1 year!!

Well it has been a fast and crazy past couple months and I can't believe I have a little toddler now! That is right, Madison turned 1 last month! I feel like I have SOO much to blog about, so expect a lot of catch ups in the next few weeks!

The main thing that has kept us busy the last few months has been MOVING!! After many long months of looking for houses and waiting on short sales, we finally heard back on a house we really liked and we closed on it the end of April. We were busy the next month and a half painting and doing some projects in the house so that we wouldn't have to do much when we moved in. Like most of you, packing and moving and unpacking is not my favorite thing to do... haha but it has consumed most of my time over the last few months (thus the no blogging or looking at anyone else's blogs!) But we have finally settled down a bit and hopefully I will have some more time to post because I have lots to post about and hope you don't get sick of me!

So I will shortly be posting some vacation pics, house pics and some new pics of Maddie, since she has changed quite a bit from my last post...

A little update on my girlie... Like I said she is now 13 months old. At her year appt she weighed 19.29 lbs (20%), was 30.31 inches long (80%) with a head circumference of 17.9 inches (62%). Madison is finally walking like a champ! She started taking steps on her own around 11 months and now finds great satisfaction in being able to walk around everywhere without help. Madison continues to amaze me by how quickly she learns. She started signing at 5 1/2 months and said her 1st word at 7 1/2 months... and I just counted them up today, but now at 13 months she knows

53 signs and 107 words!!!!!

No joke! She has such an eagerness to communicate and learn! She watches and listens carefully so now we have to be careful what we say and teach her because she picks things up so fast (for instance, the word NO!... haha... wish she hadn't learned that word yet but oh well, guess it woulda happened sooner or later... :) haha But really, every stage gets more and more fun and i absolutely love being a mom!! :)

Here are a few recent random pictures of my little (or, not so little anymore) :( girl...

I LOVE this picture of Maddie and Daddy!! Look at that adorable profile! :)



The little climber...

Her new thing is coloring! She'll see markers or crayons and yell "La-lure, la-lure!!" (color) If there's a pen or pencil laying around, she'll grab it and pretend to draw. She loves it :)