The Hewitts: 2016

September 4, 2016

Hard to believe Maggie is already 1 month old. It's more bittersweet this time around and I am savoring every minute of it knowing she is our last baby! I know I will blink and she will be going to Kindergarten. Here are the milestones for you Maggie:

You

Weighed 9 lbs 9oz at your one month doctors appointment (8/31/16). You were 22.5 inches long, having grown 1 inch since birth.
don't like getting your diaper changed because it makes you cold and you are so sensitive to cold!! Also, you like to go potty at the exact moment mommy has removed the dirty diaper and hasn't yet put down the clean diaper.
love sleeping on your tummy
can hold your head up for long periods of time, much longer than you should be able to at your age. You think you are SOOO big :)

are incredibly bright eyed

love when your sissy talks to you

have a good set of lungs on you! You choose to be really cranky between 4pm-9pm at night. Sometimes for the entire 5 hours. But your cry sounds like Donald Duck to mommy :)
are starting to find your hands. You suck so hard on them that you give yourself a hickey.
love to snuggle

love to look at the windows and the lamp. Something about the light really entertains you.

love to listen to Straight No Chaser sing. You will be crying and the minute they sing will stop crying, and then the song ends you start crying again.
have a really large mouth which Papa insists foretells that you will be a singer one day (may be the reason you love SNC so much)

went to your first football game (Bubby's)

took your first boat ride

had your first bath

went to the pool for the first time

It's all been a whirlwind but now that we are 5 weeks out from welcoming our new baby girl to our family it's beginning to sink in that THIS IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING!

Let's start from the beginning. Here it was April 2015 and Will and I decided maybe we should try for another baby. After all, he wasn't getting any younger ;) We didn't want to put pressure on ourselves but said "we will give it until beginning of November and if it happens it happens. If not we are perfectly content with our little family of 4." Almost immediately we find out we are pregnant.

A whole sea of emotions flood over me when I see that stick with a positive sign. Most of them fearful and questioning, like "WHAT HAVE WE JUST DONE?!" "THIS IS INSANE" "OH MY GOODNESS NEVER COME NEAR ME AGAIN!" Well, just as those thoughts began to leave my mind we find out we are pregnant with twins. TWINS! Twins. TWINSSSSSSSSS!!! That's two babies. And I am practically in a panic attack in the doctor's office. I can't explain how hard it is to wrap your head around the thought of two babies. And just as it was starting to sink in for us we find out we were miscarrying.

That's a hard pill to swallow no matter the amount of fear I had. We gave ourselves some time to heal. No trying. No thinking about a third. Nothing. Just time.

Then we enter the chaotic season of holidays. And I begin thinking to myself "you know I love our little family and I am perfectly happy keeping us a family of 4." For many reasons, mainly, that Hadley was finally self-sufficient enough where life was getting easy. Easier to travel, easier to go out on date nights and find a sitter, easier to have fun family outings. Just easy. And that was a pretty sell for me. And I swear to you just as I thought that God said "hahaha you think you control this? you don't. SURPRISE! You're pregnant with baby 3!"

And I entered the sea of flooding emotions of fear again. Having suffered through the loss of two babies earlier in the spring, we waited to tell any family until we were sure we had a viable pregnancy. IT WAS SO HARD! 12 weeks of keeping my mouth shut while suffering through agonizing nausea. You can't make excuses for that for 12 weeks. Of course, my mother figured it out pretty quickly, as mom's typically do. But, we held on strong and finally made our big announcement once we hit 4 months. Proud big sister wanted to steal the spotlight for the announcement.

It was fun how the kids reacted to finding out. Wilkes, being the oldest and having been through this once before, was a little less excited about the idea of a new baby. Mainly because he swears he raised Hadley on his own and he didn't want to have to raise another baby. I love how kids view "throwing away diapers" and "watch your sister for 15 min while mom showers for the first time in a week" equates to "raising a baby" but child logic is almost never rational. :)

Hadley, well Hadley is over the moon. She views this as a real life baby doll. Almost every day she tells me in detail one thing we have to do for the baby. For instance, "Mommy when the baby cries we have to hold her like this and say 'shhhhh it's ok baby'." It makes my heart melt. She is going to be the absolute best big sister. She is so maternal!

And then after the announcement, as life does, it goes on without too much excitement until you find out the gender! We all piled in the car the day we were going to find out girl or boy. Both kids fighting over which it was going to be. Of course, we get into the ultrasound room and the baby would not cooperate and we almost left not knowing. But, at the last minute we were able to get he/she to viewing position to hear the announcement "IT'S A GIRL!" and Hadley starts dancing and singing in the ultrasound room rubbing it in Bub's face "it's a girl, it's a girl." Which was funny and yet SO NOT NICE. Wilkes' handled it like a champ and said "that's ok now I get to be the only boy and that makes me special."

We made our gender reveal a bit of a production this go around (the things you make sure to do the second time when you don't do them the first). With Will playing Vintage Baseball this year we incorporated it as the first pitch for one of his games.

It's exciting to think we have another sweet girl coming to join us. I just pray she is less of a jibber-jabberer than my two now! This mommy needs less jabber more cuddles.

Here is a nice view of how baby girl is growing: