Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Fun at FunZone!

On Monday, Mad & I went to FunZone with our HipMamas playgroup! Madison had a blast. Walked (!!) around a little bit to investigate everything and kept trying to escape the toddler room for the big kids area. She had a good time playing with the other babies, Alex & Dolly, and even pushed Alex around on one of the little cars! After some of the big kids cleared out, we went into the big room with the huge inflatable playground and jumped around and even went down the giant slide!

Here's some pictures of our fun!










Wednesday, January 16, 2008

The calm before the storm...

Not a whole lot going on around here. Mommy started back to school on the 14th and Daddy's been pretty busy at work. Mad's been busy watching sports on TV! Her newest favorite is watching the NBA highlights on Sportscenter. Dunk? Mad cheers. Nice little 3? Better luck next time, man. Dunk & she'll cheer for anyone. And of course the NFL playoffs are on, so she's enjoying those as well. (Especially with her new shirt: "Shhhh...I'm watching the game with Dad.")

We're in the final countdown coming up to her birthday. We're slowly introducing REAL "big people" milk and coming off her Good Start formula. She seems to like it well enough. At the same time, we're working on drinking from our "big girl" cups. Her new favorite is her Blue's Clues smoothies from Yoplait. Sucks them right down.

We're also getting dangerously close to walking, as in using walking as a mode of transportation. Right now, crawling is still much faster, but she's starting to get braver and braver each day. Just yesterday she took at least 6 steps or so by herself. I think her Winnie the Pooh choo choo she got from Gran & Papaw for Christmas and her lion walker that Santa brought her are strengthening up her legs really well. Looks like a decent leg workout to me!

We're going to be super busy the next few weeks. This weekend is Madison's friend Alex's first birthday party. Next weekend is her friend Trent's 4th birthday party. Then the NEXT weekend we're making a Virginia trip to see Mommy's friends and their little ones! Mommy's friend Julia has a daughter named Claire and we're going to be there for her first birthday on February 2nd. Plus we get to see Tyler again!! (And his new teeth!).

Then on the 17th we have Melissa's baby shower, the 20th is Madison Michael's first birthday, and then the 23rd is Mad's first birthday PARTY at Nonnah & Poppy's house!! We're SO excited!!!

Look how big I'm getting!!