The Sirmon Family

Beauty shop and Babies

2012-01-28T20:31:00.000-06:00

Madelyn went to Mymy's beauty shop to get her first professional hair cut and get her nails done. She was so sassy in the beauty shop.

getting her nails done

pretty barbie doll pink nails


letting them dry

Madelyn loves playing with all her new babies she got for Christmas. She is such a good little mommy and if her babies get out of line she puts them in time out. It's so funny to hear her say "baby you sit right here in time out for not listening to me." Ha! Guess who else has spent a lot of time in time out for not listening.
She loves her bitty baby Baby Lou so much. She sleeps with her every night. They even have matching pjs which Madelyn thinks is the coolest thing ever. She loves her walking baby that has a puppy dog. She named her baby Suzy. Then we have the baby alive doll that you feed and it poops, its gross and messy but she loves it. She named that baby, Poop baby. Ive tried to give her several different names but Madelyn always calls her poop baby. We were in Target looking at toys the other day and they had a bunch of the Baby Alive dolls at the end of the isle and when Madelyn turned the corner she spotted them and yelled at the top of her lungs "hey mommy look I have one of those poop babies". We got several laughs and several strange stares. Oh the things my child says!

Cute matching girls

She loves to hold two babies at once

Funny things Little Miss Sassy pants has said lately:
We were playing the other day and she looked at me and said "mommy I need 7 dollars for a whale ride"

I was sending an email and she was talking to me and she grabbed my face and said "mommy do you hear me, are you listening to me, look at me when I'm talking to you". Apparently she is listening to me.

When she was at Mymy and Pop's a couple weeks ago and Mymy needed to go to the store and this is the conversion they had:
Mymy: Madelyn lets run to the store real quick
Madelyn: No I don't want to
Mymy: We won't be gone, we will be right back
Madelyn: No, I might be naughty
Mymy: Well you won't be naughty with Mymy
Madelyn: I better not go sometimes I'm naughty at the store with mommy.
I guess she thought she should warn Mymy about her naughty behavior in the store. At least she's honest.

The King

2012-01-28T00:53:00.000-06:00

Over the holidays Aunt Sarah and Uncle Brian took us to The Club to see Elvis or as Madelyn calls him the King of Rock n Roll! We had so much fun. The Club just thought that they were having Elvis for entertainment that night, little did they know a wild 2 1/2 year old would steal the show! There was a wild crowd at The Club and Madelyn fit right in. She loved yelling for Elvis and singing and dancing.


Elvis

Elvis I'm over here!

Elvis I love you!!

Madelyn loves to dance and she broke out all her dance moves for Elvis.

The Flamingo

Gettin Low!

The fist roll

Throw your hands up

Taking an ice cream break. Yes she is licking her bowl.

After the ice cream break she was off to the dance floor.

Elvis don't leave I'm coming to dance!

Wild!!

Fist roll with an elbow throw

Dancing Queen

Miss Independent would not dance with any family members


But she went right up to these two complete strangers and danced with them.

This girl would have danced all night long if we had let her.

Thanks Aunt Sarah and Uncle B for a great night!!

Christmas....

2012-01-26T14:10:00.000-06:00

a little late. We had such a great Christmas this year.Madelyn really loved picking out and buying presents for others, passing out presents and of course opening all her presents.

We loved zoo light safari!

Madelyn and daddy on the wild tiger

Madelyn has to dance when she hears good music

We got to see Santa Claus several times

Madelyn with her Mymy and Gramdma. Oh this child loves her grandparents

She has these two men wrapped around her little finger

Wild!!!!

Loving her Jessie and Bullseye pjs

I could eat this child with a spoon!!

Santa Claus on the firetruck

Miss M's new ride

Helping her new baby walk

SPOILED!!!

She loves her horses

The shark from Aunt Sarah and Uncle B. Madelyn was not sure about him at first but now she loves him. Keyser does not love him!

Proud girl riding her horse

Sweet cousins watching a movie with Uncle B

Wild cousins!!

Silly girls

All the cousins

Madelyn loves her truck. She piles all her people in the back and drives like a mad woman

Sassy!

Our little turkey

2011-11-30T23:52:00.000-06:00

We had a great Thanksgiving, busy and non stop with one or two meltdowns but great!

sweet little turkey

funny turkey girl

It's that time again

2011-11-30T23:45:00.001-06:00

for Christmas cards. I always get stressed out about getting the perfect picture and then finding the perfect Christmas card. Well this year I got excited because my sister sent me a link for free cards from Tiny prints so I filled out the form and have been waiting on my free cards. Well I figured our blog wasn't good enough to get free Christmas cards then I read on a friends blog that you have to blog about the free cards then fill out the form. My only excuse for being stupid and not reading the instructions is that I have a wild 2 1/2 year old!
Over Thanksgiving we tried to get some perfect pictures but let's be honest when you have a two year old you don't get perfect pictures. You get mom and dad looking at the camera while 2 year old looks everywhere else or you get 2 year old looking super cute with daddy but mom has her eyes closed (we had a lot of those- I just can't keep my eyes open for pictures) or you just get some funny pictures.

We could use this one where Madelyn is trying to jump off the deck

Ha! or this one with crazy eyes

I love this one, girlfriend loves to throw some leaves

trying to escape from the photo shoot

Wild child picture!

Once I figure out which "perfect" picture to use then I have to find the perfect card. Tiny Prints has so many great Christmas cards to choose from this year.

I love this one, I always choose the multi picture cards

We love polka dots around here

This one just made me laugh out loud. The other day I asked Madelyn what Santa Claus should bring mommy for Christmas and without missing a beat she screamed "a reindeer". Ha! Just what I need.
If Christmas has snuck up on you too and you still havent ordered your Christmas cards then just fill out this form to get your free cards. But don't forget to blog about it first!!!

Disney on Ice

2011-11-14T22:22:00.000-06:00

or as Madelyn calls it "Mickey and Minnie's house... on ice". We took Madelyn to see Disney on Ice a few weeks ago and she loved it. We got great seats through some friends of ours and we had the best time. Madelyn wore her princess dress/costume that Banner got her for her birthday and had to bring a purse along too.

Our little princess

I think Madelyn clapped and danced almost the entire time

so excited!

Madelyn loved the doggie on ice

the whole gang

still clapping

Mickey and Minnie

When the show was over somebody did not want to leave. She wanted everyone to come back out for another performance.

That same someone did not want to take a nap once we got home, the princess wanted to play in her playhouse outside.
I'm not sure who had more fun Madelyn or Spencer and I. It was so fun to watch Madelyn and how excited she got about everything.

Taking care of O-bug

2011-11-06T19:33:00.000-06:00

Otis has not been feeling good so he has finally come back home from Grandma and Grandpa's house so Madelyn and I can take care of him during the day. I was a little nervous that Madelyn would be too rough with him but she has been so sweet with him. I have told her that he is sick and we have to treat him like a tiny baby, which means only mommy can touch him. She has been singing to him, giving him lots of food, coloring pictures for him, getting him babies and telling him "Awww it's OK Otis, you feel better".
She lets me know what Otis is thinking too. She tells me when he needs a treat, needs water or wants to go outside. She also tells me when he does not want to do something. She is very helpful!
Since Otis is so sick Keyser went to Grandma and Grandpa's house for a little vacay and he is loving every minute of it!!
In case you don't know Otis' favorite song is B-I-N-G-O, so we have been singing along to it on Madelyn's radio a lot today!!

Coloring with Otis

Happy Halloween

2011-11-06T18:09:00.000-06:00

For Halloween Madelyn dressed up like a kitty cat. We live in the perfect neighborhood for Halloween, especially if you have little ones. Madelyn's cousins came to treat or treat with her and Grandma, Grandpa, Mymy, Pop, Uncle B, Aunt Mary, Aunt Angie, Momma Lou and Daddy Bob all came to watch the craziness. All the girls had so much fun and got way too much candy. Our sweet little kitty even made the 9 and 10 pm news that night! And yes she was still bouncing off the walls like a mad woman at 10 pm!

Sweet little kitty!

Sweet cousins

Little kitty and a princess

Daddy and Ky

Little kitty, big kitty and Minnie Mouse looking for the moon

Grandpa and wild kitty!

Mommy cat with her kitten

Our little family

Best buddies!

Our Keyser pumpkin

Cheeseeeeeee!

Pumpkin Patch...

2011-10-29T00:36:00.000-05:00

with the cousins.
Last weekend Madelyn took mommy, daddy, Mymy, Aubry and Paisley to the pumpkin patch near our house. It was so fun, so much fun that Spencer missed the first half of the Auburn game just so we could stay longer (we did record it though). What a sweet daddy she has! Madelyn loved the lake that was at the pumpkin patch. She would have been happy to just go play down by the lake.

Chessy girls waiting for the train

loving the train ride

and the hay ride

and the maze

my favorite girl in the world

They had baby goats and Madelyn fell in love with them

She wanted to take this one home

sweet cousins

Our little pumpkin

finding the perfect pumpkin with daddy

and they had jump jumps too! We did these last and Madelyn was ticked off when I had to pulled her out of the jump jump to leave. This girl would jump all day if we let her.

We love fall and pumpkin patches!!

Our own little zoo

2011-10-14T00:45:00.000-05:00

I took Madelyn and Bannie to the zoo by myself and according to Banner we had a WILD time!

Silly kids

Who loves the zoo? Madelyn does!!


Taking a good picture of a 2 year old and a 3 year old= impossible

Madelyn and Ky in their matching Halloween flair

Madelyn insisted on holding onto Kyser's collar for the pictures

Kyser took off running towards me dragging Madelyn right along with him and then they both tackled me!

This sweet little witch is getting so big. She talks non stop all day long and says some of the funniest things. I wish I could remember all the funny stuff she says, I need to start writing it down as soon as she says it.
The other night Madelyn was on the phone with Grandpa and he asked her if she had found a hotel for Otis to stay at (my parents are taking Otis on a road trip and needed a pet friendly hotel) with out missing a beat Madelyn says "I don't drink hotel water!" I busted out laughing and said what did you say and Madelyn said " I do not drink hotel water, it makes me sick!". What? I have no clue where that came from but it was so funny the way she said it in her sassy little voice. Looks like me are going to have quite the little diva.

Last night Madelyn was playing with her babies and Spencer kept asking her a question and she would not answer him. Spencer asked her again and again and Madelyn finally responded with "I'm Busy!" It was so funny! She is very busy these days.

On the way home from mother's day out today Madelyn and I were talking in the car and she said Mrs. April (her teacher) is coming to my house on Saturday.
me- Oh really does she know she is coming to your house
Madelyn- yesssssss- she's coming on Saturday mommy
me- well what are you going to do when she comes to your house on Saturday?
Madelyn- Mrs. April coming to my house to play and you need to go work mommy!
Ha! I guess being a stay at home mommy to a sassy little 2 year old, being a realtor and trying to get a monogramming/clothing business up and running isn't considered work. Oh the things this child tells me!

We say War Eagle...

2011-10-05T00:27:00.000-05:00

We took Madelyn to another Auburn game and she had a blast. One of our friends from high school gave us their faculty tickets so we got to sit on the first row. We were right in the middle of all the action, just where Madelyn likes to be! We got to see two of the eagles up close and Aubie came around a few times too!

When we first got to Auburn we went to see Mr. and Mrs. P. Madelyn loves them just like the rest of us kids! Since both of Madelyn's grandmothers are Alabama fans, Mrs. P steps in as her Auburn grandma and Madelyn just eats it up.

Then it was time to head towards the stadium but before we could go in we had to dance to all the music and the band. This girl loves to just walk around and see all the people and dance!

Watching the pre game show!

Daddy and his little tiger!

Madelyn says "go boys go!"

I love this beautiful face!


Family picture time

Yes I know I look exhausted in the picture above and that's because I was. When we were walking up the stairs to leave the game, Spencer asked me how all the people that we passed knew Madelyn. Ha! That's because we walked up and down the stairs about a million times. We had to get hot dogs, pretzels, ice cream, drinks and took a lot of potty breaks. But we didn't just walk up and down like normal people oh no Madelyn had to put on a show every time we went up and every time we went down. She made lots of friends, high fiving everyone, stopping in the middle of the stairs to dance, cheer, jump around, tell random people things (like "you have something on your shoe" or "i want some of your popcorn") or just to say "war eagle hey!". Oh this child wears me out at football games but I love to take her and just watch how much fun she has.

After Auburn won we walked, ran some, jumped and hopped our way to Tomer's corner to let Madelyn participate in rolling the trees, and boy did she have fun!

Watch out mommy I'm throwing my whole roll!

Madelyn had so much fun throwing toilet paper in the trees and boy can this girl can throw. Grandpa won't have to worry about her throwing like a girl!!!

So FUN!!

Spencer was so happy to be able to show Madelyn this great school tradition.

We're fun...

2011-10-03T23:22:00.000-05:00

We have been swinging daily, Madelyn is still obsessed with swinging

We took Grandpa to the zoo

to see the new lion cubs

we have been playing in the rain

washing ky and mommy's car

getting ready for Halloween

and we have been sewing like crazy!!!

and our kitty cat has been spending his evenings outside but he comes in when daddy goes to bed. And I don't know when my baby turned into this cute little girl above!!

She's got it all....

2011-09-22T15:20:00.000-05:00

brains, beauty and team spirit! When I went to pick Madelyn up from mother's day out today her teacher starting telling me what all they did today. She said they read books and did some other things and then they all sat at the table and did animal flash cards. She said that some of the kids didn't know any animals but Madelyn knew every single animal! She is so smart!! This girl knows her animals and what sound they make or phrase they say. If you ask Madelyn what the cow says her response is "mooo and eat more chicken", the tiger says "roar, War Eagle Hey" and sometimes "Go Auburn Go" and the smelly old elephant says "roll tide". Her class did some more flash cards and when her teacher held up the football card all the other children said football and Madelyn yelled "War Eagle!" Ha! After April (her teacher) finished telling me that we were laughing and Madelyn said "we don't say roll tide we say WAR EAGLE HEY!" That's our girl smart, beautiful, funny and full of team spirit!!

We are headed to another Auburn game this weekend. Hopefully Madelyn can cheer Auburn on to another win!

Sweet pictures

2011-09-17T02:05:00.000-05:00

One of our sweet neighbors took some pictures of Madelyn for us and I absolutely love them.

I love this one

and this one- she had so much fun on that bridge

this one makes me laugh every time I look at it

Looking for the ducks

I love barefoot babies!

this one is so sweet to me

Madelyn had so much fun playing in the water

We had so much fun during our photo shoot with Chrissie Brown Photography.

New Year

2011-09-17T01:12:00.000-05:00

for Mother's day out that is. Madelyn is going to the same mother's day out as last year and she has the same teacher. I'm so glad she is in Mrs. April's class again, she loves Mrs. April so much.

MDO 2011

Yes she does have some of her Auburn face sticker still on.

Oh this little girl just melts my heart with that sweet smile!

And the next picture is from one year ago. The first day of mother's day out 2010. She was such a baby then. I can't believe how much she has grown in a year.

Beach Fun

2011-09-14T14:20:00.000-05:00

We took a beach trip with our sweet neighbors Shannon and Bannie and we had a wild fun time!

Madelyn and Bannie ready to go swim

Sweet face

Little priss making roads with her bulldozer

Love

Looking for jellyfish

Sweet boy with his mommy

Since we were down at the beach we had to go to the Gulf Coast Zoo. We love that little zoo so much!!

Feeding the fish and ducks

This white tiger gave us a show. He was so beautiful

They had lots of new babies. This sweet baby monkey was trying so hard to hang on

They had new tiger cubs too!

Feeding the goats

Move over Bannie I can't see!

We tried to do a beach photo shoot with a 2 year old and 3 year old. Ha!

Our little angel

Cheeseeeeeeeeeeeee

sweetness

Love this sweet face

Sweet girl with her daddy

Fight!!

Pure joy!

No Bannie- I don't want to hold your hand!

ok maybe

fine I quess I will hand your hand, just come on!

Haha I got you Bannie!

Madelyn I'm coming to get you!

Madelyn loves her Bannie

Wildness!

Oh I love this little girl so much!

Sand seat

loving the beach!

I'm gonna get you daddy!

Run mommy run fast!

My little Baywatch girl!

Running so fast

still running. this girl loves to run!

Ta da!

Ticked off that we were leaving the beach! Ha!

Big Fish

2011-08-31T22:01:00.000-05:00

Grandpa and Grandma took Madelyn Spencer and I over to the Georgia Aquarium to see the "big fish" and Madelyn loved it. She was so excited to see all the fish.

In the tunnel

big fish

Look! WOW!!

Madelyn said "oh wow" all day!

Going down the fish slide


Madelyn with two of her favorite guys!

We had so much fun. I'm so glad that Madelyn loves to go to all different kinds of places and always enjoys whatever we are doing. Thanks Grandpa and Grandma for taking us!! Madelyn is ready to go back to see the Big fish again!

Oh we have a cat now too! He's extremely large but very easy to take care of and Madelyn loves him.

He's 6 feet long, stays where I put him, doesn't eat a lot (unless you count the food Madelyn tries to feed him at lunch- yes sometimes we eat lunch with him in the playroom) no vet bills and I don't have to clean up after him!! The only complaint so far has been from Keyser, he really does not like that kitty moves his big head around. Keyser and Kitty are getting along better now though.

Everyone that comes over has to see Madelyn's cat and pet him and see his big orange eyes.
Thanks Mymy for our sweet kitty, Madelyn loves him so much!!

Where did our summer go?

2011-08-08T03:01:00.000-05:00

Our summer isn't over yet but it's getting close. We have had so much fun this summer. Madelyn is at the funniest age and a very sassy age. We have been going to the water park a lot, playing on the slip n slide and running through the sprinklers trying to keep cool.

It rained a lot for a few weeks and Kyser and Madelyn would stand at the windows and just look out. Now it's just hot, too hot!

Madelyn loved playing in the rain. She played and stomped in puddles and just squealed like a little pig.

WILD

Madelyn loves to take her baths every night. She splashes and swims and just has so much fun.

My sweet little crab! Two has been hard for Madelyn and mommy but this sweet little face gets me through even our horrible days.

Watching Barney with her best bud. She is obsessed with Barney and only Barney. I had to take this picture because she never sits and watches tv, Barney has to be on at all times but she doesn't really sit and watch tv. This day she was having her snack with all her babies, laying with Ky and watched Barney for over 20 minutes. I did not think she could stay still that long, of course she had just woken up from her nap and was still in a daze.

Madelyn loves to boss Keyser around. She thinks she needs to hold on to his collar all the time and tell him where to go.

This is what happens when she doesn't let go, she gets dragged along!

2 going on 16

2011-07-07T14:34:00.001-05:00

Madelyn has been sleeping paci free for 3 days now! She threw her paci away so the babies that need it could have it. For that she got to go to Toys r us to pick out a new baby doll. We were looking at all the babies and then she got a little distracted by the cars. Oh how she loves cars. I really want to get her one but we are waiting until Christmas to get her one because they are expensive. I have already started saving money for one so we can just pay cash for it and be done. Madelyn got in every car/motorcycle that was on the bottom shelves at toys r us and every time she tried to drive one she would look at us and she "this one is broken too" so she would get out and go to the next one. She was so funny!

Testing out the mustang, doesn't she look so cute behind the wheel!

Giving the Cadillac Escalade a try. She really liked this luxury suv. This is what mommy wants but in the big girl size. HA!

Madelyn climbed on the hood of the police car to get in and climbed over the door (without her hair bow might I add) to get out. I told her that better be the last time she climbs on the hood of a police car and the last time she ever climbs out of a police car! Oh this child is so WILD!

We finally picked out her new baby and some bottles for her. Madelyn loves her baby Ella so much. She will not let baby Ella sleep in her bed though. She doesn't care where baby Ella sleeps as long as she does not sleep in Madelyn's bed with Rog the frog! She is so funny about things!

Happy 4th of July

2011-07-07T10:54:00.000-05:00

What a great weekend!

We went to Grandpa and Grandma's house to swim, take Keyser to the river and play and we took Bannie, Mr. Jud and Mrs. Shannon with us.

Madelyn and Banner loved the river. Madelyn did not like the river rocks in her shoes though. I think Keyser had the most fun at the river, he swam until he couldn't swim anyone.

Bannie brought his bulldozer and jeep over to play. Madelyn wanted to drive the bulldozer the whole time!

That's true love there, letting your girl drive your bulldozer!

We had several disagreements over the new dog door.

We met Grandma, Grandpa and Papa to watch the fireworks

Banner was jumping with excitement the whole time!

How sweet is this little face!

These two little firecrackers love each other so much!

What a great way to end a great holiday! Sweet Love!!

We are so Patriotic....

2011-06-29T14:40:00.000-05:00

at the Sirmon house and ready for the 4th of July.

4th of July wreath I made

Before revisions

After revisions

I added some star sparkle to the top of the wreath and found some larger flags. At our house the bigger the flag the better! Madelyn is playing with Grandma today so that's why Keyser is in the pictures instead of sassy.

