with all the things Christmas related to cover the past few days i haven't written about the little everyday things that have been going on. madelyn has moved up to a 'big girl' car seat. matt's parents got it for us for Christmas and maddie has been riding all over town in her cushy new seat. the trick is going to be getting it back to wisconsin. luckily, we have some wonderful friends who drove down to kansas for the holidays and said that they could drive some things back for us if we needed them to - i hope they have a lot of extra room...we also started her on winter squash which has been a big hit! when we get back home i am
going to make her up some homemade winter squash varieties, but for now she is enjoying the jarred version. i think that she might be ready for snacks too. she has been eating three meals a day and is still waking up at night. and these are not small meals either. she is eating about 7 oz. of food followed by 5 oz. of milk. yesterday she ate almost two whole bananas in one sitting! (i had to throw away a little because of a bruise otherwise she would have eaten the whole thing.) she is just so active that i can't keep up with her calorie consumption. i think that next week we will start to introduce snacks into our routine - maybe even some finger foods.
now that all the presents have been given, we got to the business of returning and exchanging. first stop was kohl's and maddie liked riding in their forward facing carts. after kohl's we went to one of my favorite stores, dsw, for some shoe shopping and everyone bought shoes except for me. i almost cried. they were having their 80% off sale and had nothing in my size! if only i could cut my toes off...after shopping and dinner at the cheesecake factory, maddie got to spend some time playing with papa and nana while daddy and uncle derek played tiger woods pga golf on the new wii. here is some video of her sort of crawling to nana. she is not totally coordinated in her movements, but she is definitely starting to cover a lot more ground with a lot more speed. and she moves fastest when she is getting into something that she shouldn't be.
then nana got maddie ready for bed and papa rocked her to sleep.
everyone is waiting for me to watch a movie so i have to run. love.
1 comment:
Maybe she needs a good steak and baked potato! Reece used to eat a ton, too. I did homemade baby food for him, too, but had to stop around 7 months because I just couldn't keep up with his apetite anymore :)
Enjoy the rest of your Christmas vacation!
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