Author: Andi

This girl of mine keeps us laughing every day! She is getting funnier all the time! Recently, she wanted to wear a life jacket around the house. This was a life jacket given to us by some neighbors because their kids grew out of it. Maddie still isn’t quite big enough for it, but she REALLY wants to wear it. She also discovered she likes wearing her hat. So put those two together and you get this:

And this is the reaction I got from her when I asked her if I could take off the life jacket.

Ha! Isn’t that a lovely look? At least she knows what she wants.

Saturday, my mom, Maddie and I walked in the Leprechaun Days Parade in our city. We were walking with my MOMS Club. Maddie sat in the wagon that had banners decorated by some kiddos while my mom pulled her. I handed out candy to moms in the parade with little cards promoting MOMS Club.

It was a hot day, but we had lots of fun. Maddie was a trooper and sat happily in her wagon through the whole parade and then on the walk home. I about collapsed when we got home. Here are a few pictures.

When Chuck dropped us off, we ran into Ronald McDonald.

Then we hung out for a little while until the parade started.

And this picture would be really cute if I weren’t making such a goofy face!

Then the parade started! My mom took most of the pictures, but here’s one of her.

And Maddie was clearly having a good time!

Then we had some water after the parade.

As we walked home, Maddie made herself comfortable in her wagon.

And Chuck took this picture of us when we got home. I was hot and tired and this was a pretty forced smile! But we had a great time!

My mom took a bunch of other pictures. You can see those HERE.

Maddie has been such a fun, silly girl lately. She likes talking/babbling and dancing these days. Here’s one of her dancing to some music.

And we were recently playing upstairs and she was cracking me up dancing, playing with a toy and her dolls. So here are a couple videos of her goofiness!

I took Maddie to a local lake yesterday. I was a little weary that she wouldn’t like it because she doesn’t like splash pads and can be hit or miss at the pool. But she LOVED it! I am definitely going back. Here are a few pictures I snapped with my phone while we were there.

My mom and one of my brother’s also came by the lake while we were there and had some lunch and played in the water with Maddie. The one funny thing was Maddie hated when the sand would get on her hands or arms. She just likes being clean. I only had to get sand off her feet when we left.

Miss Maddie is growing up so quickly. She changes so much every day. We were discussing all the words she says now and realized I should make an updated list of all the things she says like I did when she was 15 Months Old. So here you have it.

*Words (21): dance (dee dee), shoes (shoo), cup (pa), water (wa wa), bottle (ba ba), hat (ha), please (eeee, while signing please), yellow (le low), key (eee), ha, hey, yeah, help (ay ay, while signing help), nose (no no), eye, boom, ow, num num, doo doo (she wants a microphone toy or tube to yell into), beep (beee), teeth (teee…and makes a sign with her pointer finger by her mouth like she is brushing her teeth) – Total 37

*Signs (3): Food, help, teeth – Total 8

*Animal Noises (4): frog (gasping noise), owl (who who), crab (makes a crab motion with her hands), sheep (ba ba ba) – Total 14

*Body Parts (9): shoulders (shrugs her shoulders), toes, knees, arms, hands, tongue, hair, feet, teeth – Total 16

*Other: She nods “yes” which has been such a life saver from the constant “no”, the funniest thing ever is she sees a picture of Santa, she says “ho ho ho”, she likes to tickle people and makes a “tickle” noise while she wiggles her fingers to tickle you, when you as her what does Maddie say? She says “Hi”, makes her mouth make an “O” shape, can knock on a door when asked, points to planes in the sky, makes the “itsy bitsy spider” motion when she wants me to sign that song to her, says “neeee” and wiggles like crazy for raisins or cranberries (and I have no idea what “neeee” means), Maddie will pick out the snack she wants or tell me yes or no for things she wants, has started to pick out books she wants to read at bed time, she gives lots of hugs and kisses. We spend a lot of time with her cousin and she just loves bringing her things when she is upset; she will be such a good big sister! And we got to Target way too often because Maddie knows to ask them for a sticker when we leave by pointing to her chest and saying “doo doo doo.”

I am sure I have forgotten some things. And she learns something new every day so it’s hard to keep track and keep up. But it is so fun that she is communicating more and telling us what she wants. Our big girl!

Here’s a couple pictures…since I spent the whole time blabbing for my virtual baby book.  

We took a trip to Omaha recently for Chuck’s cousin’s wedding. She is so sweet and came all the way to Florida for our wedding, so we knew we wanted to make the trip to see her tie the knot! Here’s a picture of the happy couple! (Which I took from her Facebook page.)

At the wedding, We got a picture with the three of us and Chuck’s sister and her daughter, Amira.

Before dinner, all three of the great-granddaughters were hanging out on the couch together! Maddie really liked holding Amira’s hand.

Before the wedding, Maddie took a really long nap. This was how we found Maddie when we went to wake her up.

One morning we took Maddie to Bass Pro Shops to run around. I think she wants a 4-wheeler!

And here’s a picture we took with Chuck’s grandma, mom, sister, the cousins and me!