11 Months old

It's hard to believe that her birthday is around the corner!!! Maddyn turned 11 months old this week. She continues to grow, she's still baby babbling away-- we're all thinking she is saying "yeah" and "red" as her first words...and she's been trying to take more and more steps at a time. We're at about 8 before she falls.


A few of you have asked for her "Christmas/bday" list. I threw a few things together in a spreadsheet. It's just examples, so don't feel you have to stick to it. And to be honest, please don't feel you have to get her anything!!

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pvM0dhPySoYMetidbQkmpUg


Here are her final Birthday invites. We were so happy with them!! Barb from bndesigns at etsy.com did a great job!!





Here is her 11 month growth photo from this week!!

Video of Maddyn Walking

So I Finally got video!! Only a few steps- since every time I take out the camera, she decides crawling to it will be faster, lol. But she has gotten up to about 10 steps so far before she falls. This is from this weekend. I think it's about 5 steps maybe?

PLEASE TURN DOWN THE VOLUME (You'll thank me later. I was obviously right next to the microphone... it's very loud and annoying- sorry).

Buzzin' right along....

Maddyn's first Halloween. She went as a Bumble Bee. OMG, she was so cute (Yeah, I'm biased, lol). We had a lot of fun taking her around to see everyone!

I have loads of photos... I'll post some now on Shutterfly, but will post the rest in the next few days. Here's my favorite so far:

9 month "pro" photos are up!

I finally finished her 9 month "professional" photos. I have posted them to the Shutterfly album (link to the right). I had a blast shooting them!!! If only she wasn't so mobile ;) LOL. Now that she's walking more, I'm sure the 12 month ones are going to be even crazier!!!

Hope you enjoy. I'll be sending them to the printer and mailing them out to folks in the next week.

xoxo,
Heather

OMG-- We have WALKING!!!

I'm all willynilly ;) Excited, but I know what this means... it means we're in trouble, LOL
Maddyn took her first unaided set of steps tonight. Twice. Of course, when I went to grab video of it, she would have nothing to do with walking. But Dave, Jared and Amanda and I all got to see her do it.

The Funniest part- she did her "TOUCHDOWN" hands after she did it, b/c we were all cheering so hard for her. And she knows that usually means "Touchdown". It was hilarious!!!

I'll try to get some video tomorrow night to post!!!

:) Way to go Maddyn!!!

10 months, 9 teeth and counting

Maddyn woke up this morning and rang in her 10 month birthday with her 9th tooth! It looks like #10 might be here in a day or two, b/c her gum is bright white. That gives her 6 teeth on top and 3 on bottom. The funny part is that you can now start to see her teeth when she smiles- it's so cute!! It's just different then we are used to!

Mark your calendars for December 13th. That will be Maddyn's Winter One-derland! We'll be ringing in Maddyn's birthday a little early, since it's so close to Christmas! It's so hard to believe she'll be one already!!

We have some fun family things coming up. Next weekend we have a visit to the Pumpkin Patch with friends. The following weekend we have Halloween- and three different parties to go to. I'm excited to show you all Maddyn's costume. She'll be a bumble bee this year. I wanted Rylee to be a flower, but Dave won't let me ;) Then we have our Family photos, a few birthday parties, and then Thanksgiving. Should be fun!

We did decide to go ahead and finish the basement. The project started Friday and as of Saturday night, the framing is about 90% finished. They are doing great. Dave and Jared are going to try to do a ton of the work themselves, but are getting help from our builders. Pretty exciting! It will be nice to have the big rec room for Maddyn to play in :)

I'm almost done with the 9 month photos- I know, I keep saying that. But we had the "family flu" this week and it was hard to get them done with one of us being sick any given day this week. I'll post and send soon!

Here's her 10 month growth photo. I'm also uploading a bunch of random ones from today into Shutterfly. So click the link to the right to see (in about an hour).

I'm also going to attach video clips of her doing her new favorite thing: "Touchdown!" Anytime we say Touchdown she throws her arms up in the Touchdown sign!!! She is obviously her mommy and daddy's little girl, and true to her namesake :) Since I've finally uploaded videos, I'll also throw another of my favorite recent clips: Her playing with Dave (LOVE the laugh).

xoxo,

Heather

U guessed it- MORE teeth!

Yes, this is crazy! It appears Maddyn cut her some of her Molars this last week. It's nuts. I felt something sharp back there, but she refuses to open wide to let us see. But we know something is back there- we can't tell what position, lol. The girl has lots of teeth.

We have had a crazy couple of weeks. The schedule has been nuts from reflooring our powder room to traveling to Habitat for Humanity to book close to taking classes. But this last weekend I was able to spend some time at the Zoo with Maddyn and that was fun. This weekend we got to go to a picnic with all kinds of our friends and then Sunday, we had to run a bunch of errands to keep up. It's been crazy! Here are just a few photos- but of course, all the 'better ones' are on the Shutterfly site (to the right).

Also- I threw in some funny photos of her and Rylee. I grabbed them when I was shooting Maddyn's 9 month photos, and they just cracked me up. Maddyn was getting fussy, so we gave her some puffs. Thing is, RYLEE loves puffs. So she kept trying to get in there and steal the puffs away from Maddyn. It was pretty cute.

I am tweaking the 0 month photos now, so I hope to have them ready to share next week!!

I also have video of Maddyn to upload. She LOVES Grandma's piano. I have video of her dancing, kind of funny!