Tiny painted toes.

It wasn't easy....at all, but I did manage to paint her tiny toes the other day.

Madeline is 11 months!

Madeline is 11 months today. One more month and she'll be a year old. Where has the time gone? Madeline spent the afternoon in her swimming pool. As you can see by the photos here, she really does love the water. Happy baby!

At 11 months old, Madeline:

• Crawls...fast!
• Pulls herself up on anything and everything and walks circles around the furniture and even while we hold just one hand. Soon...very soon she'll be on her own.
• Finally started to get her first tooth, bottom left. She doesn't particularly care for teething...and neither does mom and dad. Many restless nights recently.
• Says "momma" and "dadda".

Crawling

Finally posting a video of Madeline crawling. She can get to where she wants to be in seconds! It's so fun to watch her go!

Entertaining Herself.

In the recent 90 degree heat, with a dew point that pretty much matched...it was a diaper day. Madeline entertained herself for quite sometime doing this....

Photo Update.

Madeline discovered the dog dishes over the weekend. Water dish-all over. Food dish-fun! Check out that tongue. She's workin' hard!

Hot summer+swimming pool=FUN!

The tupperware cupboard is a relief to any mother.

Happy Father's Day.

Happy Father's Day from Madeline. Thank you daddy for all the playtime we get to have. I love you very much. You are the best daddy in the world.

10 months old.

Fun with sidewalk chalk. Obviously she wasn't able to write her name with a large heart around it, but she did make marks on the sidewalk with her chalk. She seemed to have fun with it....she had it all over her toes, hands, legs and arms. She was also facinated with the cement ground. She would run her hand all over it. Interesting texture I suppose.

Here are a few of her developments this month:

• Has yet to master crawling, but is so close. She scoots, rolls and does the combat crawl all over a room to get to where she wants to go.
• Loves to find a table or chair to try to pull herself on on. She gets up to her knees and can't quite figure out what to do with her feet
• Lots of babbling and the only word it sounds like she's working on is "Mum"
• Can go from her belly or her back to sitting
• Loves to clap her hands, pat her legs, and do "so....big"