10 Months

Maddie is 10 months old today! She weighs about 24lbs and wears size 18mo. She has just started crawling in the last few days. She is reaching, pulling up and standing holding on to things. She can say Mama and ba-ba. She loves to talk, swing and read books. She also LOVES Sesame Street. She sleeps about 11 hrs at night and takes two 1.5 hour naps (usually). What else is there? She's the best!!

I don't have a picture because once again, we are on the move; I just wanted to record the facts for history's sake. This week we traveled from TN to TX (for a brief stop), and we're on to Montana at the end of the week! She's possibly the most well traveled baby in history.

Memorial Weekend

We spent Memorial Weekend in Texas....of course! We had a blast as always, and even got to witness a few bath-tisms as the kids would say. Most importantly however, would be meeting out newest addition to the family, Garrison! So happy to meet you sweet boy; welcome to the chaos and FUN! Here are a few photos from our trip.

With Daddy surveying the fishing hole.

Being a Ham with Kristi

Cade driving the boat on Canyon Lake

Maddie's first pool experience. All the kiddos were so sweet to her!

Taking a dip in the Holy Water!

Our latest tricks

Just the other day, I started singing "Patty Cake" to entertain Miss Thing and she started clapping out of the blue.. it was so cute! Now she claps at everything!




One of her favorites...Peek aboo!

Say "Cheese!!"

My camera has a red eye reduction light that comes on before you take a picture and Maddie has started to scrunch up her face every time I point the camera at her. It's hilarious!

Goings On....

I feel like at least a month has gone by since my last post; I was shocked to see it's only been 2 weeks. Let's see. Maddie and I flew to Texas last weekend to go to Lauren and Tre's reception. John had to stay behind at the last minute because we got claims in the area. I had a great time seeing the family, getting to spend a girly day with Lauren, and of course the reception was super fun! I have no pictures to prove any of that because I forgot to take my camera. Oops. Maddie spent her first night away from me, Momo and Mop came to Houston and kept her all night. She was perfect, at least that's what they tell me!

Then Sunday, instead of flying home as planned, I get a call from John saying Nashville is flooding and we have water coming in our house. Not good, not good at all. Maddie and I end up in San Antonio with Momo and Mop and her first sleep over turns into 3 nights as I made the very hard decision to leave her in TX while I made my way back to Nashville to help John with the clean up and claims. Luckily, we only lost some carpet, and (after a meltdown on my part) got Maddie back with us on Wedneday. As for Maddie, I think she'd have probably have stayed with Momo and Mop forever. It's not that I wanted her to be sad without me, but still...aren't I a little special???

Maddie with big cousin Clay. They were so cute together!

Flooded car in the parking lot of Target.

Scrappy was like, "Hey, what are you doing?"

Maddie this morning, playing in our new toy tubs.

Home Sweet Home

We have been home for about a week and we are sooo happy to be here. Comfy beds, seperate rooms, the relief can not be overstated. Since we've been home, we've tried to make it a rule to spend as much time as we can outside. We've also been shocked by how many of the toys that were too old for Maddie when we left, she can now play with. It's crazy.

Here are a couple of videos from the last few days. Maddie had been cracking up over Rowdy and the bubbles, but naturally, when I got the camara, she stopped.

The Cherry Blossoms

We went to see the Cherry Blossoms in Washington DC yesterday with Momo. They were beautiful! Well worth the trip. Apparently everyone else thought the same thing as we heard on the news today that there were record-breaking crowds yesterday. We got see more of the monuments this time and enjoy some really beautiful weather. We thought we got some great family photos and some super cute photos of Maddie by the most beautiful flowers, but when we got home we discovered about 90% of them were over-exposed. UGH! So frustrating! Yes, Jill, you were right.... hahaha. Here are a few that did turn out!