Keyser is so ready for Madelyn to come home so I will quit making him dress up and pose from pictures!
I have gotten so much done today and yesterday without my sweet little helper here but I sure do miss hearing that sweet little voice asking "what you doing mama? why mama?".

Park Fun

2011-06-15T16:37:00.000-05:00

We decided to purchase season tickets to Alabama Adventure and I'm so glad we did. It's so close to the house and Madelyn loves it. Every morning when I get her out of bed she says "we go to the water park mommy?". During the week it's not crowded in the morning and it's mostly stay at home moms in the kiddie area.

Madelyn showing Dora how to pose for the camera

Most mornings we go to the water park and stay until 1:30 or 2 and then we ride one or two rides and head home for nap time. We've also gone in the late afternoon to just do rides when it's not so hot. Madelyn loves doing both. She loves playing in the water, going around the lazy river, climbing up tubes and going down the slides. This child has no fear, she will go down the slide just like the big kids (9 or 10 year olds). She stands up for herself too. The first day she was climbing up the tube to go down the slide and some bigger kids were trying to push and go around her and making her nervous so I stepped in and told them that they needed to slow down, wait and not climb over the little ones. Well ever since then if a bigger kid tries to rush her she turns around and says " we need to get back and wait!", oh my goodness it's so funny to see the bigger kids faces when this little baby tells them to get back and wait. Then another day we were going down the big slides and I told Madelyn we had to wait and take turns and not break in line she said OK. I thought what a sweet girl she listens to what I tell her and takes turns. Well after me going with her a couple more times she just wanted me to stand at the bottom and catch her. So I watched her climb up the stairs and she was standing behind Cade (one of her cute little friends) then Sharon (Cade's mama) came up to help Cade get situated on the slide and what does my child do- puts her arm up and says "get back don't break in line" to Sharon! I don't know what I'm going to do with her, at least she tries to follow the rules and wants everyone else, even the mamas to follow the same rules!

Riding the train choo choo!


Airplanes with Bannie

She was so serious while driving the jeeps!

Her two favorite rides are the merry go round or as Madelyn calls it the horsey ride and the race car ride. The race call ride goes around in a circle and then at the corners it flings you around. Madelyn loves it and puts her hands up in the air when it goes around the corners- too funny!

Holding hands with Bannie- they are like a old married couple

Look Babe Look!

Madelyn loves to get an icee when we leave and loves that her best buddy(future husband) Bannie goes too! We have had so much fun going, we even got Spencer a pass so he can go on the weekends with us. Madelyn was so excited to take her daddy to the water park this past weekend. We had a great time going as a family together and it was nice to have another set of eyes/hands to help with our wild child!

Daddy's Girl

2011-06-13T00:18:00.000-05:00

This little sweetheart is such a daddy's girl, it's not even funny anymore.

She loves her daddy so much. In the morning when he leaves to go work she runs after him saying "Daddy I come work with you!" She gets upset when he leaves and squeals when she hears him coming in the backdoor. She loves to tell her daddy everything we do during the day but she's usually so excited and talking so fast he has no clue what she is saying. She misses daddy so much during the day and when he's out of town but as soon as she sees him her little face lights up and it's just too sweet. Madelyn and I have been going to the water park all week and she's been wanting daddy to go so today we went to the water park so Madelyn could take her daddy. She had so much fun showing her daddy how she climbs up the tubes to slide down the slides, goes on the big water slide (big slide in the kiddie part) all by herself and she showed him the wave pool and swam like a little fish. Madelyn had so much fun taking her daddy to the water park today. I'm sure she will be a little disappointed when she realizes he can't go with us tomorrow but she will still have fun with good ole mommy.
Also this weekend we had girl's movie night and when I was leaving Madelyn started crying for me and didn't want me to go. It broke my heart but kinda made me happy because she has never and I mean NEVER cared before when I leave but has complete meltdowns when Spence leaves. I hated to see her upset but it's nice to know that she wanted me there. Maybe she will be a mama's girl one day!!

Slip n slide fun

2011-06-06T16:01:00.000-05:00

I bought Madelyn a cheap little slip n slide the other day because it was only $6 and I thought if she doesnt like it I'm only out 6 bucks. Well she loved it!


Testing it out first

She loved when Spencer would push her down it

Happy Girl

Jump Bannie

Madelyn and Banner played on it all afternoon. Banner loved running through it and Madelyn just wanted somebody to push her down it. Madelyn was freezing, purple lips and all but did not want me to turn the water off. She had so much fun. We took it over to my parents house the next day and she hated it. What am I going to do with this girl?

Chuck E. Cheese, cousins and chocolate fudge bars

2011-06-04T00:49:00.000-05:00

Madelyn and I went to Chuck E. Cheese with Mymy, Aubry and Paisley and we had a blast. The girls were so funny to watch because there were some many things they wanted to do. Madelyn's favorites were the skee ball game that she insisted on throwing the balls over handed and then climbed up the lane. She liked the ducky game, bop game and riding the horsey. Madelyn loved dancing and singing with Chuck E. Cheese, her cousins and Mymy.

Ready to go see Chuck E. Cheese


Dancing with Chuck E.

Yay! Chuck E. is back

Time to dance again!

After Chuck E. Cheese we went to take naps and then Madelyn and I went to show a house and then went to Mymy and Pop's house for more cousin fun. Somehow all four of the girls ended up in their diapers/ underwear after dinner. I might be to blame because I did take M's top off so she didn't get dinner all over it and then the strip down began. They were chasing each other around the house just squealing. Then somebody said ice cream (probably Madelyn because she thinks she needs ice cream all day long) and everyone got a chocolate fudge bar. The girls loved them and they had it every where!

All four of them were sticky from head to toe so we threw them all in the shower together. What a sight to see. They were dumping water on each other and having the best time.

So much fun!

I think these little girls are going to get in quite a bit of trouble together growing up and be the best of friends because they really love each other. Madelyn asks what Aubry, Paisley and Bailey are doing daily along with everyone else in the family.

Water fun with Kyser

2011-06-02T14:24:00.000-05:00

It has been so hot lately so I decided to pull out the little blowup pool that Madelyn used as a ball pit in the winter and fill it with water. Madelyn had so much fun playing in her little pool. She played a long time and then she said she had to go tee tee and we ran inside. When we came back out Keyser was in her pool and he had ripped it to shreds!

So much fun!

After we couldn't play in the pool anymore (thanks Keyser) we got the sprinkler out. I'm not sure who had more fun Madelyn or Keyser. Madelyn ran threw in some but that it was so funny that Keyser was attacking the water.

Crazy dog

Madelyn was laughing non stop.

Since it's only going to get hotter I guess we are going to get another pool maybe two one for Madelyn and one for Keyser.

Nine months

2011-05-30T22:41:00.000-05:00

In August I sent my sweet baby girl to mother's day out one day a week

Madelyn's first day at mother's day out

Nine months later I picked up a big girl from her last day of mother's day out

Madelyn's last day of mother's day out.

It absolutely amazes me how much she has grown and changed in just nine months. She looks like such a baby in her first day picture. I can't believe I let me baby go to mother's day out! She started MDO in diapers and ended the year in big girl panties and talking up a storm all day long. In August I would drop her off and should would cry forever and when I came back to get her she would be asleep (exhausted from crying so much) or crying with her paci and Rog the frog. When I picked her up on the last day I had to drag her out kicking and screaming because she did not want to leave. She made such sweet friends that she talks about a lot and had a wonderful teacher who she adores. She keeps saying she wants to go back to Mrs. April's house ( Madelyn thinks that the church she goes to MDO is her teacher's house). Not until August baby girl.

I can't even imagine how much she will change in the next nine months.

Animal Kingdom

2011-05-30T13:49:00.000-05:00

On our last park day we went to the Animal Kingdom. It rained for a bit but that didn't stop us.

So excited to see all the birds flying around!

Madelyn thought this gorilla was so funny

One of my favorite rides was the jeep safari ride. We all got in this huge jeep and drove around to see a lot of different animals. We got to get up close to a lot of the animals which was really cool. The ride was rough since we were in the back and Madelyn was not happy at first. After we started see animals and saying "bump bump bump" she was good.

so close to this giraffe

Madelyn said "that's mymy's Roll tide" when we saw this guy.


Looking for animals

Two of Mymy's favorites, her babies and elephants!

Rafiki is so funny!

Giving kisses again- what are we going to do with this child!

Madelyn thought that Pocahontas was just a regular person not a character dressed up

After we looked around the little museum we went outside to the petting farm. After giving some of the animals love we went to eat and then watched another parade.

Spencer, Matt, Daddy Bob and I all rode the Mt. Everest roller coaster which was so much fun. Of course I don't have any pictures of that either. After some shopping it was time to make our way back home.

I don't know who's happier.

We all went back to the resort and then Spencer and I went to downtown Disney to do some shopping. I should have done all my shopping there because they had the best stuff. The next day we all packed up to head back home. We had such a great time on our trip to Disney. I'm so glad that Madelyn was able to go to Disney with Mama Lou, Daddy Bob, Mymy, Pop Pop, her cousins and the rest of us. Thanks Mymy and Pop Pop for taking us on an amazing adventure that we will always remember!

Magic Kindgom day 2

2011-05-30T13:17:00.000-05:00

We decided to spend two days at the Magic kingdom since there was so much to see and do. On day two we got to meet Pluto as soon as we walked in.

Hugs for Pluto

After meeting Pluto we were told that Mickey was inside a building, so we rushed over to wait in line to see Mickey! To our surprise there was no line or wait. We all got taken back to a room and the doors opened and there was Mickey AND Minnie! Madelyn was so excited she screamed Minnie as she ran over to her. It was so nice that the girls got to spend a lot of time with Mickey and Minnie in a private room. Madelyn was in heaven seeing Mickey and Minnie just made her whole trip. She loved every second of her Minnie and Mickey time.

Oh Minnie I just love you!!

Mickey I love you too!

Madelyn would have sat in Minnie's lap all day.

After seeing Minnie and Mickey Madelyn had to get a Minnie doll and then we headed to watch a parade.

Mommy get out of the picture, it's just Minnie and me!

I'm not letting go of my Minnie!

Mymy and Pop Pop with the girls. Nice smile Madelyn!

Oh there is my Minnie again in the parade!

After the parade we did some shopping and Spencer, Matt and I got in line to ride a big kid ride. I had forgotten how much I love roller coasters! One of Madelyn's favorite rides was the Buzz lightyear ride and I left my camera in the stroller with Mymy. She loved that ride so much and so did Spencer and I. After Buzz we went to watch the light parade and fireworks show, which was great.

