Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Congratulations!
A big congratulations goes out to our friends, Gabe and Stephanie, on the birth of their baby boy. Alexander was born today in Arizona. I'm sure Stephanie will update her blog when she gets a chance. You can find their blog here.
Monday, October 27, 2008
Not Much to Report...
We had a very basic week in our household. Work and chores consumed most of our time. We did have a good weekend, though. We went down to Monroe on Friday after I was done with work. It was a low key weekend of visiting family. On Sunday we had a birthday lunch for Grandma Lucy. Her actual birthday is today.
The highlight of our weekend was that our good friends, Barby and Ryan, welcomed their little boy early on Saturday morning. We went up to the hospital on Sunday evening to congratulate Barby and Ryan and to meet Baby Caden. Congratulations!!
Caden:
Maddie and her new best friend!
Pictures from our week:
Maddie playing the piano:
Riding her new pony:
Watching football:
Drinking some juice:
Thanks for stopping by! Have a good week!
The highlight of our weekend was that our good friends, Barby and Ryan, welcomed their little boy early on Saturday morning. We went up to the hospital on Sunday evening to congratulate Barby and Ryan and to meet Baby Caden. Congratulations!!
Caden:
Maddie and her new best friend!
Pictures from our week:
Maddie playing the piano:
Riding her new pony:
Watching football:
Drinking some juice:
Thanks for stopping by! Have a good week!
Monday, October 20, 2008
Fun With Food!
Wow... looking through my pictures we had something happen everyday last week. That's pretty amazing as it seems the weeks that I work weekends tend to be pretty boring. I'm glad that we were busy last week.
Monday Maddie and I headed down to Fond Du Lac in order to return our cable box. Yes, you did read that right. I cancelled the cable. I thought it would be a good way for us to save money, as well as create more family time together. Since we were headed to Fondy I gave my friend, Erin, a call and we set up a little play date. (Hi Erin!) So, after we dropped off the cable box Mads and I headed over to Erin's house to see her and her boys. Mads had a blast playing with Paul and Duke. I think we were there for about two hours and Mads was out like a light once we got back to the car. Here are some pictures of the kiddos playing:
Monday night was an exciting night as Maddie decided to try out a spoon. I put a plate with mashed potatoes down for her and thought I would give the spoon a try. I didn't think much would happen, but Mads grabbed the spoon right away and took a couple bites:
Then she decided to forgo the spoon and use her hands, which then created the need for an emergency bath!
Tuesday we went to Ripon to have lunch with Daddy. We went right next door to Culver's where Maddie enjoyed her first "Scoopie Meal." She had grilled cheese, french fries and a few bites of vanilla custard. Yummy!
Wednesday Mads went to the sitter's while I did some things around the house. When Mads got home she showed me what she did at Jeanette's... her first art project!! Here she is showing them off in her "gallery." The ghosts are made from her feet prints and the bat's wings are her hand prints.
Thursday I worked, so nothing too exciting happened.
Friday was a fun day. First Maddie had her Nine-Month check up with the Nurse Practitioner. Here are her stats:
Weight: 17 pounds, 12 ounces (30th percentile)
Length: 27 1/2 inches (50th percentile)
Mads was excited because there are no shots associated with the nine month check, BUT she happened to have some bad luck because of the time of year. She had to get a flu shot. :(
After the appointment we headed back down to Fond Du Lac to go to The Little Farmer. We were hoping to finally get our pumpkins since our day in Door County ended up being pumpkin-free. While we were able to find a pumpkin, we weren't able to pick apples because it started raining. We did get some pictures by the big apple before the rain came down but then it started raining during our pumpkin pictures.
Saturday I was at work and it was a Daddy & Maddie day. Grandma Mary came down to visit. She, Andrew and Mads went out for lunch at Red Robin. For supper that night Mads gave ravioli a try. She found that it made good hair gel, prompting another emergency bath...
