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First, I am sure there are a few of you out there who are saddened by my laziness and lack of posts about Maddie. Well, cheer up! Here are some videos!

So the other night, Maddie insisted on wearing a fleece jacket around the house. I thought I would just take her pants off so she wasn’t too warm. Then she decided to start dancing around the living room. She looks like she is River Dancing. And she just started dancing this way recently. We were laughing so hard at her!

A little while later, we took her clothes off down to her diaper. We never do this, but she was so funny. I got her to dance at the beginning and end of the video.

And here is just one other random video I took of her that night.

Shortly after these videos, Maddie brought her shirt over to Chuck and wanted it back on. Thankfully she is modest. Hopefully she will stay that way!

Maddie has started to communicate with us a lot more. She knows a few animal noises, says a few words and even signs a couple words. I got a few videos of her doing some things on command! The only things I forgot were asking her to give me a hug and a kiss. Which is so stinking cute!

Here is Maddie making animal noises….a cow, a pig and a monkey. (We are currently working on sheep and Chuck is teaching Maddie to say “hi” when you ask her “what does a Maddie say?”

And here is Maddie signing “all done” and “more” in her own little way. She’s trying to say “banana” but it comes out more like “balalalalalala!” And she says “up” when she wants to be picked up. She just started that one the other day. She says “up” a few times at the end of this video.

And she has started to sit down when I tell her to say “please.” I am not sure where she picked that up or why she started to sit down. But it’s very sweet. And there’s another “up” thrown in there, too! And after watching this video more closely, it looks like I am going to push her down by her head. Weird. Not sure why I was doing that. I wasn’t actually going to push her down!

Maddie likes to take the trash can out of the downstairs bathroom and carry it around and likes to play with the one thing that is in the trash can…a toilet paper roll. The other day she was playing with the toilet paper roll. It kept using it like a cast. It was really cute!

I took Maddie to the zoo another day (actually, I have been going about once a week with her) and I took a few more pictures of some animals that were very active during this visit.

There were some very friendly birds!

And some very playful swimming bears!

A pacing leopard. It must have been feeding time, because the wolves, Canada Lynx and pumas were all pacing this morning.

These Asian Dogs were chasing each other into the water and hiding behind fallen trees. They were quite amusing, but hard to capture on my phone camera.

It was a cool day at the zoo, but only a handful of people were there this morning. It was a nice morning for a walk around, watching the animals!