13 lbs, 24 inches

Sorry it's been a bit since i last wrote you. Maizy had her 4 month check up, and she's now 13 pounds, 24 inches! So big. Her shots were on friday, and she was a trooper for them (i plugged my ears and turned away). We were able to go to Matt's homecoming game with our friends Nick and Erin, and watch Brown Deer win. Saturday came, and so did the ramifications of the shots. Saturday, Sunday and Monday Maizy had a fever, the sweats, poopy diapers and was so listless. It was hard to see our happy, active baby so blah. Considering she's been a perfect baby (thus far, knock on wood!), we figured it was okay to just baby her completely during her sick days and just coddle her. This weekend was big for Maizy-it was her first encounter with Matt's hunting bonanza with his Iowa buddies. While the guys hunted, we played! Maizy shopped till we both dropped on saturday, and sunday we had church. I just can't believe how great of a shopper she is!! Oh, i forgot the biggest news yet- the day after my birthday, Maizy rolled from her back to her belly!! All of her grunting and to get past her arm and roll payed off. Now that's all she wants to do! Lay her on the changing table, and she rolls right over, that little stinker!! Then when we use the nose booger sucker up thing, she rolls right over then too and little battle of the will ensues. Thus, it begins! She's trying to sit up as well-slow down, one thing at a time little one!! My heart can only handle so much growing up at once! Enjoy the pix of her-trying to sit up, and our little thumb sucker.

Blessings!!

Harvest!

Autumn is here! We decided to hit up a pumpkin farm on Saturday, a rare warm day for this time of year, and we thought we'd take advantage of that. We bought a little Maizy pumpkin to display on hay bales with Indian corn and gords. I can't believe a new season is already among us that Maizy is apart of! She's become pretty vocal lately-no clue where she gets it from! Here's a pic of Matt and Maizy talking back and forth with each other. She gets a stitch out of us repeating what she says, and you can see the anticipation in her eyes for us to talk back to her when she talks. Her new thing is humming-she purses her lips tights, but just makes tons of sounds. If she had her mouth open, i swear it would be a scream, thank goodness it isn't! We're still working on the rolling over thing though-Maizy really wants to go from her back to her belly, and just grunts when she gets stuck on her arm. She hasn't figured out how to maneuver around it. Soon enough. Maizy has also become quite fond of herself. When we are in front of the mirror, she just giggles at herself!!
Maizy did great at Matt's huge victory football game on Friday. They beat their arch nemesis, Pewaukee, with an on-side kick and a 2 point conversion in the last 2 minutes of the game and it was exhilarating to watch and experience. This was the team that hosed them out of state playoffs for the past two years, so victory was very sweet! This week is homecoming, and we're excited for another win under the Brown Deer belt.
Blessings to you all! We'll let you know how her 4 month check up goes on Friday.

Rollie Pollie

Maizy is great-our little peanut is now 17 weeks today. she found her toes and is always grabbing at them. when we come get her in the morning her feet are up in the air and she's trying to get them. too silly.she can't get them to her mouth yet and it frustrates her. she's trying to roll from her back to her belly (she can do the opposite), and she grunts when she gets on her side because she can't get all the way over yet. She fits in her exersaucer now, and is enthralled with all of the activities on it, and smiles and talks to this one smiley sunflower toy on it. I'm beginning to think she likes the toys better than her parents now.

Things are just crazy busy here still. we went to matt's football game on friday and it was craziness there. they played against new berlin. to preface, the week before new berline and pewaukee played, a pewaukee player head butted the head new berlin coach with this helmet on, and the coach pushed him down, so the coach is suspended for two games (the player has no penalties of course, and they even tried to file a law suit against the coach for pushing him, even though he head butted the guy!). so, we played new berlin the first week of the coaches suspension and the team definately had something to prove. It was a sold out, jam packed home game. we were smooshed in the stands. i left at the middle of the 3rd quarter, when new berlin was winning 21-0. maizy needed to feed, and i didn't want to see the monstrasity that was unfolding on the field-i'd get to hear about it at home anyways. Maizy was a riot though. when the crowd would cheer, she would sort of scream along with them. at first it was sooo super cute, but then i think she got scared, so that's anaother reason why we left. so i get to the jeep, packed her up and hopped into my seat, and it started pouring! there was nothing in the weather report for rain either. but it had been lightening all through the game and they never cancelled it which was totally weird. i was so glad maizy and i had left when we did b/c i'd have to run in the rain with her, and then deal with traffic in the parking lot. so we left just in time. well, come to find out, matt's team pulled up in the 4th quarter, tied it and they went into overtime!! even thought they lost 29-28, they kicked butt!! now that's what friday night football is all about! we're preparing for this friday's game, against their nemesis-Pewaukee.

On Sunday, Maizy's 2nd cousin, Christine had a jewelry party that we went to, and we were able to hang out with her Great Aunt Claudia and Great Aunt Susan (so weird for me to call the Great Aunt-they are too young for that!), and her 2nd cousin Liz. It was so good for us "Lechner" women to be together again-it's been a while, and we loved being with them. Great Aunt Susan had Maizy just talking and talking, and Great Aunt Claudia had Maizy all cuddled up and smiley. Chris is a natural with Maizy, and Liz was already prepping her to be head captain of the cheerleading squad.

We'll let you know how the game goes; next week Maizy has her 4 month check up!!

Blessings!!

