Maddy in the Park

Here's a few pics from our visit to the park.

So tired... so stubborn.

Maddy is a terrible napper. She takes about 2 naps a day, but her naps don't last any longer than 15-30 minutes. If I'm really lucky she sleeps for 45 min, but that almost never happens. When she does sleep it's under duress. She won't sleep in her crib during the day. If you put her in it, she crawls around her crib for 20 minutes till she gets bored and starts crying. She will sleep in her swing, but only after whimpering herself to sleep.

So today was a typical Maddy day. Maddy took a nap this morning in her swing for 25 min. and then woke up when Ash and Jerry came in because, well, she might miss something. Then, when this afternoon rolled around I tried to get her to take a nap, but she refused and she fussed and whined, so fine. Ash and I wanted to go out to the park, so we took Maddy and she played a little and we strolled around the park. She eventually fell asleep in the stroller, but only slept for about 15 min.

So, Maddy slept for about 35 min today. That's it. Let me show you what a tired baby who refuses to nap all day looks like at 7:30 at night when she is still refusing to sleep.



She's so naughty.

More pics of Maddy

I got a new DLSR for shooting video but it also takes some pretty nice pictures too. Maddy can be a ham.

Picky little bad baby

Maddy is a good eater. She always has been. She will eat any baby food that I buy at the store and put in her mouth. She eats peas, bananas, applesauce, carrots, and sweet potatoes. She loves sweet potatoes. Now, the ingredient list on a jar of sweet potatoes consists of water and sweet potatoes. Simple, right?

Well, I got a new blender for my birthday and figured I could totally make that at home. So, I peeled and cut up some sweet potatoes. I steamed them and then put them in a blender with some water. I blended them to baby food consistency. Afterwards, I put them in baby food jars, let them cool and fed them to Maddy for lunch. This was Maddy's reaction...



What the heck? How did she even know? She's so weird.

Also, the other day, Maddy was sitting across the living from me. It was evening and she was playing with the DVD cases. So I started picking up a little bit around where I was sitting. I cleaned up the coffee table and put the lid back on the cereal bits. I was holding the jar in my lap when Maddy turned around and looked at me and started crawling toward me!! I was so excited. I had been trying to get her to crawl toward me all day and she just wasn't interested and now she was actually doing it. Then I realized she wasn't actually looking at me. She was looking at the jar of cereal bits in my hand and she was crawling fast. When she got to me she only looked at me once she had her hand on the cereal bits as if to say, "Aren't you proud, mommy? I need a reward."

Just gotta have purpose

Last night, Maddy started crawling. Or at least, I saw her starting to crawl for the first time. Ash said, "Oh yeah, she does that." Nan and I had spread cereal bits out on the floor and Maddy would crawl a couple of steps to get at them.

I was so excited and have spent a good chunk of today trying to coax her to crawl some more. I've used toys and books and coercion. She would not do it though. Finally, I got out the cereal pieces again and this is what happened...



She's so funny. Now, she's going to be even more dangerous. I'm already not really sure how she does what she does. Like, how did she end up here?

A Day in the Life, part 2

Maddy's days are pretty well packed. She wakes up in the morning. Sometimes she helps me cook...



It mostly involves sitting on the counter chewing on a tablespoon while I narrate what I'm doing, but she seems to enjoy it and I like the company.

Then after a fabulous breakfast of cereal and fruit, Maddy spends most of her day playing. She has her own nice corner of the living room...



She usually stays in it for about 5 minutes and then spends the rest of the time rolling around the floor and bonking her head on the coffee table. If that table were only an inch or two higher or if she would just stop rolling under it, she'd be fine, but she's stubborn. Little tiger.

If she's lucky, she also gets to play dress up, which really means I get to play dress up with her. I took these for a birthday card for her great-grandma.



She enjoyed it at first...



Then she got tired of the picture taking.

It's so hard to be cute.

The Many Sweaters of Maddy

It's finally starting to cool off outside. That's no problem for Maddy though. She is the baby of many sweaters. As seen here:



And here...



And here...



She is all sorts of ready for winter now. And she's still got one more coming if I ever finish the one I've been working on. I started it before she was born. Good thing I was knitting it for a one year old because that's how old she'll be by the time it's finished!!