Counting
Maddie can count (with a little help)
Pin-t!
Maddie likes to use a pin’t (what you call a pen.) Only she likes to use it anywhere but on paper. Auto-tattooing ranks high on her list of fave spots.
Memorial Day Weekend
We thought taking Maddie & Root Beer up to The Capri Hotel in Ojai was a no brainer: warm weather, a grass dog yard, two pools, what more could you want? WRONG. Maddie found the unheated pool to be too “hot,” the crib apparently uncomfortable. Why else would she awake shrieking every 15 minutes? Maddie can’t be blamed for everything as the weekend started out rough when G worked from about 10AM Friday until 5:30AM Saturday. Let’s just say he wasn’t in tip top shape for the trip.
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- Root Beer could get out of the patio but he couldn’t get back in!
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- A rare nap.
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- Bringing home Dad’s beer. Good girl!
Mean Ol’ Ducks!
We took Maddie and some friends to the Dino Fair last weekend. She met a mean duck in the petting zoo. I don’t blame that duck though – they were in that little pen for 5 hours being petted to within an inch of their lives by kids. Agh! Maddie doesn’t forgive OR forget.
How does that Bunny lay eggs?
We had a little egg hunt at our new place this morning.
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- Thanks, Carl!
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- An Unwilling Bunny
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- NOT in the mood for this
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- Maddie’s oldest friend, Evy
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- She seemed to know just what to do
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- More friends a’hunting!
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- Kitten was exhausted afterwards
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- Maddie cared so deeply about her basket
Dietary Desires
Maddie has rejected perfectly yummy cheese, sweet potatoes, strawberries and sugar cookies. Here’s what she REALLY likes…
Valentine’s Weekend
We always go to Cayucos for Valentine’s weekend because Valentine’s Day was our first date – to see Dwight Yoakam in Orange County. What a date! Complete with a beer bottle flying through the air, blood and an ambulance. Anyway, this year it was a little different as my brother, Andrew, was in town. We decided to meet up with my dad too. The weather was hot & sunny.
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- Root Beer sliding down the gap between the couch & ottoman
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- At the dog beach near Moro Bay
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- Root Beer’s nest
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- Enjoying her first Otter Pop & a side of sliced tomatoes
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- Gettin’ Mama!
Sleddin’ Baldy Style
We headed up to Mt. Baldy a few weeks ago with our $6.99 yellow saucer (Made in China), Robert, Katarina, Aston & Root Beer. 1.5 hours of driving, and a couple more hours later (for a wreck to be cleared off the single lane mountain road), we were on our way to the half melted icy “snow” leftover. No matter! The babies, never having seen snow before, were totally impressed and had a great time! Oh, and I learned a lesson, not to be too tight with the sled money since the saucer snapped in half on our first run when we passed ever so lightly over a ROCK.
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- Root Beer got cold feet. Literally.
These squeaking shoes were made for walking
So Maddie has been threatening to walk since October, but it turns out she is a very cautious child and has pretty much insisted on holding the hand of Mom and/or Dad before even thinking about walking across the room. So after a few months, she has finally decided that her parent’s backs hurt bad enough, and she is now walking on her own! I guess the lure of chasing Root Beer across the room so that she could get a better angle for throwing things at him was too much. Here’s a short video of her new found skill.
Real Bad Hair
Sometimes Maddie wakes up looking like this.