Ballet and Tricks

Saturday Matt brought Maizy up by us in bed and was trying to convince me that she can roll over. So he layed Maizy on her belly and she rolled to her back. Well, she can't be doing that yet. She's still a newbie-they can't do tricks yet! It just must be that she was on a soft mattress which caused her to roll. So Matt put her back on her belly, and she rolled again. I rationalized that it must be the fact that there are divets in the bed from our bodies, and it was enabling her to roll. So Matt layed Maizy on our floor and over she went! And then she did it again! This is too much too soon!! So we are now officially having to start watching her like a hawk-no more quick walk aways to get the phone or change the laundry. I just can't believe that she's rolling over. It's amazing to me, trying to process that this little person was just born and she has done so much in her short little life thus far. God is so incredible with His creations! Here's a pic of her in position to roll over-she tries to alot on her changing table, but knocks her noggin' on it, and keeps wanting to roll. Yesterday we put her tights on under her dress for church, and pulled out the tutu that grama good gave her and couldn't resist! It's like going to the circus with her-she has a tutu and does tricks!!

Blessings to you all!!!

Maizy's portraits

Are these too cute or what?!

Last Saturday Matt and i tried to have her pictures taken, but she was not having it. So this friday, on my day off, as soon as she woke up and ate, we headed out the door and had them taken. It was a ball! The little diva loves her pictures being taken, and knows totally when a camera is on her. We were there for two hours just shooting pics! Not a single fuss or tear. The hardest part was selecting which ones (and of course, i'm a sucker for them all, no self control!).

It has been a crazy, crazy week for us. Matt and i both started back full time, and Maizy started daycare. We're very fortuante that she is spending her days with a very loving, christian woman's in-home daycare. It's been great for Maizy so far. Apparently, she a little socialite and loves the other kids there. She will only take a 45 minute nap in the morning and in the afternoon because she's afraid she'll miss something (i wonder where she gets it from?!). But, it has helped us because she's been sleeping through the night this week for us. In fact, when i had off on friday (i'm working monday through thursdays), she was so tuckered out from her week that she slept 12.5 hours, and didn't get up until 930, fell asleep about noon until 3, fed, and then went back to sleep for another hour and proceeded to have another night of not waking up!! We should've done daycare long ago if it entailed undisturbed sleep!!

It is very difficult for me to be away from her for such a long period of time during the day. I do good until about 2, and then i get bummed. please pray for me and my bosses this week. i'm working up the courage to ask them if i can shorten my work day, and have it end at 3, versus 430. it's just so exhausting-it takes 40 minutes for me to get her due to rush hour, and we don't get home until almost 530-so she's at daycare from 730ish to 515-a super long day for her, and i'm not a fan of that at all. by the time dinner is made and matt gets home, its 7, and then we try to straighten up the house a bit, and spend as much time playing with Maizy as possible until she crashes at about 9. I kind of feel like we are going through the motions right now, and that there is no emotion to it all, rather robotic. i just don't know how full-time careers and full-time parents coexist in perfect harmony. but then again, if it does, let me know!! At any rate, i'm nervous about approaching my bosses this week-i don't want to push it with them, but i don't want to keep this up either. Please pray for encouragement/confidence for me and the right words to use, but mostly that they are receptive and totally willing to work with my request.

as for matt, his team is 3-0, with a 38-0 win on friday! another conference championship season is brewing! he's got a crazy schedule too, just go go go during his day with minimal down time. already on his first day of class he had a puker-welcome to a new school year! Right now i hear him sweetly talking to maizy, getting her bath ready for her (so i can be done during halftime of the iowa game-she's not aloud to miss one).

Let us know if you want any of her pix-i can email you the high resolution file. Blessings on you all!!

Fashionably Victorious

Melt my heart! Great Grama and Grampa are helping Maizy strike it rich with her new little piggy bank. But it's not your average piggy bank-it's a designer-esque purse with a handle and gems! Starting to save up for her purse collection now!How cute is that?!

Speaking of cute, we have our very own princess and the pea. She sleeps great in her crib at night, but the minute we put her in the crib for her daytime naps, she wakes up. She just does not like it during the day. So i layed her in our guest room bed and propped pillows around her to mimic our body being next to her (the only way she naps during the day, by the way, of course). She is swallowed alive by the double bed! What a little princess-her crib is not good enough, but the egyptian cotton sheets are what's acceptable to her.

Our friday night football game was rained out and postponed to saturday, and it was worth it. Gorgeous weather, and a huge victory. Matt was the offensive line coach for the game, and they whooped it up with a 40-7 victory!! We were so excited. Every time there was a touchdown (tons of them too), i'd jump up and cheer with her in her little papoose, and she slept through it all during the first half! I don't get it-step on a floor board wrong in the house and she wakes up, put her in a cheering crowd and she sleeps! Two other coaches had babies during the off season, so we all had our first football games together and had our pictures taken to commemorate the babies big day. Maizy was a hit with the player's parents, that's for sure! The 40-7 victory was an awesome start to Matt's football season, and Maizy can't wait to cheer her daddy on some more!

Blessings!

Sitting Pretty

So back to work has made me miss Maizy. It's hard to not pick up the phone and check in on her every hour! Just to hear that little voice gets me by another few moments. How weird-i used to not be able to wait to hear a favorite song on the radio at work to make my shift go quicker-now it's just a little coo that does it for me!

Maizy's getting so strong. This week we sat her in her "bumbo" chair-it's a foam, form fitted seat for her once she can hold her own. We plopped her in it just to see, and she totally fits in it and loves it. So we took some fun pix around the house of her in it. When we hold her, she gets stiff-legged and just stands. So trying to burp her is a fight of the stronger will-and this pushover tends to lose!

This friday is a big night for Maizy-her first football game to watch daddy coach. So of course, we had to buy some cute flair jeans for her to wear to it! And this past saturday, she went to her first goose calling championship-she didn't flinch the whole time, unlike me (those things are loud!). Our little sweetie all dressed in pink amidst camouflage and testosterone. Pretty soon dad will have in in camo though!!

Blessings to you all!!!