Busy busy!

Geesh, we've been busy this past week! I'm going to spread out all the pictures among a few blogs so this one's not huge. Besides, it'll take too long to do it all at once.

Last week started by my needing to take care of Caleb and Leslie Grace Mon-Wed. since their normal sitter had a death in the family. In the mornings I just had Leslie Grace who is 4 months older so the girls had a nice time playing together.

Leslie Grace was supposed to teach her new things like how to crawl and walk but she wasn't much help. She would just push down on Maddox's bottom when Maddox got up on her knees. Maddox did become very interested in trying bigger girl foods. She would watch Leslie Grace eat things that weren't baby food and want some herself. We bought her some Puffs snacks to try out and she's only choked once.

After we got those two kids to bed M and I would head to school to pick up the other two and take care of them. It was a busy week and Maddox sure missed the normality of life at home but once in a while it works.

And that was just the first 3 days of the week . . .

Jessie's playdate

We had a visitor for the week last week. A little almost 5 month old shitzhu named Maple. Both Jessi and Maddox loved having her around. I think especially Jessi went through some withdrawal or boredom after she left. Too quiet around here!

Darn, apparently I accidentally deleted the cutest video. Well, here's the one I have left of the two dogs playing.

Lastly, Abbey died this past Sunday. That is the Bacon's dog for those of you that don't know. They buried her and we've been painting bricks to put on her grave. The yellow one is mine, the other is Morgan's. There are others already outside. She was 13 years old and such a good, gentle dog. We'll all miss her.

Funny videos, firsts, and fun pictures

There's 3 videos posted today. I've had them piling up until I got to work today. I guess my connection is too slow to upload videos.

Maddox loves her a good peach:

I took Maddox outside this morning to sit in the grass and took the camera with us. Digital cameras are so great! I love that I can take tons of pictures and then delete half of them! Here's a few:

See that lower lip? For some reason (thanks to her father's lack of an upper lip) she looks like she's pouting ALL the time! This is how she looks most of the time now. No, she's not at all unhappy. I just have to call soon to get an appointment for a little collagen in that upper lip.Tonight at Jeremy's softball game I put her in the sandbox. She didn't try to eat it at all. Just kept trying to pick it up. I'll post a video of it below so you can see how interested she is in new things and textures. That nice red mark down her face is from her own fingernails. I guess at lunch she was rubbing her eyes and just pulled down and scratched herself up. Blame Jeremy, I was out getting my hair cut.

And finally, she was having a mixed berry cup and chicken in chicken broth for dinner a few nights ago. Can you guess which is which?

Let's just say it smelled like something I should feed the cat. Apparently it tasted that way too!

Bath time

Maddox loves taking baths now. I'll let her play for 10 min. or so and she'll spend most of her time trying to get this little bug toy that scoots around. Once she catches it she'll, of course, put it in her mouth.

Her look when I squeeze the washcloth over her head to get soap off: And her look the rest of the time:

Oh yeah, she's had a cold these past few days. Snot down her face yesterday and a slight fever for a couple of days. I don't think it's teething since she didn't get those symptoms the first time and she was around Camden who was sick with those same symptoms all last week. But she's so good when she's sick! She was a little bit fussy, but not much at all. Probably normal for most babies. She's been getting better today.

There's also this other "problem" we have on Tuesdays now. (I think it's great to be loved so much, but for Jeremy it's a problem.) Choir started back up so Jeremy comes to pick her up at choir around 7:20 after work and take her home for bed. So far both weeks she's cried for an hour when he puts her to bed. Of course that's the only night he puts her to bed and gives up too easily if I make him do it other nights so she'll get used to him. Like I said, not good for him as he gets very frustrated, but I love that she wants only me. So sweet . . . Lots of weeks left, she'll get over it eventually.

Random acts

This isn't the best picture because she's in her Jumparoo and moving too much . . . but here's the evidence that there's teeth in there. They're finally just slightly big enough to see if she smiles big. And this is how Maddox spends her day. Or at least a good half hour or more. I set her on the floor with her basket of toys (thank you sister Jennifer, I think, for giving me a shower gift in that basket) and one by one she takes them each out and plays with them. Just starting her game . . .

And she's pretty much finished . . .