Her Buzz lazer

This girl loves parades and fireworks

After the fireworks were grabbed something to eat and headed back for the night. The next day we were going to see animals!

Disney trip Magic Kingdom

2011-05-29T15:45:00.000-05:00

On our second day were headed to the Magic Kingdom.

On our way to the park, so excited!

Cute outfit Paisley! If I must say so myself

I made all three girls matching outfits and they turned out so cute but I don't have a picture of all three together

Magic Kingdom

Madelyn was tried of taking pictures all ready

The crew is all here

We got to meet Goofy! Madelyn loved all the characters. There was a train going by above us so in all the pictures Madelyn is pointing saying look Goofy look a train.

Getting sleepy

Spencer and Mary with their babies

We didn't go back to take naps the first day out so Madelyn slept while we waited in line and then woke up for the rides. She loved the small world ride.

Silly girl

Singing and dancing

Hugs for Aubry

Parade time

Madelyn and Aubry waved the whole parade

Taking a nap in the Dumbo line

Flying high in the sky

We loved the safari boat ride

Oh wow daddy!

Happy girls

Meeting Buzz! Madelyn was so excited to meet Buzz and she did not want to leave. It was the perfect way to end our first day at the Magic Kingdom.

Disney Trip day 1

2011-05-29T14:32:00.001-05:00

We had so much fun on our trip to Disney. The drive was long and Madelyn tricked us into stopping and getting her out by saying she had to tee-tee when she didn't (she's very smart) but we made it. We stopped in Lake city to see family and I don't have one single picture to post. Then we were back on the rode and arrived at Disney late Monday night. Pop Pop got us 3 huge suites at Wyndham that were so nice and inside Disney World (that's the best place to stay if going to Disney world) we loved it and it's a great resort. Uncle B was lucky enough to get stuck in our suite. Madelyn loved that Uncle B was staying in our room, I just hope we didn't drive him too crazy. Our first day there was our lazy/recovery from traveling with 3 little girls day. We hung out at the resort all day and played in the pools. They had several walk in pools that Madelyn loved. She had a blast just walking in and out of the pool and splashing with her cousins.

Ready for the pool

Madelyn's new fake smile when we tell her to smile for the camera

She loved the lazy river pool

She loved jumping with Paisley too

and just walking in and out, she was very sassy in her polka dot bikini

sweet cousins

Our view from our suite. Madelyn loved being able to look down to see "her pools". And yes that's my child in her princess dress with her frog rain boots on, no it was not raining. I have learned to choose my battles lately especially when it comes to shoes. We had a great day at the pools and got rested for our first day at the Magic Kingdom.

Easter 2011

2011-05-16T00:51:00.000-05:00

Easter day was the day after Madelyn's birthday party and we were exhausted. We went to church all dressed in our bests and then came back home for an Easter lunch, Easter egg hunt and more time on the jump jump of course.

Our Beautiful girl

Our little family

and yes I am wearing the same Easter dress as last year, I've had Madelyn's dress for months and with all the party planning and other craziness going on I totally forgot that I needed something to wear too. Oh well no one was looking at me anyways, all eyes were on my beautiful daughter!


Happy girl with e-ma and e-pa

Ready to hunt for Easter eggs

Got one! She had so much fun finding eggs

Doesn't everyone play in a jump jump in their gorgeous Easter dress

Birthday Party # 2

2011-05-14T21:33:00.000-05:00

The Saturday after Madelyn's real birthday we had another party. It was a kitty cat party and everyone was invited. We had lots of friends and family come celebrate. I drove myself crazy making all kinds of decorations, party favors, munchie food but in the end the party was great! I think everyone had a great time, I know we did.

Sweet Mice


Yummy cake from Edgar's

For food we had cat face cheese with crackers, spinach dip, cat chow (chex mix), goldfish, fruit, cheese balls, cherry limeade and cake balls, they were supposed to be cat cake ball suckers but my sis and I had a little trouble getting the cats to stay on the sticks, they were still very yummy. Oh and of course cake and ice cream.

Our 2 year old, blowing out her two candles


Birthday girl was not excited about wearing her bday hat made by me

Bannie helping his girl open presents

This girl loves to open presents

Instead of doing goody bags for the kids, we did adopt a kitty

All the kids picked out a kitty and then got to decorate a collar for their new kitty

Jumping with daddy

Tackling daddy aka Mr. Spencer, Uncle Spence

Madelyn loved her jump jump

so did everyone else


Sara Kate and Aubry cooking

Madelyn had two great 2nd birthday parties. Spencer and I are so blessed to have such wonderful family and friends come celebrate our sweet girl's birthday.
Madelyn played on her jump jump until Monday around lunch time then jump jump had to go back home. Madelyn did a lot better then I thought she was going to. She helped us pack it up and put it in the car and waved bye bye to "her jump jump" as daddy drove him back home. She still asks about her jump jump but she only cried about it a few times. I guess I know what we will have at next year's party!

Hugging her jump jump bye and then she kissed it!

Birthday Party # 1

2011-05-08T17:09:00.001-05:00

When you turn two you get two different birthday parties! One on your real birthday and then one on the Saturday following your birthday for all your friends to come to. Madelyn turned two on a Wednesday. Wednesday is music day so we woke up had birthday breakfast and opened a few presents and then it was music class time.

My 2 year old waking up!

Opening presents from Mommy and Daddy before music class. She loves her little kitchen that goes in her playhouse outside.

Madelyn had so much fun at music class on her birthday. She loves music class and Mrs. Jill made it extra special for her by getting everybody to sing happy birthday to her. After music we ate chick-fil-a and then it was nap time. When Madelyn woke up from her nap she had a huge surprise outside for her. We rented her a jump jump for her birthday and she was soooo excited!

Madelyn jumped till I didn't think she could jump anymore and then she jumped more. She was a jumping fool. On her actual birthday we had just immediate family over and Bannie, Mrs. Shannon and Mr. Judd because we consider them family too.

Madelyn had so much fun jumping with her Bannie and her cousins.

We ate pizza on paper plates in the back yard and had wonderful cupcakes that Mrs. Shannon made, it could not have been any more perfect. Bannie had so much fun that he threw up all over the jump jump. We decided to let everyone rest and open presents but before we could do that Madelyn threw up all over her daddy. What can I say, it's not a great 2 year old party until you have a puking rally, Ha! After we cleaned up for the second time we finally opened presents.

Madelyn got so many wonderful gifts.

Princess Madelyn playing with cousin Paisley

Madelyn and Bannie cooking in her new kitchen.

Hiding in the kitchen box was fun too.

Madelyn did not want to go to bed, she had way too many new toys to play with to sleep. Birthday girl jumped on her jump jump Thursday and Friday and then on Saturday we had another party!

24 Months Old.....

2011-05-08T16:05:00.001-05:00

or 730 days or just 2 years old! I know I have probably said this every month but I truly can not believe that Madelyn is two years old! I don't think you really believe people when they say "cherish every second because they grow up fast" until you have a child of your know and then you know just how quickly the time flies. The last two years of my life have changed so much, I don't even remember what we did before Madelyn. Yes the past two years I have been tired, I have at some point in the day had spit up, pee, poop, throw up, hiney paste on me and random food in my hair and some days I've had all of the above but I would not trade this wonderfully messy out of control life for anything in the world, not even for a day. It seems like just a few months ago I was bringing home a tiny newborn and was scared to death that we were going to do something wrong. Well two years later and we must be doing something right. Madelyn is such a happy child, her sweet smile just lights up my life. She is potty trained, very polite, very social, talks a lot and about everything and she asks questions all day long. She is a wild one and such a sassy little priss that knows what she wants. Madelyn definately keeps us on our toes. She still has that sparkle in her eyes that she did the day she was born, she sparkle that no amount of money can ever buy. She is very strong willed, dramatic, fearless (except of the wind, yes right now she is scared of the wind), loves to play and hide, be the center of attention and put on a show. She loves to dance and sing. Some of her favorite songs are the itsy bitsy spider, bow wow wow dog song, happy birthday, ring around the rosie and songs she makes up herself.
Madelyn is such a funny little girl. Spencer and I are always laughing at the things she says and does.

The other day my dad said to her "Madelyn this time next year you will be 3 years old" Madelyn sighed and said "I'm just too old!" Ha- where does she come up with this stuff
We were practicing saying her whole name all morning and after nap I asked her what her whole name was and she said "I don't know, ask daddy"
Last week Mymy asked her if she wanted to take Aubry and Paisley to the zoo one day and in her sassy voice she said " ummmm I just don't know". I guess she needed to check her activities calender.

She has started to name her babies. She named her huge stuffed kitty from Aunt Sarah, Doggie and when you ask her it's name she says "his name Doggie" He also wear a huge hot pink bow on HIS neck!
She named her little kitty "cupcake", she wanted to her it Bannie but I told her kitty needed a different name since we already have the real Bannie and then Bannie baby doll. She loves Bannie just a little.
This girl plays hard and loves hard too. She loves to give hugs and kisses. I love when she puts her arm around Spencer or I and says "hey buddy" or when she tells me I'm her best friend. Oh it just melts my heart. I hope she feels the same way when she's 16! My favorite part of the day is when I'm taking Madelyn upstairs to her room and she says " Good night Daddy, Good night Keyser, I love you Keyser, I love you daddy and then she gives me a big hug, says I love you and seals it with a big kiss. Once in bed she always says cover feet, even though they are covered, they have to be covered a certain way and then she says "turn light off" just in case I forget. Some nights she falls right asleep and then other nights she talks for a bit because she has a lot to say these days.
I have a love/hate relationship with Madelyn getting older. I hate that she is getting older and is no longer the tiny baby I brought home from the hospital but I love seeing her growing and changing and learning new things everyday. The one thing I want Madelyn to know and remember forever is that she is loved by her daddy and I (and a lot of other people) more than she will ever know. I know that Madelyn will be great at whatever she does when she grows up but my hope is that she always keeps that sparkle in her eyes and that great smile on her sweet little face and that she never forgets that mommy and daddy love her and will always be there for her (no matter what kind of crazy shenanigans she gets into)! I can't wait to see what Madelyn has in store for us in the next year.

B's Birthday

2011-04-14T22:53:00.000-05:00

Madelyn's favorite little guy turned 3 at the beginning of April and had a great party. The party was toy story themed because Banner loves Buzz Lightyear and the rest of the gang. Bannie had a huge jump jump house at his party. Madelyn always runs to the front door to look out every morning for Bannie and she saw the jump jump. She came running into the kitchen and said "mama buzz ightyear at Bannie's house. Thank goodness we got invited over to jump in our pj's before the party, Madelyn might have broken the door down. Madelyn had so much fun jumping in the huge jump jump with her Bannie, she was in heaven. Then we had a little melt down when we had to go home to get dress for the party.

