Mary Christine Madden

She's here and we are all doing great! She was born Thurs. at 5:45pm weighing 8 lb. 7 oz. and 21 1/2 in. long. She's so cute and changing so fast.

She's a day old in the above pictures. These next three are from her first night home.

Mary's Story

Thurs. morning I went shopping and had lunch with a friend. Got home and put the boys down around 1:30 and was going to try to nap, but that didn't work because I kept having contractions. (Could it have been the lugging of the double stroller in and out of the car?) I had so many braxton hix this pregnancy that I didn't think too much of it, just took a bath because that always takes them away. But afterwards, I realized they were still regular, about 5-6 min apart. They weren't painful though. I called Isaiah at work to tell him, and said I'd call again if they started building. This was around 3pm. By 4pm they were more crampy and painful so I told him to come home and we could go for a walk to move things along. My mom and Bekah were on their way too. Everyone got to the house at the same time. Isaiah took a shower singing that we were going to have our girl today. We decided to go to the hospital and get checked out and then walk around there because everything was so quick with Asher. We got to a room at 4:45. The contractions were more painful, but with breaks in between. They checked me and I was 8cm. I was really surprised, I'd had an appt. Wed and hadn't progressed much and wasn't dilated. The braxton hixs really must have been moving me along. My mom, Isaiah's mom, and Janna all made it to the hospital and before we knew it she was born at 5:47. Ouch, but I'm so glad it was quick. We'd been praying about that, and the Lord really answered. The timing was perfect. We didn't lose sleep and feel pretty rested still. There were no complications and I was able to recover quickly. And little Mary looks just perfect. Little ears, little feet, little hands. The boys are so excited to have a little sister, Ethan's been making up rhymes...Mom-the bomb, Daddy-my hattie, his new one is Sister-I kissed her. They're so cute and gentle...relatively...actually more in her face that anything. Isaiah is thrilled to have a little girl. So that's the story in a nutshell. We're happy, thankful parents!

Thanks for the Baby Shower Lunch Bekah!
Will and Katie Armstrong are visiting...YEAH!! The cousins enjoying their diner experience.

Ethan and Asher are patiently waiting for their little sister to be born. Sweet Boys!

Visiting with the Rutkowski's

It was great visiting with Karen and her three little ones; Janna, David and little Christina. I can't believe there are six kids between us. (Karen was my "housemate" when I first moved out.)

Two Weeks to go!

It won't be long now until our little girl is born. Our due date is March 19. Thought I'd put up a picture of me living large. Our hospital bag is packed and the babies seat is in the car. I've been keeping busy cleaning the house and entertaining the boys. I think they both have the idea that a baby is going to join our family, of course Ethan gets it a lot more than Asher. Isaiah really can't wait to meet his little girl. I'm trying to wrap my mind around the fact that it could be any time now. I think we're as ready as we'll be.
Please pray for a quick, "easy", safe delivery and for our little girl to be healthy, strong and beautiful :).
I'll post pictures as soon as she's born.