On Sunday, while I was at work, Andrew and Maddie drove to Port Washington to meet Gramma Jackie, Grandpa Thom, Grandma Honey, Aunt Kimmy and Jake for a fun afternoon. They walked along the lake and also had some fun swinging at a park. Maddie also enjoyed the brunch buffet where she found that she likes scrambled eggs!
So, that's the recap of our week. Here are a couple more random pictures.
Playing with Lily:
Maddie started making this really funny face this week. Along with the face goes a sniffing sound. These pictures don't really due it justice. Her "sniffy face" cracks me up!
A peacock that we almost ran into at The Little Farmer:
Hope you have a good week! Thanks for stopping by!
Monday Maddie and I headed down to Fond Du Lac in order to return our cable box. Yes, you did read that right. I cancelled the cable. I thought it would be a good way for us to save money, as well as create more family time together. Since we were headed to Fondy I gave my friend, Erin, a call and we set up a little play date. (Hi Erin!) So, after we dropped off the cable box Mads and I headed over to Erin's house to see her and her boys. Mads had a blast playing with Paul and Duke. I think we were there for about two hours and Mads was out like a light once we got back to the car. Here are some pictures of the kiddos playing:
Monday night was an exciting night as Maddie decided to try out a spoon. I put a plate with mashed potatoes down for her and thought I would give the spoon a try. I didn't think much would happen, but Mads grabbed the spoon right away and took a couple bites:
Then she decided to forgo the spoon and use her hands, which then created the need for an emergency bath!
Tuesday we went to Ripon to have lunch with Daddy. We went right next door to Culver's where Maddie enjoyed her first "Scoopie Meal." She had grilled cheese, french fries and a few bites of vanilla custard. Yummy!
Wednesday Mads went to the sitter's while I did some things around the house. When Mads got home she showed me what she did at Jeanette's... her first art project!! Here she is showing them off in her "gallery." The ghosts are made from her feet prints and the bat's wings are her hand prints.
Thursday I worked, so nothing too exciting happened.
Friday was a fun day. First Maddie had her Nine-Month check up with the Nurse Practitioner. Here are her stats:
Weight: 17 pounds, 12 ounces (30th percentile)
Length: 27 1/2 inches (50th percentile)
Mads was excited because there are no shots associated with the nine month check, BUT she happened to have some bad luck because of the time of year. She had to get a flu shot. :(
After the appointment we headed back down to Fond Du Lac to go to The Little Farmer. We were hoping to finally get our pumpkins since our day in Door County ended up being pumpkin-free. While we were able to find a pumpkin, we weren't able to pick apples because it started raining. We did get some pictures by the big apple before the rain came down but then it started raining during our pumpkin pictures.
Saturday I was at work and it was a Daddy & Maddie day. Grandma Mary came down to visit. She, Andrew and Mads went out for lunch at Red Robin. For supper that night Mads gave ravioli a try. She found that it made good hair gel, prompting another emergency bath...
On Sunday, while I was at work, Andrew and Maddie drove to Port Washington to meet Gramma Jackie, Grandpa Thom, Grandma Honey, Aunt Kimmy and Jake for a fun afternoon. They walked along the lake and also had some fun swinging at a park. Maddie also enjoyed the brunch buffet where she found that she likes scrambled eggs!
So, that's the recap of our week. Here are a couple more random pictures.
Playing with Lily:
Maddie started making this really funny face this week. Along with the face goes a sniffing sound. These pictures don't really due it justice. Her "sniffy face" cracks me up!
A peacock that we almost ran into at The Little Farmer:
Hope you have a good week! Thanks for stopping by!
Monday, October 13, 2008
Dirty Hands...
Since my last post was on Wednesday I only have a few days of news to cover, but I sure do have a lot of pictures!
Wednesday night we went up to our friends' house in Appleton to have dinner with their family. We had a really fun time. I hadn't seen them since they had their son, Ezra, right before I left Children's. They also have 2 1/2 year old twin girls, Olivia and Isabel. Maddie had a fun time playing with the girls, while Ezra observed from his jumper.
