Some awwww moments:

Well, I have laid off taking pictures lately because we haven't gotten out and done much due to the fact that it's so miserably hot. But, I did find capture some sweet moments between Isaac and Madeline. He is really starting to adore her and is constantly amazed at her every movement. She, of course, has noticed this and takes it a little far to the point of entertaining him specifically. She sings and dances and giggles with him and he is just smiling at her the whole time. It's super sweet for me to see as their mom. I remember when I was just about due with Isaac, I cried and cried, heartbroken over the fact that Maddie was going to have to share our love with another child. I felt like I was going to be responsible for the anger that I thought for sure she'd have towards us. But to my surprise, she really embraced him with big open arms right from the beginning. In fact, she's always said he's her baby and not ours. Just the other day, she told me to carry the baby doll and she was gonna carry her baby. I told her the doll was her baby and she went over to Isaac and said, "This is my baby." I asked her if that was so and she responded, "yes, but I'll share him with you momma." Precious. :) Moments that definitely make this worn out momma smile. Little does he realize how lucky he is to have 2 ladies fighting over him at such a young age!!! :)

Broken Foot

Well, I heard a crash in Maddie's room one day followed by a ear-piercing scream.....I went running in there to find her laying on the floor saying her foot hurt. When I got her to calm down, she told me what had happened. She was climbing on her frog chair (more like a pillow than a chair) to turn her blinds to see Marty out front and fell and hit her foot on the bookshelf we'd just put in her room. LOVELY!!! I got her to calm down pretty easily and wrapped her foot in ice and laid her down for a much needed nap. Well, she woke up from her nap not putting any weight on her foot and when she tried to put it down and walk on it, she started crying saying it hurt too bad. So, I called her doctor and they said to bring her on in and have it checked out. They sent us across the street to the pediatric imaging place for an x-ray and low and behold, it was a broken foot!!! Of course, it was late on a Friday afternoon, so we had to keep it wrapped in an ace bandage over the weekend until we could get in to see the orthopedic doctor the next week. Well, she learned how to walk on it by then and walked "normal" into the ortho doc's office that next week. So, I was thinking all would be fine cause she told me that it didn't hurt anymore and she was walking very well when the ortho doc came in and said she needed a cast, that she had indeed broken her foot and it was not healing with just the ace bandage! They gave her several options of colors: pink, green, blue, purple, and what does my little darling choose......GREEN!!! What? I thought for sure she'd choose purple or pink, which I thought were her favorites, but no, she chose Green!! All I could think of was that it was gonna be that ugly flourescent green! YIKES!! I have nothing of hers to match that color and it's gonna stick out much more in a flourescent green color! Luckily, it's not that bad a shade of green. And to my surprise, when we got home, she had a lot more clothes to match it than I'd realized. :) The Physician's Assistant, Tim, was a guy who I must say was pretty cute, and Maddie must share my taste, cause she was doing some major flirting with him. He was a really nice guy who seemed to be fond of my kids as well as they were of him, so that was nice. *although, I don't think he was much interested in women, if you catch my drift* :) But, he was a sweet guy and helped Maddie get her mind off of it while getting her cast on. All day, she kept talking about Tim......oh brother....... Lucky for me, they now offer a waterproof cast! Who knew!?! So, we've enjoyed the funny looks from people at the pool when we let our cast-wearing child into the pool!!! Priceless!

Silly kids

Isaac is now getting up on his hands and knees and rocking back and forth, ready to crawl. If only he could figure out how to move his arms with it, he'd be off. I don't mind him not crawling yet though. :) Maddie is such a big helper to him. She gets on the floor and demonstrates the crawling and tells him "come on, you can do it!" He just adores her!

Maddie's 3rd Birthday Party!

Here's some pictures from Maddie's birthday party. I can't believe my little girl is 3 now! She's such a little lady now and not so much a baby anymore. It's crazy to see her growing so fast. We had a great party with a lot of her good friends there to celebrate. She had a blast and didn't want to leave. Thank you everyone who came and made it special. It was her first "big" party that wasn't at the house. I don't know what we'll do next year, but this sure was the easy way out! :)