Week Thirty

• went to the pool/splash park with Jacob from next door.  Maddie enjoys sitting in the water and watching all of the other kids, but just a little bit of sun and water and that girl gets tired.  We ended up taking a little siesta while Jacob continued playing.
• went to Olive Garden with mommy and my college friend, Candace.  She sat in the restaurant high chair for the first time and was great!  It's a little more challenging to eat a nice dinner and feed Maddie plus keep her occupied, but it's also nice to get out once in awhile and teach Maddie how to eat out.
• is learning how to wave.  She watches our hands as we wave to her and tries to make the same motion we do.  She is getting much better at it and has started to wave at herself and others when we are out.
• is babbling now.  She was always a big talker, but just made little baby sounds.  Now she is saying: da, duh, da-da, and sometimes do.
• looks at Noah and says, "duh".  We have been teaching her to say dog and I think she is starting to put it together when she sees Noah. 
• is really getting good at her army crawling.  She pulls herself along the floor pretty quickly...especially when she wants a toy or Noah.
• can get up on all fours and rock, but she hasn't become brave enough to move her hands and legs yet. 
• traveled up to Niceville for our week of vacation. She did very well in the car, but now with having to eat solids at breakfast and lunch our 6 hour drive became an 8 hour drive.  We stopped to eat breakfast and lunch with her on the way up.
• swam in Boggy Buyou where her daddy learned to knee board.  She enjoyed standing in the water with daddy!
• went to the beach on her 30 week birthday! This was Maddie's first trip to the beach and she seemed to enjoy herself.  We stayed less than an hour and kept her under the umbrella, but she did get a chance to play in the waves and play in the wet sand (which of course she tried to eat).
• went out to lunch with mommy and daddy after the beach.  We took her to a casual beach type place on the water and ate outside in our bathing suits.  Maddie did so well in the high chair and enjoyed watching all of the boats at the harbour.  We practiced waving to them as they went by.

Week 30 Adventures...

Daddy: "Brown Bear, Brown Bear...."

Noah likes to be a part of bedtime

Maddie's 'new' toychest.  This was my toychest that my dad made me 25 years ago, so I put a little TLC into it for Maddie.

Maddie decided she wanted to drive to Granny's house

First time at the beach!

While we were gone Jacob came over by himself to visit Maddie!