All Around Town

Madeline LOVED being on Momma's scooter. I only went up the driveway once and was too afraid to go any further without her having a helmet!

Madeline loved watching the dogs jump for frisbees at the fair. If you look closely you can see the dog catching the frisbee on the right.

Madeline LOVED petting the "pony." He repaid her by nipping her hands. The State Fair is a rite of passage and this is one momma who is GLAD that passage is done for this year! She did get to ride her first "ride" and try for a goldfish, but those are on Daddy's camera so they'll have to wait!

Weekend Update

Madeline - chillin' at ChiMu.

Steve said that my demure little girl climbed this wall almost by herself! Can you believe she hasn't climbed out of her crib yet?

Anywho who knows Madeline knows she is a hoarder. She LOVES the little garden at the Museum where you can plant flowers. But more than that she just loves to gather up all the flowers and hold them.

This is Madeline wiping her sandy hands on herself. I said, "Didn't you use the dryer to blow dry her hands?" But Daddy said that was for wimps so she let her go STRAIGHT to the sand from the water. (hee hee) I'll bet that was a fun bath night!

Bad Daddy!

While Mommy was away Daddy braved the Childrens Museum for the first time with Madeline! They had a BLAST together and I'll have to upload more pictures to show all of their fun times.

But Daddy did a bad bad thing.

Mommy specifically told him NOT to let Madeline ride on one of the horses on the Carousel. I did this for 2 reasons:

1. I wanted to be the first to do it.

2. ChiMu specifically says that no one under 2 can be on an up and down horse.

SO - Daddy sneaked her on anyway and it looks like she was just takin' it all in!

Rock a bye your baby

I know, I know...

I know I haven't posted in a loooooooooong time. So I just spent a googleplex time trying to upload a video and pics and Blogger shot me down.

HISSSSS!

I'll try again soon....I have some adorable video of Madda and her friend Gabby.

You wouldn't believe it if you didn't see it!

Friday night, as many of you know, we had a horrible horrible storm. Steve and I were trying to enjoy a little telly an and kept getting interrupted by Jude Redfield. We plugged in our weather radio and started tracking the storm. It was moving through Plainfield but then moved north into Madison County. It got really bad around 10:00 and I decided we needed to take Madeline down to the basement. So all of us including the dogs hunkered down in the theater while Steve tried to glean information from the tidbits we were getting from our satellite. All the sudden a bunch of hail hit the house and it sounded like it was raining marbles! Madeline woke up a little bit. Mostly to say "dog" when she heard the dogs barking around us and "badu" when I snuggled her up in her blankets. We stayed down there for about 20 minutes and she went back down with no fuss.

Steve and I climbed back in bed and were trying to settle in for the night when we hear this horrific crack of thunder and a bolt of lightening. Next thing we know.....the house alarm was going off....and continued to go off for close to 10 minutes. Steve called ADT and I was ready to try to soothe Madeline. (One of the alarms is right outside her room.) Except - she slept through the entire ordeal!

I knew you wouldn't believe it so I grabbed my camera to shoot some video!

Park Place

Who would have ever thought I'd be hiking, with a baby (on my back nonetheless), and a big dog!

Our little family has enjoyed a lot of fun in Falls Park latley. We went on a family hike on saturday and it was LOTS of fun! Madeline LOVES the park and so did Austin! We went on about a mile and a half hike and, though it was tiring for mama, it was a blast! Madeline was on my back like a little papoose and Steve controlled Austin.

We all had a great time and I actually think I'd like to do it again!