Crawling and a Tooth!

Our lil' bug is scoot-crawling :) Mainly after things she's not suppose to have; the remote control, our cell phones, the Christmas tree! I'm a little nervous for what this will mean when she starts walking.. yikes! I have a sneaking suspicion that she'll be into everything. Ryan and I have been cuddling with Madelyn a lot the last few days as she has a tooth coming in on the bottom right. We're excited but sad to lose that toothless smile. Poor girl is hurting though.. chewing on everything and not feeling so hot. Wow.. how the time is flying by. This morning I was lying on the floor playing with Mad and she turned around and hugged my leg, then she grabbed my jeans tight and persisted to pull herself to standing! Oh my, what's next!

Christmas Tree Hunting...

I love Christmas! I was so excited to take the new family into the hills to pick out a tree. After quite the search we finally found "the tree" .. but by then our girl was fast asleep. She awoke to find a tree in her living room?!! Probably strange to a small mind. (We gave her a small branch to play with, you would have thought it was a new flashy toy..) As the lights went up she grew more and more excited and now, at random times throughout the day, I find her staring at it in awe. Merry Christmas baby girl.

We want SNOW!

Sorry for not keeping up to date with posts.. This last month has been crazy busy for us.. Filled to the brim with swim lessons, Seahawks games, concerts, dinners, birthdays, a car in the shop, shopping for a new bed and selling our old one;).. and a surprisingly clear weekend North, at Birch Bay.. We have had so much fun, but are exhausted. Madelyn has been growing like a little weed! And it's fun to see her little personality coming out. She's eating a lot more, (she would eat the whole fridge if we let her) and her sweet babbles of communication never stop, we love her squeaks and squeals and random dadada yayayayaaa's... (she even does this heavy breathing thing, it's hilarious!) Most days are filled with sleep and playtime, but she's improving her fine motor skills and LOVING her swim lessons and the water. I've even caught her throwing her head around at lightening speed to catch a glimpse of the water coming out of the faucet.. It's a sweet little obsession she has right now. She loves it when we help her stand up, and still bounces like crazy (about a mile a day I swear).. and I can tell that she desperately wants to crawl, which scares ryan and I because we are not even close to having our home child proof. I guess that will be another "to do" in December. I hope everyone is well.