Maddox Starts to Cruise....

It has been an exiting week already. Eric, Maddox and I took a quick trip up to Aurora to visit Grammy Marti, Grandpa Dick, and Great Grandma Berg. Eric had another conference in the suburbs so we took advantage and came along to visit family. Maddox is getting very good at pulling herself up now. She does it much quicker and more efficiently now compared to just last week. She has additionally figured out how to sit down FINALLY. She actually started doing it on Great Grandma Berg's walker. She loves to pull herself up on the walker as soon as we get within crawling distance of it. But thanks to the walker she has finally be able to teach herself how to sit down. Although not always on command yet. She has been getting very good at standing up in the bathtub, which of course is not safe!! She hasn't quite been able to master sitting down in a slippery tub, but I'm sure it will come soon. She just started cruising on the furniture today. Only about 3 or 4 feet down the couch at a time. She has really takin' a likin' to wrestling matches. We lay on the floor and she literally tackles us, crawling over us and then back again to her starting position. She is giggling and growling the whole time she is doing it. It is hilarious. Let's see what else. She found the toilet paper today while I was cleaning and had a ball pulling it out from the roll. I posted some video of it.....she still loves to put things in her mouth as you can see from the video. You'll see in a couple of the pictures she has a bit of a shiner on her nose. She took a header into the carpet upstairs last week and skinned up her nose. She cried hard for about 5 minutes, scared me to death, but then was back to her old self in no time...and she had the scab rubbed off in about 72 hours. It was more of a carpet burn than anything. We're pretty much on the same eating schedule although there is no more breast milk in the freezer....so I just bought our first container of formula...and boy I'm glad it was our first.....very costly. Thought I'd give her formula for just a few weeks to get us a tad closer to the one year mark before we switched over to whole milk. I am still able to feed her directly from me in the AM and when I pick her up from Kim's although that may be short lived....she has been biting me...!! Well, ta ta for now....take care.