Not in the mood for pictures, she was ready to jump!

Oh here he comes Miss Shannon I can hardly wait!

Birthday boy, taking a present into the jump jump

Pure Joy

Madelyn and Bannie didn't jump a lot during the party


When everyone left Madelyn and Banner ran and got in the jump jump and Banner said "yes we have our jump jump back", oh these two are a mess!

Jumping with the daddies


Isn't this the cutest Birthday boy ever! His outfit is pretty cute too it I do say myself (made by mom and I).

These two jump into the night. When we finally pulled Madelyn out she was so upset. She cried forever and even daddy couldn't calm her down. The next day she was upset and wanted to know where the jump jump was. I asked Banner the next day if he had fun at his party and before he could even speak Madelyn yelled out yes yes! Now if you ask Madelyn what she wants for her birthday she says a jump jump in the most pitiful voice. I wasn't planning on getting one but I caved and ordered one for her party since that's all she talks about. Since I ordered it a week before her party the only one they had left was a sports theme one but something tells me that she won't even noticed that her jump jump doesn't go with her cat theme party. We shall see.

How in the world

2011-04-07T00:09:00.000-05:00

did we go from these tiny newborn diapers

to these size 4 diapers

to these big girl panties

in less than two years?

Oh how my teeny tiny little baby has grown so quickly into a big girl.

Posing with Kyser before music class this morning. She looks like a little girl in this picture.
Yes this is an Easter outfit from last year that she wore as a dress, this year its a shirt. I love cute clothes that you can get two years out of.

Mommy's new obsession

2011-03-30T14:19:00.000-05:00

My new obsession would be this bad boy...

The Hoover Floormate Spinscrub.

I love this machine. It sprays cleaner on the floor while scrubbing with the rotating brushes. After your done scrubbing switch it to dry and it sucks up all that dirty water and grime. Below is a picture of the water after I cleaned my floors. Before you judge just know that I vacuum at least 3 times a week if not more and this picture was taken after I had already "cleaned" my floors with my swifter wetjet. I no longer use my swifter because all it really does is push dirt around. Unless you get down on your hands and knees and scrub your floors with a toothbrush (which I used to do before we had parties or extra special guests) and then vacuum it up with a wet/dry shopvac then your floors are just as nasty as mine.

Yes the water is BLACK! NASTY!! I did not realize my floors were so disgusting. These are the floors that my sweet baby plays on and picks up food off of and then eats it. I can't say how much I love this thing, it's one of the best presents I've ever gotten. My floors not only just look so clean they really are clean and the whole house smells clean. Now if I could just find the time to use it every day I would have the cleanest house in town. It doesn't take long to use but I can't do it when my helper is awake and between being a full time stay at home mom, Realtor(my helper does not like me to look for houses, set things up or talk on the phone, unless she is going to get to talk too- so this too has to be done while miss M is sleeping) and monogramming (can't be done while my sweet helper is awake) there is just no time to use this super cleaner everyday. This machine has been great and I no longer have to get on my hands and knees to scrub the floors. My floors are now not just clean but really actually clean for the sweet little angel. This sweet little angel who bit me on the forehead yesterday! HA!

23 Months

2011-03-23T14:01:00.000-05:00

I can not believe that in less than a month my little baby girl will be two years old.
At 23 months Madelyn:
wears mostly 18-24 month clothes and some 2Ts
she wears size 6 shoes
weighs 24 pounds
She changes so much every few days it' amazing. She is turning into a little girl right before my eyes and I wish I could stop time for a bit. She is so fun at this age. She talks to me all day long and we can have conversions now. She says please, thank you, yes ma'am and no ma'am without being reminded. If I ask her a question she will give me an answer. She is very opinionated! She is still so smiley all the time and has the sweetest happiest personality. She loves to wave to everyone she sees and says hi or bye to them. She loves animals so much and thinks she can hug on any animal just like she hugs on Keyser. She loves being outside swinging or going on a walk. Her new thing is to ask me over and over again what someone is doing or where they are.
This morning she asked me over and over again what Keyser was doing. She will also do something and then say "that so funny". She loves mother's day out and music class and loves to go bye bye. Likes to pick out her own clothes and shoes. This morning she was determined to wear her brown fuzzy ugg-like boots(it's over 80 degrees today) with her cute spring outfit not her keds. I finally pulled out some new sandals that were supposed to be a birthday present and she wanted to wear them instead of her boots, thank goodness! She loves to call people on the phone, her favorite people that she asks to call are Grandpa, Grandma, MyMy, Pop, Aunt Sarah (comes out sounding more like aunt arah) daddy and of course Bannie. She doesn't understand why they don't answer the phone in the middle of the day and "they are working" is not a good reason. Madelyn is very strong willed but her sweet free spirited little personality makes up for that. I know that she will grow up to be such a strong amazing person. Now if I can only find a way to freeze time because it's flying by way to quickly.

Wild child

Happy St. Patty's Day

2011-03-17T14:05:00.000-05:00

My pretty little leprechaun

This morning I said "Happy St. Patty's Day Madelyn" and she War Eagle Mama! That's my girl, she has team spirit all year long.
We are dressed in our green and have been playing outside all morning. I love this weather and M does too. She did not want to come inside so we ate lunch outside and then I had to drag her in for her nap, which she was not happy about. She is so worn out. I don't know what it is about playing outside but it really gets her good and tired which is good for me because she should take a long nap and I can get some work done.

Happy St. Patty's Day!!

Busy little lady

2011-03-16T14:27:00.000-05:00

Madelyn has been so busy lately. She's been outside a lot and is loving the weather. She has been going to birthday parties and playing with her friends.


Miss Hollywod getting ready to go party.


Really mom?! Enough pictures already!


Cade had a firetruck come to his party!

Not to sure at first but then she started driving!

These two were done taking pictures

Cade also had a jump jump at his party! Madelyn made me jump with her at first. Which was a lot of fun!

We went to jump while everyone else was eating cake. Madelyn loved having it all to herself. I did too because I wasn't a nervous wreck worrying about her getting jumped on by a bigger kid.

She loved the slide. Daddy took her back to jump with some of the smaller kids and he said she jumped right in and did the slide all by herself- several times. I can't watch her jump with other kids, it makes me crazy. But Daddy made sure she was safe. I wish we had a jump jump in our backyard, Madelyn and I would jump all day!!

On the ride home Madelyn decided she needed to give Bannerman some love!

We have also loved swinging on the new swing set that Grandpa built just for Madelyn at Grandma and Grandpa's house. She loves to swing and talk about the cold water in the river below.

22 Months Old

2011-03-07T13:43:00.002-06:00

Madelyn is at such a fun age right now. At 22 months she is:
fully potty trained, wears big panties all the time even at night. We havent had any nighttime accidents in about a month. I'm so proud of her. Her teachers at MDO said she is the youngest potty trained child they have ever had. ( I have to brag, sorry)
her hair is getting so thick
she loves her music class and her teacher Miss Jill. I'm so glad we signed up for this class because I love seeing Madelyn do all the different things we do in music.
she loves her friends at Mother's day out and her teacher
still wants to be outside swinging 24/7
loves clothes, shoes and hairbows
she likes to help mommy clean
loves to lay with Keyser
talks all day long
loves to sing
her favorite thing to do right now is dance. In the car she says Mama dance and I'll turn up the radio and she starts dancing. We can be in the middle of a store and if she hears a song with a good beat she just starts dancing.
she loves to play with her Bannie, she loves to steal his toys and run so he starts yelling. They fight like brother and sister but love each other so much.
she has started to tell Keyser what to do and it's so funny to me. She's such a bossy little sister!
she loves to see babies and wants to touch them
she will come up to Spencer or I and put her arm around us and say "hey buddy"
she hates when her daddy has to go to work, but loves when he gets home
she likes to go on walks and just walk on the sidewalk in the neighborhood, sometimes she has to go on front porches to check things out, she's a little nosey
she doesn't like when other children get upset
she is very stubborn and strong willed
but very loving, she loves to give hugs and kisses and gets upset when people leave
she is so sweet and has such a tender little heart, so it makes up for her stubbornness
I love listening to her talk everyday and see how much she changes day to day.

Fashionista

2011-03-03T21:49:00.000-06:00

Yesterday while I was getting ready, Madelyn has playing in my closet. She always plays in the closet, pulling all Spencer's ties down and putting them on, putting on scarves, cleaning out drawers for mommy- what everybody does in their closets. Well Madelyn was dressed for our music class but didn't have on her shoes yet, so she picked out some of mommy's shoes.....

that's right she picked out my hot pink high heel shoes and came prancing out of the closet. Of all of the shoes in our closet to pick, she picked out the ones that matched her outfit just perfectly. I was so proud!! She was pretty proud of herself too and no her eyes are not closed, she was just smiling that big!

Cowboy Day

2011-02-24T22:45:00.000-06:00

Last Saturday we went with Mymy, Mama Lou and Mrs. Elease to cowboy day in Columbia. Madelyn had the best time. She loved everything, she walked around forever and did not want to leave.

Madelyn loved all the horses and the cowboys that threw candy. But she was very concerned that the horses kept having accidents on the street. I guess she thought horses were potty trained like her.

Watching the parade

Cousin Bailey and Ra Ra were there too. I love the look on Madelyn's face. Mymy had just taken her bag of peanuts.

There were soo many dogs there and we had to stop and ask their mommies and daddies if we could pet them. She really liked this tiny puppy, she played with him forever.

After lunch we walked to all the rides and other fun things they had to do.

Madelyn got to go on her very first pony ride and she loved it. She just smiled and waved the whole ride.

They had a great country band so you know my little dancing queen had to get on the dance floor and show off her moves to the older folks that were dancing.

Madelyn spotted the climbing hay rolls and could not resist.

Little did I know I was climbing up too

and sliding down the other side, not once but twice!

Madelyn has so much fun that when it was time to leave she threw herself down in the dirt and hay and screamed and kicked. Oh what a child and she's all mine!!

