Turtle

Since Madelynn has started crawling.. if you can even call it that... we have noticed that she crawls rather... retardedly  for lack of a better word. One leg is in the front and she drags her whole body and its just really weird. I never really thought of any reasons as to why except of course her neck and not being able to see straight in front of her... I just thought that she is gonna be a weird crawler. Nat had mentioned that he thinks maybe its because it hurts her knees (DUH) who wouldnt have thought of that?!!?! The rug that we have is the farthest thing from soft and of course, who wants to crawl on a cold wood floor?? So I tried to put pants on her and she just kinda crawled right outta them. So I think that I am gonna buy her some of those crawler legging things and see if it makes things a little easier for her.

but then again... who needs to crawl when you can do this all day long???

As she gets older,  and gets into things more and messes with stuff she shouldn't mess with, I find myself asking myself (sounds like I have issues. HA!) How do you teach a 9 month old that thats a no no and she doesnt mess with it... or do you?? When are you supposed to start that?? know what I mean? For instance, we live in a teeny house and dont have much room to put stuff up. So our printer is on the floor right beside the computer desk and she loves to go mess with it. How are you supposed to deal with that without being able to move it up and out of her reach??? Im really curious as to what people (you) think about this and what maybe you have done with your kids (if you have them.) Ya'll may think that im... dumb for askin this but I really would like to hear your opinion.

Then again im like... how on earth am I supposed to EVER get onto this???

You just go mess with that printer!! Stick somethin in it and break it. Do whatever you want!! Right??? isnt that the easy way to do things. :)

Anyways... this little lady made her way up to our back yard and layed her eggs. How cool is that??? Im gonna try and keep close track on it cuz I really wanna see the little baby turtles race back to the creek! I looked these turtles up and read some stuff on them... said it takes 3 months for the eggs to hatch. That just seems like a really long time!

its a turtle in case you haven't figured that out. :)

And I will leave you with this.

little bit of cute! 

mmmhh.. does she make anyone else wanna squeeze her head off?? Maybe its just me since im her mother. 

Let the fun begin!!

Madelynn has kinda gone crazy today in trying new things. She has now discovered that she can pull up on things other than her crib! Which can be good... or bad, like when the toy doesnt stay standing while she is trying to stand up and they both go toppeling over. Its quite sad! She discovered that the computer desk is pretty sturdy and wont fall over on her and also that there are lots of fun cords to chew on, and the printer... oh that printer, all those buttons and sounds it makes. Way better than all those boring toys. Then, she made her way over to the dvd case and banged all over that, never figured out how to open it. After that, over to the entertainment center...all those picture books of herself were so fascinating. Then, she found a little bench, just about her size, which holds her daddys breathing treatment machine  and pulled all that stuff down and chewed on it for about an hour. Figured out that she can open the drawers  and that theres lots of fun stuff in there to!! Found a nice glass thing she could reach, but I saved it... barely. I would have been in trouble for sure about that one!! Its Nat's 'touch' in the living room. :)

So needless to say, I need to find some new homes for a few things...  I let her have some fun today and let her just figure out what everything was, but some stuff will have to go bye bye!

This morning, I had this feeling that I really need to go through the clothes I had in Madelynns closet for summer...I ignored it for awhile cuz her whole life, I have always gotten her 'grow into' clothes out and washed when she turned that size. Ya know, like when she turned 3 months, I got her 3-6 months clothes out and so on and so on and its always just worked out and fit perfectly. So I finally talked myself into it and I went in her room and grabbed one of the outfits and looked at it and told myself that she would never fit into it  till she is atleast one!! I put it on her anyways, and I am soooooo thankful that I did. It fit her perfectly!! She is growing like a weed. She has always been on the tinier side of life... now she is getting rather chubby! So anyways, I went through all of her winter clothes and put them up... filled the third tub with her clothes... THREE tubs for clothes up to 9 months??? Thats bad.  I  was kinda convicted about my obsession with clothes for her when I emptied over 20 hangers of shirts... JUST shirts. Thats not counting all the pants and jeans I put up to!! Who needs that much clothes??  Anyways, I got all the summer clothes out and washed them and hung them up... I had to get MORE hangers out than I emptied!! Can you believe that??!?! That is horrible!! I told Nat that I couldnt believe he aloud me to buy her such an insane amount of clothes.... Then we both laughed cuz every time, he was right there beside me telling me that she had plenty of clothes and didnt need any more... oops. He then told me that I was on the same path for this little boy and needed to slow down or I would be in the same boat. Ive only bought a few little boy outfits... plus boy clothes are way not as cute and tempting as girls clothes are!

