Mad's Christmas Video

Hopefully this will work. No guarantees, since I don't know what I'm doing really...but I'm going to attempt to add Madison's video I made for Christmas. I plan on finishing it for her birthday, but this is her first 10 months...

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Madison Michael's first Christmas

Definitely a success in Mad's book. She had a blast. The excitement from everyone else seemed to rub off on her and she seemed to realize something BIG was going on. Christmas eve she didn't nap well, but she was still in a wonderful mood when we got to Nana & Poppy's house. Mad wore her fancy new red velvet Christmas dress with her special Christmas hair bow. She got to open one present early, from her great grandparents in WV. After Nana & Poppy's house, we went to church, where Mad got to play and get out her last bit of energy.

When we got home, we set out Santa's cookies and milk. Apparently, Madison felt that Santa didn't NEED both cookies, so she helped herself to one of the cookies. Of course Daddy didn't stop her because he thought it was funny, and I certainly didn't stop her because I had to take pictures of it! At least Santa still had one cookie left. 5 minutes later I discovered that Joey had snatched Santa's last cookie. Oh well. At least he had a cup of milk to drink.

Christmas morning, the three of us got up and went through the presents Santa brought for Madison. Then, Nana & Poppy and Uncle Matt and Tess came over for breakfast and to open presents. Thank goodness Uncle Matt was here so he could put together some of Mad's bigger gifts. Mad also gave Poppy & Nana a special DVD with photos and music from her first 10 months.

After we finished with the morning, it was off to Aiken to celebrate some more Christmas at Great Granny's house with Gran & Papaw, Great Granny, Uncle Brett, and Aunt Nancy & Bruce. Madison got a ton of really great presents! It's a good thing we took the SUV! I don't think we could have hauled all that back in a car any smaller! Gran & Papaw got Madison a lot of new PJs, which she really needed. They're all SO cute and comfy!

Watching her unwrap her presents and playing with all these "big girl" toys (like her kitchen, her baby dolls, and pushing her walk-behind toys) has made me terribly aware that she's nearly a year old. In less than 2 months, my tiny baby girl will be an entire year old and I just can't believe it. I'm not ready for it yet. I always thought the people who said "They grow up so fast" were just being ridiculous. But it's true. I just can't seem to slow her down.

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I get lots of complaints from people saying I don't keep the world updated enough with how our family is doing. So ten months into Madison Michael's first year, I've caved to the blogging world. I don't like the word, but I suppose I'll suck it up in the interest of keeping the masses informed. So here we are world.

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