Cousins

Friday night Madison and I went over to Zack and Melanie's to eat and play! After dinner, we let the kids play in the water in the backyard. They had so much fun together! Ethan would try to spray Madison and she would run screaming through the yard. Then she would get the water hose and try to get him wet. One of them decided to drink from the water hose and then that became the game. Madison held onto the hose and they took turns getting drinks. It was so fun to watch them play together. By the end of the night they were both muddy so we put them in the bath together before we headed home to go to bed.


rocking together


sweet baby Kailyn




On Saturday, Madison and I made Strawberry Dessert for Trent. We wanted him to have a special treat after being gone for 3 days. They were placed 5th going into the state track meet. They ended up getting 3rd place. I am very proud of him! I'm glad track season is over...now if we can just get through spring football...then it's summer camps and real estate. I guess it never ends. Anyways, back to the strawberry dessert. Madison loves helping so she helped me stir everything together and then she got to eat some of the whipped cream! As you can tell...she ENJOYED it!

Walmart story...

This past Saturday we took our normal trip to Wal-mart to buy groceries. Usually Madison starts out sitting in the basket, then moves to standing in the back and sometimes we let her walk. On this particular trip we told her she could walk if she stayed with us. She was doing REALLY well so we let her walk the majority of the trip.When we were checking out Madison was looking at the candy as Trent was unloading the basket. I told Trent "I'm gonna run to find a gift card for Madison's teacher". I knew Madison was looking at the candy but didn't think anything of it. When I walked back around the corner she has a sucker in her mouth and says "sucker mommy". Not only had she opened it and was eating it but she managed to open the $1.00 suckers!! I couldn't help but laugh. The girl knows how to get something. This was after we had already taken some cleaner out of the basket that she threw in for us. THEN, as we were unloading groceries into the trunk I saw some Elmo bowls. I asked Trent if he had gotten those for her. He had not. I had seen her carrying them around but I was ok with it because it was keeping her happy. I just assumed she had put them down somewhere....little did I know it was in my basket. So she made it out with a cool sucker and some Elmo bowls! I better watch out otherwise my Wal-mart bill might get really expensive!

The sucker was VERY messy!!!!

Little All Star

Isn't this the cutest outfit! Do you call boys clothes outfits?? Melanie and Zack got baby #2 his first piece of clothing! Madison carries it all over the house. She keeps saying 'baby clothes'...so cute! I had to share his first gift :)

On another note...

I've been making field trip t-shirts all week for our field trip that was supposed to be today. Madison loved watching me. She was so good. She never tried to get into anything. She was content to hold a paintbrush and talk to me while I painted my name on 19 shirts. We were supposed to go on our field trip today but it was canceled yesterday due to the Swine Flu!!! Hopefully we can go in May. We're keeping our fingers crossed.

Nana and Pa come to visit

Last weekend Mom and Ron came to visit Madison. Friday, we went to Joan and Shon's and cooked out. Madison loves their pool. I have a feeling we'll be spending a lot of summer days in their backyard. She started off splashing in the hot tub. Then she decided she's start splashing in the pool with her hands, then her feet and then I decided it was time to strip her down and let her walk around on the top step. I can't believe she got in it. It was so cold but she loved it.

Sitting outside -before she discovered the pool...


walking around with Nana


she found the hot tub!



These were both after she was in the pool. She didn't want to put her clothes back on.


Madison loves stickers. Her and Shon have this game...he takes all the stickers off their fruit and puts them all over Madison. She expects it now. Everytime we're there she goes to the fruit and says 'stickers'. She wore these around for most of the evening.

On Saturday morning Ron cleaned out Madison's sandbox. The poor baby has been playin in mud for weeks. I don't think she cared but it was such a mess. While it was drying, Madison decided she needed to go sit in it.


Saturday afternoon we went to Trent's District Track meet. This is his first year as the head track coach. He's done such a great job. Liberty won district!!! (They have their Regional Track meet tomorrow. Wish him luck! He's had a few kids get hurt. One kid got hurt today and was on 3 of his relay teams. Needless to say, he's been under a lot of stress.) Saturday night, Mom and Ron babysat Madison while we went to celebrate Christa's 30th birthday! We met a bunch of my friends from work at BJ's. We had a great time. It was a nice treat to go out on a date. :)

Kimmy, Christa and I --I'm already looking very pregnant :(

Madison loved having her Nana and Pa here. She called me Nana all day on Sunday. Thanks for coming to visit Nana and Pa and thanks for all the work you did around our house while you were here.

Proud Momma!

In the past week or so Madison has learned how to count to ten. We had been working on 1-5 and then about a week ago we were in the car and heard her count all the way to 10. One of her Elmo shows counts to ten so I guess that's where she picked up the 6-10. She's also learned most of her colors. She now knows red, blue, yellow, pink, purple, white, orange, green, and she's still working on brown and black. She's learned that her full name is Madison Kate Vest. When she says it, it's more like Masun Tate Sef. The only letter she knows is M. She knows two shapes, star and heart. She's definitely learning something new everyday. We are LOVING this stage that she's in. If only it would last a little longer...

It's a baby....

BOY!!

We are super excited to be adding a little boy to our family! We don't have a name yet but I'll definitely let you know when we decide on one.

Tomorrow is the day...

We find out what we're having tomorrow morning. Our appointment is at 9:00. Madison says it's a girl. Although, I don't know if she really knows what I'm even talking about.