Madeline's New Bathrobe

OK, the bathrobe isn't new - she got it as a gift when she was born, but it finally fits!

She's definately a cutie in the white robe with a bear on the front.

Madeline Got a Highchair!

Madeline's Godparents (Uncle Nick & Aunt Alyssa) got her a highchair for Christmas! We put it together today and tried it out. She looks pretty little in it, but she thought the new toys that came with it were great. She's not eating any solids quite yet, but I think we're going to start soon. Don't worry, we'll take lots of pictures of her first solid food experience and post them - that should be entertaining! For now we love the highchair because she can sit in it and watch us make dinner :-)

Christmas Lights!

Today all three of us went out Christmas Shopping! We made it to 5 different stores and put a big dent in our Christmas List. Madeline slept through most of the shopping, so that meant she was awake and ready for our next adventure - all of the Christmas Lights at the Columbus Zoo!

Every Year the Columbus Zoo decorates the entire zoo with millions of Christmas lights. Each tree, animal pen and building is lit up with colorful lights. They have lights in the shape of zoo animals and some of them even move - just like the real animals. Madeline was completely taken by all of it. We think she really enjoyed it!

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!