Beastly Feast...Zoo Atlanta!

Here are a few pictures from the Beastly Feast that we attended a few weeks ago. I love this event, as the Zoo is my favorite place in Atlanta. The Zoo is completely closed so that you have the best view of all the animals. I LOVE the pandas from Chengdu, which is is awesome because I have been there and seen them in their habitat there. The gorillas were awesome! They feed them apples so they are front and center and all "fighting" over the apples.
The Zebras were prancing around...

And here is my favorite animal of all! The ELEPHANT! This creature amazes me, with its size and how they eat.

So Sweet...

The last week, since Maddie has really started walking, has been a joyous time. The new things that she does are precious. One if my favorite might be that she will be standing and she will want to walk, but first she will reach up for your hand. Make my heart melt! Another great thing is that she will now walk over to the chair that her highchair is in and reach up when she is hungry. I love she can now tell me what she wants more than just sitting there and screaming!

We have been battling with the molars and her eye teeth, and still we have not seen them come in! I am so ready for them to come in, so that my sweet baby will come back.

Also, she has now started throwing tantrums...which is not a good thing. We have learned to just ignore her when she does this, but sometimes that is easier said then done. When she throws her entire body on the floor and starts kicking her legs...I thought this wasn't supposed to happen until she was 2! I guess one is the new two!

Here is a picture of Maddie in her pigtails that her teacher put in her hair!

Maddie absolutely LOVES her daycare teacher! I am so thankful to have such a wonderful place with such caring people. She has no separation anxiety when I drop her off, which is great!

I will try to get more pictures up soon! Life has been very hectic for us lately!

Maddie is WALKING!

That's right...she is WALKING! I cannot believe that she is old enough to be walking. She will be 13 months next weekend, and my how the time has flown by! The past year has been a wonderful and crazy year. We have been so blessed with our little angel!

As I look back over the past year, I giggle and almost cry. We truly have had a wonderful year! It is so hard to believe that she is now a toddler, it is CRAZY! We are enjoying our time with her and experiencing everything with her.

All the wonderful things that we have experienced over the past year make all the late nights and midnight feedings and even her new tantrums worth it all!

On another note, she now has some good walking shoes for the summer! We made our first Stride Rite purchase yesterday, we are loving them! Hope you enjoy the video!

Birthday Party!

On May 1, Madison had her official birthday party! We had a blast planning it, and then when it finally came, it went by way to fast! We had so many friends there to help her celebrate, it was awesome! She loved the cake again, except I think that she ate almost the whole thing her self this time. Here she is going at the cake again...she might start thinking that she gets a cake every week!
All the kids loved climbing the stairs...especially sweet Dominic! I loved Madison's outfit for the day, thanks to Aunt Kadie!

Here she is pushing her new babydoll stroller that "Aunt" Kristen gave her! We love it and she pushes it around all the time!

Hoping to get more up soon! We have so many pictures and videos to sift through. I hope you all enjoy!

We sure do love our little munchkin so much, it is hard to believe that she is a toddler now!

Happy Birthday part 2

Happy Birthday to my sweet Madison! I cannot believe that she turned 1! It seems like just yesterday that we went to the hospital to have her. For her birthday, she wore a shirt that said "I'm the birthday girl!" with a cupcake on it and a pink tutu! I loved the outfit, too bad she can only wear it once! This was her trying her first cake ever! And she loved it...she ate it all and very quickly! Here are some pictures that show the progression of her eating the cake...enjoy!

All mushed up...

Shoving it in...

All gone...

Asking daddy for more...

My hair needs something more...

That was yummy, can I have some more...

We had a great day with her! The past year has been a crazy one, but I would not change a thing! I never thought that I could love someone as much as I love her!

Today, we went to the doctor for her 1 year appointment. Once we were there, I was talking to her about Maddie's ears. While at the beach, she started draining fluids from both ears; we took her to immediate care and they said that she was fine. However, after the doctor looked at both ears, she said that they were both punctured due to ear infections! I cannot believe that she has two ear infections, my poor little girl! On top of that, she is getting two molars on the bottom and her eye teeth are coming in; not to mention all the other teeth that are trying to get through.

