I'm a big girl now

With some upcoming trips and the fact that Madison is now fully potty trained, we thought it might be a good time to switch her over to a big bed, or at least take the front off her crib. So the weekend after Thanksgiving we changed the bed on Friday night. She was super excited and has done really great. She gets in bed right after books and sometimes she still tells us she needs to get up to go the bathroom, but she hasn't actually got out of bed and tried to get out of her room yet. We'll see if it lasts. But she loves the new bed. My little girl is getting so big.

roar like a tiger

The weather was so nice the weekend of Thanksgiving that we made a quick trip to the zoo. We can never get enough of the animals at the zoo.
We also got to see Carrie and her son Park that weekend for a quick visit. He is getting so big!

Time to be thankful

For Thanksgiving we made the drive to Wichita. All of my mom's cousins and kids usually get together at our house for a mini-family reunion. Madison got all dressed up in an hand-me-down dress. I think the dress started off as Anna's, then Ali's, and then Vanessa's. We had a great meal and then watched Madison lead Anna (another redhead) around by the hand while all the little girls hid from Spencer the monster. We finally made Maddie lie down for a nap about 2:30. She was so mad she was going to miss out, but she fell asleep before I left the room. Great fun to see everyone!

decorating

The Sunday before Thanksgiving I decided to go ahead and decorate for Christmas. I knew I wouldn't want to the following weekend after driving back from Wichita. So Madison "helped" me put the ornaments up. As you can see she thought they should all go in the exact same spot. I let her help me and then after she want to bed, I finished.


Putting up stockings...
Our Advent calendar house. We didn't start the gifts until Dec 1st, but Madison loved opening and shutting the drawers and doors as soon as I got it out. Now I can only put the treat in it right before she is going to get it out, otherwise she'll open all the doors and find it.

thanksgiving, round one

That same weekend we had our own Thanksgiving in Dallas. Rick made us a turkey dinner, we got dressed up and had a candlelight dinner (easy to do when it gets dark at 5:45ish). Madison loved getting dressed up, but wasn't as crazy about dinner.


Here she is singing Happy Birthday while we wait for dinner to be finished. I think she started singing it because of the candles, but I'm not sure...

swimsuit in november?

The weekend before Thanksgiving was awful warm still in Dallas. Madison had on her a dress over her shirt and leggings, but she decided she wanted to put on her swimsuit. She actually wanted to swim, but I told her she had to put in on over her clothes and no water. She wasn't happy about that, but she loved posing in her swimsuit.

a tight leash

We have been a little light on the photos lately. For the last 10 days Madison has been sick and there hasn't been much to take photos of. She had a low grade fever for about 3 days, then a bad cough and congestion, then her fever came back at 102 and the doc thought she might have a bacterial infection and put her on antibotics. So she finally started feeling like herself yesterday. We mostly hung around the house the last week and half, but Maddie must have decided she wanted to get out of the house, because she found this rope and decided it was Sadie's leash. So she kept trying to walk Sadie. It lasted much longer than this video. Sadie was such a good sport! Although she did try to hide as much as possible.