I headed over to Junebug, our local baby clothes consignment store, and picked up the most adorably cozy bear suit. I think it's probably a Halloween costume, but it looked great!

Of course, when we brought her home it was woefully too big.

I realized the other day that she would probably never wear it. We're into much warmer temps these days. And if it is cold, we just pile more blankets onto her car seat...it's never really cold inside. Like a true Vermonter baby, she's much more bothered by being too warm than too cold, it seems.

Like a good mother (not really) I decided that I would put her into the bear suit, for the purposes of pictures. She fits it perfectly right now! (At 7 weeks...)

 

So sad to be a bear....

I'm not sure whether it was because she was too warm or just really bothered by the faux pas of wearing a Halloween costume in May, but being in this bear suit unleashed an inner sadness and rage in our little girl that was kind of adorable. (See, this is the part where I am not really a good mother....) Instead of soothing her immediately...I had to take a couple of pictures. 

There are many people that claim that it is cruel to take pictures of crying babies. But I say that it merely shows another side of their emotional experience. Matilda is a good crier, just like she's good at lots of other things. So here she is crying because she's in a bear suit.

Taller

We had to adjust the straps on her car seat because Matilda is too tall for the shortest setting. Yay! Taller! Here is a pic of her in her new setting. I think you can see the difference between the other pictures...I have included a pic of when we brought her home from the hospital, for contrast. What a difference 6 weeks can make!

Miss M, 6.5 weeks old

Tiny Matilda, 1.5 days old

Happy Mother's Day

This was my first Mother's Day and I have to say, I had a great one. Stu asked me on Friday what I wanted for Mother's Day and I made 3 requests:
1. Dinner at home
2. An unlimited-time shower
3. A family walk

I got my unlimited-time shower first thing after Matilda's early morning nap. This is especially nice because this past week I've been showering while she sleeps, which means they are super-high speed showers, while I listen for her to start wailing. Not very relaxing. I even had time to properly moisturize and put in my contact lenses--what a treat! Then, we headed to breakfast with pastries in Brandon (our usual weekend date). Then we took a nice walk around Brandon--the weather was a little cool, and it threatened rain, but it never did while we were out.

A picture from our walk. Matilda continues to be a great sleeper...

We had baby-family playtime in the afternoon, Matilda was in a super mood, which was really nice. Wiggly, happy, and "laughing".

For dinner, Stu held Matilda and did all of the diaper changes while I made my oven-curry. I know most women would not consider that a Mother's Day treat, but I love to cook. It was nice to just concentrate on cooking, rather than having to constantly stop and tend to my babe. Or, what is more likely recently, try and cook one-handed with her sleeping in my other arm.

What a wonderful first Mother's Day! I am so lucky to have such a wonderful husband and such a sweet daughter.

Auntie Brooke

Our friends had us over for brunch this weekend--Matilda got to meet kitties and our friend Brooke. 

Here are some pics!

Matilda's looking awfully sleepy in these pics.