On Thursday Mads and I drove down to Madison to meet Gramma J, Aunt Kimmy, and Grandma Honey for lunch. We had a nice lunch at the Olive Garden and it was nice to spend some time visiting.
Friday I worked, so Maddie and Daddy had the afternoon to themselves and once I came home we just bummed around.
Saturday was a very fun day. We left the house around 9:30 and headed up to Door County. I read about the Pumpkin Festival in Egg Harbor and thought that would be fun. I figured we would be able to find lots of pumpkins for sale there and we could pick out Maddie's first pumpkin, but I was wrong. The festival wasn't too exciting. You could find brats, corn on the cob, popcorn, crafts, and such, but you couldn't find any pumpkins. So, we only stayed at the festival for an hour or so.
We then drove up the road to Fish Creek and hit a couple of shops there. Andrew was looking for the Oilery, but didn't find it. We did find some yummy fudge instead.
On our way back home we didn't take the highway we came up on, we took the scenic route instead. We came across a county park on Lake Michigan so we stopped there.
Maddie had her first experience with sand at the county park. She wasn't quite sure what to think. We got the whole experience on camera... these pictures are so adorable!
Then I snuck in for a picture with her... you can see she's still worried about her dirty hands, but we did manage to get a good picture!
Sunday was Maddie's nine month birthday. I know I say it every month, but I can't believe how big she's gotten!
We took her to Sears for her nine month pictures yesterday. I wasn't real happy with the service and we had some issues when we went for her six month pictures as well. We got a couple good ones, I will post those when we get them back. I think we'll try the Appleton Sears for her year pictures.
I do have one more picture I'd like to show you. If you look closely you can see Maddie's two teeth on the bottom.
Hope you have a good week. Thanks for stopping by!
Wednesday night we went up to our friends' house in Appleton to have dinner with their family. We had a really fun time. I hadn't seen them since they had their son, Ezra, right before I left Children's. They also have 2 1/2 year old twin girls, Olivia and Isabel. Maddie had a fun time playing with the girls, while Ezra observed from his jumper.
On Thursday Mads and I drove down to Madison to meet Gramma J, Aunt Kimmy, and Grandma Honey for lunch. We had a nice lunch at the Olive Garden and it was nice to spend some time visiting.
Friday I worked, so Maddie and Daddy had the afternoon to themselves and once I came home we just bummed around.
Saturday was a very fun day. We left the house around 9:30 and headed up to Door County. I read about the Pumpkin Festival in Egg Harbor and thought that would be fun. I figured we would be able to find lots of pumpkins for sale there and we could pick out Maddie's first pumpkin, but I was wrong. The festival wasn't too exciting. You could find brats, corn on the cob, popcorn, crafts, and such, but you couldn't find any pumpkins. So, we only stayed at the festival for an hour or so.
We then drove up the road to Fish Creek and hit a couple of shops there. Andrew was looking for the Oilery, but didn't find it. We did find some yummy fudge instead.
On our way back home we didn't take the highway we came up on, we took the scenic route instead. We came across a county park on Lake Michigan so we stopped there.
Maddie had her first experience with sand at the county park. She wasn't quite sure what to think. We got the whole experience on camera... these pictures are so adorable!
Then I snuck in for a picture with her... you can see she's still worried about her dirty hands, but we did manage to get a good picture!
Sunday was Maddie's nine month birthday. I know I say it every month, but I can't believe how big she's gotten!
We took her to Sears for her nine month pictures yesterday. I wasn't real happy with the service and we had some issues when we went for her six month pictures as well. We got a couple good ones, I will post those when we get them back. I think we'll try the Appleton Sears for her year pictures.
I do have one more picture I'd like to show you. If you look closely you can see Maddie's two teeth on the bottom.
Hope you have a good week. Thanks for stopping by!
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