Fun in the Sun

Aunt Lindsay got Madeline a water play mat for her birthday.  You hook it up to the hose, and it sprays water in all different directions.  We got it out to see what Maddie thought of it the other day.  Initially, I put her in the middle of it and turned on the hose.  She wasn't the biggest fan of that.  However, she did end up having lots of fun with it...

 She liked it when daddy swung her back and forth through it...

Here's a short video...

 She's not afraid of getting her face wet...

 Trying to get a drink...

4th of July

On the 4th of July last year, Madeline turned 1 month old.  Here she is "watching" the College Hill neighborhood parade at my parents' house last year...

Here's our 13 month old little girl in the exact same spot this year watching the parade...

 It's amazing how much she had changed!  Our toddler sits and eats ice...

 She LOVES chewing ice...

 She can drink through a sippy cup by herself...

 And she can run...

 Yes, that is a tennis ball in her hand.  At the rate she grows and changes, she'll be on a tennis court before we know it :)

I hope everyone had a very Happy 4th of July!

A common theme

In looking through the pictures of our trip to Florida, I noticed a very common theme...Madeline proudly walking all over the place with Daddy following closely behind!  Here they are at Sea World...

At Downtown Universal Studios later that day...

She was an absolute hit that evening.  She walked right up to everyone she saw, waved, smiled, and said "hi!"  That puts a smile on just about everyone's face, and there were several times when she had a small group of people standing around her smiling and talking to her.  She definitely knows how to work a crowd!

The same thing happened at the airport...Daddy following her around while she walked around smiling and telling everyone "hi!"

She is little miss independent these days, so she usually won't let anyone hold her hand, except to walk up the stairs since she decided walking is much more fun than crawling up them, but her little legs aren't quite tall enough to do it without a little assistance.  We have quite the sociable little girl!