cute pics from today

just a quick two snapshots in a new outfit. Thank you aunt M
xoxo

Happy Hollow with Jordanna and Beth

We have such great friends in san jose and we never get to see them!
So...
Madeline and i took a trip to see beth and jordanna and we all had a great time
at happy hollow zoo and museum.
we saw and pet so many animals, rode the carousel and went on some great slides
and even saw a puppet show during lunch!




we cant wait to go back. these little girls squealed the whole afternoon.
xoxo

Uncle Deedge

We just got a few cute pics from Uncle Deedge's visit.
he spent this week with us and madeline loves him so much.
She wanted to spend every second with him, chasing him around
babbling to him about...anything and generally being buddies.
They got their polos and verizon wireless on together on thursday-

Baby Loves Disco!

we took madeline to a hot nightlcub for...
BABY Dance club fun!

...last week and here is a vid:it is very dark (i mean we were at a nightclub after all! so you might want to turn up the brightness on your screen)!


The deal is, a group takes over the hottest nightclub in town
and babyproofs it! there were egg shakers and scarves and books,
bubbles and hoola hoops, a big kid friendly snack bar and cool
tunes spun by a local hip hop dj. We met up with some
of our favorite friends and we all boggied down.

madeline got picked up as you can see in the video and
she and claire got crazy toward the end of the night.

babylovesdisco.com

Thanksgiving 07

We had a great Thanksgiving here at home. Madeline played all day with "uncle deedge"
We have really been enjoying our time with Dennis this week. He has been a super trooper,dealing with lots of late night wak-ups that last for hours, hospital trips, days all mixed up because of rotten naps etc. Par for the course with a sick baby, but he has been so helpful and generous and Patient - Thanks Den!

We had a small and wonderful t-day at home. Don is sticking to his diet like you would not believe and passed on all the fixins except the steamed veggies. He even went without dessert and wine. he is amazing. ... i ate enough for both of us.




Don made the turkey on our rotisserie and it was outrageous! I put together the mashed potaotes, sauteed green beans with almonds and cranberries, cranberry sauce with nuts and mandarins, steamed veggies and sweet potato. It was a hit.

Here is a little clip to send you running to your fridge for some leftovers!

Croup is the worst!

We had our first emergency room experience last night (or should i say this morning...since we arrived at around 3am).


Madeline is fine now but i wanted to tell you that it is no fun and she was a brave trooper!

We had her on a nebulizer and medicine etc for croup a few weeks ago. it cleared up for a couple of weeks and WHAMO it came back last night with a scary force.

She was Whooping/coughing and it sounded like a barking seal...i kid you not. the sound is so scary to hear. and wheezing and crying...and we were on the phone with the nurse asap. She talked us through calming her throat problem down and said if it came back in the night (this first bout was at 11pm) that we should bring her in.


fast forward to 3am... and we were in the car within 3 minutes. She got the medicine she needed and caught her breath and fell asleep nursing in my arms. She got an hour of sleep and they sent us home.


Today she is not coughing as badly and has been a happy little bee, buzzing around as usual. But at the pediatrician's office we learned she has an Ear infection too!! this is her first, so we had no idea. she hasnt been irritable, nor pulling at her ears or having any symptoms except a cold. Who knew. she is such a tough cookie, she didnt fuss at all.


So she is being treated for both now...and we know she will have a clean bill of health soon
We are not looking forward to the years ahead and the many hospital visits we know we will probably make!

alright, time to catch up on last night's sleep.
Here are some pictures of madeline having happier times so you arent fretting about her for the rest of the day!

(in the wagon with Sachin and on the carousel at Happy Hollow)

xoxo

Boys have cooties!

Okay, so Madeline must take after her mommy....

never been a fan of the Abercrombie boys myself.

I'm more for a geek with a bald head and big beautiful smile!

And besides...she is not ready to be boy crazy yet anyway.

