And the nurse, of West Indies decent, looked at me unamused & said, “She was tired. On that night, I was up all night crying & begging her to wake up… and was so upset that I eventually took her to the emergency room, where she woke up & let out a cry. Madeline has slept through the night since she was 9 days old. My brother David was with me, and we couldn’t believe it as we looked down at her, and knew that our little frog would grow up to very much love the water. One day, about one week old or so, I laid her into our deep porcelain kitchen sink to bathe her much to my surprise, she turned her head in the water, and with her eyes open she stared into the water & blinked several times, breathing & totally comfortable. Madeline was so tiny that she looked like a little skinny frog, but she was super cute with her big little asian eyes. It turns out she just wanted to spread out a little, and from then on out, she was not very fond of being snuggled too tight. After she was born however, and they handed her to me all wrapped up in her swaddled blanket… I opened the blanket so that I could look at her whole body, and she spread her arms & legs out like a perfect little X, and then let out a sigh of relief.
When Madeline was in my belly, she moved around so much that I was worried that for sure she was going to hurt herself in there. She was early, not a preemie, but was only 4 pounds 10 ounces. I’m just going to share with you some of my fondest memories of Madeline, things that I think are totally “her.” (all photos by yours truly, except for the last photo taken by Jonathan Canlas) and sorry/not sorry that this will be my longest post ever.) Lucky you, you get to see how “awesome” my photography has been throughout the years! And I really wanted to share them all, but they seemed impossible to get down to a reasonable amount of photos… so in the end it only made sense to post one of each of her birthday photos, that I took every year. Today is the day that I’ve been unknowingly waiting for for my whole entire life as adult… the day that my baby girl becomes an adult herself.Īs you can imagine, I have one billion photos of Madeline, and about one million of them are favorites.
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