Santa Pictures!

Today Santa came to Daycare to take pictures with all of the kids! Unfortunately, we were at work while all of this was happening, but Madeline got to meet Santa for the first time :-) We dressed her up in her new Christmas outfit for the big event, but she doesn't look very happy... we think it's because mom and dad weren't there to make her smile :-)

Family Christmas Picture

Today was the annual Honda R&D Christmas party. Since we were all dressed up and Aunt Alyssa was in town to babysit, we decided to take a family Christmas picture. We couldn't get a smile out of Madeline with all 3 of us (it was too close to bed time), but the pictures still turned out all right :-)

I guess she thought the pictures with just Mom and just Dad were worth smiling for!

Christmas Art

Madeline has been doing a lot of Holiday art projects at Daycare lately. She made a snowflake out of her painted footprints, a Rudolph Christmas tree ornament by tracing her hands and feet on construction paper, a paper wreath made out of lots of traced, cut-out handprints, a candle holder with snowmen created by her painted fingerprints, a Santa with a beard made out of cotton balls, a candy cane made by wraping paper around her arm and here she is painting a Santa figurine! Ms. Amy sure does keep her busy!

Meeting Matt

Today one of our best friends from college, Matt Kuehnert, came to visit. He lives in Texas, but happened to be in Springfield, OH for business. Since he was so close he came over for dinner and finally got to meet Madeline :-)

Making Lasagna

Today Madeline helped Mom make Lasagna. She's still not old enough to try it for herself, but she really seemed to enjoy watching! We think she enjoyed all of the new smells :-) She's taking more interest in solid food all the time - maybe it's time for Mommy and Daddy to start thinking about giving her her first cereal ?!?

Decorating for Madeline's First Christmas!

Time to decorate for Christmas! Even though we will be in Indiana and Minnesota for Christmas this year we wanted to decorate the house for us to enjoy while we were still in Ohio. So, today we dug out all of the Christmas decorations from the basement and put them up all around the house.


The stocking are hung on the staircase, the candles that smell like pine trees have been set out and Madeline helped us docorate her first Christmas tree :-)

Pictures, Pictures & More Pictures

Ok, we might be going overboard with all of the pictures....






but her new little Christmas dress is just too cute!

Diaper Time!

We're still trying to master our new camera so we took some pictures of Madeline in her diaper to play with the Black & White options - These are a sample of what we got!

Thanksgiving

This year we celebrated Thanksgiving at home. Aunt Alyssa came up from college in Cincinnati to spend a few days with us. With Alyssa's help we made a complete Thanksgiving feast. No turkey for Madeline this year, but I'm sure she'll make up for it next year :-)

Grandpa & Grandma Frantz came to spend the day with us too- they brought the pie! As you can see we all had a wonderful time!

Daddy and Grandpa even went out and bought us a Christmas Tree. We haven't decorated it yet, but we will soon!

Off to Daycare!

Today Mommy had to go back to work & that meant Madeline was off to her first day at Daycare! She really seemed to fit right in. There was no crying - at least not any from Madeline - Mom was a different story! It was hard to leave her, but we're sure she's going to enjoy her time here. She's going to a Learning Center called Enchanted Care. She has her own crib and tons of new toys to play with! Miss Amy is going to be watching her along with 3 other little ones - all about the same age as Madeline. Their names are Shannon, Clark & Tatum. We're sure they'll all become great friends :-)