Oh Maddie!!!

Oh Maddie!!!
You're finally here!! Mommy and Daddy are so happy! You are a sweet beautiful little babydoll of a baby girl! We Love you sooo much! You were born on the first day of Spring 2010!! You are named after your Great Grandmother Lucy on your Daddy's side and we really loved the name Madeleine and it suits you well! We had your name chosen very early on. It was going to be William's name if he was a girl, but he turned out to be a William instead (named after your Great Grandfather on Daddy's Side!) I was in labor with you for 11 hours and you only took 12 minutes or less to arrive! You look like a little baby girl version of William but with more feminine features and a distinctively different personality all of your very own! Mommy and Daddy really did get lucky with two very easy babies, you were both very content and laid back. The only time you cry is when you're hungry or when you need to have your diaper changed. It isn't even a cry really though, it's just a huffy warning that we had better act quickly or it's going to be upgraded to a impatient huff! Legs and arms flapping around as well. You're sooo cute! You've just started smiling at the sound of our voices, very very cute! You have about a million little outfits which were given to me from friends and work colleagues (one of which has 3 baby girls, she gave me about 20 outfits for you, some of which still had tags on them). In addition to this, so many family members bought us sweet little baby girl outfits. Really girly. Afterall, you are the first baby girl in our family in nearly 25 years. Your cousin (Godmother) Serena in Italy was the last baby girl in our family until you! Since then there have been 9 baby boys (Metello (Will's Godfather), Nicholas, Jake, Alex, Justin, Isaac, Ian, Roman and William.)!! Big Brother Will was a little rough around you at first, which is normal considering he's only just turned 2!! Now that you're two months old and he's learning how to behave around you he's very sweet with you. He loves your feet and itty bitty toes! We all give you a kiss each night before you go to bed! You're a great sleeper (thank you!! :o))! and you love your new swing. Your favorite toys at the moment are the little light up fish tank on your crib and your animal safari mobile. As soon as I put you in your crib (if you're not sleeping) you look up at it and wait for it to move. It plays music and moves around when I wind it up. When it stops you get cranky until I wind it up again! You are great at tummy time and have been holding your head up strong since day one! You get a little fussy about about 3 minutes then we have to pick you up because you tell us you're done! :o) You are very expressive and crack us up with the faces you make! You're a little red head, your hair is auburn like Mommy's which is great because i'll be able to give you hair tips since I've spent almost 35 years with the same hair type! Yours will probably be wavy and wild like Mommy's so I'll help you figure out what to do with it!! :o) Here's an email Daddy just sent me about you and your brother. It's too cute not to post it! Hopefully you and your brother will read this one day! Like a little diary!

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Enever [mailto:tenever@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 11:10
To: Enever, Amy M CTR NSWCCD Philadelphia, 9621
Subject: Re:

We had a double diaper change today, and while Will and Maddie were lying next to each other, Will reached out and held hands with Maddie. It was SO sweet. Then he 'did nice' on her head and I just about melted, he's much gentler now. By the time I changed the diapers and grabbed the camera he was up and about.