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.

Pudding: Take-TWO!

Because spoons are overrated...

Because multiple camera angles are more fun


Because chocolate-y little fingers weren't coming anywhere near the camera lens.

Because I don't give a rat's you-know-what about being politically correct:
Does she not totally remind you of Little Black Sambo??

Because pudding kisses are yummy in mommy's tummy!

Because it was inevitably that time...

Because she is so beautiful. She even put her bracelet on by herself before we left the house.

I've got a bunch of other photos that I still need to upload from the other camera, but that will have to wait until tomorrow!

Because PhotoShop is FUN:

(I love this one)

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Monday, Maddie and I went to the zoo. Here, she's checking out the sea lions.


Putting her juice in her cup holder. Because she's brilliant!

Checking out one of the few animals that weren't asleep. I think we only saw five or six animals that were awake.

Giant turtles and some kind of jungle giraffe were pretty neat.

Finally, snack time by the duck pond. There were tons of different ducks, cranes, pelicans, etc. to keep us entertained.

The "Back Pack Leash" was a total bust. She still wanted to go wherever she wanted, pick up nasty stuff, and rub her hands all over the garbage cans. Only, she fell more with it on. Try it again in a few months?

After finally getting home, she played in the fridge while I fixed dinner.

Monday morning, coloring a page from her first coloring book (compliments of Aunt B).

The other day, getting into the armoire drawer even though she knows she isn't supposed to. She dumped all the VHS tapes out of their respective cases and stomped on them (the cases) until they were useless.

Taking a break from mess-making to watch some Caillou.

Being a TOTAL cutie patootie during supper! Dora, the dog, bonked her head on the table and it was apparently thee funniest thing ever, because Maddie laughed so hard that she spit up her food. YUCK, but sooo funny! Is she not the prettiest little thing?!

Freshly cleaned and in our P.J.'s, story time is our favorite part of the day. Night-night!

Pudding-Palooza

Family photo taken at Chris & Erika's engagement party. YAAAAY ERIKA!!


Feeding herself some chocolate pudding! Mmmmmm...

Watching TV with "friends". I was doing dishes and peeked around the corner to see what she was up to; she had put her one teddy on one side, one teddy in her lap, and "Little Frog" on the other side. It was SO cute!

Her TV face. Her new favorite shows include: Jack's Big Music Show, Play With Me Sesame, and Dora the Explorer (particularly when Backpack sings).