Happy birthday Maddie dog

Sooooo yea her birthday was the 17th and she turned 6! Let's pretend that we didn't forget it :)

We love you miss Maddie!

Master Bathroom Update

Well the master bathroom is finally finished! We haven't even been in the house a whole year (almost) but all of our renovations are complete! James is pretty excited about that. I still wanted to add a little molding places but I'm not set on it.

I came up with this idea to take a pallet and create a towel hook area (thanks pinterest), easy peasy thanks to James.

We moved things around in there as far as what went on what wall. We had to repaint it due to a mishap I explained here. 

We added baskets and I just need to roll more white wash clothes up to fill the bottom one.

We also added pictures to our hallway. Hadley LOVES pointing to them and laughing. 

I ordered a white ruffled shower curtain to switch out or old one that now doesn't match. It should be so perfect! 

Hadley is 12 months old (official monthly update)!

Officially Stats:

Head Circumference: 17 1/2 inches

Length- 30 inches! (she's grown 10 INCHES since birth!!) and she's a tall gal 75th percentile, I'm curious to see how this pans out

Weight- 20 pounds 4 ounces 50th percentile
I thought she would have gained more based on what she was on the 9 month appointment (19 pound) but who knows, she's still doing well

She LOVES blowing kisses (nonstop) and giving real ones and hugging us. We're having so much fun!
Hadley's ALMOST ready to walk, she's taking unassisted steps but not enough to say she's doing it consistently.

she looks like a giant here! :)

Hadley is still sleeping well 8pm til 7:15ish with two naps at 10 and 3. First naps maybe an hour and second naps usually an hour and a half.


She babbles/talks all the time. Mostly saying mama dada, something that resembles dog, and something that sounds like go go go. Her daddy has also been working on "moo" with her since one of Maddie's toys makes that noise, she does pretty well!

Hadley also waves and signs "all done" and "more" as best as she can.

there's that smile

Hadley loves eating still and wants EVERYTHING we are even if she's eating something at the same time, it needs to be what we're having. She's growing a LITTLE pickier but not bad. She's nursing 4 times a day and also LOVES water. The dr. said she could drink it whenever she wanted even if she chugs it all day (which she does).

She still loves playing with Maddie dog and love loves Bella Kitty 

(mostly because she doesn't see her often). 

She's a happy little girl. Hadley's wearing 12 months clothes but is outgrowing most of them real quickly so 12-18 months or 18 months will be happening soon. She is in size 4 Honest Company Diapers.

Hadley also has almost EIGHT teeth! Four on top and 3 on bottom with one more just about pushed through.

Her  hair is coming in a lot fuller as my sister likes to say she has "luscious locks". They curl on humid days or when she puts food in it. She LOVES the bath still and is as happy as can be, but don't go putting her in the car haha  :) 

Hadley's birthday recap!

Hadley had a fun filled low-key birthday day! James had the day off (because of Veteran's Day) and we couldn't have been happier.

We started the day opening presents and playing!

We got the veteran a free lunch and Hadley was happy to go along. (Notice the outfit change, every birthday girl needs at least 2 outfits for the day haha)

She "blew out the candle" with daddy's help after.

OH, ps. do NOT judge my cake.... I tried taking it out of the bundt pan while it was still warm, impatient, what can I say. Luckily we are making a real FUN (hopefully) cake for when we celebrate later this month (yes again).

Still tasted delicious, no complainers. Hadley even got to use the birthday plate I made her!

Max even facetimed in so he could sing Hadley happy birthday :)

and then Hadley decided to stand by herself for an extended period of time. James' face is too funny :) She's taken 4-5 steps by herself but not consistently so we can't count it..... YET.

Have a good weekend everyone!

Happy birthday to our beautiful baby girl Hadley Emilia

I have been dreading this day but also excited for it at the same time. Can we even call her our baby anymore? Of course! I will always call her my baby. We had her one year photos taken last weekend and they came out AMAZING! I am only going to share with you birthday themed photos because the family photos will be part of our Christmas cards (so we can't spoil the fun!).

Let's take a quick trip back through memory lane.

Hadley Emilia only a couple minutes old

 This is baby girl Hadley about 10 days old.

She brings so much joy to our lives and is as happy as can be. Here are the birthday themed photos from our photoshoot.

Don't you just love her little booty

Love this shot of her smash cake and her teethies

Love this shot of her smash cake and her teethies

dig in baby!

This is a split screen of Hadley 10 days old and 1 year old in the SAME tutu that her GiGi made her. I can't believe how fast this year has gone. They say flies by and it's crazy how true it is.

We celebrated this past weekend by going to a hands on children's museum in Tuscaloosa, Al (only an hour from us). She had so much fun. I will do a post about that. She even told me she wanted to stop by Super Target and get some super cute birthday clothes (so we did :) ). Her birthday happens to be Veteran's day and we're lucky her daddy gets to have off to celebrate the whole day with her!

 I will update and do a blog post about her 12 months dr. appointment with stats after her appointment later this week. I am also not posting the family session photos until after our Christmas card is sent out (don't want to spoil the surprise!) Enjoy your day everyone, we will!