14 Months & Trip to Seattle

 Happy Easter 

 Happy St. Patricks Day! 

Family Photo in Puyallup WA 

Dear Madeline Grace, 

     

     March was a VERY busy month for you! With St. Patricks Day and Easter, plus our 4 day trip to Seattle the entire month just flew by! You are now 25lbs and almost walking, you will furniture walk and love if someone will hold your hands and walk you all over the house! You also have added a few more words to your vocabulary. You can now say Papa, Momma, Ball, Book, Up, and What. You also point to everything that you see that you want. Unfortunately we have made weekly trips to the Dr's office this month for you. Originally we thought you had a stomach virus because you have had none stop loose bms, but after running numerous tests they have ruled any sickness out. We are currently on week 4 of you being "sick" and are back on formula with a no dairy diet.. Hoping it will clear up soon. The good thing is is that your acting your usual happy self and drinking all your fluids, so they aren't too terribly worried at this point. They are thinking you may have a dairy allergy so a possible trip to the GI Dr may be in our near future. 

  The trip to Seattle was very short, but you as usual did amazing! Slept 2 hours on the plane on the way there, and then the time difference didn't really seem to bother you. I'm so glad that you finally got to meet that side of my family. Plus some much need quality time with your Gigi was the whole reason we went out there! Saturday we celebrated your cousin Landon's 3rd birthday! You loved playing with all his new toys and crawling all over the deck! Your Aunt Tina has 10 chickens and once you pet one you weren't very fond at all. We also had dinner with your Uncle Phil and Aunt Alice, plus your cousin   Marie and Lucas! It was so great to catch up with everyone!! 

I will post more pictures once I load them off the camera! 

    Love, Papa & Momma 

13 Months!

 Valentine's Day! 

 Disney on ICE at the Verizon Center 

LOVING your tunnel 

Dear Madeline Grace, 

        February 2013 has been a busy month for you, as you celebrated your second Valentine's Day! We had a play date at with some friends and you were loving having all these new toys to play with! Of course cupid brought you 2 Valentine's day giraffes & a Valentine's day book! We also had a girls trip and took you to see Disney on ICE at the Verizon Center! You seemed to love all the noise and excitement plus Mickey and Minnie were there which was probably your favorite part of the whole thing! Also in the past month you have learned to walk along furniture and your SO close to walking. If someone holds your hands you will walk all over the place! 4 more teeth are coming in and at this point I have lost count of how many teeth you have! Yesterday you also learned how to drink from a straw! Which is huge! Your growing so fast and your transitioning into a toddler rather than a baby, I'm excited for spring so we can take you to the park & we can go on walks! Only a few more weeks then this cold weather will hopefully be gone! 

Love you baby girl! 

     Xo Momma & Papa 

Happy 1st Birthday Madeline

 Madeline at 1 day old 

 The exact time she was born 

 Headed home from the hospital 

One year old! 

Dear Madeline Grace, 

    I can't believe your already 1 years old! It literally seems like yesterday your father and I were walking into the hospital at 6:30 AM so I could be induced. That day is a day I will never forget, we were surrounded by family and friends who couldn't wait to meet you minutes after you were born. That weekend so many people came into our room just so they could hold you for the first time. It definitely feels like you have been part of our lives much longer than just a year. Your dad and I often look back at pictures when you were a couple months old and talk about how blessed we are to have such a sweet little girl. From about 3 weeks old you slept through the night, and you always have a huge smile on your face! Over this past year you have been sick a couple times, even this past week with the stomach flu and you still act as happy as can be. Sure you have your little diva moments when you don't get what you want all the time but in our eyes your perfect. 

We celebrated your 1st birthday with 80+ people of our closest friends and family, and it was a great party. Lots of food, lots of laughing and a ton of kids running around playing with you and all your toys. We missed our family from the west coast, especially your GiGi Carol but we did take a video of you eating your smash cake so I will upload it to Facebook so everyone who couldn't make it can see. It was also your Poppy's birthday (my step dad) so its pretty cool that you have someone to almost share your birthday with! Tomorrow is your One year check up with Dr. Bill so I will updated tomorrow with all your stats, and more pictures from the party. 

