Quick family picture.

On Sunday we took a quick family picture.
We have over 600 pictures of just madilyn, and over 100 of her and Jordan.
How many do we of all three of us or just me and her?  Maybe 4.

So we changed that.

 High quality Photos by the  handy old point and shoot with a self timer. 

10 Months.

Madilyn is pretty much the star of this blog.  Which I am cool with, one because she is pretty much the star of my life, and everything that I think it worth posting just happens to be about her.
So why not just tell you even more about my little 10 month old!

First off, 10 months!  How did this happen?  she is really getting so big and SO active.

 Here are some happenings, current loves, and such.

 It is really blurry, but here they were just relaxing together, she propped up on dad while she "talked" to him

 Sharing some NUMMY lettuce wraps at PF Changs. 

She is a walking machine, if she is holding on to something that is.  

She holds on and walks everywhere, if she runs out of things to hold on to she crawls to the next thing and pops back up.

Plus look how cute the outfit dad picked out is!

 She still LOVES the scriptures.  Remember the post on FEASTING on them a couple of months ago? Luckily she has stopped eating them, but she still loves to flip/crumple the pages. 

 Puzzles! These ones we found at the library one afternoon. 45 minutes of pure delight for her!

 Madilyn seriously loves big people food, you know food that is not mashed. 

She had her first very own sandwich, turkey and cheese. Loved it and ate the whole thing.

 I am 100% sure she knows when food is being made. If I open the fridge it seems she magically appears with her hand up looking for a nibble of anything.  

Sees me grab her camelback, meets me at the fridge or sink. 

If she sees you even so much as get out a piece of silverware, you know you can expect some lovin from here.

Daddy gave her a big mouth full of ice cream when I was not looking.

 She also loves her diaper bag.  She often crawls into the mudroom to find it.  

She loves to empty everything out of any kind of bucket or bag and this one always has the good stuff, toys, sippy cup, moms keys.

This time I forgot to grab her crackers out of it and I found her with one in each hand and trying to eat the third right off the floor. 

Life is great with our little busy body.

Picnic at the temple

A couple of weeks ago Jordan and I had the opportunity to go to the temple TOGETHER for the first time since Madilyn was born.  Jordan's parents went to a morning session and we drove up to Columbia and met them as they were getting out of the temple, and they watched Madilyn while we were able to go to a session.  Oh how I missed being in the temple with Jordan.  I have been a few times since she was born on my own, which has always been wonderful, but in all honestly it is so much better to be in that very special place with your husband.
Anyways we knew it was going to be a long day for Madilyn so we decided to pack a lunch to have together before we went in.  It was a pretty sweet picnic lunch if I do say so myself.  We figured we would just sit in the car or grass and eat, but when we got there we found like seven or eight picnic tables on the temple grounds.  I have never been to a temple that have picnic tables before! It was a beautiful day out and it was so nice to have lunch while being able to see the beautiful temple.

Daddy and baby both way more interested in the food than the picture. 

 Columbia, SC temple.  

Not the best picture, but it was our view from the table. 

 Her favorite part of the trip, eating her first orange. Peel and all. 

9 months

Madilyn is 9 months!
She is still the cutest and funnest little girl around.
And her daddy's favorite.
It is also more than obvious that Dad is her favorite too. She is crazy about daddy, when Jordan calls after work to say he is on his way home I always sing the song, I'm So Glad When Daddy Comes Home, and the girl goes CRAZY! She laughs and claps and has a hard time controlling her arms she is so happy.  On the weekends and week nights she is always by his side, and if Jordan leaves the room and she realizes it (this sometimes takes up to 20 min depending on what she is playing with) she crawls back to the bedrooms YELLING DA dada DADdadadaY.  She is so cute.
This morning Jordan was doing the dishes and he had Madilyn in the bouncer and I kept hearing from the other room, "i da" (Hi dad), "Hi Madilyn" over and over.  It was SO cute.

Madilyn learned to wave!

This is not a good picture of Jordan, but it is a perfect shot of madilyn, she LOVES being up on daddy's shoulders, and likes to lean over on give kisses, but the other day she kept leaning over and bitting his ear, it was pretty funny. 

 The girl can also open cabinets, climb in and climb up on to the shelf. 

 She has FINALLY stopped needing to be swaddled! 

 Daddy and madi coloring a picture of Moses in the baptist bookstore. 

Loves:

Food.

Eating off of our plates.

Bath time

Walks

climbing up on everything.

Walking (with help of course)

Reading books.

DADDY

Ridding in grocery carts.

Playing "I'm going to get you"

The cat that lives on our deck.

Unplugging things from the wall

Not so much:

Bedtime/naptime

Not getting a bite of mom's food.

Long car rides, and by that I mean anything over 20 minutes.

When mom takes away her away from electrical outlets. 

Not being aloud to climb up onto the dishwasher. 

6 Months Old.

So back in June we had Madilyn's sixth months old pictures taken!  Luckily we have a super talented mom in our ward who does some work on the side!  Even with a tired and hot baby she was able to get some great shots!