Moving

2011-02-24T00:55:00.000-06:00

Not us, not anytime soon anyway. Spencer and I did however go look at a house at the first of the year. It was just too good for us not to check out, it was in a great neighborhood, on acres of land, lots of rooms, a pool, a guest house and the should be very expensive house was in our price range. Well the house was on top of a mountain, all that great land was down the side of the mountain. The house was turned weird so you had to walk halfway down the mountain driveway to get to the front door or your guests could just walk through the 4 car garage. The space was amazing and open and there were so many rooms, which we would love. The big problem was the foundation, the guest looked like it could soon fall off the mountain, the concrete around the pool was sunken in and the hardwood in the kitchen eating area was falling in. So there were lots of reasons why this house was so cheap.
Anyways, looking at the house got me thinking. Our house is not perfect. It needs to be painted on the outside and the kitchen and living room desperately need to be painted. Spencer hates the hardwood in the livingroom and the carpet in the dinning room. Our jacuzzi tub leaks so the face of it had been off for over two years now. (hint hint Spencer please fix it so our bathroom doesn't look awful anymore) We still have not replaced the shoe molding that got ripped up when we tiled the kitchen and bathrooms. We don't have a guest room anymore because it has been turned into a playroom/ my office/ craft room. If we have another child it will have to sleep with Keyser. And no we don't have acres of land, that's just a dream.
But I love this house. It's the house that I moved into as a newlywed.

It's the house that sweet Otis had to learn to share the bed with someone other than me.

It's the house that we brought this sweet little puppy home to

And where these two developed their on going love hate relationship

It's the house that we built the fence for the backyard

It's the house we celebrated our first Christmas as a family in

It's the house that I told Spencer we were going to have a baby in

It's the house that I wanted to kick my sweet husband out of on several occasions when I was being a crazy hormonal pregnant woman.

It's the house that my husband has learned to do so many great things. Like running power, phone and internet out to the garage so he could finish off the second floor and turned it into his office/man room. Yes since we had a baby on the way he got booted out.

It's the house that we brought this beautiful little angel home to.

It's the house I had my first Mother's day in

It's in this house that this tiny little angel has completely changed our lives

It's in this house that the awful dog that I threatened to get rid of several times when I was a crazy prego, turned into a wonderful protective dog who is now Madelyn's best bud

It's in this house that we have had lots of firsts. First roll over, first crawl, first steps and first birthday.

It was in this house that Madelyn got her first kiss from this little sweetie

It's the house that we have met great neighbors at. The kind of neighbors that have great kids all around the same age and who all get along and play together. Neighbors that love our child like their own and know that we would claim theirs as our own.

This is the house that we will have Madelyn's 2nd birthday at in just 2 months.

It's the house that we have made so many precious memories in and will continue to make special memories. It's the house that when we finally do move one day it will be hard to leave. Not only is it the house that is bright and sparkly at Christmas time, it's the house that sparkles in my eyes all the time from all the love and memories that have been shared to make this house our wonderful HOME that we love so much.

Who is your Valentine

2011-02-15T15:54:00.002-06:00

Well on Sunday if you asked Madelyn who her valentine was she said daddy. Monday morning sweet Banner brought Madelyn her V-day present. It was the cutest stuffed giraffe and some little people cars (he said he knew that she would love them because they were pink). Madelyn and Banner played all morning. When Spence came in for lunch he asked Madelyn who her valentine was and she said "Bannie" and every time after that when he asked her she would say Bannie! She loves that little boy so much.


These two love to swing. They are so funny they will start singing and it's usually not the same song.

Swinging on the big swing

Madelyn had an impromptu dance party

Still dancing

By nap time Madelyn was worn out but she insisted that her new giraffe from Bannie take a nap with her and rog. I was very surprised because Madelyn only sleeps with Rog the frog but she said she needed to night night with giraffe.

Rog is sandwiched between her and giraffe

After nap we had a snack, did some laundry and headed back outside. We are loving this great weather! Madelyn decided she wanted to go on a wagon ride.

So we loaded up the wagon, went to pick up her valentine (Bannie) and he decided he wanted to take Madelyn to the wall. The wall is the stone wall that is at the end of our street. At first Madelyn looked at the wall and was not very impressed but Bannie got her out of the wagon and she had so much fun. They would run to the top of the little hill and then scoot down on their hineys or walk down the wall. We got to see a black lab puppy and Madelyn was so excited. She kept loving on the puppy and hugging on him. He was so sweet with her just like Keyser just a lot smaller and wild. I can definitely see that Keyser has calmed down because this puppy reminded me of how wild and out of control he used to be. The kids and mommies had so much fun playing on the wall. What a great Valentine's Day!!

Snow

2011-02-13T22:36:00.000-06:00

We got a little snow this past week, not a lot but enough to make everything look pretty and enough to play in the next day.

Keyser had so much fun chasing the snow as it fell.

My handsome boy

Madelyn loved the snow this year.

She really liked throwing the snow up and watching Ky catch it

Valentine Party

2011-02-13T22:21:00.000-06:00

On Saturday Madelyn was invited to a Valentine Party at Sara Kate's house. Madelyn had so much fun playing with all her little friends, eating cupcakes and exchanging valentines.

Madelyn had to eat her cupcake outside with her buddy Banner

The kids had fun climbing down a hill

Banner (we joke that he is her future husband, so just in case they do end up getting married I have to include pictures of their first Valentine's day party together)

Deciding what to do next, play in the dirt with the boys, pick flowers with the girls or push the baby stroller around the garage 100 times. She did a little of it all.

After the party we went to Grandma and Grandpa's house to help Grandpa build a swing set for Madelyn.


Daddy and Grandpa working hard

After working hard, Madelyn had a dance party inside.

Spinning with Grandpa

Dancing queen

Girlfriend has some moves.

21 Months Old

2011-01-27T12:12:00.000-06:00

I can not believe my baby will be two in three short months! At 21 months old Madelyn:
is POTTY TRAINED! She is doing so good even at night.
wears Big Girl Panties all the time- no more diapers!!!
wears 18 month clothes
insists on wearing shoes that she has picked out and a bow
likes to pick out her clothes, so I give her two option to choose from
is talking so much, she says a couple of new words a day
loves her new playroom/ craft room/ mommy's office/sewing room
loves to watch Barney on tv,if Barney is not on she repeats watch Barney watch Barney until it is turned on but then she doesnt really watch it. She will dance to the music
she has turned into a dancing queen, she loves to dance
is such a little helper to mommy
she loves to feed Keyser breakfast and dinner and tries to feed him several times during the day
we started Kindermusik and she loves it. I go with her and I love watching her do all the activities and interact with the other children
she loves to read books before bedtime
still sleeps in her crib and will do so until she starts climbing out
loves to eat all day long
she is so sweet most the time
when she is mad she hits, pinches and sometimes bites so we are working on her "anger issues"
her best friend is Keyser, she loves him so much
she has started to try to ride Keyser, which he is not excited about but I'm so thankful he puts up with her
she loves to take Keyser's rope so he will chase her but screams so loud if he takes her toys
still hates to brush her teeth, I was hoping it would get better since we do it everyday but it's still a daily fight
she is very strong willed
she is such a little priss
loves to say cheese and pose for the camera
she is still calling the people she loves most like I call the dog but now she has added a clicking noise
makes us laugh so much, she is such a funny little girl
We love this little girl so so much and I'm so glad that she loves people and animals and is so sweet natured.

Potty Boot Camp

2011-01-22T16:40:00.000-06:00

Last Friday Madelyn and I started the 3 day potty training program. I was a little skeptical at first but I had heard great things about it and decided it would be worth the time to take 3 days and just do it and never have to buy diapers again. It sounded pretty simple, there are two phrases that you say over and over again and your child is potty trained at the end of three days. Well day one was awful. Madelyn was peeing faster than I could clean up. It did not help that she is very stubborn, which she comes by honestly. I can remember my dad telling me on several occasions growing up that I was very hard headed and Spencer always tells me I'm stubborn. So the first day was like two bulls going head to head. I was ready to throw in the towel because I did not think it was going to work. But by the end of day three it just clicked with her. She hasn't had any accidents since Monday except for at night. The accidents at night are because she's stubborn and won't go potty before bed so we are still working on night time. She is so proud of her big girl panties. She is also very proud when she goes potty but not as proud as I am. She is such a big girl all of the sudden. Sometimes she uses her little potty and sometimes she goes on the big potty. It was a rough couple of days and at times she would be so mad and at times I was mad but we got through it and my baby is now potty trained and we don't have to buy diapers anymore!! I am so so so proud of my little potty princess!!

Big girl in her big girl panties!

Fake smiling for the camera

National Champions

2011-01-17T13:57:00.000-06:00

Spencer and I were lucky enough to be able to go out to Arizona and have tickets to the BCS game to cheer Auburn onto a great victory. We left Saturday afternoon for the Bham airport and boarded our charter plane. The plane was full of all Auburn fans going to to Glendale, so it was a fun flight. We got off the plane and right onto big charter buses that took us to our resort and didnt have to worry with our bags. Check in was very fast, we walked around the resort which was huge and then went to our room and our luggage was already there for us. Saturday night we hung around the resort and made some new friends and then we got to sleep in on Sunday morning which was the best thing ever. It was so nice to be able to lay in bed and watch tv (not Barney) and take my time getting ready.

Lazy river pool at the resort

Side note: Madelyn stayed with Mymy and Pop Saturday and Sunday then went to Grandma and Grandpa's house Sunday night.
Sunday we walked around the resort some more and ate lunch poolside. Then we went into Old Town Scottsdale, which was such a cool place. We did some shopping and then met up with Ashley, Terrell (Spencer's cousins) and some of our others friends.

We had a great time hanging out with family and friends. Monday was the big game. We loaded charter buses at the resort and they took us to our tailgate spot in Glendale. They had rented out a great Mexican restaurant where we enjoyed wonderful food and drinks.


Flying in the sky over the restaurant patio

The restaurant was right outside so we were able to walk to the stadium and meet up with some friends.


What a great scene- looking at a beautiful American flag and being surrounded by over 78,000 people singing God Bless America.

We had great seats surrounded by mostly Auburn fans except for the group of guys right next to us that were Oregon fans but they were really nice and good sports about everything.It was so exciting to be at the game. We yelled and cheered so much our throats hurt but that didnt matter because with 2 seconds left in the tied ball game Auburn scored to win the 2011 BCS National Chamionship game.


War Eagle

It was such a great feeling to be at the game seeing our Auburn Tigers win.
Tuesday we were supposed to leave at 3 for Birmingham back after flight delays, ice storm in Bham, our plane being late and then no gate for our plane to get into we didnt leave Pheonix until after 10. We finally got into Birmingham after 1am and it was so good to be home. We had such an awesome trip and are so thankful to everyone who made this great trip possible for us and for taking care of our sweet baby cakes.

