Mazie at 3 months

She continues to grow bigger and bigger. It started in her face and then to her tummy and now the legs are getting the cottage cheese rolls. We'll see if she surpasses her sister Liberty Michilen Man.She is now on the move. We had set her on the floor asleep. Then later when I came back she had scooted herself all the way over by the baby car seat. Also one time I laid her on a blanket on the floor in the living room and she would wake up a little and fuss and move and kept doing this until she had done a 360. Her head in the same place with those little feet just a pushin.

Mazie at 2 months

Mazie is now smiling at us and acts like she can actually see us and doesn't just have gas. It just makes your heart melt.

She is so funny though because sometimes she will start screaming bloody murder and I'll think Liberty is hurting her or something. But when I run in it is that she is pulling her own hair. The more it hurts the harder she pulls because she is tensing up her muscles. Then when I try to pull her hand away it just makes it worst because she clenches tighter. It is pretty silly. I now find it best to just let her work it out. Crazy Mazie.

Mazie's Blessing Day

It was a really great day. I started out feeling a little anxious because I felt there was so much to get done with having family come after church to eat. But after about an hour of this I prayed that I could feel calm and focus on the most important part--Mazie's blessing. After that I felt very calm and was able to really enjoy such a special day.

Aunt Peggy made Mazie's beautiful blessing dress. I wanted her to be able to have this from Aunt Peggy because I think it is a special dress for a girl to have and wanted it to be from someone special. Sewing is such a great talent that Aunt Peggy has.

Rob blessed Mazie and the spirit was very strong. I am so grateful to have the gospel in our lives to help guide us, especially on how to raise our children.
After the blessing we had great food. (Thanks to all of you who helped!) My mom joked that it is kind of cruel to have dinner at the new mothers house. I lauged and thought that was pretty funny. Luckily everyone was so willing to help out that it was easy! A special thanks to my mom who saved me a few days before when i was feeling so stressed. My land-lord had called early in the morning and said that I needed to show the house and cleaning is hard to keep up with a new-born. So to have it super-duper clean seemed a little daunting. She saved the day and helped me deep clean the house. Thanks so much mom! I'm lucky to have you. (Sorry for the tangent, back to the blessing day!)




Dear friends from Provo, Patti and Pablo Hernandez came to the blessing. They sadly missed an exit and arrived just a few minutes too late for the blessing. I felt bad that they had missed it but thought it was super sweet they would drive to far to come to the blessing.

Liberty loved the new drinking pitcher. Later in the evening she, Taiton, and Drew would be found mixing root beer and lemon water and making a big mess by the back door. :) Those rascals. They were having the time of their lives.

These 3 girls were playing hard in the back room and soon Kate would join them for some dress up (Kate would be Snow White of course).
After the stomachs had settled, Rob and Miller started an intense tournament of Bad mitten (or "good" mitten as Rob liked to call it). It was fun because most everyone got involved. The Stevenson girls lived up to their reputation. Thank goodness we have recruited Chelsea who held her own.

Happy by standers waiting their turn.

The winners of the tournament were Rob and Miller. Hmm...fishy.

It was a great day and I am so grateful to have such supportive family and a husband with the priesthood.

Mazie at 1 month

She is already plumping up quite nicely! The chubbiness has begun.

She goes cross-eyed a lot and I think it is so funny. You can tell she is just trying so hard to focus in on my face when I am talking to her and then those eyes start going crossed and finally she can't take it anymore and they uncross. It always makes me laugh.



I sure love having her around. She is a really good baby (like all my kids have been). She really only cries when she is hungry (sometimes around 9 pm she gets a little fussy but that's it). She slept through the night from 11 pm to 6 am already and she usually sleeps a good 6 hour chunk but it just depends when she goes down to bed whether I will be waking up in the middle of the night. I already have such a bond to her (I think because I have felt so good and have really been able to enjoy her rather than feeling so delirious and tired.) I feel really lucky how easy having number 3 has been. I love being a mother!

Mazie at 2 weeks

She is so adorable!










Thanks Chelsea for taking the photos!

Mazie's cute pics

If any of you are interested in viewing some super cute photos of Mazie at the hospital. Go to www.bellababyphotography.com and login with 0526maziemcmillen. They will be up for two more weeks. Enjoy!

Bilibed

Unbelievable...I feel like this little girl is the shining example of health, but as we left the hospital they said her bilirubin levels were high and they wanted to have her tested the next day. So after driving to the hospital 4 days in a row to have her little heel poked and the levels not going down, they decided she needed a bilibed. I was really surprised that this was the case since my milk had come in the day I got home from the hospital, she was eating great, and pooping like crazy. I felt like my other girls were much more jaundiced, especially Eliza, but I guess the tests don't lie. So we ordered a bilibed and biliblanket.
It was very conveniently delivered to my house (I'm grateful for that). And the other bit of good news was that she loved her little tanning bed! She slept like a log (I was going to say "baby" instead of "log" but she is a baby...funny) on it. We got her tested 2 more times and it looked like the bed was helping. So she got to get off the bed. One last heel prick on Thursday showed that her levels had gone up just a little but they thought that she was on her way to getting better. Mazie has been missing her tanning bed but I am happy that I can put cute girl clothes on her now instead of just a diaper.