Margaux's new/old bear

Well of course we had a wonderful first Christmas with Margaux. I can' t believe it has already passed. Margaux received some adorable presents. Some new and some old. By old, I mean they previously belonged to her father. She was passed down a blanket that had been made for Matt by his grandmother. She also received a bear that Matt parted with years ago. Apparently a friend of his mother was visiting with her children one day when Matt was little. One of her daughters was crying, and Matt went up to his room and came back with his favorite bear to give to her. My mother-in-law ask Matt if he was sure that he wanted to give her his favorite bear and he said yes. The girl he gave it to kept the bear for all these years. She even took it to college with her. She returned it to our family this year for Margaux. My Husband is still just as sweet, kind, and caring. I’m sure this bear isn’t all Margaux will inherit from him.

Santa Baby

Margaux's first snow

Our little snow bunny!

Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas!

where did the time go?

Long time since my last post uh. The weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas have become a complete blur! I was so worried about getting a card out to my sister quickly, I forgot to sign it and sent her a completely blank card, no return address, with the picture of my child featured below. wonder how many family members got the same thing? I send my family the actual printed pictures at Christmas and order cards for my friends. I managed to get presents for most of the family, except for my niece and nephews in Texas. I’m going to have to get their Christmas to them late. And Matt, poor guy, is going to have to get his gifts after Christmas too. I have a pretty good idea what I’m going to get him, and hopefully we can just plan a trip to the mall after the holidays.

Margaux is doing great! She is getting bigger and bigger. I'm cutting back on the breastfeeding and she is starting to take at least one big formula bottle a day.Most days, I'm so over the nursing. Other days, I feel guilty or bad about wanting to quit. I’m also trying to change her sleeping pattern a bit. She is a wonderful sleeper. Her schedule was from 6pm to 5am, early but do able. However… she has decided to tweak it to 6 pm to 4:30am. I can not hang with that. Especially since she has been sleeping in our room because of how cold the house has been getting at night. For the past few nights I have been keeping her up until 7:30 and we are working on making wake up time at 6am. My mother envisions our bedroom looking like a refugee camp. Margaux on one side of the bed, biscuit (the dog) on the other, us (and maybe a cat… or two) in the bed and a electric space heater. Ahh, the memories.

In farm news: our sheepy girls are back and bred. We will be expecting lambs in the next few months. I am so pumped! Hannah Montana and Sally Pearl came home on Saturday. It appears that Sally is going to be the first to lamb. We also acquired a new ewe too. It was quite funny to see all the animals reunite. The goats (Snickers and Peppermint) put on a show jumping, head butting, and walking around on their hind legs. The new ewe stomped her feet at all her new friends. She had happy feet. I think we have decided to name her Lammy Gaga!

Any way… I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a wonderful Holiday!

Our Christmas card this year

M's First Thanksgiving

Well, one of the 3 Thanksgiving pictures I took actually turned out cute. This is Margaux and her Grandmamma Molly!
Also... I have been needing to get a video of Margaux to my niece in Texas. I'm posting it on here. If you happen to watch it, I apologize for the southern draw and the baby talk. Its a combination that I now think is worse than nails on a chalk board. I was trying to elicit smiles. unfortunately the baby talky high pitch seems to work. Please ignore my babbling and my one handed recording skills.

Happy Thanksgiving from Shelby Silvey on Vimeo.

the big 4 months

Margaux had her 4 month appointment and shots last week and Matt came along to the doctor with us. She does really well with her shots and she seems to be thriving. She is in the top 78 percentile on most all of her stats (height, weight, etc.). Right now she is about to hit the length limit on her 6 month clothes.

We started baby food and she is a big fan. There was hands waiving and feet kicking when she was given bananas. I guess you can say she went bananas for bananas. Hee Hee Hee! She has had oatmeal, sweet potatoes, carrots, bananas and today we are going to try either pears or peas. She doesn’t seem to be picky like her daddy. (*update- peas did not go over well at all*)

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving. However, I need to do a much better job of taking pictures. I managed to snap maybe two pictures of Margaux on her first Thanksgiving. I’m vowing to do better.

Margaux loves music

Matt and I sing to Margaux all the time. Matt is more creative than I am with his singing. The other day I could hear them hollering back and forth. Margaux was making her pirate "Arrrr" noise. So Matt began singing a song about a pirate named "Margaux the terrible". But that didn't fit her, so it evolved into "Margaux the terribly cute". One of the funniest lines I overheard was "she'll mesmerize you with her baby face, then she'll punch you in the naughty place."