Madelyn's new obsession

2011-01-06T13:12:00.000-06:00

would be this...

her new playhouse with swing set that Mymy and Mama Lou got her for Christmas. She loves it. All I hear all day is swing swing. Every morning she goes to the backdoor to make sure it is still there and that's when it starts, "swing swing". She does not care if it's raining, freezing or dark outside she wants to swing. We have been bundling up and swinging in the freezing cold and the dark. I need to get her a mask or something for her little face because it always gets so cold. When I know she's freezing I ask her if she wants to go inside for a little while to warm up and she always says "no swing, push". If she's got going high enough then she says "push push". She knows what she wants to do and she wants to swing high.

I can't believe she can climb this ladder. Six months ago she couldn't even walk!

She climbs up herself but if I'm standing there she yells "help help".

She loves sliding down and playing in the little house. She looks out the window and yells "I see you"

But she loves to swing the most.

All the neighborhood kids love her new swing set as well. We are going to be a popular house once it warms up. Of course Banner, her friend across the street doesn't mind the cold either, he just wants to play. The first day he saw it he came over and said "oh look what Mr. Spencer built for me, I love it". He is such a funny little boy and we love that he comes to play.

I can't wait for it to warm up some so I don't have to stand in the freezing cold pushing our little princess!

20 Months

2011-01-04T14:22:00.000-06:00

Madelyn at 20 months is active. She's wearing 18 month clothes now. Loves to pick out her shoes and her hair bows. She loves animals and just wants to hug on them. She loves to swing on her new swing set, she would stay out there swinging all day if I let her. She amazes us daily. She's talking a lot and knows exactly what she wants. She is very clever and smart. She eats with a spoon and fork most the time unless it's something really good that she needs to eat fast. She is so sweet and loves giving hugs and kisses. When she's sleepy she starts getting naughty-throwing books on the floor, throwing toys and just gets into things she knows she's not supposed to mess with. She is so much fun and is turning into a little girl. She can be very dramatic at times but it doesn't last too long most the time. There have been days that she has made me want to rip my hair out and I'm sure there have been days that I have made her want to rip her hair out but I am so thankful that I am able to stay home with her while she is young and changing so much because I get to see all the little things that she does everyday. The little things that are probably just ordinary to most people but make our lives so extraordinary. So even on days when her and Keyser (aka her partner in crime) are driving me crazy, I would not want to be anywhere but here with my babies driving me crazy!

Christmas pictures

2011-01-01T21:47:00.000-06:00

Here are some of the pictures from when we took the girls to have their picture taken.

Madelyn running out of the picture

Classic

Paisley was so sad, not sure what Aubry was doing and I don't know what my child is looking.

The box was so interesting

Madelyn is about to run in this picture while Aubry gives her sister a sweet pat on the head

Paisley says leave me alone sister!

Some how we did end up getting a few cute pictures of the girls but it was rough. They probably won't let us come back next year!

There's my sweet smiley girl

Precious sisters

Madelyn had so much fun with her cousins while they were here but now they are back in Brazil. I have one of the pictures up in the living room and when Madelyn sees it she says Paisley and pionts to Paisley, then touches Aubry's face (I guess since she can't say Aubry yet) it's so sweet.

Christmas 2010

2011-01-01T14:08:00.000-06:00

Christmas this year was so much fun. We had a great time with all our family, had a blast watching Madelyn's excitement and were spoiled with so many wonderful gifts. Christmas eve Spencer, Madelyn and I opened our presents for each other at our house with Keyser right in the middle of everything.

Her first My little pony, aka my horsey

So excited to help daddy open his present

My handsome boy

After opening our gifts to each other we packed up, loaded Madelyn and Keyser in the car and went to spend the night at my parents house.My sister and Brian picked up Superior grill for dinner which was super yummy, Dad built a fire, we had a Christmas story on and we just played. Spencer and I saved one more gift for Madelyn to open Christmas eve at my parent's house.

Getting ALL the wrapping paper off first

So excited over just the handle

I wish I was this happy vacuuming

Posing with Grandpa

Madelyn and Aunt Sarah with a little Christmas cheer on their heads!

Madelyn stayed up very late playing and did not want to go to sleep. After she finally went to sleep I finished wrapping all our gifts as we watched hmmm something Christmasy on tv, I don't think anybody was watching because we were all talking too much. I finally got in bed at about 1 only to wake up at 6:15 Christmas morning to get ready for the day. Most people just jump out of bed and stay in their p.j. but since we have different places to be I like to go ahead and get ready for the day or else I wont ever get dressed. I used to be the one that my sister had to drag out of bed kicking and screaming to go see what Santa left us but now I have people to get ready and get going. We had to wake Madelyn up, she was so sleepy but she woke up as soon as she saw meow in the kitchen. She is obsessed with my parents cat, Max and has renamed him to meow. We got Spencer some coffee and Madelyn and I had some bacon and then we were off the Mymy and Pop's house. Everyone was looking at all the great things Santa brought when we got there.

Santa brought Madelyn a jumpy turtle that sings and plays music

There were a few fights over toys that has to be refereed.

It's so had to share when you are 20 months old. We are working on that.

Madelyn's partner in crime. Madelyn loved playing with her cousins. She thinks Aubry is so funny and cool.

Checking out everyone's presents

After opening a million wonderful presents at MyMy and Pops we were off again, back to my parents house. We opened more presents there. Madelyn did not really care what was inside the boxes she just wanted to hand out gifts and take all the wrapping paper off of hers and then move on to the next one.

Madelyn got a Mack truck with trailer to haul all her stuff around from my parents

She the cutest little trucker I have ever seen.

After opening all our great gifts if was time to get ready for lunch. Brian's parents came over and we had a wonderful Christmas lunch together, which Madelyn yelled through because she was tired and did not want to eat. I was so proud. Madelyn took a nap, we ate some more, laid around, ate some more, looked at million dollar houses online and just had a relaxing afternoon and evening. We went back to our house and went to bed because this momma was tired and feeling sick. The next morning Madelyn and Spence went to church and I stayed in bed because I still did not feel good. That afternoon we went back to Mymy and Pops for the entire family Christmas (all of Spencer's cousins, aunts and uncles). Once again we had great food.

Mymy with all three of her babies!

After we all ate and cleaned up it was time to open presents again. I wish a had a picture of the tree with all the presents, no one in this family is spoiled at all! ha ha. We all got more presents than we should have. Sweet Daddy Bob went out and had bought all the women in the family beautiful necklaces for Christmas. I just think it's so sweet that he did that all on his own. I loved all my presents but the one that I am so excited about is my new floor cleaner, it's awesome. I have already used it and it works soo good, I didnt know my floors were so disgusting. I am also excited about all my new clothes and well really I'm excited about all my presents to tell the truth.

All the family- minus a few

Oh and this would be Spencer's favorite present...

That's right we are going to the National Championship game in Arizona and we are so excited about this once in a lifetime trip. Not only are we excited about cheering on our Auburn tigers but I'm excited to just get away for a few days. I have never been away from Madelyn for over 24 hours if that and mama needs a vacation. Don't get me wrong I'm going to miss my girl every second that we are gone but I need to get away and spend time with just me and my sweet hubby. Spencer is so excited he can't stand it. I love seeing him so happy and excited.

New phone and a little drama

2010-12-24T01:00:00.000-06:00

Today I had a few last minute errands to run so after Madelyn woke up from her nap off we went. We met Spence at best buy to get me a new phone, that's right I no longer have the phone that takes me five minutes to type a short text. I have the fancy dancy Droid incredible by htc and no I do not know how to use it but I have it. It was a little early Christmas present from my sweet hubby. We were in best buy a lot longer than I thought we would be. Madelyn did not want to sit still so Spencer chased her around best buy while I got everything from my old phone switched over to my new one. I really just wanted my contacts and my pictures ( I have baby pics of M and puppy pictures of Keyser on that phone) but the guy said he would switch everything over. OK I didn't think there was anything else to switch over but he's the phone tech guy so I just said ok. After we leave the store I go to the gas station to get some gas when I get my first text on my new phone. As I'm pumping gas I'm trying to figure out how to check my message and then I see the message from one of my girlfriends- ????. I thought that's weird why would she send that. Then Spencer calls me to ask why I just sent him 7 texts. Apparently when the tech guy transferred everything over, my new phone thought that the text messages that I had sent throughout the month from my old phone were new texts that needed to be sent again- all 100+ of them. So I have to call Verizon tomorrow and make sure I'm not charged for those.
As for my phone I love it and can't wait to be able to figure how to use it. Our next stop was Toys R Us. Yes dumb me thought it would be a good idea to take Madelyn who was getting hungry to a toy store two days before Christmas. All I have to say is DRAMA. We get inside and she does not want to get in the cart, after some kicking and yelling and me threatening she finally gets in the cart but she was ticked off. Of course it was complete ciaos in the store, I was going as fast as I could to grab the last few things needed and then we had to make a potty break before checking out. We come out of the bathroom and who does Madelyn see? This guy........

She was so excited saying Barney! Barney! I had to make a phone call and as I'm on the phone Madelyn is getting louder and louder yelling Barney Barney. Trying to calm her down I start handing out goldfish and candy which she throws on the floor only to scream louder for Barney. I was that mom in the store that people were looking at thinking "oh my gosh can't you shut your kid up". Smart me thinks ok give her Barney so she will quit screaming and I can get off the phone then we can check out and leave. As soon as I hand her Barney she is happy and starts hugging and kissing him. We get to the checkout and I'm putting everything on the counter and see that Madelyn has a death grip on Barney.
Me- "ok Madelyn give Barney to the nice lady so we can go" and she gives him up. That was easy. As I hand her Barney I quietly say to the sales lady we are not getting him and Madelyn goes ballistic. I don't know how she heard me but she knew I was not planning on getting Barney and that I had tricked her. She was mad. This sweet little face below

started screaming at the top of her lungs Barney Barney Barney! I was so embarrassed, I could feel my face turning bright red. My child has never acted like this much less acted like this in public. What do I do- I panic saying to the poor sales lady ok we are getting Barney just scan him and give it to her. That's right I was that mom in the toy store who's kid is throwing the mother of all fits and I give in. Way to let your child know who is in charge. As I leave the store mortified, I look down to see Madelyn just loving on her new Barney that just cost who knows how much because I did not look at the price because we were not buying him. As we are waiting in line to get out of the parking lot I look back and see my sweet little angel has come back and I'm no longer dealing with a demon child. I whip out my new fancy phone that has a camera with flash and snap this...

So even though Barney had embarrassed me and made my child act a fool in public he has made her one happy little girl. Now I just need to remember not to panic and give in next time the monster child comes out of nowhere.

