Look how much she's grown in just a year!!!! Her feet are almost touching the ground and she actually has some hair! :)
My scanner doesn't scan white backgrounds very well. That's why her 2 yr picture looks so funny!

Madison's 2 Year Pictures

I can't figure out how to flip this one around...sorry!

Cooper's Room

We have had the room painted for awhile but had no name. I didn't want to post pictures until we had his name on the wall. If you remember, the room used to look like this...

It's official

The baby finally has a name!!! YAY!!! Cooper Trent Vest! This was the name we had picked out over 2 years ago when I was pregnant with Madison. For some reason we had several boy names and no no girl names at the time. (Carson McKay Vest was our other choice). Well, Trent's cousin recently had a baby and they named their little boy Cooper. So we decided we weren't going to use it anymore. After 8 months of not agreeing on anything (he decided he didn't love Carson anymore, although it's still my fav.) he said lets just use Cooper. It's Trent's favorite name and he didn't love Madison's name (at the time) so I agreed. So our baby finally has a name. I just need to add his name to the wall in his room and then I can post pictures of his room. I've been waiting (not so patiently) for this day. :)

Bluebonnet Pictures (from May)

A friend of mine took some pictures of Madison in the bluebonnets back in May. We met her one day after school/daycare in Grapevine to get a few shots. Madison was not interested to say the least. We had such a hard time getting her to smile and it was SO WINDY! Considering these two factors, I'm happy we got a few good ones.





This was the look we got most of the day...















Thanks Amy for the pictures! You can check out her website out at http://acephotography08.blogspot.com/

Ft. Worth Zoo

We have been wanting to take Madison to the zoo since Spring Break and we finally took her this past Wednesday. She was so excited about going. That morning when I woke her up and told her we were going she said "and Grammy and Papa". She's been to the Abilene Zoo twice with my Dad and Laurie so I guess she just assumed since we were going to the zoo that they were going to go with us. All morning she kept naming the animals she was going to see and would tell us what they say. Needless to say, she was pumped!


She is ready to leave! She has her baby, her brush and her sunglasses!


Her favorite thing this time were the monkeys! I love these two pictures of her and Trent looking at them. There were two monkeys playing with each other. Madison thought it was too funny!


This was how she rode around the zoo most of the day! It actually worked out perfect because she could see all of the animals if she was standing up!





We had such a good time. She got to pet a cow in the petting zoo part. She thought that was really neat. We had just as much fun as she did. We are thinking about getting seasons passes so we can go more often! I survived the heat and the walking! :)

I had to post these random pictures because they were all funny to me. The first ones are Madison pushing her panties around in her stroller. She has a million babies yet chooses to unload her drawer and push her panties around???

I'm not sure what she's doing in the 2nd picture. I told her to look at me and smile and this was the face I got...


If you remember, at the beginning of my pregnancy I was very sick. I had to keep grocery sacks close by in case I couldn't make it to the restroom. Madison being the observant child that she is started pretending to throw up in bags when she'd find them laying around the house. Not something you want your daughter mimicking. Well now my back is really giving me a hard time. I recently purchased a heating pad and use it daily. Now Madison has started saying "my back hurts...make it hot" and she climbs in my chair, turns on the heating pad and sits there. She will only sit there until it warms up and then she says "too hot" and gets down. At least this one is a little more acceptable when others are around :)

The following pictures make me smile. Madison wanted Trent to play with her. They were making things with her play doh. Trent REALLY got into it and made Rosco. Madison thought it was the funniest thing. She laughed the entire time. If you notice, her mouth is open VERY wide in all the pictures because she's laughing so hard.


she thinks her Daddy is so funny! She's also into wearing her old baby bibs, not really sure why!


Here's Rosco-made by Trent


Here's Jack -made by Madison (doesn't it look just like him???)


Trent decided Rosco needed a T-bone. I told you, he really got into it :) Madison LOVED the fact that her Daddy not only sat with her while she played but made something too! We have loved having him home with us this summer.

First Professional Hair Cut

I can't say it's her first haircut because Trent cut her hair back in November. He just trimmed the back (mullet) off. Needless to say, it was getting pretty mullet-esk looking again. This time we took her to a place called Kidoos. I was pretty nervous about how she would do but she did FANTASTIC! I was so proud of her. They had Nemo playing on a TV right in front of her chair. They gave her a sucker and a puzzle to play with so all of those things probaby helped a lot. What surprised me the most was that she let the lady blow dry her hair. Are you kidding me?? She runs screaming from the room everytime I get mine out and she let her use it on her hair. Here are a few before, during and after pictures.

BEFORE

DURING

AFTER

She was so proud of herself! The whole way home she kept saying "I got my hair done...I got puzzle, sucker, sif (fish)" Trent said we may have started something. He thinks she's going to want to get her "hair done" all the time now :) We are hoping this makes it start growing!