So much changes in 18 months!!

So I thought I better post one last time before Madison is a big sister. Here are a couple 18 month pictures. She is getting so big and trying to say everything. Her personality is really starting to come out good and bad:) She is very friendly at Meijer, she loves to say hi to everyone she sees while we grocery shop.

We are only weeks away from our second daughter joining us. We are wondering how Madison will react to all the changes. I am thinking I will have to worry the most about her being to interested in the baby. She loves her baby dolls, so I am hoping she just watches and takes care of her babies. I know she is going to be a great big sister, we are looking forward to watching them start to interact.

I am feeling great right now. I have the end of pregancy energy I had with Madison also. So I am trying to get everything done before I get hit with the newborn life again. So here is to a couple of restful weeks!!

Well Madison is going to be a Big Sister!! November 2nd-ish we will welcome home a new baby. We are excited about having a little friend for Madison. We will find out boy or girl in a couple of weeks but hopefully either way they will be good friends. Of course she will probably have no idea what is coming until the day she is not the only child. She is used to little babies in daycare so hopefully this will help in the transition.

I am feeling great, even better than with Madison. Which is awesome and besides my growing stomach I wouldn't know I was pregnant. Which I have to add I am already bigger than with Madison at this time. Hopefully by the end it will even out, I got pretty huge with Madison. I am hoping being pregnant throught the summer will help me stay active and not sit and eat. We have been going on lots of bike rides. Madison usually falls asleep in her trailer. She looks pretty comfy back there as Mike pulls her around. Better him than me :)

Madison is also walking all over now, she was almost 14 months by the time she was really walking good. She doesn't really have any new words. I think she may be saying ball but not sure yet. But she is changing alot lately really getting personality. Good or bad it is fun to watch!

Everyone is good :)

Happy 1st Birthday Madison

Well our baby girl is 1. We had her birthday party with family and friends on February 27th. We found a few weeks prior that she loved taco meat and beans, so we had tacos for her party. Yum!! She loved all the balloons, presents and of course digging into the cake. She had her own little bear and everyone else had a big bear. The cakes turned out great, it was alot of fun to decorate. Aunt Laura helped with icing the cake, it was quite the process.

It was very cute when she opened her presents. She wanted to keep playing with them she didn't get that there were more and needed to keep opening. She got a bunch of clothes for summer and toys.

She has changed so much in her first and we are having so much fun watching her learn so much. I know from watching my nieces and nephews that the second year is just as eventful so we look forward to her keeping us on our toes with all she discovers.

Merry Christmas!!

We were at my parents house the weekend before Christmas for our 1st Christmas celebration. Madison slept through opening presents so she had her own time once she got up. She wasn't too interested in the presents but really enjoyed trying to eat all the wrapping paper. We do Christmas with Mike's side in 2 weeks so more pictures to come.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Now that it is almost Christmas, here are our Thanksgiving pictures. This year it was on the Remer side so we headed to my parents house. There were 14 adults and now with Madison 7 kids under 8. So there was never a dull moment. As you can see Madison enjoyed her first Thanksgiving dinner. She really like the sweet potatoes that Aunt Sarah made. Madison had lots of fun crawling around, she had just started to crawl so she wasn't really fast yet.

Now almost 3 weeks later she is getting everywhere and having lots of fun chasing all the animals. She loves the kitty cats.

Well Madisons 1st Halloween was a cold one. This is us after going trick or treating in the wind and cold. I think it was about 45 degrees out, not so fun. We went out with Madisons cousins in their neighborhood. She was a puppy, as if we don't have enough dogs around :) I had bought this costume at the end of last Halloween and it was a little small. She is tall so she was busting out of it but at least it was warm. She got to try some of the candy but there was alot she couldn't have. So of course I could not let it go to waste. Just one of the perks to her 1st Halloween not sure if it will slide next year.

Ok so I got a new lens and who better to try it out on but Madison. She will forever be my model hopefully she doesn't mind when she can do something about it :) Mike and I brought her downtown Holland today and I took a few pics while we were out. We get lots of compliments on her hat which she really needed as it was pretty cold today. Hopefully I can get somemore pictures when the leaves change more. I love fall!!!