Post Ike

We survived Ike with no problems. A huge thank you to my parents for letting us stay with them for so long and especially for keeping Madeline for SO long. We were in Chicago for Ike and my parents were watching Madeline for the weekend. We joined them on Monday and settled in for some good family bonding. I think the kids had a great time and they LOVE bubbles. Thank you to Cade and Corban for the Tiger bubbles - life saver!!



This is a picture John took. Safe.....I don't think so. Clearly I wasn't there but luckily she didn't fall off.

Here she is in her tu-tu from her cousins - her Aunt Monica made it for her. She looks so cute!
As I'm making this blog, I'm realizing I need to take some more pictures. Maybe I have some on the camera......we'll see.

Big Girl!

My little baby is looking more like a little girl than a baby! Look at that face - they grow up too fast!




Here she is being a little monkey - she loves to climb!

1st Birthday

Finally! Here are some pics of Madeline's 1st birthday. I think she had a great time - we sure did!


She wasn't sure about digging into the cake and getting all dirty , but.....

Somewhere along the way it got real fun! John put here in our bathtub to clean her off - she thought that was really funny!

Walker!!!

Madeline is an official walker yesterday!!!

Fun at Home

Andrew is teaching Madeline what a dragonfly is. She's a very attentive student.
Thank you Gomez gang for the doll house - Madeline loves it!
She can use a fork! OK, maybe it was a little set up but it gives me hope.

Water Trouble

The last post I had to find something to write about, this week we had so much I didn't have time to blog about it. Saturday started off like a normal day - John wanted to do a house project. No prob. We had a leaky faucet in our shower and it went from a 30 min project to 4 days. See below. This is the first thing I see when I walk in the bathroom. I'm not sure how he ended up with the number "1".
John parents helped him fix it and babysit Madeline, and my parents let us stay with them for a while. We both have the BEST parents! Why couldn't we stay at home and just use another shower? Water was spraying into the walls and we had to turn off the water to the whole house.

During this time, Madeline got sick and didn't sleep all night Monday night. (Literally, ALL night.) My parents took the 2-6am shift and shut the doors so we couldn't hear her so we could get some sleep. Like I said, BEST PARENTS EVER!

Anyway, alls well that ends well. Were back home, Madeline feels great, the shower works,we still have the hole in our wall but we'll get it fixed (and hopefully upgraded!) soon.

I have other pics but I'll save those for another post.

Pics

I don't really have anything new going on so I thought I'd just put some cute Madeline pics up. John took these a few weeks ago with his fancy macro-only camera. It's his work camera and takes GREAT close up pictures. Anyway, aren't they sweet?