One and Beautiful

I am long overdue for Madeline’s one year post (Happy Birthday, baby.) but before the month of August got away from me, I wanted to do a quick post. There are so many milestones that Madeline has hit before Abigail and I have been amazed every day. Not that hitting milestones is a race and we are keeping score but it is just so fun to see who did what first. We only have Abigail to use as a benchmark and since she is growing up fabulously, we know we are on track to have another outstanding girl.


One of the most amazing things is that by one Maddy is walking. Not just a few steps but full out walking from the kitchen to the family room without falling down. She still toddles like she has been drinking the spiked milk but walking is walking. It was amazing how quickly she took to walking. We were seriously seeing the differences from week to week instead of just month to month. My parents even came down to visit once and then three weeks later and remarked at the difference.

We are also still saying “Dooo! Or Doh!” to everything and not really saying Mama or Dada yet. Sometimes it is said as a fluke but we working on speaking words to hear in hopes that we will get something back. As with Abigail, we have also started baby sign language teaching her how to put her hands together to say more. Well, we sort of made progress. Maddy will put her pointer fingers together and say “Boah!” Which of course we applaud and she just laughs. So we aren’t really talking much but what she understands blows us away. We were at a friend’s house the other day for a birthday party. Maddy made herself right at home and started to take off small magnets off of their refrigerator. I was concerned that she would swallow them so we just turned to her and asked “Can you put those back on the fridge, please?” Sure enough, she turned right around, walked over to the fridge and stuck them back on. I turned to Josh and stated “I totally didn’t think that would work!”

Madeline is making strides to becoming a toddler and I am seeing my little baby slipping away. She knows what she wants, understands everything and will be talking up a storm before I know it to keep up with her sister.

Happy Birthday, Maddy-Boo.