We're still alive!

It's been brought to my attention that I haven't updated my blog in a very long time-and I haven't. So, just so you're all not worried, we have been "living" in Flagstaff for a few weeks while Mahlon has been working. Since I'm not on my computer I haven't loaded any new pictures so I haven't posted, but when we get home (Probably on Sunday) give me a few days and I'll post lots of great pictures of what we've been up to lately. So don't be worried, we're all ok-we just are really busy. I hope everyone else is doing well. I haven't checked anyone's blog in a few weeks so I'm WAY out of the loop! Check back soon!

Skinny Mini!

So today Madison went to visit the pediatrician for her 12 month check up. I like taking her to the doc. becuase it gives me a chance to ask a few questions and it makes me feel better about things I'd been worrying about. But I hate her having to get shots! Today she had to get 3! And this time they did it in her arms, There isn't even any fat in her arms, poor girl. We both cried.
Anyway, the real "exciting" news is that I got her official measurements and it turns out the bathroom scale wasn't as acuate as I thought.
Here are her stats, and what the doctor said about them.

Height: 27.5 inches <3 percentile.
Weight: 16.5 lbs <3 percentile, under weight

I knew she was small, but I didn't know she was THIS small! She was BARELY in the normal range for weight to height (7th percentile). He asked me again (he asked last time too) how tall me and Mahlon are and although he didn't seem too concerned, he said I should try to "fatten her up" He wrote her a "perscription" for pediasure and said try to get her to drink on once a day-for extra calories! I was so excited to not have to buy formula anymore and this stuff is almost more expensive! He also said to add butter, cheese, sour cream, anything really with fat and calories to her food to give her a little extra!
I'm not to worried about it, because I come from a very long line of very small people, I don't even know if It'll make a difference. He wants to see her again in a month to check her weight. We'll see then, I guess, so untill then- bring on the calories (for Madison anyway!)

Happy Birthday to my Baby!

Well, Madison's official birthday isn't until Tuesday, but we decided to celebrate this Saturday so we threw a pink/strawberry party. Madison LOVES strawberries so I made her a Strawberry yogurt cake with fresh straberry filling and whipped cream frosting. We had some of her favorites to eat: little puffs, strawberries, animal cookies, and strawberry yogut drops (ok, Madison didn't like these, but I had to get them to try because they were pink and so cute! ) and chips (yes, Madison likes nacho cheese doritos!) For the grown ups we had veggies and Pink lemonade punch!
I asked my mother-in-law to pick up a few helium baloons on her way over. She came with four of those shiny helium baloons and a helium tank that filled about 20 regular baloons! We had pink baloons all over the place! There was also pink streamers, pink plates and napkins and pink cupcakes!

This is Madison saying "uh-oh". Everytime I would rip the paper trying to get her started she would get a very concerned face and say "uh-oh" it was so funny!

Madison made out with a ton of stuff, mostly books,which is cool. She probably got like 20 books, no joke! She also got a cabage patch baby, a metal toy kitchen pot set (it is so cute, it even has a mini ladel and pasta spoon and pot holder) a pull along phone, a walker/car, a "baby" grand piano, bubbles, refrigerator magnet letters, and new shoes. She's in baby heaven! She is very spoiled (I mean, loved)!


I have to tell you about her cake. So I made it with straberries because she loves them. When she saw it she got so excited and would point and make her "excited face". After we sang happy birthday I gave her a straberry off the top but she wouldn't eat it with the whipped cream on it. She only poked at her cake and even spit it out with Mahlong tried to feed it to her! She didn't want ice cream either, but after I got the whipped cream off all her strawberries she happily ate them! She's so funny-she didn't want the sweet sugary stuff, only the strawberries! She would have been happier if I had put a pile of strawberries on her try with a candle in it!


