Will Walk For Cookies

Hannah suddenly got REAL motivated and graceful when Grandma brought out the chocolate chip cookies!  WILL WALK FOR . . . COOKIES!!!

Side Shuffle

August 27, 2013

Hanny started walking right at 13 months.  It's so crazy how one day they are crawling, the next they are wobbling around, and then give 'em a week and they are stomping around like they own the joint!  Our "Lil' Stompy," Miss Hannah Kaye is enjoying the world from her upright perspective.  It's crazy how this video is only a month old and it already seems like a lifetime ago when she was drunkenly wobbling around, falling and braving the dangerous world of toddler trotting. :)  Cute stuff.  What a marvelous milestone.

Willful, Wicked and WET :)

. . . more NAUGHTY than WICKED but had to go with the alliteration :)    OOOOOOoooh, Madi!

Colors (& Crazy Cuckoo Mom)

Sympathetic Soul

For over two years, since Madi was born, I have been trying to capture and document this darling display of puppy love.  Lily must be a very sympathetic soul . . . or have excruciatingly good hearing (probably the latter . . .acute, powerful little Chihuahua ears that are over-sensitive to high-pitched, pained baby screams).  It has been IMPOSSIBLE.  One does not reach for one's camera when your precious princess is hurt and hooting.  It just doesn't seem to be the natural reaction.  But it is soooooooo hilarious and heartwarming to watch Lily throw back her head and join in the bawling and blubbering with her own howls and yowls.  She only cries with Madi or Hannah if they are howling a true-blue hurt cry.  She very accurately detects the difference between a pain cry or a tantrum/angry/want-some-attention cry.  When her soul sistas are in pain, she is in pain.  When they hurt, she hurts!  I only caught a teeny snippet of Lily's howl when Hannah was screaming in pain in the following video but it will give help me remember this heartwarming happening for years to come. :)

ABC's but NOT 1, 2, 3's :)

Madi's patience with pictures and videos runs VERY SHORT!  She started off strong in this Tubby Time interview but then fizzled out and left Mama to answer her own questions near the end.  :)

September 18, 2003

Every Letter Makes a Sound . . .

Madi has mastered all of her letters and sounds!  She's been happily hollering them out for many months now.  (We owe it all to Leap Frog's Letter Factory DVD...and lots of reading, playing, scribbling/"writing" and singing). We LOVE, LOVE, LOVE our  LIVELY, LITTLE LEARNER!