Somebody Thinks She's Big

I hate to admit it, but mom was right. When I started letting Maddy take bites of whatever I was eating, it was like opening Pandora's Box. Now, she thinks she's big and can eat anything. There are some things she can't have no matter how hard she tries, such as hot wings. (*That would just be a bad idea!!) And then, there are somethings, which I'm sure there is no way she will either A) like it or B) be able to eat it. The Roma tomato that I had on the kitchen table for example that became a lovely Maddy snack when I thought she would just ignore it, or at the most, take one bite and put it down. That poor tomato never stood a chance. She devoured it like it was candy.

So the other day, I had an apple. Baby's don't eat apples, right? Babies eat apple sauce with maybe the occasional soft chunk, but not an apple apple. With hard core and skin... and definitely not a granny smith apple... right?



And certainly after taking a few bites she would put it down...



She's so funny!

And now, for a Christmas bonus. This is from Maddy's first Christmas Eve, when she got her first pair of big girl jammies. *That means not footie pajamas* She's so big I could weep... if I wasn't laughing at her because she doesn't so much care about the jammies as she does the Christmas coke grenade that Ash is drinking.



Maddy sez "MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY"

Video drop 2

I downloaded these videos to my computer a little while ago and I've been waiting for the right time to post them. The right time hasn't really come up yet, so I'm just going to post them because, well, Maddy's cute and big and who doesn't want to see that.

These are from our trip to Michigan. Babies do OK in the car for the first few hours of a trip, but after that they start getting bored, so we stopped at a McDonald's with a play place. So Maddy was a little nervous actually crawling through the tubes, but in general, had a really good time with her daddy.






Finally, we have Maddy vs. the dragon.



The dragon might think it was fierce, but Maddy is the fiercest! Little tiger.

Maddy and her Daddy, part 2

Maddy loves her daddy a lot and likes to help him. Sometimes, babies aren't that helpful though, but Ash has come up with some creative ways to make Maddy think she is helping when she's not. Like when he pulled apart his old laptop and saved the keyboard just for her. Now, Maddy can be just like her daddy. She thinks she's so big.



Then there are time when you want Maddy to be helpful and she just doesn't quite get it. Like when you want to test your new sound equipment and the world's loudest baby becomes oddly silent.

The Bad Baby Diaries

Maddy gets into trouble.

Maddy rips from Ash Ahrens on Vimeo.

Fat Fairy

Halloween Pics of Maddy.

Clap if you believe in fairies!!

Maddy's first Halloween was very successful. Thanks to Auntie Di, she was the cutest fat fairy around. I was mostly amazed though by how well she tolerated her wings.



The real problem came though when she would try to crawl underthings and her wings would get stuck. Then she would be one mad fairy!

She took her fairy fame and popularity well though. The bright flashing is Ash snapping a million pictures of her that he will hopefully post later.



All in all. A successful first Halloween. I think she was more impressed by her wand than the candy though.

She can stand and she wants to ROCK!

Maddy has been standing up on her own the last few days. She loves to stand up against my guitar so she can slap the strings.