Cute Video Alert! Maddie and James Playing

After dinner, Maddie and James had the best time playing and laughing!  James is on his tummy and you can see him pushing himself backwards! This is the furthest away he has gotten so far! He is almost getting ready to crawl!  Maddie is enjoying making him laugh! In case you are wondering, she is eating a piece of bologna.  This is also the very first time Maddie had bologna and she had a whole 2 slices!

Brookfield Zoo with Friends

Our friends invited us to go to Brookfield Zoo with them on Sunday! They are members so they got us in for free!

We started off at a little interactive section where the kids got to feed and pet goats! Then we went to the bird room where we got little sticks with bird seed on them! We got lucky and a pretty little blue bird landed on Maddie's stick!  We walked around and saw a couple more exhibits, got lunch, and then headed home. It was a lovely Sunday at the zoo!

Mia and Saveer's 3rd Birthday Party at Pump It Up! (with video)

On Sunday, I took Maddie over to Pump It Up in Lincoln Park for her classmates Mia and Saveer's joint 3rd birthday party!! Pump It Up was SO MUCH FUN! It had 2 big rooms filled with inflatables that even the parents could go on!  Maddie had so much fun and loved it when I would go onto the inflatables with her!

Pictures and some cute videos are below. The video at the bottom is of her dancing with her classmates after lunch.

Spring Break Fun - Pictures & Videos

Maddie had spring break this week so we did a few fun things!

Joseph took her to the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum on Wednesday. She had a lot of fun and got a pair of butterfly wings!

On Thursday I took her to my office with me for a little while. She loves coming to my office because she gets to pick 1 sweet and 1 salty snack from the vending machine. Our office secretary also gave her a bunch of toys, coloring books and crayon to play with. We got McDonald's happy meals for lunch and she got to watch her favorite shows on the ipad while I got some work done. Just before we were about to leave so she could come home and "rest" she found a box full of packing peanuts in the corner of my office and proceeded to make the biggest mess! She thought it was hilarious!

And on Saturday, a local church had a family fun festival at the elementary school a block or so away from the house so we decided to go check it out. They had SO MANY inflatable jumpers! And also free hot dogs and hot chocolate!  Maddie had the BEST time, she went on almost all of the inflatable jumpers, the inflatable obstacle course, and also a really tall inflatable slide. She was kind of slow going up the slide so a line would form behind her, but she did it and was so proud of herself.  Joseph stayed with her to play while I took James home to nap - we didn't realize it would be so much fun! We are so glad we went!

Easter 2018! Opening presents & Easter Egg Hunts! (with tons of videos)

Here are some photos and a TON of videos of Maddie celebrating Easter! We were able to go to an Easter Egg Hunt at a nearby park. They had a TON of eggs! Then we also did an egg hunt in the basement and also the back yard.  Maddie loved it and kept wanting to hunt for eggs!


Opening up presents from Grandpa and Nana:

Excited for the Egg Hunt at Dean Park to start!

So many eggs!

 

Excited to open up her eggs!

This is about as close as she got to the Easter Bunny

Egg Hunt in the backyard

March 2018 Pictures & Videos

Pictures & Videos of the kids from March 2018!

We took the kids to a restaurant for lunch! James did SO well!

Aw, sweet sleeping Maddie

Reading at breakfast!

Eating (burnt) artichoke!

I got a double stroller as Joseph was going to be out of town, and I needed a way to get the kids to and from
music class on Saturday. They LOVED it! Maddie even wanted to sit in it just to watch TV!

Having fun at Mr Dave's music class!

"Hi, I'm Doctor Wagner!"

Happy baby! He just woke up!

Kids playing together!

Maddie is the BEST Hider (with video)

At bedtime tonight, Maddie hopped into her little mesh hamper and thought she was hiding from us...

Maddie Playing in the Snow!

We got a ton of snow!! Maddie loved playing in it! She even got to try some hot chocolate for the first time to warm up after playing in the snow.

Video: James in the Jumper