The First Month

I wanted to post when Hadley turned one month but we were in Utah enjoying family at our reunion.  So here it is a few days late. :)

This past month has been so much fun. Hadley is such an amazing gift. I'm so anxious and excited for her to grow, I can't wait to see all the fun things she'll start doing but at the same time it breaks my heart. She's already gotten bigger and I want to cry. I want her to stay my tiny baby forever.

I always thought that newborns slept the days away in their crib or swing or car seat.... not our Hadley.  She hates all of those things. She cries alot. ALOT. And nothing seems to sooth her. She's gotten better the older she gets. The better she can see things, the happier she is. She always wants to be held. Mostly by me. The good thing is I absolutely love holding her so it's just fine with me. There does come a time when I need to get other things done though. :)   She thinks I'm a 24 our buffet, always wants to be eating. I've never wanted my kids to use pacifiers  but because she has this constant need to suck I figure for my sanity I need to give her one. But of course she hates pacifiers. When you put it in her mouth she loses her mind. She gets so pissed off.

She does however sleep amazing at night. Granted she sleeps next to me.  She loves baths.  Giving her her nightly bath is so much fun. I wash, Tanner rinses :)  She started rolling over at 3 weeks, when she's happy she smiles and makes all kinds of sounds. She loves to be sung to. She can be screaming her brains out but if I can get her to nestle her face in my neck I start singing and she'll be asleep in seconds. It's pretty funny. She's probably the most photographed baby ever. Every time I turn around someone is taking their picture with her. I guess when you have as many aunts as she does its bound to happen. :)  Being a mom is better than I hoped. Even with her as fussy as she is I still love every minute. We are so blessed to have her as our baby girl.

At the hospital

Driving Home

At Home

In her bouncy chair

Bath Time

One Look? One Look!?!

At the Dr. He said she is "perfect". She weighs 8.11

Sh....

She LOVES Tanner

One Month Old.

E-mail Hacked

I guess my e-mail was hacked or something, don't open any mail from me,  I'm sorry if you already did. I'm looking into it. I deleted all my contacts so hopefully nobody receives anything else.  Sorry about that. :(

More Pics

Here are a few more pictures of Hadley.
Thank you so very much to my fabulous friend Sara. Sara you are amazing! Love you girl. She is trying to focus more on newborns but does all kinds of pictures, family, wedding, engagement.... If you are looking for someone to take pics for you, you should hire her. Like I said, she's amazing. Her website is saracoral.com Check it out. Loves to all!

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Come One Come All

So a few days ago I sat down and wrote out her entire birth story..... it took a while. When I was done the computer wouldn't let me post it. I knew it had been saving it as I went along so I just closed the computer and figured I'd post later. Well later came and when I tried to open the file it had only saved the first few lines. I wasn't thrilled as you can imagine. So it might be a while before I take the time to write it again. I had mentioned that some things went wrong or not as planned. Some people were worried but let me assure you all is well. I just ended up having pitocin, an epidural, an episiotomy and forceps were used. Not what I wanted :) I'll tell you all about it some time. For now here are the pics of Hadley with family and friends.

This was taken a little while after she was born, but she was this alert when she came out. I loved it.

Hadley and Dr. Messer. I love her, she's been amazing the past 9 months.

Tanner

Grandma and Grandpa Stradling

Grandma Stradling

Grandpa Stradling

Aunt Molly

Aunt Bria

Aunt Jenna

Grandma Wootan

Grandpa Wootan



We can finally say Uncle Ty and Aunt Heather. Congrats you two on finally achieving those titles. :)



Broc



Savannah



Broc, Savannah and Leah

Aunt Savanna and Logan

Aunt Kristen and Uncle Keli

Aunt Kylee and Uncle Josh



Tara



Katie

Marla and Ty





Jenn and Cosmo

Janae. James was there but I guess he didn't make into a pic. :(

Uncle Dan and Aunt Leah

Aunt Andrea

Aunt Laci and Uncle J-Red

Great Grandma and Grandpa Kleinman

You might think that's a lot of people, it is. But Miss Hadley still has 13 cousins to meet, Uncle BJ and Aunt Candi, Aunt Melayne and Jeff and Aunt Ciera.




Thank you to everyone for showing us so much love and support. We've had people over helping us every day, bringing us food and meals, offering to run errands etc. We know how lucky we are to have such amazing people in our lives and are so grateful you are all apart of Hadley's life too. Loves to all.

