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Heartbreaker/Mr. Blue Eyes

I just love this little man. :)

Photo Courtesy of Aunt Andrea. www.andydawn.blogspot.com

Thanksgiving 2009

This Thanksgiving we traveled to Michigan to be with Paul's family. I was a bit nervous making the trip with a 4 month old, but Madden proved to be a perfect little traveler. He rarely cried on any of the flights (and we had 1 connection on the way there and one on the way back). Here are a few pictures from our Thanksgiving week in Michigan.

First stop was to see Paul's Birth Mom. Dawn holding Kylie and Madden.
Madden playing in the walker. I love the pictures of babies from behind...so sweet.


Eating his first veggies and loving it.

Kylie and her silly cousins.



Lighthouse in Charlevoix. Um...it was freezing by the lake.

Santa Baby

Paul and I had some fun taking pictures of Madden in his diaper and new Santa hat. He is so darn cute. Please ignore the bad picture taking....we couldn't seem to get him to sit up so we had to support him, thus my hands and legs make it into a lot of the pictures.







Tomorrow Kylie and Madden are going to Nanny and Papa's house for the day so Paul and I can get our Christmas shopping done. As you can see, we have ZERO presents under our tree. I am so excited for Madden's first Christmas. He is our little miracle baby and we are so thankful to have him here with us this year.

I Have No Excuse

Let's face it....I am a bad blogger. (Um...not sure why my writing is being underlined, but I don't have time to deal with it now. I do take tons of pictures, I just rarely find the energy to go upstairs and load them on the computer and blog. Here are a few of my recent favorites.

Madden trying to rollover. Poor baby is so big that he isn't really strong enough to support rolling over his 18 lbs.

Sitting up with Mommy.

Kylie and Summer before their Halloween dance and sleepover. Yes, they are 10 and went to a dance, and yes there was boy drama!

Madden and Paul's shoulder. Paul had just had his appendix out. Wednesday night we had to go to the ER for Paul to have an emergency appendectomy. Luckily everything went beautifully and by Tuesday of the next week he was back to work.

Crazy hair day at school. She wore pigtails and then one other random pony in the back. :)

Little M in his highchair playing with his teething rings. Love this picture and the lil guy in it :)

Reading a book and playing on his glider....he is trying to tell me something in this picture.

Sitting in the bumbo staring at his busy ball popper...that toy is a HIT.

Mommy, Madden and Daddy before trick or treating.

Pumpkin Patch

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We finally made it out to the pumpkin patch near our house on Friday night. Needless to say it was a short but sweet trip. We dressed Madden in his new Tigger Halloween costume (thanks to a 50% off sale at Babies R Us) and got Kylie in her Halloween shirt and then we were off. Madden was tired but was a trooper. We were able to get a couple pictures before we were off to dinner at Casa Ole. I just realized that we cut the head off of the scarecrow in most all of the pictures, but Oh, well the cute kids make up for that, right?

We will definately post more pictures of the real Halloween night. Madden will be Tigger and Kylie is going to be a Skeleton Bride..oh and did I mention that she has a party Friday night that she will get dressed up for....too cute :)

My Monkey Man

Madden is definately my little Monkey Man. This was him at 8 weeks in his Halloween Costume, which Nanny and Papa gave him. It is either a 3 or 6 month costume, but somehow doesn't fit his little 4 month 18 lb body. My monkey is definately a big boy. He is really more long and solid than he is just baby fat. Madden is such a good little baby and I miss him every day that I have to work, but atleast I only have to work 3 days a week :)

We have started giving him a little bit of rice cereal with his night feeding and he has done pretty well with it. Most of the time he sleeps from 9ish to about 5 or 6, but this morning it was almost 7 and he was still snoozing. We got out his highchair and he sits in that while we eat dinner. He looks so cute in it..I will post pictures of that when I get home and can download the pictures.

His laugh is hilarious! He sometimes cracks himself up so much that he can't stop. I just love that baby....I can't believe its almost been a year since we found out that we were having our little miracle baby. Time flies when you are having fun :)

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