Christmas Eve pics

Hanging out in the morning with Aunt Ashley and Uncle Spencer.

Cute pic.

more cute pics. There are too many.



Penguin bowling from Aunt Ashley and Cy.

The car that Grandma and Grandpa gave her.

family pic

photo shoot

Rick decided to do an impromptu photo shoot. Although I did take the last photo of Maddie with my dad.

first christmas present

So Grandpa couldn't wait to give her a present, so Tigger came out on Saturday. Grandpa got him (and Pooh) on a recent trip to Orlando.

more snow...

These are pics of the 6-8 inches of snow Wichita got last weekend. Sadie and Ellie (my parent's golden) loved it. They would just go outside and lay in the big piles of snow.

playin' in the snow

These pics are from Dec 16th when KC had a good snow. Madison thought it was a little bright out, but was facinated by the snow.

Madison loves to watch Sadie play. She just giggled.

a snowy day in ta-town

Well, we are in Wichita for the Christmas and, man, are we glad we left when we did. We were supposed to leave this morning from KC. But we got concerned about the weather. So we did a fast pack job yesterday and left KC about 4. It wasn't too fun for Maddie since she was awake most of the trip, but she did really good. So this morning when I let Sadie out at 6 while I was getting Madison's bottle, it was really windy and it had started to sleet. Now its snowing like crazy. Good thing we left when we did!
Madison is feeling much better. She didn't cough Wed or Thurs at all, so we stopped her breathing treatments and so far, so good.
So since my next group of pictures to add are at home, I thought I'd just give everyone and update on what Madison has been up to. She is very mobile now and I told Rick we need to do a better job of babyproofing at home. She crawls at a good clip now and cruises around the furntiture. She also stands up and down all day long and loves to walk around with someone holding her hands.
About 3 weeks ago on a Sunday she just starting saying BAABAABAABAA over and over all day long for 3 days. Then she moved on. Now we get MAA DAA NAA WAA and all kinds of other babble. She loves to talk. She also loves to give kisses and even gave Grandma and Grandpa a kiss goodnight last night. About a week ago Blythe swore that she said cracker at lunch 2 days in a row. I finally heard it the following Tuesday night. Its more like KA KER. And she gets super excited when she sees her cracker. Although sometimes she just crushes it in her hand.
She loves to watch Sadie. We figured out that she giggles when Sadie barks. So we tell Sadie to speak and give her treats just to hear Maddie giggle. She also looks for Sadie when we first come home and just giggles. She loves to crawl up to Sadie and grab a fist full of fur. We are working on that one.
That's about it for Madison's new tricks. I'll post some new pictures when we get home.
Hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas!

pearly whites

Finally got pictures of those teeth. Man, they are sharp! You have to look closely in the next two pics.

Madison is not too crazy about sitting in her exersaucer anymore. She only likes to stand up outside of it. Then she cruises around it.

what we've been up to

So we've been busy becuase Madison has been sick. She got a cold the weekend of the 1st. She had a runny nose and cough. Tuesday morning I had to pick her up from daycare because Meredith had a fever and they were going to doctor. So I knew Madison and were staying home together on Wednesday because of Meredith's fever. Wednesday morning Rick left for Phoenix at 5 am that morning. Then when Madison got up that morning she was weezing and she threw up twice because she was coughing so hard. So we got ready and were at the doctor at 8 am when they opened. We found out that Madison had double ear infections and RSV. So we've been giving her 4 breathing treatments a day ever since. She hates the treatments. Those first 2 days while Rick was gone were the hardest. But she is feeling much better now. Although she is still coughing occasionally so we are still doing the treatments Anyway, we are all sleeping better now.

sweet face

look mom, no hands!

Sorry its been a while. We've been busy. But more about that later.
These pics are from almost 2 weeks ago Friday the 30th. Madison decided that she could stand on her own. This time it was only for a few seconds. Now she can stand for at least a minute.

That day we also pulled out some hand-me-down toys from Jack Dunfield. This was one of her favorites.

One of her new favorites is to pull herself up to standing using her toy bucket and pull everything out.