04.25.10 - Maddie's Easter dress

Maddie is fascinated with buttons lately especially those on her Easter outfit.

04.24.10 - Another trip to the zoo

Today's trip to the zoo found us in Africa. We're pretty sure this Gorilla was just sleeping!


Hey, Mr. Gorilla! Wake up!


Lions, oh my!


Do you see any resemblance to anyone you know?


At one point, someone commented that this was the cutest hat they'd seen. Hey! What about the little girl wearing it?!!


Maddie did well riding in her umbrella stroller for most of the outing. But near the end she got fidgety so we let her walk to the exit.

04.19.10 - Head of the table

Thanks to her new booster seat, Maddie joined us for dinner tonight at the adult table and she loved it! (So did Harley!)

04.13.10 - M-a-d-d-i-e

Maddie's penmanship is coming along quite nicely. ;) She even remembered to dot her "I."

Thanks to our neighbors, Tori and Andrew, for letting us use their driveway as a canvas.

04.11.10 - Buffalo Park

We took Maddie to Buffalo Park today. It was her first time to visit a park. She led the way just like she new what she was doing!


Angie shares a moment with Maddie while pushing her on the swings!


Daddy's turn!


An afternoon at the park can make you really thirsty!

04.10.10 - Little Lady

Every once in awhile, Maddie does something that makes me pause, realizing that she is growing up. Today was no exception. While drinking her afternoon milk, she crossed her legs like a little lady. Now, how cute is that?!!

03.31.10 - What a great day!

And busy, too! Angie and the kids went over to Nan and Pop's before picking me up at work to go to Maddie's 15-month and Nate's two-month checkup. Maddie was all smiles in the waiting room but was anything but when it was time for Dr. Green to examine her! She's doing well, though, measuring about 31 inches tall and 20 pounds, or the 85th percentile and tenth percentile, respectively. She's gonna be a tall skinny minnie, as we like to say. Nate, on the other hand, is a chunk! He weighs 12 pounds, 12 ounces and has grown to about 23.5 inches. Both are at the upper ends of the percentiles for those measurements.


After we left Dr. Green's office, we headed back to Nan and Pop's house as they'd invited us for dinner. Maddie enjoyed a story with Pop, her great-grandpa, before we ate. It's only been in the last month or so that Maddie wanted anything to do with him. Now she'll read stories and share snacks with him.


Because the weather was so nice and because we always eat too much at Nan's house, after dinner we took another walk around the lake. I think Maddie enjoys it more than Nan but I'm not quite sure on that!


I just love this silhouette of Nan pulling Maddie. This probably would have been an acceptable stand-alone weather feature back in my newspaper days but photographs like this mean more to me now that I'm able to include in them the people I love. Click here to see the entire entourage over on Nate's blog.

03.22.10 - Good example

I hope this is the first of many good examples Maddie will set for her brother, Nate. She sat there and ate all her food just as if she were at home.

It was only a year ago that she was asleep in that car seat. Amazing how time flies!

03.21.10 - Snack time

Maddie likes to sit with her feet crossed. She also like to eat Cheerios. She also like to share Cheerios with Harley. About 20 seconds after I snapped this adorable portrait of Maddie, there were about 20 Cheerios on the floor with Harley doing her best vacuum impression.

03.18.10 - Alfalfa

Angie gave Maddie a bath tonight. She has a little more fun with it than I do, apparently.