And look at how perfectly she lined up the edges!

And here’s the zipper she added. Please excuse my creepy hand.

And you would never know it, but she actually has a seam in the top and bottom somewhere because the material was only 55” and I was really hoping for a 60”ish pillow. So she made it bigger for me! She rocks!

It’s hard to tell how big it is, so here’s a picture of Maddie sitting on it. Not great pictures, but you can get a better idea of the size!

So now we have a big pillow for Chuck and Maddie to rough-house on! They love it! Thanks Linda for tackling all my sewing projects for me!

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!

My favorite picture…

She was very into something on tv.

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!  

Blankets….

Blocks….

Buckets (sorry, bad pictures)….

Seriously….

I think the girl could use some hats.

Yep. Maddie has found her nose and it’s apparently lots of fun to stick her finger in it. I’m not sure if you can tell, but she has a HUGE smile on her face because she is so proud of herself. She left her finger in there, laughing at herself, long enough for me to find my phone and take a picture of her. That is an eternity in toddler time if you don’t know that! So I guess that means it’s pretty cool!

I just love her!

So, all that nonsense to show some pictures of the progress!

This is what the room looks like now. The big blank wall was where my big shelf from Ikea was.

It doesn’t look like we made much progress, but taking stuff off the shelf was a long process. And Chuck has also cleaned out the closet, which was another huge task. The biggest thing left will be to sort through all my craft stuff stacked on the shelf in the corner.

So we moved the Ikea shelf into the playroom just outside this room. I love the shelf out there!

That’s what we’ve been working on. Any big projects going on at your house? Any projects you have been avoiding tackling (like I have been avoiding this room!)?

Maddie loved “helping” dad!

We thought we would put her in one of the boxes. She looked interested in it. And yes, of course we closed the lid on her head!  

She was not impressed.