Maddy

I decided that for the next four posts I am going to talk about my children, so I will start with the oldest Madalynn.

Madalynn was born nine months after we got married yes she was a honeymoon baby. she was born one hour and seventeen minutes after my birthday. Paula and I had gone down to our doctor in Orem on June 22 for a normal check-up and on the way down Paula was joking maybe we will have the baby on your birthday, we just laughed about it and headed down. We got there at about 3:00 or 3:30 for the appt we got into the exam room and the doctor does his thing and looks at us half falling asleep, he always seemed to be falling asleep. I guess that is a good sign for an ob/gyn when they are falling asleep cause they are so busy and commited(he always seemed to remember who we were and about us). Any how when we was done with the exam he looks at us and says are you ready to have a baby, we looked at each other and laughed a little bit thinking he was joking with us. Finally Paula said "Yeah" He told us to go down to the hospital and get checked in, at this point I think we both thought he was joking. He then told us she was dialated to 4 cm, to me that meant nothing, but Paula seemed to understand. So we went down got checked in and called family and freinds to let them know. The hospital encouraged us to move around and try induce the labor a little bit more. Paula then started to hurt alot and decided she needed to lay down I think this was about 09:30 or 10:00 so we went in and got her layed down and by this time family and freinds were starting to show up. at about midnight or so Paula finally told her family to leave they were the only ones there and I don't know if they getting on her nerves or if she just wanted to be left alone. After about another hour or so she had the baby.

Maddy was a pretty good baby even though she screamed alot. She was healthy and doing good until she was about six months old when she got rodavirus(?) when we first took her in they misdiagnosed her and gave her a medicine that almost killed her. By the time we got her back to the hospital she was so dehydrated that she couldn't get tears when she cried. Well they figured out the screwed up and got IV's in her and got her hydrated and after two days she was released to come home. and hse has been healthy since.

The good thing about Maddy is she is a very intelligent girl, the bad thing about Maddy is she a very intelligent girl. She figured out at a young agwe how to get around some rules and get what she wanted. When she turned eight we talked about baptism and what it meant and that stuff and were starting to get her ready for the baptism but due to Paula's recent diagnosis we asked her ifshe would be upset if we waited to get her baptized for a few months. In about October or November we started talking about her getting baptized again. After explaining to her about it we asked her if she thought she was ready to get baptized or not, and at that point she told us no I don;t think I am ready. Which made me so proud because she was realizing the importance of the promises she was going to be making. after about another month we asked her again and she stated she wasn't sure yet, sio I asked her why she said cause I still lie. see where the maddy is very intelligent she learned at a young age that if she doesn't tell us all the story or admit to doing wrong she wouldn't get in as much trouble I then explained that as long as she was trying she would be ok. So she said ok that maybe she was ready. So we got an appt with the Bishop and she had her interview, but before going into the interview she was still alittle unsure about it. Well during her interview the bishop explained things better or she just understood but she came out and had the biggest grin on her face. She was Baptized on Dec 13 after making her own decision about uit. I couldn't have been prouder of her at this point cause she thought about it and figured that this was an important thing on her own.

Well i think those are the big things about her but give you a few fun facts about. She is in the third grade and loves school just not turning in her work, she must get that from Paula cause we all know I am the perfect student. :) But she loves the dance class she is in and is always excited to go to it. She loves to sing singstar pop. She loves being the mom to her younger siblings when Paula isn't feeling well and the mothering instinct shows alot in her. She especially loves watching her baby sister and lugging her around the house like a little doll. This pretty much sums up Maddy.