Malachi Month-by-Month

These aren't her official month-by-month pictures, but they are pretty darn cute!

Newborn

One Month

Two Months

Three Months

Four Months

Malachi, Meet the Dogs

We, or rather, I have been hesitant about letting Malachi touch and "play" with the dogs. They are inside/outside dogs so she's seen them everyday since she was brought home from the hospital, but we've never let the dogs near her when she's on the floor playing. Well, we've noticed that Malachi has been fascinated by them lately watching them run and play- she'll even strain and stretch to see where they went when they are out of view, so we decided to officially introduce them all, and it went fantastic. Malachi was so excited, and the pups were both super gentle and sweet (which they always pretty chill dogs as it is) It was fun watching them interact, so I shot a short video of it. Enjoy!

Dairy-Free- Why Must it Be?

I blogged a couple months ago about a health scare we had with Malachi and several very bloody diapers. Well, here's my follow-up: We're still not sure what it is.

We meet with a specialist next week (living in the middle of nowhere in Texas means you're a good 3.5-4 hours from any city with a gestational specialist, so its taken a while to get into one) We're hoping it will give us some solid answers as to what is going on. We're running on the theory that Malachi is sensitive to the milk protein. However, anytime I even have a little bit of hidden diary, she gets a bloody diaper and is all out of sorts for the next 24 hours. :( It just seems like there is more going on to me.

After saying all that, can I vent a little? I HATE being on a diary-free diet. I'll do whatever it takes to keep Malachi healthy and to be able to keep breastfeeding, but seriously, this is no bueno. I've dropped weight like crazy, because EVERYTHING has a milk protein in it. Really. I challenge you to take this list of dairy protein ingredients (courtesy of kellymom.com) and find food that doesn't have it. I never realized how much of my diet was centered around diary products until I had to start keeping it out of my diet. I just want to eat a bowl of Mac and Cheese and not feel guilty... *sigh* On the plus side, I'll take a diary-free diet hands down any day over my original restrictions- diary, soy, egg, and citrus. I was literally eating rice and dry chicken for two weeks. 

Anywho, I don't like writing depressing posts, so I'm just going to wrap this up. Please be praying that the specialist appointment goes smoothly and we can close the book on this stuff. 

Nerds Through and Through

Casey has to post video blogs for his grad class... So we have been forced to learn how to use our webcam for something other then Skype...

We were pretty entertained by all the effects the webcam program contained. :)

Video- Roll Over, Beethoven!

Malachi rolled over for the first time yesterday- belly to back. Afterwards, she smiled so big and looked at me- she knew she had just accomplished something huge! I, on the other hand, almost started crying even though I was so happy for her. *sigh*

*Warning: She does cry a little bit so turn your volume down some*