Between the White Lines: Introducing Maddie Louise White

We've waited, what has felt like an eternity, for our little girl to arrive. Maddie Louise White finally made her arrival on July 29, 2014 at 4:00pm on the dot. She weighed 7 pounds, 11 ounces and was 20 1/2 inches long. She didn't make us wait quite as long as her older brother (thank goodness), but has taken after her brother's excellent sleeping ability. She eats every 3-3 1/2 hours during the day and sleeps from 11:15pm-5:30am and then she will wake up shortly after 9. We've been having to take her to the pediatrician a couple of times to check her billirubin level for jaundice. On Friday, she weighed 7 lbs, 7 ounces, and today she weighed in at 7 lbs, 8 ounces (before we left the hospital her weight had dropped down to 7 lbs, 5 ounces). She is such a doll and we are so smitten by our little princess. Since the hospital no longer takes newborn pictures, my mom and I decided that we would attempt to take some on our own. We weren't very successful because we don't exactly have the eye for photography and the little princess decided that she was going to throw a fit. So, we have a grand total of three pictures (woohoo!). I've posted them below along with some pictures we took in the hospital and as a family of four. In those pictures, the big brother decided that he wasn't going to have anything to do with pictures. Eventually we will get a good picture of all of us!