 We love you to the moon and back! 

   Love, Papa & Mommy 

1st Christmas

 Minnie & Mickey Party 

3 Bambinos! Luke, Sean & Madeline 

Christmas Morning 

Dear Madeline,

  Your 1st christmas was truly amazing, you loved looking at our tree and you didn't bother trying to pull the ornaments off of it! Christmas as a parent is something very special, seeing your eyes light up over all the new toys and all the boxes! You actually helped unwrap some of your presents! You also celebrated your "birthday" with Sean! It was a Mickey & Minnie theme and you ate almost off your cake! I'm so glad that you have all these friends to grow up with! We are truly blessed sweetheart! For the next couple weeks your dad and I will be busy working on prepping for your actual birthday! Can't believe that your almost one!! SO much has happened over past year and we wouldn't change any of it for anything. Today I will post your 11 month photo and stats as well!

I'm also working on collecting your birth-1yr monthly photos so we can look back and see how much you've grown so those will be up soon!

  We love you sweetheart!

     Xo Papa & Momma

10 months & Madeline's 1st Turkey Day!

 Grammy, Poppy & Madeline 

 Watch out world I'M CRAWLING!! 

Hi Momma!! 

Dear Madeline Grace, 

     

      This Thanksgiving your papa & I had a lot to be thankful for. Especially our sweet little girl who couldn't be more perfect. Your smile just lights up the room, and even though you had a nasty sinus infection this past week you were beyond happy. You ate a TON of food on thanksgiving, loved the turkey and cranberry sauce but your favorite was the lemon pie! We also skyped your GiGi and Great Aunt & Uncle in Seattle! It was so amazing that you were able to blow them a kiss through the computer! Your now 10 months old and growing you so fast! Crawling all over the place and eating everything in sight! Your also starting to pull up on the table to attempt to stand. Can't believe that your almost one! 

      Love you baby girl! 

 XO, Daddy & Mommy 

What a Trooper!

 Bridesmaids/Flower Girl & Bride Pre Wedding Toast 

 My Beautiful Family of 3! 

The Bride Krysta & The 2 Flower Girls! 

Dear Madeline Grace, 

    This past weekend you were one of the flower girls in your Uncle Mike & Aunt Krysta's Wedding! It was truly amazing to join such an awesome couple in their special day! You were such a little ham and did so well being pushed down the aisle in a wagon! We had a feeling that you were coming down with a cold as you had a fever the entire day and night of the wedding, but I never knew it would last this long.  Its been over a week since the wedding & a trip to the drip with a prescription for antibiotics, you still aren't back to your normal happy self. You have quiet the runny nose, coughing and gagging to the point you are throwing up... its no fun at all. We feel so bad for you sweet heart but overall you have been a trooper! Most of the time you have a smile on your face and you couldn't be any cuter even though I know you don't feel great. 

Tomorrow you turn 10 months & thursday is your first Thanksgiving! Will be posting two more posts this week baby. 

   Love you sweet girl! 

                Xo, Papa & Momma 

Happy 9 Months Madeline!

 Happy 9th Month Birthday Maddie!! 

 Happy Halloween! 

Little Ham! 

Dear Madeline Grace, 

    I can't believe your 3 months away from 1 year old! Your 9th month appointment went great, you had to get one shot which you did great, I think mommy was more nervous than you were! You are 90% percentile for both weight and height & 100% for your head circumference. You love to eat ANYTHING that we give you and we are now in the process of transitioning you to table food, right in time for thanksgiving! Yogurt, puffs & applesauce are at the top of the list of things that you love to eat! This month you learned to crawl backwards, wave hello and goodbye, you will also copy people if they blow raspberries & you also survived  your very first (and hopefully last) hurricane. We stayed at grammy and poppy's house while your papa went out and ran calls all day and night. Halloween your were a little cupcake and we drove around to all your families houses to stop in and say hi, and everyone LOVED your costume! 

  Today we went to vote and I may be a little biased but I think you were the cutest little "voter" there! 

Love you! 

    Xo Daddy & Mommmy!