Apologies

I didn't realize how difficult it would be to update everyone as much as I would like to. As tough as it is to have a child in the NICU, you have a lot more time to throw a quick update on the web.

Madison is a complete joy! She has her moments, however Mike and I could not be luckier, Maddie is an angel of a baby. She lets us sleep quite a bit more than I first expected. The only time she gets overly fussy is if she is hungry or has been up too long and is overtired.

My favorite moments of the day are:
1. after Madison has her early morning(between 5 and 6) feed, she never wants to go back to sleep in the cradle, so we bring her into our bed and have Maddie cuddle time and we get a few more hours of sleep.
2. just as Madison is about to fall asleep, sometimes she gets this big goofy grin on her face as she is drifting off...always puts a smile on my face!
3. Maddie is a cuddle bug and she loves to lay on her belly on people, however when she lays on me, she lays on her belly but sideways just like she did in utero.
4. when Madison is being held and she is looking around the room, she gets wide eyed as she is absorbing everything around her.

I promise to try harder to give more frequent updates and add pictures. I plan on adding in the near future "Things I've learned along the road of motherhood" to our blog.

Deadly Drycleaning

So after a party where I decided to clean up nice and wear a suit I put my suit on the dining room table with my SD cards in the pocket. The suit, which was sitting around, my mother assumed needed cleaning and put it in the dryel bag with the SD cards still in the suit pockets. 2 cards survived and 1 didn't quite make it through. So I glued it back together with some duco cement and the 8GB card worked again. Unfortunately, the cement didn't hold it together for very long and I moved on to Super Glue. With our Nikon D90 currently getting warranty repairs and us unable to find our old camera, we bought a Samsung 10Mega Pixel "Mickey Mouse" camera. [Mickey Mouse Camera == any camera that isn't a Digital SLR]. Laura had warned me not to use the cemented / super glued / dryeled SD card but I couldn't resist I wanted the other 2 cards for the DSLR. It worked fine until I tried to remove the card to put the pictures on the Internet for Laura's latest blog post. Some of the pictures we lost because of my mistake of using the decrepit old busted card:

Madison 2nd bath Pictures which included her deciding the best time to pee would be when she was naked en route to the bathtub. Soooo she sprayed her daddy a bit.

Madison holding her head up playing on her activity mat.

Madison looking in the mirror at her cute self.

:-(

Laura is MAD