My favorite present ever

2010-12-23T23:50:00.000-06:00

My favorite present ever, the one that keeps on giving and becomes more fun every year is.....

this little jewel

She is the best gift I have ever received!

Cousins Christmas Party

2010-12-23T23:29:00.000-06:00

All the cousins on Spencer's side of the family got together for a little Christmas party last weekend. We had great food, played dirty santa and chased toddlers around. This year was a little more crazy than last year since we now have 3 baby girls (20 months, 18 months and 16 month old) and a three year old all trying to be the center of attention. Raleigh was smart and hung out upstairs where the little girls could not bother him. At the end of the night everyone was exhausted but had a great time!

Playing horsey

These little girls love their fun cousins

Opening presents

Trying to take pictures of the little ones, Madelyn did not want to participate in the picture taking.

Yes that is my child in the back screaming and crying and encouraging everyone else to bail out of the picture. I was so proud!

Holiday Craziness

2010-12-18T14:29:00.000-06:00

From a couple days before Thanksgiving until after New Years I feel like my life is complete ciaos. We have been so busy lately. We had pictures with Santa, which didnt go great because that was the start of Madelyn's double ear infection that would not go away (when my child is sick she does not smile for the camera) but we did end up with a few great pictures.Then the day before Thanksgiving we had my dad's birthday then Thanksgiving then Pop's birthday and then the Auburn Alabama game. War Eagle!!! Then Papa came into town to visit for mom's birthday. This is when we had our family photo shoot for the Christmas card and Madelyn just wanted to play with Grandma not take pictures, as seen in the picture below.

She just wanted to take pictures with her grandparents that do not spoil her one bit. Ha!

and take pictures with Papa because he's lots of fun too

We went to the mall and Mymy took us on the carousel. Madelyn just looked at everything and held onto her horsey. Then when it stopped she tried to shake her horse to make in go.

I've been doing a ton of monogramming. So much that my house has been a wreck for weeks but I can not complain because this is a good problem to have when trying to start a little home based business. This is the link for my monogramming website if anybody is interested. http://whatsthemonkeysay.blogspot.com/

It is still a work in progress but I wanted to get something up and going before the Holidays.I'm also still doing some real estate too, so if anybody wants to buy or sell a house just give me a call.

We got our Christmas tree put up and Madelyn tried to eat the lights (weird, I know) so we have a huge homemade gate keeping her and Keyser (he likes to eat the ornaments) out of the dinning room.I did'nt put my beautiful nativity scene out this year because I knew baby Jesus would end up getting thrown across the house and the animals would disappear. I kept the decorations inside to a minimal but Spencer made up for it when he put up the outside lights and decorations. Let's just say our house is very bright and you turn on to our street and say wow now those people love Christmas. I think it looks beautiful and so does Madelyn. Madelyn had her Christmas party at Mother's day out. She loves going now, she goes in and starts playing not even caring that I leave. Then when I come to pick her up she's never ready to leave and always gives her teacher and her little friends hugs and kisses, that's my sweet girl.

Last weekend we had our neighborhood group Christmas get together at Cocina's. We had such a great time and are so blessed to have such wonderful neighbors that have children that all play good together.

A few days ago Madelyn's cousins came home from Brazil for Christmas. She was not sure about having to share Mymy with two other little girls but she got over that quick. Her and Aubry played together all night while Paisley slept from their long trip home. On Friday we took the girls to get their picture taken and oh what an adventure that was. Madelyn was super clingy and whiny which she hardly ever acts like that, so I just knew it was going to be hard to get good pictures. Just imagine a 18 month old, 20 month old and a 3 year old all in one picture, smiling and looking at the camera. I do not know what that is like because Madelyn started screaming as soon as we put her in the chair. Yes my happy go lucky smiley baby cried and screamed for pictures. It was exhausting. We finally got a few good pictures and a lot of hilarious ones. I think my favorite was the one with Aubry in the middle smiling like a little angel, Madelyn running out of the picture and Paisley throwing her head back crying. When we finally got home from taking pictures and Madelyn woke up from her nap she had a 101.8 fever! No wonder she was so awful when we were taking pictures, I felt like the worst mom ever. Spencer and I had plans to go to his office Christmas party but since Madelyn was feeling so bad I did'nt go. Spencer took us to my parents house so they could take me to get my car and he had to go solo to the party. The picture below is Madelyn and Keyser (he had to go to my parents house too, he loves being there) in the back seat of Spencer's car. Madelyn's motrin kicked in and as soon as I pulled out my camera she started saying cheese cheese and smiling so big. Really child? After the disaster we this morning and now you decide to put it on for the camera. We got to my parents house and Madelyn was acting fine, of course. Then I called the car people to see when my car would be ready since they had told me it would be ready at noon and it was now 5:30. They informed me that it would be ready tomorrow by noon at the latest. Great! Now we have no way home. We put up some ornaments on my parents tree and played and then Madelyn started feeling bad again. I took her temp and it was 103.1! I gave her some more medicine and my parents took us home so Madelyn could get a good night's rest. That did not happen she was up all night, then woke up at 5:30 screaming boo boo. I asked her where her boo boo was and she pointed to her nose. I thought ok why does her nose hurt? I put her in our bed and she finally slept for a while. She woke up and ate breakfast and played all morning. Now she's down for a nap and has not had a temp all day. Oh and before her nap I called to see if my car was ready so we could go get it then come home to take a nap, no it won't be ready for a couple more hours. 30 minutes later as I'm putting Madelyn down for her nap the lady calls and says my car is ready. Really lady? Now I'm going to have to wake up my running a 103.1 temp child from her nap early. So we plan to go get my car then go to the cousins Christmas party if Madelyn is not running a temp. Then tomorrow it's off to church in the morning then lunch then nap for Madelyn while I show a house and then off the Chase's 4th birthday party. This week I have to finish all my monogramming orders, finish Christmas shopping, which I'm almost done with and take Madelyn to zoo light safari.Oh I love this crazy busy life of mine and all the people in it!!

19 Months

2010-12-10T23:13:00.000-06:00

Madelyn is at such a fun age right now. At 19 months:
she weights 24 pounds
wears size 4 diapers
wears size 5- 5 1/2 shoes
wears size 12 month and 18 month clothes
has all her teeth except her 2 year molars
loves to be the center of attention
loves to put on a show
knows how to "work" people to get what she wants (especially her grandparents)
loves to be chased
she says the funniest things, the other day we were upstairs walking to our bedroom and keyser was downstairs whining and Madelyn looked through the banister at him and said "oh just hush". I think the way she says things makes it even funnier because she is very sassy. She has also become quite bossy lately but she is polite too. She says please and thank you and sometimes yes mam (even to men) I guess I should start working on yes sir. She will hand me something and say thank you, if I'm not paying attention she will stand there and say thank you thank you over and over until I take it. She always wants a bite of what I have to eat. She loves to drink out of straw like a big girl. When she wants someone to come with her she says hand or she will call them like a dog and pat the side of her leg and make a clicking noise (like I do at the back door when calling Keyser) it's so funny. She loves taking care of her babies and pushing them in the stroller or in her car. She has a new obsession with horses to go along with her obsessions of cats and dogs. She still loves Keyser and tries to ride him like a horse. She likes to take bags (grocery bags, gifts bags, purses, etc) and walk around the house and say bye bye and wave. I love to just watch her play. She says so many different things now but my favorite is I love you, it's the sweetest sound Ive ever heard. The next sweetest sound is her laughing, I wish I could just bottle it up so I could listen to that sweet baby laugh forever. She's so funny the way she does things and what she says. Sometimes when she gets in trouble and I'm talking to her about it she will try to grab my face with both hands and kiss me, I have to turn my head because it's so funny but she's in trouble.She has been getting in more trouble lately because we will tell her not to do something and then she smiles and does it anyway. She is just a little hardheaded and knows exactly what she wants. I can definitely see the terrible twos starting to come out in her already. Madelyn is so busy all day long and full of energy, by the time she's in bed I'm ready for bed because she wears me out. I would have never thought my sweet little baby would be able to wear me out but that sweet little baby has turned into a sweet little toddler with a lot of energy, a lot to say, some tantrums and a whole lot of love. I just wish I could slow down time because my baby is getting so big so fast.

Christmas cards

2010-12-10T13:41:00.002-06:00

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So I finally have some pictures that are good enough to use for Christmas cards. I have been playing with different pictures and cards at Shutterfly and I just can't make up my mind. I really like this one because I will always be able to look back at it and remember how difficult it is to take family pictures with a toddler but also how happy Madelyn usually is.

Sick Baby

2010-12-01T13:36:00.000-06:00

Madelyn has been sick for what seems like forever. We went to the doctor before Thanksgiving and she had a double ear infection or as Madelyn calls it a boo boo in her ear. She started taking amoxicillin and I thought she would be feeling better in no time. Well she kept saying she had a boo boo in her ear still and then Sunday night she woke up screaming and had a temperature of 104.3. We were up all night and went to the doctor first thing on Monday morning. Turns out the amoxicillin did nothing and her ears were even worse than better and on top of that she has the fever virus. We got some different antibiotics to take and have been taking motrin/tylenol every 3-4 hours to keep her fever down. The past two nights she has ended up in our bed sleeping on one of our chests. I know you are not supposed to let your child sleep in your bed (we made that mistake with the dog) but she screams in pain if she's not propped up and I was so tired last night that I feel asleep in our bed trying to get her to sleep. I think she is finally starting to feel a little better because she is in her bed taking a nap. I'm so ready for my happy smiley healthy baby to be back in action.

Piled on the couch with her Keysie, blankie, frog and juice.

There is a little smile to go with those sick little eyes

Oh how she loves this dog

Happy Thanksgiving

2010-11-26T12:32:00.000-06:00

Our 2010 Thanksgiving was crazy as usual. We watched some of the Macy's parade and cartoons then it was football for Spence and Madelyn and cooking for me. Then we were off to my parents house for the big feast.


One of the people I'm most thankful for and her daddy of course. My beautiful Madelyn Louella.

Taking Grandma on a walk to find meow.

Poor meow was hiding under a bush

Feeding the fish with Grandpa. Yes the reason she's not smiling is because she is eating fish food. I don't know what it is about the fish food but she always tries to sneak some pieces to eat.

Sassy girl in her 9 month Thanksgiving dress from last year and her new boots.


What a great way to end a great Thanksgiving naked and loving on Otis.

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Let it rain...

2010-11-17T15:10:00.000-06:00

because Madelyn has a super cute raincoat and boots to wear.

she loves her boots so much that she had to wear them to Target yesterday to show them off- even though it was not raining.