She is on the move

Beware Madison is on the move ... oh my gosh she is starting to find things she shouldn't. The CD rack has been knocked over, Daddy's stick lights broken, cats and dogs conquered. By despite all that it is too gorgeous to watch this little person discover her surroundings, almost as if all she has seen before is new to her again. Maddy can now pull herself up, so she is standing against things - this is a little bit of a pain in the butt as she hasn't worked out to get back to crawling. For example she will stand up in her cot, after I've put her down to sleep, and yell out to me. This morning I had to go in 4 times and lie her back down and then when I walk out again she is really upset. However, she knows how to work her mobile (I've taken the part that turn off) and will sit there pushing the buttons over and over 'selecting the correct chanel' ( must get this from watching daddy).

Madison is such a curious little sausage and has even ventured down the passage looking for me, thinking I'm in the bathroom, when in actual fact I'm in the kitchen. At night I go to run the bath and call out to her, you can hear ..pat .... pat , this is her crawling to me. It is just wonderful to see her peek her head around the corner. Then she'll crawl up to the bath and pull herself up to look over the bath edge and watches the water running.

I think I'm going to have to trim her fringe soon as it is getting quite long, up to her nose, and heavy so it falls down into her eyes sometimes. She is a real little girl and is quite particular about textures ... if I put her down grass that is a little long she will sit there with her hands up and starts shaking them - she won't even crawl to me, also she sometimes won't hold finger foods if they feel funny. Oh, but she is starting to understand the waving concept - but her technique is a little strange as she flaps both hands and arms.

One thing I'm not looking forward to is the day she is no longer a Mommy's girl, probably when I have to start telling her no all the time. Then daddy will come home and say of course you can my Darling. I try to say no once and the distract her. Well, we both are absolutely in love with our daughter.

First Easter

Today is the first day of the long weekend and Connor and Becca are visiting. At the moment she is having a long sleep, but when she wakes she is going to show off her crawling skills to them, oh and her new pearly white. Madison is getting the hang of the art of going from lying down to sitting up all by herself... the only problem is that when she gets to where she wants to and decides to sit, she ends up about a foot or so short of where she wants to be. Oh well, I suppose practice makes perfect. As the days go by it dawns on me how nothing is very far out of Madison's reach, especially with her being mobile. On Monday we will be going to visit Nannie and Brucy - there will also be family to meet for Madison.

Two Milestones in one day

Well, this was quite a day for Madison - she cut her first tooth... aah, my little girl is now moving on in life. I was so proud that I had call Nana to come see. Then the little muchkin decided to crawl for the first time..... yes you read correctly, crawled for the first time. She is such a clever girl, cause we brought out the video camera and she managed to do it again. Go Maddy... Go Maddy.