Two and a half.

Click here to watch an awesome video we made, starring myself, Taylor and Madelyn :)

And I can't post without a picture so here you go:

And now we are off to Oregon to meet my sweet niece! I will be back in a week to share some pictures of her here. 

I guess this is what she thinks about...

I little video of Madelyn talking today. I love watching her little head/eye movements she does while she talks.

One of my favorite things she does which I want to capture on video is she laughs at something she says, sighs, and then says "funny Maden" (thats how she says her name). So cute.

Thank you Jesus.

I couldn't resist posting this of the girl praying tonight... so sweet! Sorry it is kind of hard to hear.

Putting some words together.

So everytime I pull out my little point and shoot camera to record her, Madelyn wants to hold it. So it is very difficult to record her talking since she is usually whinning when I try. But this morning I got her to talk some. She is learning to put a few words together and I think it is just so sweet the way she says "okay momma."  I love the little pause she adds! Ok, see for yourself:

Some talking.

The girl has become quite the little talker. Morning time is typically when she is fired up and she will just chatter away through breakfast.  Her favorite subject... puppies. That is the first thing she says almost every time we go in to get her when she wakes up. She has also started pointing TO EVERY LITTLE THING and saying "nah" as in 'what's that?.' The problem is she points to the same thing over and over and over and excpects an answer every single time :)

I finally discovered that when we are reading and she points to an animal, she wants to know the name of it AND also the noise it makes... otherwise she will keep pointing and asking until she has both pieces of info! Funny, yet it becomes kind of exhausting :)  Also, her new favorite activity: singing songs that have hand motions that go along.  I try to teach her a new one every other day or so and she always wants to do it at least a dozen times. But I am so grateful I can stay at home and watch her take in all these new things!

Anyways, I have tried to record her talking but it never seems to work very well... she is distracted by the camera or she just wants to hold it.  But here are two attempts at getting her on tape:

Oh and we got to go to a gymnastics meet down at the University of Utah a few weeks ago!!! It was incredible. It was against Florida State who (I am pretty sure) is ranked #1 in the country and Utah is ranked pretty high too. Amazing gymnastics! And it was pretty fun to be the one who knew all the answers to the questions about the sport instead of the other way around :)  This was the last home meet, but next year we will be going to many more! 

Rockin on a horse.

Here is a short video of Madelyn playing this afternoon. How she comes up with some of the things she does, I have no clue.  But she sure makes us laugh :)

"uh-oh"

She will only say it when she drops something and rarely anytime else. She also signs "thank you" after we give her something now... I love it! (beware she is super precious) Enjoy!

She also started calling me "mama" instead of "nonna" :) Oh yeah and she can now climb up stairs and she does this funky bear crawl instead of crawling on her knees... I will post a video another day!

Miss Manners

Madelyn learned that she gets things much faster when she signs"please" instead of whines.... what a smart child I have :) She also pulled herself up to standing for the first time on Monday when she was with Taylor. She did it again for me today! She loves to feed herself with her spoon now, but she doesn't know how to scoop things up into it. So I get some food on it and hand it to her and then once she eats it she hands it back... it is so much cleaner this way :)
Oh yeah and the sign for "please" is small circles on your chest but she just pats her hand. Enjoy!