Her statistics for 1 year are as follows:

Weight 18 lbs 12.6 oz, 10th percentile

Height 29 inches, 50th percentile

Happy birthday sweet baby girl, we love you so very much! We look forward to celebrating many more with you!

Happy Birthday part 1

Fun playing in the sand and sun for my birthday! She had a blast playing the sand, I think she ate more sand than anything!She loves to splish splash in the water! It is like a giant bathtub to her!

There are more pictures to come after her birthday celebration tonight! Enjoy!

Beach Week

This week are at St. Simons for my oldest nephews spring break. We are having a great time. My grandmother, Mimi, and Aunt Diane are here as well. I got a few pictures Monday at the pool with Maddie in her bathing suit sitting in her flower float. And some more at the beach playing in the sand with daddy. I hope you enjoy! Here she is sitting in the big girl chair at the beach under the tent!
She loved playing with the shovels and bucket in the sand...

Here she is examining the shovel, she loves to think about things!

We are looking forward to celebrating her birthday tomorrow. However, I am having a BIG problem with my little one turning one! We will see how I do tomorrow.
Look for mor pictures tomorrow of the birthday celebration!

Updates!

My best friend Camie came down from Chicago this past weekend. We had a blast seeing her and spending time with her! We didn't do too much, since Rob was working and we had Madison. But, on Monday before we took her to the airport, we headed to the zoo! Here are a few pictures from our adventure.

Here she is with Camie, doing what she does best and absolutely loves to do, sucking her thumb!I really wanted to get some pictures of her with the bronze elephant, but since it was sooo sunny(which I am not complaining about :) ), there were not that many that came out well. But I thought that this one was very cute!

I absolutely love these types of pictures! Camie held her behind there so she could stick her head in there and be with the lions!

I know this one does not have my child in it, but I love the pandas, and thought this was a great picture of one!

So, here we have a picture of Madison with Rob. Unfortunately, Rob had to attend to police officer's funeral and was in his "dress blues". So We thought that it would be a great opportunity to get a picture of the two of them! It turned out great :)

She has been doing a lot of things new lately! One being that she started growling like the dog when is plays! She loves her Bailey, and now she can call him by his name! That's right folks, she has started to talk! She now says Bailey, kitty, NaiNai, and Bunny! And of course she still says mama and dada. Another new word is "dat" and "dis"! It is adorable when she looks at something and reaches out and says "dat" and then puts her hands together, which is sign language for please!

She is only on table food now, which makes going out to eat much more fun, since we do not have to carry baby food anymore. Her favorites are veggies(corn and peas mainly), chicken, hot dogs, and mac 'n' cheese! If she is anything like her mama, she will absolutely cheese!

The past 11 months have been the best of my life! I can picture my life without my sweet angel! I cannot wait to celebrate her first birthday at the beach with my whole family, including Madison's great-grandmother, Mimi, and her great-aunt Diane. We are looking forward to the trip, which will be a much needed break for both mama and dada!

Here is a video of Madison crawling and trying to chase the dog. She loves playing with that box, it might be the best thing ever! She is also laughing up a storm in the video, enjoy!

Mmmm...candy!

A few weeks ago, my dad, Poppy, came up to watch a KU basketball game with us! It was fun to see him and Maddie had a great time. She wore her jayhawk dress, which I love! Whenever the camera is out, she is always looking at it, which is adorable! When he came to visit, he also brought her a candy cane, which she LOVED!

The first time she got it to her mouth, she was so excited and didn't want to put it down. She still loves it!

The picture below is her on the Little People's car that she got for Christmas! She loves it!!

New Pictures

One of the reasons I love our day care is that they have people come in and take pictures of the kids. These pictures are from February, but we just got them back. I absolutely ADORE these!! They dressed her up in this outfit and had all the props. When I saw the pictures, I just fell in love. They did such a great job! I love that you can see her bottom teeth and that she smiles all the time. The look in this one is classic Madison!

The name of the people that took these pictures is The Portrait Cafe, which did a great job!