Madelyn 2 (and 3) months.

So Maddie is apparently our giant baby (we needed someone to balance out petite Daryn). By 8 weeks, she was wearing mostly 6 month clothing (including these adorable pjs from Meagan).

I can't remember her exact stats, but you can see her at her 2 month appointment, she was off the charts in height. Crazy! I blame her tall uncles. 

 I don't remember too much about her at 2 months, but I do know she has been kind of a hard baby. For the first 2.5 months, she wanted to eat every 2-2.5 hours and was really pushing against sleeping through the night. She was also getting crankier and crying after eating. So we got her on some reflux medication, and she immediately started doing much better. Dropped 2 feedings within the week. 

 Looks like we've got ourselves another Daddy's girl!

I took these on her 2 month birthday as a Father's Day present for Lance for his office. Oh she's such a doll!!

Sweet snuggly girl.

And so happy!

Reagan took these pictures and I love them.

Church selfie.

3 month pictures!

She hit 3 months last week! 14.75 lbs She is much happier with her meds but still has a voracious appetite. Some nights she sleeps 9 hours and some nights she still wakes up. She is wearing some 6 month clothing, some 9 month (and even outgrowing some). She just started laughing and grabbing her feet yesterday. This poor girl just gets dragged around everywhere and takes in all in stride. She loves her playmat and is starting to take to the door jumper. How is she this big already?? I love her to pieces but miss my newborn already. 

Water babies

We kicked off summer with 2 weeks straight of swimming lessons! We heard about a lady that does them in her backyard and caters pretty well to different levels in two sessions. It worked great for us! The girls went right after each other. 

Reagan's first time off the diving board. She belly-flopped, HARD. I felt bad for laughing, but it was so funny. She learned quickly though, and by day 2 was jumping and swimming to the edge all by herself. She really excelled and I was so proud of her.

Maddie had lots of carseat naps during this time. Actually, that's been the case most of this summer. 

Also, unrelated, but one day she had this giant booger and she just looked so satisfied, it was pretty funny :). 

Popsicles at the end! Daryn almost passed level 1, and Reagan passed level 2. 

After swim lessons, we have tried to get to the pool as much as possible this summer- no easy feat with our busy schedules. We tried out the Bountiful pool for the first time and loved it. They had a fun outdoor ship pool and a good inside. We will be back!

And of course, the Roy pool is always our favorite. Before she was 2 months, Madelyn was joining the fun!

It's growing on her. 

We love that sun!!

And when we can't make it to the big pool, there's always the backyard ones. 

Maddie even uses her new floaty in it and pushes her feet on the bottom!

We love swimming! I thought we might have to cut back this summer with a baby because it would be too difficult, but we got this!

Summer is here!!

The cold spring weather is finally gone and we are ready for summer! Reagan finished up her last year of preschool with a cute little program the day after Daryn's birthday.

 Beloved Mrs. Call, who we will miss dearly (Daryn is going to the same preschool, but Mrs. Call is retiring). We are so grateful for the wonderful influence she has been on Reagan. 

We celebrated school being out (and making it through the craziness of the past week) that night at Chuck E. Cheese!

 It was Daryn's first time and the girls loved it.

That week Reagan had handspring camp up in ogden everyday, so we stayed pretty busy.

Friday night was the Father-Son campout in our ward. We did this instead :)

 The girls loved camping in the backyard with Daddy, although Daryn only made it until about 2 am when Lance brought her in.

 Saturday we got to see Lance's brother Shay because he was in town for a wedding (and Meagan and Grace). Apparently we didn't get any pictures with Shay, but here are the girls.

We spent Memorial Day just as a family. Daryn and I went to go meet her new preschool teacher that morning, and she was so excited. 

 We ate lots of yummy food and taught our girls about all the people that had died so we could be free to choose what we want to do.

We also set up Daryn's pool that she got for her birthday!

We spent the rest of the week outside basically. Tons of swimming in the pool and lots of trips to the splash pad before the big kids got out of school and took it over. 

Everyone got some sun!

Madelyn's first slide!

And one day I let Maddie try her very first "swimming". 

She seemed to like it!  At least, she didn't cry.

In other news, Maddie sits in the bumbo now.

As do the other girls, apparently.

This is how I grocery shop now. It's actually pretty effective. Thanks, Smiths!

There was the time Maddie tried to nurse on this giant teddy bear.

And the time both the big girls nursed their babies at the breakfast table. 

We're so excited for a fun summer and glad this little bug is along for the ride :).