I told him that our next kid (many years down the road) will HAVE To be born in the summer so if it is a girl, she can wear all these dang clothes I have.

Speaking of girl. This is what we did to Madelynn and its oh so adorable!! She looks so girly!! I love it!

Please look past my white legs and see her pretty green toes and pink fingernails. :) 

Our garden grows!! It has been so cool to water the flowers and vegetables every day and then see the results of it. Its quite amazing. We found our first little 'blooms'... maybe?? Im garden illiterate, matter of fact, i know a whole lotta nothin about gardens.. but I am learning!! We have squash, zuccini, cucumbers, corn, tomatoes and onions poppin through. So its cute and fun and exciting. 

This was a few days ago, they are even bigger!

My sweeties

and you kinda have to look super hard to see but these are the onions. The little green sprouts (there is probably a proper word for that but like I said...)

I know that ya'll probably dont care a lick about this... but I am proud of myself! So I must share.

life

Just in case you were wondering, Im not dead. Just been super duper busy. Two things I thought I would NEVER say. I am SICK of going to town and I am SICK of spending money. I have been to town every stinkin day for the past probably 2 weeks. Just in case you never thought about it, its not just a trip to the grocery store. Its a trip to anywhere and everywhere  and its a whole day in town, which means no solid nap and its pretty hard on the little girl. We have had Dr apt. after Dr apt. I kinda feel like I live at some shannon building in town.. and the sad thing is, there are no signs of slowin down.

Nat is sick once again. Im hoping and praying that Madelynn and I do not catch it!! That is the last thing we need in this house right now!

Anyways... The apt with the PT was kinda saddening. She is now keeping her neck to the left. No im not crazy. Its true.  So she has switched 3 times now as to which side of the neck is tight... the lady is kinda baffled by Madelynn and her craziness so we have to start going 2 times a week for a few weeks and if that doesnt do anything, then she said she has no idea what else it could be and the Dr will have to figure somethin else out. So... we go back tomorrow! 

Its not bad here but you can kinda see what I get to look at all the time. I always ask Madelynn how everything is lookin to the left.... :)

My Dr apt was kinda exciting.. turns out that the (horrible) lady who did my sonogram didnt get any of the information that the Dr needs so I get to go back!! Maybe we can see a for sure little boy part! 

Thats pretty much what we have been up to. Dr. appointments for sick people, Dr. appointments for pregnant people and Physical Therapy for little people. And of course working on Tuesdays and Thursdays... which by the way I only have 8 more days of and Im absolutely thrilled about it!!!! Then no mas, Im done. We did manage to hang out with the brother and Kinsey and the cuz, which was fun... always love some of my darling loves grillin!!

and of course this. :) love those nakey babies!

Has anyone ever had a c-section then 3 months later got pregnant again and tortured your body??? I did it and I wouldnt suggest it. I dont know if its the same when you get pregnant the second time around 2 years later... but your scar hurts soooo bad and it kinda feels like your insides are gonna fall out of the incision. Maybe its just me. And I know that you are thrilled to read about my many pains of pregnancy! So sorry to torture you with this... but Im tellin ya, it probably wont be the last time you hear about it... :) I am 22 weeks tomorrow, and I am honestly thinkin that this pregnancy is goin slower than the 1st! Someone asked me today how I was feeling... I told her I was very ready to have this baby. She laughed and asked when I was due cuz obviously Im not that far along cuz you can barely tell if I am pregnant or just fat... yes, I said it, fat I have alot left over. (sorry if that was gross, the truth is gross sometimes tho.) I laughed with her cuz I was dumb for sayin it... but its true..... but I gotta cook this baby till its ready and I'll do it! So dont come early baby with no name!!! 

and I love this kid to death!!

