Maddie’s started to sing her ABCs! This is the extended dance mix…she gets confused sometimes where she is in the song.

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Today was Super Sunday in Media, which basically means they shut down State Street and all the shops and restaurants set up in the street and you can walk around. All in all, a great time. It was supposed to rain today but it held out so that was really nice. Of course there was some live music and Madeline LOVED that. Here’s some video of her dancing around (the music in the video is NOT live, obviously).

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The car was in for inspection today, so I was home with the Madster on an absolutely beautiful spring day.

We spent a couple hours in the morning at some of the neighborhood parks & playgrounds. Madeline had a blast climbing up the steps to the slide. She has more fun climbing UP TO the slide than going down the slide itself.

At the other park, we met Jake the Dog who was playing fetch with his owner. Madeline loves animals so she enjoyed watching the dog run all over the baseball field and chasing after him. She got a little too intimate with the dirt though, so running the bases was a short-lived affair. I put her in the wagon and we headed home for bathtime.

This afternoon, we just hung out in the backyard. We’re all happy that spring is finally here, now Madeline has more room to roam and explore and discover!

It should be an interesting summer!

Happy Easter everyone!

The last couple weeks, Madeline’s been teething and had a cold so things have been trying, to say the least. But these last few days she’s been our good old happy Maddie. A true joy!

Today was no different. We started with a video iChat with Grandmom, Popper and Great-Grandmom. Then we hosted Easter dinner for Jenn’s family. Madeline had a great time playing with Pop-Pop and enjoyed spending time with everyone.

We had a little Easter egg hunt for her, as you’ll see in the pictures. I under-estimated her hunting skills; she was quite adept!

Enjoy the pictures!

How long have I lived in the Philadelphia area and I’ve never heard of this place??

Anyway, Jennie and Madeline are going there with some friends on Saturday. It looks like it will be an awesome time!

Yay, Philly!

Well, Madeline did really well at her 15 month check up. She is now 25 lbs, 10 oz. and she is 32 inches long. Both are 90 percentile.

She is way ahead of kids her age with her verbal ability (she says about 25 words easy, and 5 words is average for her age), she’s also ahead as far as feeding herself with a fork and spoon. Most kids don’t even start having an interest in using utensils until about 18 months of age, but not our Madeline, she’s been doing the fork and spoon thing for a couple of months now.

Also, the Doctor said that she also exceeds the beauty scale by almost a hundred percent. Okay, just kidding on that last one, but Daddy and I seem to think this is case =) We just can’t ever seem to get enough of our little love bug. We’re continually amazed day by day at all the things she says and does. She sure has come a long, long way!

Madeline wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year by providing this little video snippet! Madeline loves to dance, especially to the new CD she got for Christmas. It’s from Dan Zanes and Friends and Mommy and Daddy like it too. The song featured in this video is “Go Down Emmanuel Road.” You can buy it on iTunes if you’d like. Enjoy, and we’ll see you next year for more fun and excitement!!!

Oh boy, WHAT a Christmas Day. Madeline may not “get” it yet, but she was a real Energizer bunny today. We woke up this morning and went downstairs to open presents. Madeline is a little afraid of the TMX Elmo but enjoyed the blocks and the jack-in-the-box.

Then we went to church and Madeline made friends in the crying/baby room.

On our way home, Madeline fell asleep so we put her down for her nap around noon. After that we went to Jenn’s Uncle Flavio and Aunt Terry’s house where Madeline proceeded to run around in a circle for about 2 hours straight, dragging Daddy with her almost every step of the way. They have a dog named Kennedy who is so sweet and Madeline just loved her so much! It was great to see everyone and Madeline really had a ton of fun.

After that, it was off to Nonni and Pop-Pop’s house for MORE GIFTS AND FUN! There was a lot of great stuff there but the big hit was her rocking horse. Once we put her on that, we couldn’t get her off. And we were all surprised that she knew what to do. We’ll name the horse “Seabiscuit”, because of the (admittedly weak) connection Madeline has to the ‘Biscuit (and Daddy loved that book).

Anyway, Madeline showed no signs of letting up once we got home, and we FINALLY put her to bed a 9pm!

We’re both pretty sure this was the greatest day of her life, and it was such a blessing to be able to enjoy it with her.

Merry Christmas!!!

Madeline is fast asleep upstairs with visions of sugar plums (or sugar Elmos) dancing in her head.

Tonight, we went over to Uncle Bob and Aunt Leigh’s for dinner and to exchange gifts. It was great to see them and Harrison, as well as Grandmom and Popper of course. It’s so neat to see Madeline and Harrison together. They had lots of fun playing with Grandmom and Popper. Madeline was really cracking up!

It’s really amazing how fast these kids grow up, and it was awesome to watch Harrison open his presents because he “gets” Christmas now. Madeline is still a year or so away from that, although she did really enjoy her new piano(s) and the Dora car she got.

All the excitement wore her out pretty quickly, and she needed to rest up for more Christmas fun tomorrow, so we called it an early night and headed home to wait for Santa.

Enjoy the pictures and have a Merry Christmas!

This Saturday we went to visit Aunt Bridget and Uncle Chris. Uncle Chris is very talented with the camera and asked if Madeline would model for him so he could take some photos for his up-and-coming side business (which will be a big success, we’re sure), and of course we were more than happy to oblige! Click here to view all of the pictures.

Thanks for having us Aunt Bridget and Uncle Chris. We had such a wonderful time that day. We love you (and Madeline really, really, loves your dogs).