Maddy Baptism

What a beautiful day!

Rev Deb held an amazing service where during Children's Time our beautiful baby girl was baptized as a Child of God. We received beautiful mementos to remember this day, including a candle that daddy lit that will also be lit on her wedding day were presented to us.

After the special baptismal service we went back to Madelyn's house for delicious food, cake, and time with friends and family! Thank you to everyone for joining us on this special day.

Little added humor... Friday night, Maddy was crying and crying... I went to the kitchen quickly to get something and finally heard silence... no crying... I went back into the bedroom and found Ray like this... Anything to make his little lady happy :)

Rainy Wednesdays

We now have two teeth! But she is still in pain... I can't figure it out. To cope with the discomfort she does a very intense "sucking" motion. I feel as though a binky would be perfect for this... Only problem she has completely rejected pacifiers. Ray and I joke about the fact that their is a binky epidemic in most other households, but then there's Maddy throwing her own pacifier away at 3-months. While I am very happy that I do not need to tackle a 5-year with a pacifier in a couple of years, it would come in handy now! I just want my baby girl to feel some relief, this Tylenol/ Motrin cocktail can't go on forever.

A few weeks ago we had our portraits taken at JCPenny. I can honestly not praise the job they did enough... I won't go on about it, see for yourself...

And because I'm feeling a little reminiscent...

Upside Down Baby

Funny enough... Maddy likes to be upside down... sort of. We sit her boppy on the bed and sit her in it. She then does a sort of back-bend and looks around upside down. Yes, I am now certain she is our daughter. :)

On a much more scary note... she scarred me for life this morning. I will not go into detail but type two words... blow. out. We have had many minor blow-outs and daddy has actually taken care of a few major ones, but I personally have been lucky.... until this morning. Literally in her hair?! It went so far up her back that it got into her hair. Wow. Was that my initiation into Motherhood?

Happy Easter!

...I feel like the weekend whirled us around and spit us out!

Friday we went for a nice walk after work... before we left though daddy got some great pictures!!

Saturday we went to JCPenny to have our portraits done... I can not be more happy with how those came out! Pictures to follow...

Then today... Easter! The Easter Bunny even stopped by!

Maddy in her Easter best...

After a quick morning bubba we left for Mass... Maddy was great and made it through the whole first hour! Wahoo! We then went to Ann to see those crazy Cawley's and eat some great food! It was great to see everyone! Later on in the day we went to Grampi and Nana's for dinner and another EASTER BASKET! :) We also got our first stuffed bunny from cousin Hannah.

All in all it was a great weekend.... but I feel spit out!

Bubbles and Duckies!

Final Baptism headcount- 30! I told Maddy she is a pretty popular girl!

Tonight the Moops had a nice warm bubble bath and got into her new duckie pjs from Auntie Susie...

As you can tell from the pictures we are also working on tooth #2. Although this is pretty exciting, I do wish she could have a tiny teething break.

Houston we have a tooth!

Can you believe it?! *tears* My baby is growing up... In celebration of this momentous occasion we had cake! :)

On top of getting a tooth she also received mail! And Easter card and money from Nana, Grampi, and Great-Grampi!

A bonus picture for Grampi...

We also have our vacation set! Martha's Vineyard in September! :) :)

Morning with Daddy and Opening Day!

I "aka mommy" had a doctor's appointment yesterday morning and left Daddy and Maddy to their own devices! They did have a wonderful morning, and got in some great daddy- daughter time. Before I left (or even woke up for that matter)- Ray snapped a picture. And yes, that is Maddy eating my hand.Here are some pictures of their morning...

Today we went to Nana and Grampi's for some Sunday supper and naps! We also had met them last night for dinner to celebrate their 12th wedding anniversary! Go Nana and Grampi! Even though it was their special day Maddy received some adorable Harley Davidson clothing!

After Sunday supper and a nap we had to get home in time for baseball... Here is Maddy in her baseball attire ready for the GAME!

And just for fun... I created a new desktop collage for Daddy's work computer.

We are also just about ready for Maddy baptism. I have a short checklist and we are off! I need to place the order for food this week, have Grampi bring tables and chairs to Patriot Lane, and find a Precious Moments children's bible (Maddy's gift from Mom and Dad.)