My Little Climber

Last Friday after work I sat Madilyn down by the dvd's since she loves to pull them out of the entertainment center and play with them. Once she was occupied I ran upstairs to clean the bathroom. Soon I could hear Madilyn playing on the bottom step, which she has been doing for the past couple weeks. She hasn't gotten down how to get up, but loves to play on it. So I decide to check downstairs to make sure she wasn't stuck on the step. To my surprise the girl was only 3 steps from the top. So I ran and got my camera.

She's so excited about her new skill.
This is a common face I get when Madilyn is coming to get me.

24th Celebration

July 24th celebrations are always so much fun. It's the best time to catch up with friends and family. This year was Madilyn's first time to experience this summer tradition. We made sure to be at all the hot spots during the weekend.

As you can see Madilyn enjoyed the ice cream the most at the Ice Cream Social. :)
Here we are at the Camp O' Rama and sweet Sarah is feeding Madilyn Texas sheetcake and cornbread.

Nicholas helping set up for our dinner. My Mom made sweet pork salad you can get from Costa Vida/Cafe Rio...very good choice.

Saturday morning we headed down to watch the parade. Madilyn really enjoyed the floats. You can see her practicing her new talent...clapping. :)

Nothing like hanging out on Papa's 4-wheeler at the park.

We even made it out to the rodeo on Saturday afternoon with my Uncle Jay, Corin, Mike and family plus Justin made it this year. It was a lot of fun. Madilyn didn't make it through the whole rodeo she ended up crashing out and Lora took her home. Who could blame her with all the festivities that went on. Such a cute girl needs her beauty sleep.

CPS Poster Child

My sister Lora took this picture of Madilyn during the 4th of July weekend. I just think it's such a funny picture. The pitiful face she can make just makes me laugh. It's just so dang cute. The other thing that I find funny is the dead beat mom in the background taking a nap. It doesn't seem to phase her a bit. It looks like Madilyn's doing a public service announcement for CPS. :) LOL

** 4th of July **

The 4th of July was a lot of fun. Madilyn and I were able to spend it in St. Johns. Nothing like waking up at 5am to cannons going off. It just screams...it's the 4th of July wake up!! I actually have always loved the cannons going off though. Once we were up and ready we headed down to the park for a little BBQ and some chit chatting with friends and family.

Look at the festive ribbon in her hair!!

Cute little Claire :)

Watch out single ladies!!

Summer Fun

Family love :)

BBQ Fun!
On June 27th my brother Kyle came home from his mission. It's been so nice having all my brothers and sisters back together again. The past few weeks have been crazy filled with lots of family get togethers.

Patient

After a few sleepless nights rocking and consoling my daughter. I decided to take her to the doctor. I'm so glad I did she ended up with an ear infection on top of teething. Not something that is pleasant for Madilyn or her mom. I did however after two sleepless nights using tylenol, which is a bunch of crap found infant IB profin. It works for a whole 8 hours at a time...beautiful!! When we were at the doctors office she was the perfect little patient. She just set so still when he was checking her heartbeat and lungs. It was even cute when he was standing talking she looked up at him like she was listening to everything he had to tell her to get better. Very cute little patient. :)

Ever since Madilyn's teeth came in she has been making all kinds of facial expressions. It's so dang cute. This particular outfit she's wearing is one my Mom saved from when I was a baby. I wish I had the picture of me wearing it. That would be a fun comparison.