Today

Today has come. And that means that my baby is 9 months old. It just sounds so... old.

She is gettin big! Her voice is gettin bigger to! She loves to yell, as loud as possible, and when she want me, she says mamamama, when she wants daddy she says dadadada and when she wants a bottle she says babababa.I know its not the proper way to say things, but I know she knows what she wants and thats her way of telling us. She has said Mama (the right way) 2 times. You hear that daddy??? HA!! She said mama first. Both times she said it, she thought that I was abandoning her with other people. It was out of desperation i think. She is pullin up on everything and gettin so brave!!

Nap time is goin much better. We lowered her crib so now its not as fun and exciting to stand up and be cool. Its so.... low. It looks like a Big girl bed. I'm excited that she is gettin bigger and growin up but its bittersweet. Oh well... guess I better get another baby around here.... 

I know what ya'll are thinking.. What will I do when she turns one... Well I will probably feel like she is fixin to be 16. And go on and on about it. :)

We had another sonogram done and were pretty sure that there is a little boy growin in my tummy. A BOY?!?! I dont know what to do with boys. Boys are gross... not really, I have to stop thinkin that since Im probably gonna have one. It will be different for me but I am excited about it. 

Madelynn has a check up apt with the PT... Im foreseeing another 2 weeks of exercises. It wont stay straight up... ugh. This is sooooooooooo frustrating!!!! We shall see!

A day with Daddy

Can you believe that its already the 17??? My gosh where did the time go. That means in 3 days, I will have a 9 month old. Thats like 3 months from being 1. AHHH!!! 

Yesterday Madelynn stayed home with her daddy. They love to spend the day together. Apparently he is much more fun than I am... I am not wanted when daddy is around.

Cheetos!!!

Madelynn is quite passionate about standing and pulling up on things. I knew this day was coming very soon...

I got on to Nat the other day for not gettin the camera and takin a picture of somethin exciting when I wasn't here. I think he learned his lesson. HAHA!

Anyways... you know how you feel when your 8 1/2 months pregnant and you feel like you have been run over by a truck. Your body hurts, your bones ache, all you wanna do is sit, your feet ache and every step feels like your feet will explode cuz they are so swollen, It takes 4 hours to get up off the couch, you toss and turn in bed and you cant sleep, sitting up is a chore and it feels like your stomach muscles are going to burst at any moment, every move the baby makes you stop what your doing cuz it is such an unpleasant feeling at this point... maybe its just me... but thats how I felt 8 1/2 months pregnant. Anyways, thats me.. now and im NOT 8 1/2 months pregnant, not even close. I still have a long way to go. How will I ever make it?? Kinsey brought up a good point, I JUST had a baby 8 months ago. Makes sense, the bod never had time to get back to normal before I... or should I say Nat... just threw it right back where it was. :) I think I might just put myself on bed rest and make Nat do what I do. Sound good?? Bed rest might be good for a few days but not 20 weeks. Eek. Maybe thats a bad idea. I'll just rest when I can.

Nap time= play time.... right???

WRONG!! 

Its been hard gettin Madelynn to take naps period. She just thinks that there are better things to do than sleep. She took one 30 minute nap around noon and thats been it. Which is quite different from her usual 3 naps a day. She is gettin out of the mornin nap thing and thats ok cuz that means the afternoon nap is longer. You really dont realize how much naps keep you sane till they dont happen. I have not been able to rejuvenate today. 

When I checked on her this mornin to see if she had fallen asleep yet, I went in her room to find her up on her knees holding on to the rail reaching for the pictures above her crib. (we got some crib lowerin to do now!!) It made me laugh so I ran and got my camera, but she saw me and this is what I got

This is her new discovery. She thinks she is sneaky that she can hear momma comin and peek out to surprise me. It makes me laugh. She is usually laughin to but like I said before... camera= no smile. :)

Its 7:00 now and she just went down. Bad idea that I will regret but... she is desperate for sleep right now.

