A Run Down on the Past Few Months....

I have been a slacker in the blogging department, but life gets busy. So to back up to Thanksgiving. We went to Terryl's parents this year and was able to spend so time with his family. Many hadn't seen Maddi in a very long time, so she had grown up quite a bit since the last time we were there. When we left they gave us our Christmas gifts so that we could just take them home. One of which was this amazing wood bowl that Terryl's dad made. I believe it made it out of a tree stump. But really it is a beautiful bowl! He does an amazing job with wood, it's incredible! Terryl was making fun of me on the way home because I wanted to hold the bowl. I really was excited, and I still plan on putting a picture of it on the blog, so all can love my bowl as much as I do! Seriously, I would take all the bowls he makes; don't know what I would do with them all, but they are just so amazing! It has found it's home on our coffee (hot chocolate) table with some pretty purples balls. ( That sounds lame I know, but it looks pretty)

Ok moving on from the bowl, we were getting ready for Miss Maddi's 1st birthday! Unbelievable how fast it has gone by! I had fun getting her gifts for birthday and Christmas. We just had a few family members over and had cake and ice cream. She wasn't a fan of cake or ice cream! The faces that she gave us were great! She loved her gifts, and like everyone should do, they went straight into the mouth to see if they would be a satisfactory toy. They have all passed her inspection! She wore her birthday clothes I bought, it says "joy" you know her middle name...I thought it was cute.

First taste of ice cream...

As you can see, she loved it!!!

Then just a few days after that was Christmas. Doing birthday and Christmas right in a row like that, I can see getting exhausting! But Christmas was great, Maddi opened a few of her gifts then crawled over to play with some of her old blocks, we had to redirect her so she could finish opening gifts. It was wonderful to be home and just have our little family together. I don't like traveling somewhere on Christmas, I love being home on that day.

Since then Maddi has been a developmental sponge! It seems everyday she has discovered something new that she can do. She loves to pull herself up on her knees and peek into her toy box or anything else she can find. She loves to stand, but only if you help her get up first. So we have made great progress and soon we will be having a cute little person waddling around our house! Can't wait! She is also picking up signing more. She can do milk and loves to do "more" though she doesn't know what "more" means, she does know the sign and loves to do it! It's really cute!

That was a really quick overview of the past several months. I am sure more details will pop in and I will post them when they come. I hope you all had a great holiday season, and we look forward to a great year!!