One Week Old

Everyone meet Miss Hadley Kay Wootan. One week old and we love her more every day.

Hadley

Miss Hadley was born on Friday, June 24th at 1:52 am. Pretty much everything that we didn't want to have happen, happened but it actually turned out better in the end. I'll post pictures and share the whole story soon. We are doing amazing, tanner is home for a few weeks and is the best help. We are learning as we go a bit but loving it. Family and friends have been so great and helpful. We are so lucky. Loves to all.

Baby

Tanner brought his "Baby" home yesterday.

I don't see the appeal but he LOVES it so I'm happy for him. The good news is after four years I finally have my own car. Yeah! No more sitting at home all day :)

In other Baby News. We're three days past our due date and still waiting for miss Hadley to make her debut. I feel really good, not miserable yet. I have the same pain (heartburn, back pain, pressure) I've had for months so I'm used to it. Ready for it to end but used to it.

We're so excited for her to get here. We've tried convincing her to come out but so far it hasn't helped. She moves a bunch still, she's probably just in there playing. Living it up.

We won't be inducing unless they can prove there's a medical reason, so we may be waiting for a while. She'll come when she's ready so I'm not too worried. However I swear if I get any stretch marks and then she comes like the next day...... I'm not going to be very happy. I'll post as soon as she decides to grace us with her presence.

Hope everyone is well! Happy Father's Day to all those dads out there. Loves to all.

TA-DA!!!!

Our parents always told us that "two wrongs don't make a right" and Cher's dad from Clueless taught us "two permits do not equal a licence" Well my friends today I am here to tell you that "two nightstands CAN make a dresser". And a fabulous one at that. A few weeks ago Janae and I set off on a Friday morning to look for Garage Sales. We pulled up to a house and I saw two brown night stands. They said $5 each. I sat and thought for a minute. I turned to Janae and said "do you think I could put one on top of the other and make it a dresser? I mean for $10 it's worth a try right?" She agreed with me. Then the salesman/owner walked over and said "you can have them both for $5." SOLD!! Yeah for me. :) Well they've been sitting in our garage since then and today I decided it was time to paint them. That way I could put them in Hadley's room or give them to Goodwill if it didn't work. This is a picture of one of the night stands. I had already started painting the other when I realized I hadn't taken a before pic. And this is how they look now. I still have to have my dad attach them in the back. They turned out soooo good. I'm so excited. Her room is FINALLY coming together. It's precious. I can't wait till it's done, I already love walking in there and just sitting. :) Hope to post the finished product soon. Loves to all!

Moving Right Along

This is mine and Hadley's new car! KIA Sorento. Love it! Well I hit 30 weeks on Wednesday so I have 10 to go. I'm really hoping she comes pretty close to the 15th. I want her to stay in as long as she can but I'm so excited to have her, I hope she's not late. :) Me and my wishful thinking right? Time is flying by, I can't believe we're almost done. Her room is almost finished, we just have to touch up a few spots on the walls and then we can move her furniture in. It will be nice to get everything out of my front room. She moves all the time. One night we had the "Hadley Olympics" it felt like she was doing front hand springs and back flips for hours. I love it though, it makes me laugh. The big news is we bought a car for Hadley and me. As seen in the above picture. For those of you that don't know, Tanner and I have had one car since we got married. He drops me off on his way to work and picks me up afterwards. The good news is I got my car, however we traded in our Sentra so we're still sharing until we buy a new one for Tanner. Two of my school parents that live in Queen Creek offered to pick me up on their way to school every morning. I said YES. Now I wake up at 6:30 instead of 3:30. That extra sleep is fantastic, especially since I'm not sleeping all that great these days. I miss going with Tanner though, it's nice to start off our day together. We get alot of talking/planning done. The other day he said "it's kind of sad not driving together anymore. I already miss you." We've been carpool buddies for 3 years :) We still drive home together so that's nice. I also miss waking up (again) with my mom. After Tanner drops me off I crawl into bed with her. My dad is just getting up so I just slide into his spot. :) But I guess since I'm pretty much 30 and having a baby it's time to stop sleeping with my mom. Hahaha.

I'm really loving being pregnant, I'm starting to get uncomfortable so we'll see how the next 10 weeks go. My heartburn has kicked in hardcore but tums takes care of it for now. That's pretty much my only complaint.

I'll post pics of her room soon. And I've been meaning to take a couple of pictures of me, so I'll post those too. Loves to all!