Anyway... I lied. Madelynn has been all over the place today!! I didnt think that she would keep it up but she has. She even ventured past the rug onto the wood floor. Woo Hoo!! It was exciting. I will have you know tho. She only did it when she knew I was not looking. Im so dead serious. If I talked to her or got on the floor with her, she would stop. So I left her alone and she went to town!! 

I did manage to get everyones laundry done today and to mop the floors (finally) maybe thats why she never ventured to the wood floor. :) haha. Im just kiddin. But, when you have a tool box sittin in your floor and you have a husband who REFUSES to take his boots off till he is crawling in bed, and he works in dirt.... it takes alot to keep the floors decent. 

Madelynn made this UNdesignated wash sheets day. She was soaking wet with pee when she woke up this mornin and then when we were havin our cuddle time, she decided to spit/throw up everywhere.. it was on her daddys side, I shoulda just left it. But I was nice and went ahead and washed them. 

Dinner is smellin soooo absolutely wonderful...

 I tried somethin new so... we shall see how it turns out!!

Tuesdays

Wow. Its Tuesday, and personally I dont like Tuesdays to terribly much. Starts out gettin up to early. Then I have to leave my baby and it makes me sad. (I have attachment issues) I never thought I would be like I am with my kids. But... never say never!! Bein a mom has changed me in sooo many ways. All the things I said I would never do, I do. I am "that mom"... know what I mean?  Then, I go and watch ten 18 month olds who all think that they own the place and are in charge... so as im sure you know, that makes for a long looooooong day. By the time I get home, I am just about dead. But you cant stop there... cuz you have your own child and house to tend to. I am just now sittin down for the 1st time today. Thank the Lord for bed time! 

Madelynn has gotten to the attachment stage. (she finally caught up with me) HAHA!! I cannot walk out of her sight without her going bazerk. It is sad. Every time I put her down for bed or nap. I feel as if she feels like I have given her up for adoption and am never coming back. Makes me feel kinda stinky, but also makes me feel wanted. And thats a good feelin. :)

This is what Madelynn wants to do instead of ya know, gettin around and havin fun... She will ONLY crawl to her stinkin pacifier. She has an addiction. I get on the floor and try to encourage her, she looks at me like what are you talkin about lady. You have 2 arms... you can just pick me up. No need to move... ya... just hand me that toy right there... By the way. Get me a bottle while your up. 

She craps (I mean cracks... but I accidentally typed that and its funny so im gonna leave it.) me up about how much she just does not care. All I ask is that she be walking by the time this baby comes. She does love to stand up and  to walk while holdin on to one of us which is kinda encouraging. I said Kinda... this girl is L-A-Z-Y

I LOVE LOVE LOVE peanut m&m's... its how I know im pregnant. We got some today and I was eaten em... this baby was goin nuts!! Jumpin all over the place. I think I felt it move more than I ever felt Madelynn the whole 9 months. I love that feeling. There is nothin like knowin that there is a human growing inside you. I love it!

We got St. Augustine grass for our back yard and got it all laid out yesterday. Once it all grows together and spreads, It will look super!! I am excited about it.

Here is my garden. 

Once things start to grow and be more beautiful, it will look super too!! (super??? i've said that twice now.)

We have done soooooo much work on the house and now the outside. I am proud of us!! Mostly Nat cuz he makes it all work out. I just watch... and be pregnant. HA! I do what I can tho. 

Sorry about all the randomness. Today was a random day. 

I am thinkin about my bed. I must go see about it.

Pizza and Chocolate

Hola everyone! Hope you had a wonderful easter. I sure did. Fun day with the fam. 

Madelynn, for the first time, had pizza and chocolate... yikes!! Not such a great idea... and I thought she was crazy about food. Probably 2 things that she will not be having every day.

This is after the fact. Notice the sad face. Its for real.

Anywho... Madelynn got to hunt for easter eggs.. with daddys help.. She did good. She was grabbin em like she knew what she was doin. Not as much as Cash tho.. you'd think that boy hunted eggs 3 times a week. It was soooooooooooo cute!! I loved watchin him have fun!!

serious egg huntin right here.

which one daddy??

She got a money egg!

Our 'Easter mornin picture'

and of course, the cute little thing she is.

