Long Weekend

We met Nana, Grandad, KK and Ben in Louisville to eat at the Cheesecake Factory and go shopping on Saturday night. Madeline looked adorable in her pink and brown! Her favorite thing was throwing change into the fountains in the mall. After she went through all 3 of our billfolds and ran out of change, she decided to take off her shoes and try to get in the water! We had so much fun!

Bath Time

When you don't have a full bath on the main floor of the house, and Mommy's knee still can't go up stairs or bend to bathe the baby, here's what you do! It takes a lot of Ajax and bleach and tons of rinsing to get the sink clean enough, but Madeline actually enjoyed her sink baths this week! Daddy finally got a break from bath duty a couple of times! He's been doing a great job while Mom has to recover. And our girl is definitely a water baby!

Our New Year's Eve

We celebrated the new year at home due to Mommy's knee surgery. It was pretty uneventful. We got Madeline some party hats and horns. She also toasted to 2009 with sparkling apple cider in her sippy cup! She was very cute saying "Cheers!"
The party horns were a little loud for her, but she liked the hats!

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Her 2nd Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas with Madeline. She has changed so much in a year! Last Christmas, she was crawling backward and mostly liked the boxes her gifts came in. This year, she was walking, or course TALKING, and was doing tons of imaginative play with all of her gifts. She was so much fun to watch! On Christmas Eve, Pa spent the night. We had dinner and opened gag gifts. Then on Christmas day, Santa came, we went to Danville to open gifts with Uncle Rich, then headed to Nana and Grandad's for more gifts. Madeline's fifth round of presents came the night after Christmas with Grandad's side of the family. They hadn't seen her since she was 6 weeks old! They were so surprised at all she can do now! We are thankful for a great Christmas 2008!

Snow and Cookies

Since we had a snow day today, it was a great day to bake cookies! We started a Christmas tradition for Madeline. We made Christmas cookies using Grandmother's cookie cutters. It was Maddie's first cookie making! She loved the sprinkles. After the cookies were finished, she said, "Mama, can I have star please?" She was asking for a star-shaped cookie! Guess those are her favorite! We had a great day together.

Her Own Tree

Daddy bought Madeline a pink Christmas tree for her room, so Friday after school, we got her some snowman ornaments. (She calls them 'do-mans!') We decorated her tree on Friday night, and had our Christmas with Pa, Aunt Jane and Dale on Saturday night. Madeline opened her first Christmas presents of the year-- and much to her surprise, Aunt Jane got her the Hallmark singing snowmen she had been wanting so badly! She saw them the day after Thanksgiving, but Mommy wouldn't buy them! Thank goodness for Aunt Jane! Madeline of course enjoyed being the center of attention on Saturday night. She also had a big time playing in one of the gift boxes!

Santa Train

We took Madeline to Bardstown on Saturday to ride the Santa Train with Reese and Noah. It was like the Polar Express- the kids wore pj's,got hot chocolate and cookies, and saw Santa. We had a great time!