Category: Maddie

A friend of mine and I took our kids to the Mall of America. She has two little girls and the youngest one is just 3 weeks older than Maddie. The older one loves Maddie and was such a good helper with her. Look at how cute they are shopping!

And here are the girls getting ready for lunch! They are so cute together!

I have been dying to switch Maddie into her new room. We decided to move her because the room we are moving her to is above the garage and has two outside walls. So it is colder in the winter. Something Maddie can handle just fine, but not the best for a newborn. I did a little post about moving all the junk out of the new room a while back.

After finally moving everything out, Chuck and I did some new furniture shopping. After getting frustrated looking for something new and not finding something we liked (good quality, but not quite as expensive as Maddie’s furniture), we gave up and moved her furniture into the new room. We have just put off shopping for the new baby for now.  

So I worked my butt off a few days and moved all the stuff into Maddie’s room. I moved everything but the big chair, because that needed to be moved from downstairs. (Our neighbor helped with that.) 

I have some in-progress pictures, but that isn’t any fun! So here is her room 99% finished!

This is standing in the doorway.

This is standing in the closet.

The changing table…I’m standing between the chair and crib. The baby monitor is stacked on boxes and a trash can right now. We didn’t want to mount it to the wall until we were happy with the room arrangement.

The movers under the crib legs still need to be removed. I had been moving things around the room and left them there until I was sure I liked things the way they were.

Here’s a close-up of her reading nook. She likes to sit with the bear and read books or play with her toys.

Here is the big chair I moved to her room. It used to be in the living room, but all of Maddie’s toys have kind of taken over the living room. So it only made sense to get rid of the chair to open it up a bit more.

Maddie playing in her room. She likes to sit on the blanket with her dolls and toys.

Here is a closer picture of the stick on alphabet I put between her windows. I am really happy with them. I wasn’t sure what I wanted to put there, but these are perfect!

And here’s a shot of her closet. A lot of stuff was just left in her old room since it will be used for Baby #2. So I only brought things into her new room that she actually needs. (And no, she doesn’t need a ladder. I just haven’t moved that out of the closet yet.)

There you have it. A tour of Maddie’s new room. She really likes it. We play in there a lot and her playroom is right outside the door, so she takes toys from there into the room all the time. I love how it turned out. I’m actually getting a little excited to start working on the baby’s room, but we won’t do anything in there until we find out if Baby #2 is a boy or a girl. (Just a couple short weeks!)

I have a number of pictures that don’t really need their own post, but I wanted to make sure I got them on here some day. So here’s a bunch of random photos for your enjoyment.

Maddie has been getting teeth for what seems like months. She loves ice cubes. She likes to hold on to them, eat them, play with them in a cup….she especially likes them when it’s warm outside.

I recently bought Maddie a water table off CraigsList and Maddie loves it. Most of the water ended up outside of the table and her favorite thing to do was to dump the water out by the cupful!

One day, Maddie threw her biggest tantrum yet. She threw herself around like a fish out of water, wailing at everything. Eventually, she got really mad and went into the dining room to cry for while. After her tantrum, she decided she was done and decided she loved me again. Then proceeded to eat my lunch. I had to get a picture of her tantrum.

I took Maddie and one of our neighbor boys to the zoo. Maddie loves these boys and they just love her. It’s so cute. It’s a bad picture, but Jackson was so proud to be helping Maddie out at the zoo!

Maddie LOVED the cotton candy! Not that I was surprised by this at all!

Some days your toddler will yell at you about everything.

Some days your toddler won’t want to eat lunch.

And some days the only way to get your toddler to eat lunch is to give in and let them hold their doll so they will at least eat strawberries for lunch.

And the Cabbage Patch Kid was mine. Her name is (amusingly) “Maddie Jeanie.”

We just went to Maddie’s 15 month check up. The doctor was quite impressed by her. (I’m happy even if the doctor tells that to everyone!) She was 32” tall (long?) and weighed 19 pounds 7.5 ounces. She’s just a tiny little thing. Well, tall and tiny. It’s a challenge to find pants. She is long, but her waist is small. Maybe she would fatten up a little if she ever stopped moving.  

Maddie has learned to climb on things. She can’t quite get on the couch, but she did learn (just yesterday) how to get on the couch by climbing up the speaker next to the couch. She giggles at herself and is oh so proud. She will also climb up if she moves a toy near the couch to use as a step.

Maddie is growing up so fast. She is learning something new every day. Just yesterday, we video taped this new trick she learned….after one try, she had it down!

Maddie is a little sponge these days. She tries to repeat or copy everything. I need to make a list of all the things she says, so here seems like a good place to do that.

* Words (16): mama, dada, hi, uh oh, oh no, up, down (dahn), wheee (eeeee), no (usually “no no no no”), banana (balalala), puppy (pa), duck (da), book (buh), bow, waffle (ahhh bah), baby (babeee – just learned that one today and hasn’t stopped saying it)

* Signs (5): more (points at one palm), all done (wipes hands together), diaper (scratching motion), please (rubs chest/stomach), drink (extends arm and waves hand wildly)

* Animal noises (10): cow (oooo), pig (snorts), monkey (ahh ahh), owl (ooo ooo), bear/lion (growls/roars), lizard (sticks her tongue out repeatedly), sheep (ba ba), snake (shh noise), rooster (oodle oodle oo), fish (makes a fish face)

* Other: can point to her head, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, belly, lifts her shirt up for belly button, waves bye, shakes head “no,” blows kisses, if we say “GOAL” she sticks her arm out like the refs do, sticks her arms up for “touchdown” instead of “so big,” sees something with its mouth open – she imitates it.

* Just learned but not consistent: worm (wiggles), cat (mew mew), if I ask her “where is mommy’s baby?” or “where does mommy have a baby?”, she will point at my stomach. So cute!

I am sure I forgot some of the things she can say, but it’s hard to remember them all. I feel better getting a list written down somewhere to look back on one day.

Maddie loves to throw things away and will hold our hand now.

Ok, enough bragging….here are a couple pictures.

GOAL!

Belly Button!

I just thought these pictures were cute. She was playing with the blocks and a blanket. Then she put the blanket inside the block. She also appears to be talking (or yelling at the blocks).

My favorite picture…

She was very into something on tv.

Happy Mother’s Day to all the wonderful moms and moms-to-be!

I traced Maddie’s hand and then had her do some coloring for her Mother’s Day cards. They turned out really cute!

We did make some small step while coloring. Maddie usually likes to eat the crayons. This time she just licked them and then tried to apply them like lipstick. There’s some nice blue crayon around her mouth.

Baby steps, I suppose!