Easter 2008

We had a very fun Easter weekend. On Saturday, we went up to my Nana's (the original Nana Flo) and had dinner with my Nana, my parents, my Aunt Lorraine and her family, and my cousin Patrick.

The beautiful eclaire cake!
Sunglasses and a squirrel from Nana and Pa
The original Nana Flo
Great Aunt Lorraine

Then on Easter Day we relaxed at home and then had dinner with Chris's family. We missed the egg hunt with the neighbors because Maddie took a 3 hour nap (go figure). But she did an egg hunt at with us at home and again at Grandma and Grandpa's house, thanks to Aunt Kim's hiding skills (in other words...not so hidden). Aunt Samie was home from college and we always love getting to see her!

The egg hunt!

Stay There!

The other morning, Maddie and I were walking down the stairs. I realized I forgot something upstairs and so I left her standing on the landing part of our stairs by the window. I didn't want her to fall or attempt to continue going down herself, so I told her to stay there. The rest of the day and week she has been saying, "Stay there!" and pointing with her hand. I had to catch it on video because it was cracking us up. She was at my mom's the next day and my mom sat down on the kitchen floor with her. Maddie looked at Nana, paused, said "stay there" and proceeded to get up and get 2 balls to play with. My mom got a good laugh out of that one.


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Happy Easter

Here are some of the pictures we had taken for Easter. We got the CD with the files, so I decided to put my favorites in a slideshow. Have a Happy Easter!

What a week!

Last week Maddie was sick. You would never know it though. She had a fever of 102 for 3 days but was the happiest little girl. I decided to be proactive and take her to the doctor to make sure she didn't have an ear infection or strep. While at the pediatrician's office, her heart rate was high. So the very nice (and very new/young) doctor sent us to a cardiologist that day. Maddie had an EKG, an echocardiogram, and was sent home with a Holter monitor for 24 hours. They put it in a cute little Disney princess backpack and she wore that thing the whole time and never once tried to take it off. It was the cutest thing! Not to make light of a serious thing like her heart, but she's fine and they're attributing the high rate to her fever. We'll take her back around her 2nd birthday to be sure everything is okay. We just cracked up at the backpack and she called it her princess the whole time. Here are some pictures and a video.





Despite the fever and the heart monitor, Maddie was dancing and playing! She loves to wear one of Chris's snowboarding hats and she's wearing it in the pictures above and this video.

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New Camera!!!

I am in love with our new camera! Chris's parents gave us a new camera for Christmas and we just couldn't seem to get consistently good pictures. It was a super nice camera with tons of features, but basically it wasn't dummy-proof enough for us. So we exchanged it for a Canon dSLR, upon the recommendation of Mia. And if you've seen Nora's blog (see link above), Mia takes AWESOME pictures! It is so nice and easy and besides a couple pictures with red-eye, we haven't had any bad shots yet. Here are some so far. We've had a busy week and will hopefully take more pictures this weekend and post them soon.