I got my flower garden done today. It looks beautiful if I must say so myself. I'll have to take a picture and show everyone cuz I know you dont wanna drive out to Mertzon to see it. :) We also planted the onions and tomatoes to finish off our vegetable garden. Im excited!!! I feel like I accomplished something in life!!! Now on to the back yard... scary!! That will be put off for a little while due to adding onto the house, due to ANOTHER unexpected pregnancy. Did we not JUST do this?? Just in case you dont know the story, a few months after we got married, Nat tore down the wall to the second bedroom cuz it was gonna be awhile till we had kids.... right... few weeks later I found out I was pregnant. Oops.. So we had to put the wall back up, and in the process, we took up the carpet and put down wood floors. We got her room done and finished the night that my water broke. Not even kidding. It was crazy. No more walls to put back up.. this time its gonna be big and take a long time. So we'll ll 4 be crammed in here for a few months im sure!! 

Anyways, my feel are swollen and my eyes are gettin heavy. I must go to sleep.

are you KIDDING me?!?!?!

Can this really happen to a person twice??? We were not able to find out the sex of the baby. In case you didnt know, we were not able to find out with Madelynn either... every single time we had a sono, she was 100% uncooperative. With the big ultrasound we had with Madelynn at 20 weeks, the lady who did it had not a care in the world, was rather rude and you could just tell it was the end of the day and I was just annoying her by being there, so she did not try to terribly hard to figure out if we had a boy or a girl. This lady that we had today was soooo much worse and I didnt think that was possible!!! She did not tell me what she was doing, she had the computer screen turned right at her to where I could hardly see it. She told Nat to go get our moms so they could come back and see, the second he walked out the door, she said (in a low mumbly, depressed voice) Im not gonna be able to tell you the sex of the baby. So, I asked her why and she said that baby was in a bad position. Which it was. But.. seriously, why cant she realize what a special time that was for us. She had no care in the world. There were pictures of her little boy around the room and I thought... man, for someone who has kids, and who obviously has gone through this before... cant you cheer up and act like you care?!?!? I was very annoyed and upset over the whole situation. To make things worse, this is the sono picture that she gave us...

now im not a professional when it comes to these pictures, but I can almost every time tell exactly what everything is. When I first looked at it, It looked like a huge blob of nothin... after staring at it, I kinda figured out that its really up close of the profile with the hand... Once again, could she not have taken a few more seconds to get a more clear picture??? UGH!! ok. I just keep telling myself that I need to get over it cuz its done and over with. I just dont understand why people feel the need to treat other people badly when they have done nothing. If you dont like your job then GET A NEW ONE!!!! (and thats for all you rude people that work in fast food and restraunts too!!!) Sorry, thats another thing I HATE!!! Ok. I think im done. If I start talking bitterly in the rest of my post, please forgive me. :)

Some new exciting things goin on in the Rose household... Little miss Madelynn has decided that she wants to be more mobile. Yesterday mornin, I was noticin that she was gettin up on her knees alot... so I decided to get down there with her and try to motivate her. (I have tried everything in the past to get her to crawl, her favorite toys, bottle, ME) but DUH the paci. I stuck that thing down there and she would get up on her hands and knees and kinda thrust herself forward till she got it. It worked!! Then when her daddy came inside, I wanted to show him... and she did it!! She crawled!! I am so excited. Everyone tells you NO! dont let her crawl. She will get into everything. Heres my thoughts on that... crawling is a part of growin up and stages in life and its gonna happen and sure, you may have to vacuum more so your child doesnt eat dirt (I say this and look down at my child putting dirt in her mouth...

(seriously) oops, guess I need to get on that) HA!!! but hey.. its fun for her to be able to learn new things and I love to watch her do new things.

I felt kinda mean...

She got a little distracted (I have tried to get a video of her crawling and also her psycho eating habbits... but every time I try. She stops... just like the reason you hardly ever see her smiling. She stops as soon as I get my camera out. I promise, she smiles, she eats like a maniac and she is starting to crawl)  :)

Just wanted everyone to know... this guy that I am married to, when I was having a bad stinky day, he brought me these.

awwww.

