The Easel

The Masterpiece:

"The Letter 'M', in Green and Purple"

Crayon on Newsprint

And, finally, THEE FUNNIEST thing ever! Helping daddy vacuum when the big vacuum wouldn't work...

...then, the big vacuum turned on and the helper panicked!

Any Given Tuesday

Fooling around today after her renal scan. She screamed during the entire scan, so I took her to McDonald's after and brought her home to play.

Her imagination is taking off like crazy, which is a LOT of fun. Yesterday, she was pretending to give her toy farmer some of her chicken. Over the weekend, we watched my parents' dog. After unlocking the dog's kennel (amazing, since she's never seen how one works), she went and got her big yellow spoon...I guess the food in Raisa's food bowl was looking yummy! Luckily I caught her before she ate a single morsel :) Today, daddy called from work to tell her good night and, when I put him on the loud speaker, she kissed the phone!

"Stinky Shoes"

This is not a cowboy hat, my friends...it is the removable insert for her potty.

She's into stacking everything...

Throwing things...

And sitting on everything! She sits on her ball, her diaper box, her wipe box, shape sorter ~ everything.

She has learned to undo the latches on the guitar case

...and is SO proud after getting it open!

"Do A Li'l Dance"

Her little Easter dress! I still need to get her some shoes, as Babies 'R Us was out of dress shoes. Her feet have grown so much ~ a whole size since December!

Sesame Street Live!

For the MoMo & Grampa

Maddie is finally able to ride the unicorn that MoMo & Grampa got for her the Christmas before she was born. She still needs some assistance getting on and off of the thing, as she's about an inch or two too short to swing her foot over without falling...but she'll be tall enough, soon enough.

We took her to see Sesame Street Live: Elmo's Green Thumb today. I have 506 photos to go thru (and brighten, as the flash refused to work), but I'll try to get them posted tomorrow. For being sick, sleepy, and hungry, she did great! It was almost an hour and a half long (including intermission) and she sat on our laps like an angel until the last 15 minutes. She clapped and waved at her friends, laughed, screamed, and "sang", got to eat cotton candy for the first time, and got her very own Sesame Street T-shirt. We got some Cajun seafood after and she fell asleep on the (two-hour) drive home. We really had fun and I'm so glad that she wasn't afraid ~ we worried that she would be, since she's suddenly afraid of nearly everything.

Got Herself A Cold

Pre-runny nose, playing with MoMo at Uncle D & Auntie A's house.

Watching TV. And lovin' it.


Trying to put her shoes on again.

Zooming up the stairs, boogery nose and all...time to play!

Lovin' her some lemonade, and a happy meal.

Sleeping with "Little Frog", her prized possession

Sick, runny & stuffy nose, no sleep, cranky, crabby...my poor little love! And that last little molar is finally poking thru, so I know that is bothering her, too.

Walking the Baby

Getting ready to head to the store yesterday, Maddie looked so cute in her little coat that I had to grab my camera! And - of course - she had to ham it up for me!

I was taking so long getting myself ready to leave that she started playing. She was having some issues getting her baby into the stroller...

Then there were issues with ramming baby into the wall...

And they were off! She was going so fast that I was having trouble getting a good picture.

This is my pumpkin, trying to get the baby into the stroller just right. When she couldn't put him in the way she wanted, she got mad, threw baby on the floor...and ran him over. Road rage and not even 15 months yet. You can't really hear it, but after the baby fell out, she growled at him before trying to put him back in. That's why I asked her to kiss her baby...

Ok, ready to go! Just let me take a couple... more... photos! (Aww, MOM!)

Knocked out by the time we got back home. We had a lot of fun for such a rainy, dreary day.