Thursday, November 1, 2012

Birthdays and Before/Afters

Our sweet little Madelynn turned 3 on Oct 30th.  She brings so much joy to our home.  She loves to tell jokes that don't make sense, help in the kitchen, play 'house", play with Duplos, color, pretend to be a mommy, and sneak into our bed at night.  She is very proud to be a big girl and won't let anyone help with buckling her seat belt, getting dressed, and putting her shoes on, brushing her teeth (which actually make my life easier.)  We love her to pieces!  Happy Birthday sweetheart!


She had a Minnie Mouse family party.  Instead of party hats we wore mouse ears.


Madelynn's hair is also long enough now to have ponytails and pigtails-which I'm thrilled about. 


For her birthday we wanted to finish her bedroom and give her a big girl bed. Below is the Before



After-
This is her new bed.  We replaced the brown trim with white, added chair rail, and repainted the room with teal and white.



My mom-in-law, Kathy, Made the curtains and they look amazing!


We also added vinyl butterflies 


Perks of Fall



 


 Mini homemade Pumpkin pies.




 Zoie also turned 9 months on Oct 30th.  She is cruising and we've seen her take 2-3 steps without help.  She now has 5 teeth and is more interested in finger foods than purees.  She says Mama, dada, and Baba.  We love her jibber jabber.


2 comments:

Becca Anderson said...

Do you know that Baba means grandma in slavik languages? So you can tell the grandmothers that Zoie can say grandma and they will love it!

Rachel said...

Your little cuties are getting so big-especially Zoie! Your house is looking great. When we went up to the cabin this summer, I was thinking about when we were up there for Grandma & Grandpa's 50th wedding anniversary. And now we both have 3 kids-crazy! Have a wonderful holiday season!