Yesterday, I got a phone call from this guy. He told me that Nat's transmission was ready.  I have never seen a grown man act as Nathaniel did. He acted like a little girl who just got her first kiss. He kept huggin me and tellin me thanks for tellin him about the phone call. I was high on his list... for answering my phone and passing it on to him. But, like I told you before... that is his cup of tea!! OMG!!! do you know what this means?!?! Ok, let me back up a few years... when we were dating, I didnt have a vehicle and I just drove my parents cars. So Nat had this grand idea to fix up this blazer he had sittin around for me. So he did, got it all lookin nice, and he GAVE it to me... you hear that GAVE.. ok now that we got that straight. He now says its his. Its just a big joke we have goin on cuz its really just ours... but ya know, I cant be drivin a jacked up blazer with big tires and only 2 doors when I have 2 children. So, I guess ill let him drive it. Anyways... awhile back,  some of the stuff in the transmission went wrong and its just been sittin out in the shop. Since we had a little extra money, Nat decided to fix it up... $1500 later... Its on its way to bein beautiful again. I cant wait!! I am sooooooooo excited!!!!! I love that thing. 

This is the beautiful beast after a fun day out at the lake. mmm... I cant wait. 

(Thats me and my friend from Michigan... we took this picture so she could show her friends up North what some real fun is.. They dont do stuff like this up there. No, I dont look like this anymore. 1  1/2 kids has screwed up my body forever. This was 2 summers ago)

arent you excited?!?!  Ok. I think that is all. 

Happy Easter to everyone!! Hope its egg-cellent. HAHAHA!!! That was cheesy. Im done.

Im not gonna say much cuz to be completely honest with you, I am feelin like a big loser as a mom, wife, and person. And I already blogged negative this week... and thats all thats comin outta me right now.

The results for the ultrasound on Madelynn's neck came back clear. Thats good! 

So, I was wrong. Visit to the Dr. was a waste of time. Her ears were a little red... but I think he just told me that to make me feel good about myself. Madelynn is just changing I guess. Go me!

Dr office called for me and said that they had an opening for tomorrow at 4 for the big ultrasound, where we will find out the sex. So thats exciting. 

Thats all.

Patience= none

Hi my name is Mara and I have zero patience right now. This is a common thing  that I say... not that I dont have patience... but the Hi my name is Mara and _____ fill in the blank. I mostly just do it to get a kick out of Nat. I know, I know, its dumb.. but we all have those dumb things that we do right?? right. 

So seriously... I am not a pleasent person. I have been up since 6... that is waaay to early for me!! I can kinda do 7 but I need sleep... maybe its the fact that I have an 8 month old and am 5 months pregnant... idk. Just a thought.  To boot, my living room floor is covered in tools. Nat owns atleast 14,000 tools and has decided to go through and organize them... while I was TRYING (key word) to nap and get rid of a horrid headache that I have had for 2 days now... (do you sense the negativeness coming from my typing???) So sorry. He was very nice about it and got and old towel to lay everything on.  He is a good guy and he is being oh so sweet to me and my bad attitude. :)

This is AFTER over half the tools are already in the toolbox!!

Madelynn had that ultrasound this morning. We dont know the results yet. Hopefully we'll hear somethin in the next few days. Oh my sweet Madelynn... On tuesday, Nat stayed home with her while I was working (he is currently unemployed... he doesnt just take random days off) when I got home, he told me about the horrid day that they had, well not they, she. Basically he said that she screamed bloody murder all day with tears pouring from her pretty blue eyes... I was a bit baffled and initially thought well maybe she just misses me??... boy was I wrong. She woke up from her nap and went at it. All day long... just as he had said.  I gave her some ear drops that we had left from her previous 3 ear infections and tylenol and she was good. Today she has been ok so I didnt bother to take her in. But... right now, she is laying in her bed screaming. Im not being mean and just letting her scream it out... but, what do you do when you have done everything to try and help her and nothin works?? It breaks my heart into a million pieces. 

