First Birthday party!

Saturday was Madison Michael's first birthday party! We had a house FULL of people at Nonnah & Poppy's house and everyone had a great time. Madison's friends Lindley & Alex were able to come, along with lots of her "grown up" friends.

She did a great job opening all of her presents and making such a fuss over them, especially the clothes. It was so cute. Stephen's worried though. At one year old, his daughter's already making a huge deal out of clothing and shoes.

The cake was beautiful. A mom from our playgroup does cakes on the side and made Madison Michael's birthday cake, as well as her very own smash cake. Madison sat in the center of the kitchen and listened to everyone sing to her and smiled and waved and then slowly dug into her cake. She eventually ended up sticking her face in it!

We all had a wonderful time and we're so glad for everyone who was able to make it to the party and share our special day with us!


And on another happy note, Madison has a new friend in the world! Melissa, Nonnah & Poppy's sweet neighbor, had her baby boy, Sam, on Sunday afternoon! Congratulations Melissa & Jon :o)


I'll add pictures later. I'm currently uploading them to the computer from the CDs.

Happy Birthday, Madison Michael!

Yesterday was Madison Michael's first birthday!!! I can hardly believe it. The first year was rough at times, but it just seems like it flew by in the blink of an eye. Our Little Bitty is getting so big!

We had lunch with Nonnah & Daddy yesterday at New Orleans Restaurant, then Nonnah and I took Mad to Toys R Us to pick out something with her money from her great grandparents. She's quite the little shopper! And, because she's a member of the Toys R Us birthday club, they gave her a special crown and a balloon and even announced her name and the fact that it was her first birthday over the loudspeaker. Really cute.

Last night Nonnah & Poppi came over and had dinner with us and we opened presents and had our very own cupcake!

She was COMPLETELY exhausted and even slept in a bit longer than usual this morning. Bless her little heart. Her BIG party is on Saturday. I'm really excited and I hope she has a good time!

I leave you with photos from our day...

Madison & Tyler reunite!

We spent the weekend in Richmond, VA with our good friends, the Sneads! Last time we were there in October, Tyler wasn't crawling yet. Fast forward to February and the little guy was definitely on the move! He wasn't going to just sit back and take nonsense from Madison this trip. Which means we had some really funny moments between the two of them. (Madison has a boo-boo on her finger and wanted to eat the bandaids, which meant the whole finger had to be wrapped up.)

We drove up Friday night, late, and Madison did SO well in the car. Slept the majority of the way there. Got there around 2:30 AM and Mad played with some of Tyler's toys while Tyler slept, then we all headed off to bed. On Saturday morning, the two little ones finally got to see each other! They played together for awhile, then all six of us piled into ONE car for the drive to Arlington for Claire's first birthday party! Didn't take long before the little ones konked out, which made the ride up pretty nice (not so much for the ride BACK).

Claire's party was SO much fun! All the little ones seemed to really have a good time with each other. They played really hard,

ate some cake,
(each child had their very own cupcake, complete with their own name! Thanks to Jamie)and then they all actually took NAPS at the same time!

Then, after the party, we all went out to eat at a yummy Mexican restaurant. Mad did pretty well and ate lots of her chicken quesadilla, but the exhaustion from the day was starting to wear her down. So by the time we got to the car, we figured the little ones would fall right asleep. (After a quick front-seat diaper change!)

They apparently had other plans.

Tyler fell asleep. Madison wanted to sit and chat for awhile. Ends up waking Tyler up, who is NOT happy about this. Tyler cries for the next hour and Mad yells AT him. Quite a peaceful trip.

Next day was Super Bowl Sunday. The little ones dressed in their Sunday football best. Before the big game, Travis & Stephen took the little ones for a wagon ride to the park (Excellent practice for the wedding in May. Mad & Tyler are going to be the flower girl & ringbearer and are riding down the aisle in a wagon together!)...then we all came back and had some dinner before the game came on. Mad & Tyler split a tuna & black olive sandwich and a ham & black olive sandwich. Quite the fans of black olives, they are.

Madison was an angel on the ride home that night. So glad we got to spend the weekend with the Sneads & were able to celebrate Claire's birthday with everyone as well!