Fun Friday!

We had a fun day today! This morning, our friends Emily and baby Hannah came over for a visit. This was the first time that the girls have met and Madison LOVED Hannah...it's pretty easy to love that cute, beautiful little baby though! Madison kept wanting to kiss Hannah and give her all of her toys, and she didn't quite understand why Hannah did not want them :) Someday the girls will both be old enough to play together!

"Come here Hannah...I want a kiss!"

Happy girls!

I LOVE this picture of Emily and Hannah!

"Here's another kiss for your cheek!"

Poor Hannah had had enough kisses!

Later this morning, we went outside to play. Madison is really into throwing the ball for Ellie and Ellie is very usually very patient with Madison. After 13 months of not liking Madison so much, Ellie is finally warming up to her since she drops food for her and throws her ball :)

Waiting for the right moment to throw the ball...

"Ready Ellie??"

We also had a fun evening, because Madison's chair came (the one that Grandma and Grandpa sent her). It's SO cute and Madison loves it! I took a bunch of pictures of Madison opening the box and playing on the chair, but I will post those tomorrow!!

Valentine's Day 3 and A Messy Night

So unless I put her in another cute Valentine's themed outfit tomorrow this will be the last Valentine's post...you tired of them yet? :) So today, Madison was dressed in a pink tutu dress and of course heart shoes!

She's just getting so big to me...I can't believe how old she has been looking in her pictures lately!

Cutie pie!

Heart shoes from Nana :) Like I mentioned in the last post, she has loaded her up with heart stuff from the beginning!

Her new trick! Silly girl! She likes when we go on the other side and say "peek-a-boo"!

So tonight, like most nights, was a very messy dinner! Madison has never been bothered by getting really messy or having food in her hair, on her face, or all over her hands. For some reason though, she was ESPECIALLY messy tonight and I swear that I was cleaning her up forever, not to mention the amount of time it took me to clean up her high chair and her surrounding area. She is also getting much better at using her fork and spoon, but since she is still learning it is still a messy process. So, my question to all you parents is...is this just a messy learning phase that we have to get through or are there ways that I can help Madison to be a little less messy during meals? Are we letting her get too messy? or is this a typical 13 month old messiness?? I realize that not all babies are so skilled and clean, but almost every night, her clothes have to come off after dinner and the clean up is insane! Anyone have any advice??

Notice the food she out in her hair and on her cheek?

See what I mean?! She's adorable, but oh so messy! And I'm not a total clean freak, I just want to know if this is a phase or if I could be helping her be neater?

Getting even messier!

And now she has dumped the applesauce container onto her highchair (I removed the tray because it was so messy), but this is where I drew the line and removed the food.

Well, at least she had fun (and don't get me wrong, I like that she has fun with food, but every night is a bit much) and she looked cute, but just oh so so messy!

Valentine's Day 2

In honor of Valentine's Day, Madison is dressing in pink/red/heart outfits all week :) (Nana stocked her in heart attire since Nana is the queen of hearts!) This little girl has so many pink clothes that we have no problem covering this task! It is also Valentine's Day all week at Miss Kiki's, so Madison is dressing with the theme!

Looking at daddy!

Hi sweetie!! Coming out of her room in her heart dress, pink pants (they look red in the photo) and heart shoes :) She also had pink/red heart socks on, but obviously you cant see them in the picture.

Such a serious face for such a cute girl and outfit!!

Is it just me, or does Madison look much older in this picture?!? I can't get over the fact that she looks like such a little girl in this photo...not a baby anymore :(

Valentine's Day!

We had a great Valentine's Day today! Madison was such a lucky girl and got so many fun gifts! The boxes started arriving a few days ago, so she has had quite the holiday :) We went all out with the heart theme and it was so fun. We are so blessed and fortunate to have our family, and I love what we have!

Opening the giggling baby from Nana B

Such a cute face :)

One of the gifts that Nana and Papa sent Madison was this My Little Pony bath doll and yellow duck

Fun gifts!

Reading her card while holding her new toys

She's really looking hard at this card!

She always has liked reading :)

Grandpa and Grandma Fargo sent Madison "I love you" teddy bear and a beautiful Holland Boone silver heart frame with their picture in it...when Madison saw their picture, she leaned over and gave it a kiss...awww!

Now the bear is giving Grandma and Grandpa a kiss :)

Loving on her bear

Last night I baked pumpkin bread loafs in silver heart tins for Madison's friends at Kiki's. They turned out really yummy and all the kids seemed to really like them.

Uncle Bryan sent Madison an Elmo Valentine's Day book and decorated Valentine's cookies. He even put candy hearts in the box...it was so cute! Madison loves books more than toys, so this was perfect! She kept handing it to us to read!

I love you Moo Bear!!

Mommy and Madison dressed in red :)

Still reading her Elmo book from Uncle Bryan

For breakfast we gave Madison one of the pumpkin hearts that I made for her valentines...she loved it SO much and ate almost the whole thing

Her heart socks :)

And heart shoes of course!

Our sweetie!!

This picture is so dark :( We were all dressed in red for V-day.

"Here daddy you have a bite...its so good!"

"Daddy really!!! PLEASE try it!"

"Ok, I'll eat it all myself" :)

This afternoon, I had the fridge open and I didn't realize that Madison opened the cheese drawer and got out the cream cheese. I have no idea how she did it, but she managed to get the package out of the box and when she was a little too quite for a little too long, I walked into the kitchen and she was eating the cream cheese plain!!!

She loves cream cheese, but I didn't think she would eat it plain in chunks with her fingers!

Opening her present from mommy and daddy...she's really reaching in that bag to get the goods out

Yeah! Rings!! She also got a cute outfit, but she liked the rings more and skipped pulling the clothes out of the bag :)

Chocolate covered strawberries for dessert...yum!

The beautiful flowers that my hubby surprised me with at work

For dinner we had a heart shaped pizza...it was very tasty and no mess :)

A box from Papa! It's a...

Madison got so dirty at dinner that I took off her clothes, but she wanted to play before her bath, so she played in just a diaper...it was kind of cute :)

Papa sent Madison a bear that you can record into and it talks back to you...she loved it!

Reading again...this was the card that Papa sent her...the inside pops out and she loved playing with it :)

And now that this post is done, I can go back to drinking my wine, sitting in front of the fire, and cuddling with my hubby while watching The Bachelor! What a great night!