Happy new year!

Wow, December flew by and was a very busy month! To start off the month, Maddie got a stomach virus and could drink nothing but pedialyte for a 24 hour period. Off course, she shared the virus with me & Dan! Then, on December 10th we got to meet Maddie's new cousin Emma! Congrats David & Toni! Emma is absolutely adorable and so tiny! It is amazing that already I had forgotten Maddie ever being that small and Maddie was actually almost a pound smaller than Emma. Needless to say, we are very excited for David & Toni. I was wondering how Maddie would react seeing me holding another baby, but it turns out that she is too young to care yet! :-)

This month we also celebrated Maddie's first Christmas!!! She had a lot of fun playing with the boxes and the wrapping paper on Christmas Eve & day & has been playing with all of her new toys since then. On Christmas Eve we went to David & Toni's & on Christmas day we had Nana & Grandpa Bob & Grandma & Grandpa Fogle stopped by while Dan grilled on his new grill. It was awesome to celebrate our first Christmas as a family and watching Maddie & Caitlin play while holding Emma was an awesome feeling.

Today is New Years Eve....it is amazing how much our lives have changed this past year, mostly because of Madelyn. She has brought me so much joy and it seems like she has been part of our lives forever. I cannot remember what we used to do before she was here, and I cannot imagine my life without her. She is perfect and everything I ever dreamed of! She is growing too fast though & I cannot believe that we will be celebrating her first birthday in 1 week! I wish I could slow down time.... Tonight we are going to stay home and enjoy being a family while we ring in the new year! Hopefully 2011 will be as good for us as 2010 was! Hope everyone has a happy & healthy 2011

First Thanksgiving

Last week was Maddie's first Thanksgiving!! Austin came in on Monday & stayed until Friday & we had a nice visit with him. It was fun to watch Maddie attack him and try to pull out his hair. On Thanksgiving day we went to Grandma & Grandpa Fogle's for dinner, and then we celebrated with Nana & Grandpa Whitlock, David, Toni & Caitlin on Sunday. We had lots of good food at both meals, if only Maddie would eat it! She still does not do well with food...anything with texture and she throws up. On Thanksgiving day Dan gave Maddie a couple of bites of mashed potatoes...she ate a couple of bites with a lot of coaxing & then threw up all over after her third bite....I am starting to wonder how she is going to eat birthday cake at her 1st Birthday party in about a month if we can't get her to start eating!!

Maddie is also getting into everything now & can unrolling the entire roll of toilet paper in about 30 seconds. She also loves to come up to the little side table and shake it & then cries when she gets told "no!!". She is a very happy baby & loves to be tickled. I have been off with her this week and we have gone shopping & had fun together. I am very excited about the upcoming arrival of Maddie's new cousin Emma and Maddie's first Christmas! We will probably take Madelyn to have her picture taken with Santa this weekend. :-)

Madelyn has completed her transition to the "older infant" room and will be in that room from now on. It is kind of bittersweet, I know it is good for her, but I am sad that she is growing so fast.

What is new: shoes - still trying to get used to wearing them
favorite things: playing peek a boo, taking off her shoes, practicing "walking" holding on to things.