Maddie fell off her chair today during dinner. She was reaching for something and wasn't strapped in and fell head first onto the floor. Poor thing! We saw a big goose egg forming later on and put on a cold headband as she didn't exactly know what to do with a bag of ice.
We now make sure to strap her in for all meals!
We have her Tylenol and she slept in so late the next day! The picture was taken at 9:15am when I finally had to wake her up! Luckily school was on break for a week or I would have had to wake her up even earlier.
AND if finally happened... after 2.5 years Maddie has finally learned to crawl out of her crib! We were watching her on the monitor at nap time and she was very hyper and was standing and jumping and singing in her crib. After maybe 20 minutes we heard a big THUD and glanced at the monitor again and did not see her! Joseph ran upstairs and she had climbed out of her crib! We think she used the dresser for some leverage.
And of course the big girl bed is not yet set up!
(UPDATE 7/26/17: Maddie has thankfully not once climbed out of her crib again. She has attempted to a couple of times but we quickly push her legs down and just pull her out of the crib. She now sleeps in her big girl bed about 75% of the time and every once in a while decides to sleep or nap in her crib - there will be another post about her new room later)
Watching TV and playing with water beads on Friday:
On Saturday we went to a toddler cooking class where we made pasta salad! Maddie even got a knife so she could chop vegetables! She was decently engaged and the class went better than I expected. She loved mixing all the items together the best! Afterwards we went to Maplewood Park (which we call ABC Park) and then to lunch!
Since we had so much fun cooking on Saturday, on Sunday we made pistachio pudding! Maddie mixed it up then we scooped it into cups and put half in the fridge and half in the freezer with popsicle sticks to make pudding pops! We later went to the store to grocery shop and buy more pudding and jello to make in the future.
Smelling the flowers after we got home from the store.
Maddie did NOT nap. Instead, she decided to strip down to her undies! Luckily she did not have an accident or take her diaper off, that would have been a disaster! Here are pictures of her trying to put her clothes back ON after taking them off.
Maddie's vocabulary and comprehension has exploded seemingly overnight! We are not exactly sure when it happened but it was definitely after our trip to China. She understands almost everything we explain to her and repeats everything as well. Her pronunciation is also very clear (to those of us who see her every day) and we go to bed every nigh amazed at just how darn smart she is!!!!
Here is a cute video of her singing Old MacDonald while eating dessert
We had a nice relaxing long weekend for Memorial Day!
On Friday Joseph took Maddie to the Library and then to the "sand park" which is Ehrler Park that has the sand pit. On the way back Maddie got a huge kick of the inflatable dancer guy in front of the mattress store!
On Saturday Maddie got to cuddle with both cats on the couch!
I absolutely love this video! Whenever we get the cats to come around, and they smell either of our feet, we say "Scaredy smelled my stinky foot!" or we will ask Scaredy to "smell my stinky foot?" I finally got video of Maddie asking Scaredy to smell her foot and then afterwards she says "Scaredy smelled my stinky foot!"
On Sunday we went to Ikea to buy Maddie's "big girl bed"! We loved finding bins full of her favorite toy "Green Ball" and she even tried to take a nap with them.
On Monday we had a few friends over for a barbecue since there was no school. Maddie had fun playing with play dough and "washing" her clings before they arrived. After they came over, the kids played in the bouncy house, on the swing set, and also with the new water table we got from Costco. We filled one side with water beads and they had a blast!
Lillian had come over dressed as a bug and we called her a Lily Bug. After Lily left, Maddie wanted to dress up like a bug too! So this is her in her bug costume (red devil ears and red bandana for wings) and we called her a Maddie Bug.
