Climbing stairs like crazy

Maddy loves to climb stairs. Actually, she likes to move. She does not like to sit still for any reason. Well, unless she is sick. But even then, she gets really grumpy when she's held too long. We finally opened up her activity center to sit against the wall. She likes it much better now. She doesn't like to be in her walker or other things that confine her too much. She will, but just for short periods of time. It's kinda funny to watch her. She changes too quickly.

Maddy loves pictures

Maddy loves to look at the pictures in the house - especially the ones in our kitchen. She will crawl over to the wall with the pictures, point up to them and start talking "da... da..." She wants to be picked up so she can look at them. So cute.

When she gets picked up, she analyzes them so closely. It just cracks me up - what is she studying? But if you ask her who's who, she can point to everyone up there. Love it.

Croup

Wednesday night, Maddy seemed to have some more trouble with her cough. This morning,she seemed worse and she's been on antibiotics for ten days. It seems crazy that she's worse, but she is. So I left work early to take her dispite people telling me "she's fine".

The doctor told me she had croup and he was happy I listened to myself. She really was not doing well. He told me to watch her and if she got worse to bring her back and start steroids. Sigh... guess who can't go to school on Friday. :(

Nini

We've figured out that when Maddy says "nini", she means Jordan. She loves to look at the pictures in the kitchen. Every time she sees Jordan, she says "nini". It's so cute.

Am I a dog?

Maddy like to carry things in her mouth. Tonight, she was upstairs int he bonus room and she keep pulling lincoln logs out of the bins and putting them in her mouth. I had Jim pull them out but they kept appearing in her mouth. Eventually I giggled because she seemed to pull them out of thin air. Where did she get them?

Balance Queen

Maddy was a balancing queen today. She did more balancing and posing today than I had seen yet. She is getting so close to walking. I'm a tad excited for her.  She also seems to love to go upstairs. If we are in the basement, she will go for the stairs and will go upstairs to the bonus room every time. She loves playing up there.

Having fun

Woo hoo. Reagan slept for 10 hours straight. It is awesome! She woke up in a good mood and had a fantastic day all day. No fits, no craziness. We went to church in the morning and  she had a great time. She made a mobile about the first days of creation. "God made the sun, the moon and the stars". It was cool. She told me all about it when I picked her up.

When we got home and ate lunch before we went up to the park. Mom and Dad met us after a while. We all had a good time. After that, they took her home with them while I ran an errand. After that, I picked her up and we went home. She got to play outside with the neighbor boys.  She played hard with them. She and Braydon were messing with a measuring tape and ended up breaking it. Nice. I laughed and was a tad embarrassed. They didn't seem to care much.

One thing I noticed. When Reagan sleeps well, she eats well too. She ate a huge breakfast (for her) a solid lunch of fruit and cheese (and donuts) and then had a good dinner (fruit, cheese, orange juice and pizza). I'm impressed.