INDEPENDENCE

So we've been working on "holding the bottle" ourselves these days. Going pretty well so far, no complaints!


I'm pretty sure she was using the tray to prop it up.



Too CUTE!!!
Xoxo

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Grandma's Trip

So grandma Debbie came for a few days, again, after we got back from our trip. Needless to say Madison got some new toys!


What is this new big toy??



Hmmm it's kinda tall mama.



Yep I like this!!



Oh look, the puppy dog!! Hmmm...



I wonder what will happen if I do this??!! (poor Gus)



Nevermind, I'll just come attack mommy instead!!




What a look! Now you know this is that curious look she's going to perfect in about 2 years and try to use it against Brian and I. Beware of the cute looks, they always get ya!!!


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Location:Versailles

Madison's ALMOST crawl. . .

Today we played on the floor for a while trying to see if we could get her to crawl, this is about as good as it's gonna get for right now!!! She's doing really well though! Last night I tried to child proof the house as much as I could, there are still a few things we need to have done, but for the most part it's all ready to go for the crawler!!!

This video is pretty cute!

The Aftermath

So it's now Tuesday, I wake up and Madison is screaming bloody murder, come to find she made it all the way on her knees and was attempting to pull herself up the crib. . . yep that was scary!!

All morning she cried and wanted to get into anything and everything, no matter how many toys I had on the floor, something else (something she wasn't supposed to be playing with) was more interesting!!!

Look at this little rotten look she's giving me!!! OH boy, am I in trouble!!!

As the day went on she decided at 1:30 she was going to go down for a nap, as I was so looking forward to, because she did not nap much that morning, which she typically naps for an hour shortly after she gets up in the morning. I laid her down in her crib at about 1:30pm, I went downstairs to wash her bottles and all the sudden I here her crying on the monitor, thank God for the video monitor we have, so I can just hit a button and I can see what she's doing. When I look, there she is wide awake, and it's only 1:50pm!!! YES, 20 minutes later!!! HA HA HA.
I let her cry for a few minutes to see if she would go back to sleep, that didn't work, this cry turned into a full blown scream, which then turned into a panic cry that sounded like she was being beaten to death, it was awful!! I don't think I've heard her cry that bad ever. So of course I go upstairs to check on her and make sure she hasn't flipped out of the bed, since she was close to pulling herself up this morning. When I walk in her room this is how I was greeted!




Needless to say, not only could I not stop laughing because of the pitiful look on her face, but I also wanted to scream because I hadn't had a minute to myself today, and I was really really really looking forward to the typical 1 1/2-2 hour nap she takes at this time of the day. So I tried to rock her for an hour and a half and she wouldn't budge.

Of course, when Brian got home to babysit while I went to class, Madison took an hour nap for him from 5-6pm. Must have been nice! I swear she is a much better baby for him than she is for me! If he babysits her, she rarely cries, and she never throws her tantrums. With me, oh no, totally different baby! She won't let me put her down, she just can't get enough of mommy. I'm sure I'll miss this one day, but man o' man, she sure if giving me a headache on top of the usual migraine. Which by the way, still hasn't eased up since this past Friday!!!! OMG!!!

Well, this is all I have to report for now, I should probably get to bed so I'm not too tired by the time she decides to get up in the morning!

I hope everyone is enjoying the blog so far!!!

Memorial Day Weekend

So this weekend was really hectic and busy. . . but we spent our holiday weekend with some friends at their pool! Of course Madison loves the pool, and freaks out when she see's her floaty, too cute I must say! Thankfully we have gotten really lucky with her not getting sun burnt, either the sun isn't that strong yet or I'm just doing a really good job with the sunscreen. I don't really care what the reason is, at least it's working, whichever it may be. (I have some videos of her in the pool, not sure how to get it on my computer from our camcorder, hopefully I can get that on here soon! I'll keep you posted.) These pictures are really cute of when we were on our way to our friends house. . .

She loved this hat so much, she wore it the entire day at the pool!!!!!

Of course all the swimming made her exhausted and she passed out for her nap at our friends house for a little over 2 hours, which is a very rare amount of nap time for her. But I wasn't complaining!




We got home late every night this past weekend, probably between 11pm-12am. Yes probably not a smart decision on our part. BUT she had been asleep since 8/9pm, so we figured that it wouldn't really make a difference. Oh how we were wrong. . . Little did we know what was in store for us the next day, Tuesday.

Blowing bubbles

Friday. May 28th 2010

You know the feeling when you finish all your chores and you have a few minutes before you have to actually do anything or go anywhere? You know like, taking care of your regular responsibilities, and you sit down on the couch or lay down in bed just to take a load off and ALL OF THE SUDDEN the phone rings. And at that moment you close your eyes, take a deep breath and exhale really loud (thinking to yourself, 'COME ON, ARE YOU SERIOUS RIGHT NOW'), almost wishing the person calling was not alive, or would soon be dead, due to the fact that you were going to pick up and give them a "meeting Jesus" type of conversation. Well that's how I felt this morning. . .

Brian left to go golfing at 7:20am this morning, which of course I can't really say anything, the man needs a break. This whole week he took on not only his regular 40 hours of work, but another 29 hours of overtime... he's absolutely beat. Unfortunately, because of the late nights and all the work he's been doing it's left me on full-time baby watch, except when I'm at class, which was canceled yesterday, by the way, which was extremely refreshing!
Of course 20 minutes after he leaves, Madison decides to wake up and grace me with a loud scream of panic because neither Brian nor I was close by, imagine that! So I open my eyes, dreading the "getting up" part and as I lift my head off the pillow, I feel as if someone just hit me upside my head with a frying pan. And I say to myself, 'oh boy, it's gonna be another one of those days'. So I lay my head back down on the pillow for a second and the thought of my darling daughter upstairs screaming for mommy to come get her, making me feel guilty because the poor thing didn't poo poo at all yesterday, and I was sure I would walk upstairs to find she had poo pooed last night.
Of course I'm right, but not only was it poo poo, it was massive diarrhea!! Thankfully it hadn't run up her back yet, I must have gotten there just in time. If you're a parent you know the feeling of picking up your child and you run your hands across the nastiness on the other side of their back and you get their poop under your finger nails!!!! OHHHH GOD!!!!

Needless to say the day didn't go so well. Brian was home late from his golf outing, my migraine stayed around, not letting up at all, all day! It was a rough time. But as usual we made it through that day, and I'm sure there will be plenty of days like this one. OH BOY, I'm starting to think meditation is something I should start doing!!!