Vegetarian

Madison crying because she wants raspberries


Madison is sooo cute when she cries



the infamous raspberries!!!!



Is one too early for your child to become a vegetarian? Madison does not want to eat her meat this week. I have to tell her no more fruit because I'm worried she's going to get diarrhea. She is so funny.... tonight we had chicken with pasta, green beans, tomatoes, raspberries, and some pumpkin bread. Miss Madison ate the tomatoes first, the raspberries second, some of the pasta, and bread and no chicken!!!!! We can't get her to eat meat. I'm sure Aspen and Demon are happy though because they get everything she doesn't eat because she tosses it on the floor.

End of summer

Madison eating dinner outside


Helping me bake


Sitting in her basket


Madison in her chair

I love the bubble hair

Madison playing (Luke is in the green)

Luke taking Madison's pacifier (even he thinks she doesn't need it)

Madison kept gathering all the balls and putting them up in the basket

Playing

More playing ( I know.... she always has a binki)

Well, summer is coming to an end. It's supposed to get into the low 60s and high 50s this week. I wanted it to cool off, but not that much. What happened to the 70s? I think Boise can either do super hot or cold, but no in between!!!!

We had a great weekend. We went for an 11 mile bike ride today and before we turned around we stopped at Ben and Jerry's. Madison loves their raspberry sorbet. Then we did our normal, errands and chores :) We did eat outside tonight which is good because Madison loves to throw all of her food on the floor now. Miss Madison is going through a phase where she only likes her fruits and vegetables. Tonight she had plums, blueberries, cheese, tattor tots and hamburger. Guess what she ate? her fruit, cheese and sweet potatoes and the dogs got the rest. The funny thing was that before we ate she crawled over to the grape vine and picked grapes off of it and popped them into her mouth :) I'm worried though that she's not eating a balanced diet.

I am going to include pictures from last weekened from when we went to Luke's birthday party. He's a friend of Madison's that we met at the Little Gym.

Visitors

Madison with her first pigtails




Madison and Grandpa watching tennis





Grandma and Madison having coffee






Grandpa and Madison in the garage



Grandpa being Madison's shadow

I know the weather hasn't been very fall like, but I am changing my background to a fall one hoping that it will turn our weather to Indian summers and not 90 degree days!!!

This past weekend mom and dad were here. As always, we had a wonderful time. Saturday, JR and Dad did their typical foothills bike ride while Madison experienced her first art in the park. She had a great time people and dog watching. After the art show we met the men at Harry's for beer and burgers. It's nice when mom and dad are here because they watch Madison so that JR and I can catch a movie and so last night we saw Inglorious Basterds. While we were gone, Madison decided to gather up the dog bowls and a spoon and whip up something for Grandma and Grandpa. That is what is on the following video clips. She has such a fun personality and we end up spending most of the time watching her and laughing!!!! I hope everybody enjoys the pictures.

I want to say hi to my Aunt Theresa and to tell her that I love her very much.

Hiking

Demon and Aspen


Madison and me



Madison and Daddy


Demon and Aspen cooling off


Crooked River


Madison and JR


Madison

We went for our first family hike in the woods today. It wasn't any of the foothills hikes through the desert, but a true Northern Idaho hike through the trees and along the river. The trail was the Crooked River trial about 17 miles outside of Idaho City. A couple of years ago we had gone snowshoeing in that area with mom and dad. It was very nice. There was a nice sandy beach that we stopped along that Madison was able to feel the sand and the dogs were able to play in the water. I stuck my feet in the water and JR climbed around the logs and rocks. The only mistake we made was thinking that Madison would sleep in the car on the way up or on the hike. She didn't do either of them!!!! She finally passed out on the way home at 3 until 3:30, so she's going to have an early bed.... we hope :)

Flying

Madison and Grandma McGee


Madison, Mommy, Grandma McGee, and daddy


Daddy and Madison

Madison

Madison and Mommy on the airplane

Last weekend Madison went on her first flight. We flew to Coeur d'Alene to spend time with my mom and dad and Jr's mom. Madison did great on the plane. She got a little fussy just sitting there, but once we took off she enjoyed looking out the window. The flight is such a short one that we didn't even get our drinks since we were sitting towards the back of the plane. Mom and Dad had flown us up so that we could go out on the boat and since we have all the best luck in the world the weather turned to fall weather. It was rainy and in the 70's and JR and I both ended up with colds. It was ok though, we went out on the boat Saturday for a couple hours and Tammi joined us. It was also Madison's first boat ride and she really enjoyed the waves, she started laughing on the way back to the dock. All-in-all it was a wonderful weekend and as I get older I enjoy the cooler weather more. If Oregon wasn't so rainy we would love to live there. The only downside to the trip was that we had to leave Aspen and Demon behind. It's the first time we've ever left them alone, but our good friends came over and watched them and they seemed to have weathered the time alone just fine.

Swimming

Madison not enjoying the water park


madison and Mommy at the water park



Madison and Daddy

Madison

Mommy, Madison, and a shark called Daddy

Madison in her new bathing suit cover up

Madison, Grandpa McGee, and Daddy

The weekend of Madison's birthday her Grandpa McGee stayed in a hotel so that Madison could go in a pool for the first time. She loved it!!!!! She stayed in the pool the entire time either with JR or I holding her or in her floating tube.
This past weekend we took Madison to Roaring Springs, our local water park and she didn't like it very much. I think the children's area was too loud with the splashing water and the other kids, but she loved the wave pool. She loved to splash in the waves and she also tried to crawl while the waves were going so she could go out deeper. Unfortunatly, I only have a couple pictures of the water park because I forgot to charge the camera..... oooops, bad Mommy

1st Birthday Party

Madison opening gifts


Madison giving Daddy a big old cupcake hug!!!


Madison enjoying her cupcake

More cupcake

Singing Happy Birthday

Madison and Aria

Madeline

Kelty, Demon, and Aspen

Madeline and Madison

The Panda cupcakes (mom stuck her finger in the front right one)

Winnie the Pooh balloon

I want to begin by thanking everybody who came to Madison's first birthday. You helped make it a very special day for our sweet baby girl and for our family. We had a great day, but a very hot day. We celebrated by having about 17 people over to our house for a bbq in the backyard. We had the kiddie pool set up in the backyard along with a pool full of balls, a water slide, and the swing set. The kids all seemed to have a lot of fun. Madison was exhausted and slept until 9:45 Sunday morning!!!!