Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day from the McQuitty girls! 

Madie had to make very special valentine's day cards for her friends at school.  She did such a great job!

 Here she is with her Valentine's day present from mommy and daddy. 

 And here is Marlie Grace's. 

 Marlie had a big Valentine's day too.  We had to head to the hospital for our PKU. :(  But she handled it like a champ and looked adorable.  

 The girls had an extra special surprise when Daddy came home.  Their first roses!!  

Mike and I even got a special treat, Super Mimi kept BOTH girls so we could go to dinner.  Woohoo!

Chasing Fairies

Yesterday Madie and I decided we should try to catch some fairies.  We got our mason jar and set out to catch them.  You can only see the ones you catch in the dark which is why all the pictures are in my closet! Ha!

Here's Madie with her Fairy Jar....

 Shaking them up......

 Wow!  Look at all the ones we caught!

 Madie thought this was the coolest thing ever.  We almost never got to leave the closet.  It looks to me as some are escaping in this picture. 

I'm pretty sure that's who put this Q on Marlie's head later in the day!  Ha!



One Week

Look whose one week old!  Ms. Marlie Grace!  This week has been incredibly fast.  We are home from the hospital and settling into our new world.  Right now we mostly sleep, eat and receive tons of hugs and kisses from sister.  

 Marlie is benefiting from lessons learned.  Here she is before her one week appointment.  I remember Madie's first appointment, I had her so dressed up with no idea they would have me undress her when we got there.  Ha!  Marlie got to wear a super easy to remove one piece.  Doesn't Daddy look proud?

 Same pose, same day different daughter!

 Madie celebrated Marlie's one week with settling back into reality.  It was time to return to school.  We made cookies the night before to take to all her friends.

 Obviously we had to test them too.  Ha!

 The next day Madie was armed with a picture of "My Marlie" and her cookies.  She set off to school with a "Bye, I love you!"

Sisters!

Madie is quite the big sister!  She does such a good job watching over Ms. Marlie.  I am so lucky to have two precious sweet girls!

Madie singing to Marlie when she upset.  I laughed SO hard!!

The sweetest thing ever - Marlie spit up and it made her REALLY mad!  Madie kept kissing her saying "it's OK sister, it's OK. "  Oh be still my heart.  I knew she would be great, but she is more than I could imagine.  I am so proud.  

Coming Home!

We got to bust out of the hospital on Friday!  We were so ready to head home and have our little family.  

Our first family photo!

Seesters!!

Marlie Grace

From the fullness of his grace we have received on blessing after another. John 1:16

On January 31, 2012 at 7:27am our world became a better place!  We were blessed with Marlie Grace.  She weighed 7lbs 7oz and is 20.5 inches long. It is absolutely amazing how full my heart was from the very moment I heard her first cry as she entered the world. 

Turns out our anesthesiologist was also some sort of amateur photographer so he took tons of pics for us!  We figured for what we were paying him we might as well take full advantage! Ha!

First pic with Daddy!

Grandaddy was the first one to meet Ms. Marlie as Mimi was home with Madie waiting to come up!

Here is the very first time my two girls layed eyes on each other!  Madie has been SO sweet, she just hugs and kisses her and is very interested in everything about her!

The girls gave each other big and little sister dolls and Madie got a strand of big sister pearls!

Holding her little "seeester" for the first time!

Cooper came all the way from College Station to meet Marlie too!

And of course, Uncle Case!

Helping Daddy with Marlie

Marlie also got to meet Grammy, Uncle Chad, Aunt Kelly, Jenna and Michael!  She is so blessed to have so many people excited to meet her.  She is such a delightful little baby girl.  She just watches everything and sleeps a lot so far!  I am so unbelievably overwhelmed by the love I feel for our little family.  I cannot believe we are favored enough to get another precious girl to call our daughter.  Welcome to the world Marlie Grace!  We love you!

Madie's Special Day!

The day before we were scheduled to have Marlie Grace we took Madie on a "Special Day".  We had SO much fun.



First stop was the Grapevine Aquarium.  Madie loves to look at fish, just like her daddy! 

Here is our brave girl on the shark walk!

Next stop was Chuck E. Cheese! It was our first time there.  Momma and Daddy sure had fun playing games.  Ha!

She loved her giant ice cream cookie!

Look at this loot!  It purchased a new ring, a crayon, some stickers and a lollypop!

We had such a great day with our sweet little girl and were anxious to meet Marlie the next day!