1st Brrr-thday Party

It was 'snow' much fun! I've finally posted Maddyn's first brrr-thday party photos on the Shutterfly Album! I highly recommend doing a Winter One-derland theme if you have a winter baby. There are so many easy and cheap ideas, and everyone really seemed to enjoy my little quips. In short, here's how the party played out:

Winter “One”derland Theme:

Again, all of the photos are on the Shutterfly site.

Thanks to everyone who came, we had so much fun and hope you did too!

1 Year Stats

I'm uploading loads and loads of photos now- so expect to see the Birthday photos by tomorrow!!

In the meantime, we had Maddyn's 1 year doctor's appointment. Her 1 year stats are below. She's continuing to prove to her mommy that she is more like daddy every day- nice and tall :) But her weight is tapering off a little for now too.

Height: 32.25 in (99th percentile)
Weight: 24lb 10 oz (90th percentile)

Her 12 month growth photo and some of her 1 year Pro Pics: (The rest are on the Shutterfly Album).


I've also posted photos from Thanksgiving, Christmas, and December (just random ones).

Maddyn's 2nd Christmas

I'm really behind on updates and photos- but I'm trying to get them all done while I'm still on vacation. So, hopefully in the next day or two.

First up, is Christmas! I uploaded all kinds of photos to the Shutterfly album (link to the right), but just picked a few good ones for below. Maddyn loved it all! She had been very sick, and was diagnosed with RSV right before Christmas. So we ended up having to keep her in and celebrate at home. All the Grandmas and Grandpas came to visit her, since she wasn't able to go to the family celebrations.

She loved it. Maddy was obviously a good girl this year, because she got many great gifts. It's funny, b/c with her birthday and Christmas so close, we went from hardly any toys to lots of toys. So we are not opening everything right away - we are planning on staggering the opening of them and do a few every couple of months.

Hopefully everyone had a great Christmas. I know it went by so fast. I'm going to be working on her Birthday Party pictures here tomorrow, and will post those soon!

We also have Maddyn's 1 year doctor's appointment, so I'll post those stats as well.

Happy New Year!!!

Maddyn is one!!!!!

I can' t believe it's been a year. Wow. Time really does fly. Our little girl is one today!

I have tons of photos to upload from last weekend's party. I was traveling this week so I haven't had a chance to upload them all yet. I will try to tomorrow, and post this weekend at the latest.

For those that couldn't make it- it was a great time. We celebrated in a winter 'one' derland and Maddyn was smiling ear to ear most of the day! Speical kudos go to Dave and Jared for getting the basement done on time- we had over 60 people at the party and having the basement done was a HUGE help!

I wish I could say we had some big exciting plans for Maddyn's birthday today, but unforunately she's very sick. She got RSV and we've been to the doctors' and just trying to keep her calm and comfortable. Poor thing has a fever of around 105.

I promise photos will be coming soon! I think I have video too!!!
Happy Birthday Maddyn. We love you so very much!!!
-mommy and daddy

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: