Moving day

Well, we survived moving day (barely). We loaded up the truck on Friday... with the awesome help of C.J. Reed, and drove down to Springfield on Friday night. It was quite an ordeal and too long of a story to type out adequately, but we finally all made it to Poppy and Granny's house, including Mary and Naomi. We spent the night there, and then unloaded the truck on Saturday. We spent our first night in our new house last night! Yay! Poor Madeline had a bad night, but she's feeling much better today. She does not like to be awake past her bedtime. Here are a few pics from the first night in our new home:

Naomi having fun in her pack-n-play: Mary and CJ, the best moving helpers ever!!

Granny's excited to have Madeline less than 15 minutes away!

Tickle tickle

At least that's what it sounds like Madeline has been saying a lot lately. It is so cute, she says it really fast, like "tickle-tickle-tickle-tickle." The other words that she says include: hi, dada, dawdaw (for doggie), mama (very rarely), and ehhh (very frequently). She has been eating better lately, and is good at biting pieces off when you give her a whole cracker/cookie/banana.

Blowing bubbles

I'm not sure if you can hear the bubble blowing, but you can definitely see a good reaction to it!

Jean shorts

I took some pics while we were getting ready for bath time...

Waiting on Aunt Jenn

Today, while we were waiting for Auntie Jenn to arrive in STL, Madeline did some relaxing in the rocking chair. It doesn't look very comfortable, but she seemed to enjoy rocking back and forth like this:
Then we went to lunch at the Crepery! Madeline snacked on some apple butter while we were waiting for our food:

Cleaning up the house

Lately, we've been trying to consolidate as much as possible in preparation for the "big move." Today I was cleaning up around the kitchen, and Zoe was kind enough to help me out in the pantry:

Fun at the zoo

This morning we went to the zoo with Katie, John, and Ben. Everyone had fun! Madeline especially enjoyed playing with the chain while we waited for the train:Madeline and Mommy went for a ride on the carousel. Next time Daddy will go with Madeline for 2 reasons: #1. poor picture taking skills, and more importantly #2. mommy gets motion sickness.