Madison Marie

Madison Marie

It seems like only yesterday that little Madison joined our family, and now shes already 1. She was such a good baby and very mellow. She is very different from her sisters because she is just so easy going and easy to please. Give her food and she will be your best friend. She does the funniest thing. If she finds a lid to one of her sisters markers she puts it on her finger (notice in the picture) and leaves it there all day. If you take it off she gets mad and wants it right back. She also like to wear Kenedis clothes and she loves shoes. It doesn't matter who's shoes they are she carries them around or wants to wear them.
I miss her being a baby and cuddling her. She is always on the go but every once in a while she stops and needs some lovies. This is one of my favorite pictures of her. She is almost 2 months old and it just shows how happy she is all the time.
When she started crawling she learned that she could get all of her sisters toys that were left laying around. They soon learned to keep their things put away or else Madison would get ahold if it and drool all over it.
She has got the cutest personality and keeps us all laughing. She can be sassy and very loving at the same time. We love you Maddy Moo!!

Fair Week

This last week was the fair here in Burley. We stayed pretty busy having fun. Wednesday we went to the parade. It was very very hot but the kids had fun. And we went and walked around the fair looking at the animals. Madison really enjoyed the pigs. One was even squealing at her. On Thursday we went to the carnival for buddy day. Kenedi didn't have a buddy so she was stuck with me.
This was her favorite ride. It was one of those fun houses that you walk thru and this tunnel was at the end. It spins and you walk thru it. The first time i went thru i about fell on my face but she enjoyed it.
She really wanted to go on the zipper but they told her she was to short. She was really bummed but that meant that i didn't have to go on it either so it was good for me.

On Friday Nikki and I went and watched the hypnotist. I really enjoy watching them and so does Nikki. We talked Gerald into going back on Saturday with us. So we all went. Kenedi got quite the kick out of it also.
We now have Nikki back for school to start. She starts the 7th grade. Junior High man that makes me feel old. I think that she will like it though.

Butterfly

A couple of weeks ago we were at my moms helping her do some yard work. We were helping her cut down some of the branches off her pine trees and Kenedi found a caterpillar. She was so excited when we told her she could keep it. So her and grandma were headed in the house to get a jar and it fell off the leaf she was carrying it on. So we looked and looked for it and she finally found it right when grandma stepped on it. She was so bummed. So we went back to work and grandma found another one. So they put it in a jar with some leaves and a little branch and we took it home. Well she left it outside in the yard and it got really hot in the jar so i told her she needed to bring it in the house. So she did and her dad told her that it was dead. Well she didn't believe him she kept telling him that it was moving. The next day it was in its cacoon. And about 2 weeks later it turned into a butterfly.
She was so happy to see that it had turned into a butterfly and was really sad when we told her she had to let it go or it would die. So we took her outside to let it go and she was scared to death of it. It would flap its wings to get out of the jar and she threw the jar on the ground and took a big step back.
It was really neat to watch all the changes they go thru and turn into a big beautiful butterfly. We are looking forward to doing this again next year. (Notice her miss matched shoes that's the way she likes to wear her shoes now.)