Mommy's Birthday!!

Let me just say Maddie is getting so big so fast. She is going to be 7 months old in a few days and it has completely flown by. She is doing so many more fun things now. She is eating all kinds of food--mostly baby food, but she has had puffs, bread, and big girl bananas!! She is sitting up all by herself now and tries to catch herself when she starts to tip over. She is starting to have a mind of her own and wants to be down on the floor playing with her toys whenever she can. She is able to get up on her hands and knees now, and lunges occasionally--so we know she is on the verge of crawling!! Oh no!! Maddie was a little fussy last night, I thought it might be her teeth and sure enough when we woke up this morning her bottom right tooth had broken through her gums! I can't believe my baby girl is getting her first tooth!! It really doesn't seem possible.

The last week has been wonderful. I turned 28 on August 20th! Maddie sent flowers to work for me! They were beautiful! I don't know if you can tell from the picture, but the flowers had a pink and white polka dotted ribbon around the vase and Maddie has a matching ribbon in her hair.




Sandra and Neal Salerno came to visit our little family. You can't tell at all from the picture, but Sandy is 6 1/2 months pregnant. She is due Nov. 6th! She looks so good. Her tummy is so little and cute!!

Neal practiced his baby holding skills with Maddie. Josh and I kept trying to talk him into changing some diapers, but he didn't want to have any part of that yet!

Maddie loves to eat puffs!! Saturday, while Josh and I were eating we filled her tray up with some puffs and they kept disappearing, so we thought she was eating them. When I went to get her out of her high chair I noticed the whole seat was full of puffs! If you look on Maddie's left side you can see a big pile of puffs!

Ok...please excuse my stars and stripes bathrobe! This is Maddie after she came out of the high chair she had half-eaten puffs stuck everywhere!

Maddie's sleepy pose. We know she is tired whenever she "finds her fingers". She always sucks on the two middle ones, she could care less about pacifiers or her thumb.