Anyway, I can't belive my baby is already one! It went by so fast, I'm starting to get all emotional about her growing up and everytime she does something cute and "grown up" I want to laugh and cry at the same time. She's my pride and joy- she can make me the most frustrated, but is the only one who can make me feel better afterwards. She always brings a smile to my face and no matter how old she gets will always be my baby girl! I love you, Madison. Happy First Birthday, Baby!

Playlist

I was inspired by Erin's post to create a play list. It's a pretty random assortment of songs, and some are a little dated, but it's some of my favorites. I hope you enjoy it!

It works!

Here is the video I tried to upload the other night. I hope it works on your end!

Random events

Well we just got back from a trip to California where we visited Mahlon's older sister and her new baby. He's such a cutie. He was born about 6 weeks early so he's now almost 6 weeks old; (he was due June 3rd) he now weighs about 5lbs. It's crazy to think that even at 6 weeks old he is still smaller than Madison was when she was born! Madison didn't quite know what to think of him. She would get excited and want to look at him, then when he didn't do anything after a second or two, even after she poked him, she would get bored and move on to something else more exciting. We had a fun, relaxing time-eating out, shopping, and watching lots of movies. We took the camera every where we went but never got it out...so here's one of the few pictures we did get.

Madison with her new cousin Jaxon


Also, the other day I came around the corner and laughed out loud when I saw Madison lounging in her bumbo chair, backwards. I don't know how she got in there like that, but it was too cute! When I took the pictures she was looking at me like "what's the big deal, mom?"


So Mahlon got a new video camera for a graduation present, I was so excited to be able to take videos of Madison! (I think I was more excited about Mahlon's gift than he was!) I've been trying to figure out digital video, so hopefully I can upload it correctly....we'll see. (11:32pm update: I've been uplaoding for a while now and wished I had started the video upload first, so it could be loading while I typed out my post. It's taking forever! Lesson learned. Hopefully it's not to big for you all to upload and view...)(still waiting...5 hours later. j/k, but it is taking an annoyingly long time, does it always take this long?) (11:53pm...still waiting.) Now it's "Processing Video"-Argh!


uh...I don't think it worked. : ( (note it's 12:15am) Sorry, all that build up for nothing. I don't know what went wrong?!

Family Fun Day

( Sorry this picture is so small! : ( )
Yesterday was Mahlon's last day of school and was supposed to be my last day of work, but I ended up having the whole week off, which was nice, but to celebrate we decided to take a day and have some fun. We decided to go to a movie, becuase on the weekends you can go before noon and only pay $5 a ticket. We planned on seeing The new Chronicls of Narnia movie but when we got there the ticket guy said there were still a lot of tickets available for the new Indiana Jones movie. We are both huge Indiana fans so we opted to see this instead, we just figured it would have been packed, but since it wasn't we jumped at the chance. We didn't have to wait in line, and we got front row seats (I guess not a lot of people could skip school/work to see Indiana Jones at 10:45am-even if it was opening weekend) Anyway, I thought it was good (I only missed a little bit to change a diaper and walk with a crying baby). The first three are great, Classics, so it's hard to compare, but I really enjoyed this new one. Plus, it was fun to see something new from Dr. Jones, although there were some pretty unbelievable parts, I'd still give it a thumbs up. Too bad Harison Ford is so much older though, I'm only in love with the younger, more dashing Indiana.

Anyway, after the movie we grabbed some Subway for lunch and headed to the bowling alley for some .99/game fun- quite a deal! We were kicking ourselves for not bringing a camera (I know Carrie, I need to take a camera EVERYWHERE!) Madison was being so cute for awhile, clapping for us and giving High fives, but later got pretty cranky as the effects of a shortened nap kicked in, but we still had a great time. I am absolutely the worst bowler, and got worse the more I played my scores: 86, 71, 65 (too bad its not a lowest score wins game). Mahlon however did much better, getting a 171 on his last game! His score was generally about twice what mine was, all the way to the end. Oh, well.

It was so fun to spend some time together as a family, a much needed break from the stress of school and work. I wish everyday could be like this!