Academy Of Sciences with Daddy~

Madeline wanted to go see the fish in San Francisco so on Saturday we took a field trip to the Academy of Sciences in downtown. She Loved the low tanks where she could see in and kiss the glass on the tanks. She also enjoyed splashing in the touch tanks where she held a hermit crab and pet a starfish. She astutely signed "fish" and "star" during our trip and loved the train trip to and from the aquarium. (We loved the hot cocoa we picked up at Tartine and the treats we snagged at Bi-Rite later in the day in the rainy Mission)

apples

She loves fruit. here is a quick video of madeline having her snack

Train Trip!

This morning Miss Madeline took her first train trip!
We just went one stop up to the next town to the park
but she loved it! She was captivated by the people at the station,
sitting in the train car, the whistles and the things moving by. Here
are some pics of her with her ticket all ready to go!

 

 

 

Time is flying

Check out last year's halloween candy compared
to this year! Same wok, same amount of candy but this
year there is a big toddler sitting in it!

Shake Rattle and Roll Baby!

Madeline's first earthquake hit tonight!

Here is a link to the local news report:

http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2007-10-31T043231Z_01_N30209776_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-QUAKE-CALIFORNIA-COL.XML&archived=False

Reports say 5.6 on the richter scale...for now. In actuality, it felt like a huge
truck drove by our house. We were placing Madeline down in her crib as it hit us (we are 30 miles from the epicenter-Alum Rock, CA, basically between San Jose and San Francisco proper) and it sounded like a loud plane was overhead. Then there was the rattling of things in her closet and then the whole house seemed to be rattling. Don and I emerged from her room and said "was that an earthquake". No biggie...

They say that within 72 hrs is always the possibility of an aftershock being stronger than the original quake. But the particular faultline that this one came from hasnt produced anything strong in a long time.

Yes,this was the strongest quake to hit since the big one that collapsed the bay bridge in '89. but its pretty tame. We were certainly not effected except in the sense that we are slightly more aware of the awesome power of mother nature than we were yesterday.

much love to you all.
xoxo

Monday with a friend

Madeline's friend Claire comes over every Monday and then on Thursday Madeline goes to her friend's house. Claire's mom, Sara, and I get two glorious hours to take a shower, cook, clean, fold laundry and sometimes even check out email or read a chapter in a book! We started this trade a couple of weeks ago and the girls have a blast with eachother.
Yesterday we went to the park together and if you have ever tried to wrangle two 1 year olds on the slide- it is Exercise! One is going up the stairs, the other is trying to climb off the edge, they dont want to come down together, or at all- it is a hoot!
Only matched by the fun we had on our wagon ride to the park wherein each little lady threw something out of the wagon every 2 steps. A cup, a hat, a ball. Mayhem! But it keeps us in shape, right?!

Anyway, here is a snapshot of the girls before we left for our excursion. Don't they give the appearance, at least of cooperative little angels?

 

 

twins?

this is madeline's friend Emory. he is almost a year older than her. He sat down, got up, pulled another chair over, and kept pointing to it for madeline to sit down. She finally did and we caught them on their date.
funny...doesnt he look like he could be her older, but twin brother? the hair, the skintone, the face etc?

 

 

 

pre halloween playgroup

playgroup has a costume parade, starring:

peacock: Sachin, "the king"
Monkey: Matthew (a big teddy bear)
Witch: Isabella the gentle
Dalmation: Claire bear the scholar
Dragonfly: Madeline, your sweetheart of course!

 

 

 

 

Halloween at school!

Last weekend we went to Little Hands, the school that Madeline and I go to together,
and celebrated halloween with daddy and our other friends. Madeline was the cutest
and only dragonfly there! (at the end she made a quick change into her pumpkin hat to pose with her jack o lantern)

 

 

 

 

Its been a month!

so it has been almost a month since her birthday and i am only now getting the chance to post these vids- sorry! I guess the whole walking thing has kept me busy. the dr warned me that an early walker was trouble but i had no idea how busy i would be. i will try to get a few more posts and pics out to you all this week.

xoxo
stroller excitement is only eclipsed by shaddow excitement!


okay- this kid loves wagon rides. and i have to catch one of her with her friends in it becuase they are hysterical! Then when we get home she goes in and out and in and out for 120 min, through the little door. she loves it!