So... first thing in the mornin, I am going to call and Nat will have to take her in... cuz its Thursday. And that makes me sad... but thankfully, she has a good daddy that will take good care of her!!! I just wanna ask the Dr if he can give me the ear lookin in tool (im sure that there is a Dr name for it) and tell me what I need to look for to avoid all these trips to the Dr. office. I have no doubt in my mind that thats the problem.. Nothin a little antibiotics wont fix... hopefully... thats another story...

Crying has stopped, patience is slowly returning. I just need to go to bed.. and I think that thats what ill do. Its only 9:00.. man would that be a good nights sleep!!

This will make me happy.

update

Today was Madelynns check up apt. with the physical therapist. It went ok. Her neck is still not 100%. It is a little better, she just does not take to well to the exercises. She was very understanding and said to just keep it up. Madelynn is the type of kid that KNOWS what she wants and what she doesnt want, and she will very well let you know about it. And she just does not want to be messed with... so she makes it kinda hard. But... we will keep doin what were doin and we'll go back in 2 weeks to see if we made any more progress. She still has a pretty big knot on the right side of her neck. Also, we go on Wed to get an ultrasound/x-ray on her neck. Pray that it will be perfectly normal!!

oh yaaaa!

Mater...

Any one who knows Nat, knows his love for trucks. BIG trucks with BIG tires. He loves workin on trucks, he loves takin trucks apart and puttin em back together. So, when the movie Cars came out... It was right up his alley, Disney movie, and vehicles. And I bet you could guess which character he fell in love with.... Mater! When we found out we were pregnant with Madelynn, he really wanted a boy so he could get him Cars stuff. He didnt get a boy, so our daughter must settle for this... 

In case you didnt know, Madelynn is working on her modeling skills. She is going for the serious look in this picture.. I think she got it. She is also modeling her new bathin suit! I have a feelin we will be in the pool alot this sumer. I am excited!!

We were at Target and Nat saw this... if you know Nat, you also know that you HAVE to buy stuff with Mater on it. 

We have just been livin life. Nothin to exciting goin on. We have been able to spend lots of time with our daddy, which has been lots of fun. 

We went to Aunt Na's soccer game which was fun, went to lowes to price grass for our back yard (woo hoo) were tryin to get the outside of the house lookin as good as the inside (HA!! I only say that cuz I decorated it...) (that was sarcasm).... to the mall, got Madelynn a bathing suit and some earrings, which I am thrilled about. I LOVE earrings. Went to target, got some shoes for Madelynn, her foot seems to have grown for some odd reason.  Oh, and of course her new car, which she really seems to love. Ya... we pretty much spend every extra dime on her.... she's kinda spoiled, ill admit it. (Dont tell Nat I said that.) HAHAHA! and yes, we are obsessed with her. Im sure ya'll read this and think we are weirdos. Its true. Were weirdos and we spend WAY to much money on her. But we love the her to death.

Here's some pictures of us. Cuz I know you wanna see them. 

Daddy and his Princess. 

Me and my favorite little girl. (She has this new thing where she sticks her arm out and just holds it there.)

We went To Karl's house to hang out for a little while on Friday. They have a Chinchilla, and Madelynn is soooo fascinated with him. She loves to (try to) touch it and watch his every move. She will sit for hours and watch him... actually, she will sit for hours and stare at a blank wall, but thats beside the point. 

I think they like each other. 

Also on Friday, we went to some friends house to eat and watch Marley and me. It was fun. Everyone was talking about college, and degrees and gettin married and im like.. well, I changed a poop diaper today that was all the way up the back... here, smell my new perfume, its called spit up... I havent slept through the night in 8 months, oh  and I have heartburn right now. By the way, can I have a pepcid complete?? Not really. But I was sittin there thinkin it! We really did have lots of fun. We just took a completely different path than they did, and thats way ok!! They love her to death too! I think I need to join a moms group or somethin... :)

Here is some SUPER news. Madelynn has slept through the night for like 4 nights now. YEA!! I am excited.

I must go fold laundry and find somethin for dinner. 

Thanks for readin my stuff! I love to write about our life and hope that ya'll enjoy it as much as I do!!

maybe not....

ok... so you know how in my last post I had said that I did my job successfully????

today, it is questionable....