Happy New Year

Well we opened our last Christmas box last week. It came in the mail from Aunt Brooke and Uncle Tyler, who are patiently awaiting the arrival of their new little boy :) Hang in there Aunt Brooke!! Once again Maddox was showered with gifts...however you'll see by the pictures I posted below that we could have all saved a lot of money and just got her a box with peanuts!! Sorry Tyler and Brooke!! She played with those peanuts for quite awhile. We really had a very nice holiday traveling around celebrating with family as well as having some down time at home to relax and hang out just the 3, or 3 1/2 of us! We didn't do anything special for New Year's other than order pizza...I know exciting. It was a quiet night and Eric and I were in bed by 10.30PM. Maddox and I are settling back into our normal routine today. She slept her normal 2plus hour nap this AM and then we headed out on the town to run some errands. We generally go to WalMart on Mondays. She entertained EVERYONE in the store today waving and yelling out in excitement to the people (I think she was just happy to be out of the house...she hadn't been out since last MONDAY....because we were lucky enough to have the Grandmas come all last week so she didn't go out to Kim's). WalMart carries our favorite brand of animal crackers. Only today they didn't have the normal kind, they ONLY had the chocolate flavored kind.... bummer right? So I picked those up for Maddox. We call them 'cookies'. Little did I know she would make such a mess....but she really liked them. I put a few in her perpetual snack bowl that is always around the kitchen and she pin pointed them out amongst the boring ol' cheerios and scarfed them all down before I put her down for her afternoon nap. You'll see from the pictures they aren't quite as neat and face friendly as the plain kind. Grandma and Grandpa Knowles got Maddox about 5 new pairs of shoes for Christmas. We tried them ALL on yesterday. Our favorites were definitely the little brown suede boots...not necessarily by how they looked but by how Maddox tried to WALK in them. It was like she was a little cowgirl. All's she needed was a holster and a gun. I wish I could've gotten some video. All three of us were crackin' up. She had a hard time, not being used to having to keep her ankles stiff because of the height of the boots. She swaggered those little hips of hers to clear her feet....it was so funny!! AND YES....we know we need to cut her hair! I just can't bring myself to do it yet. We go for her 15 month check up on Thursday, a little late! She still only has 4 teeth which I am kind of getting worried about, but we'll see what Dr. Anderson has to say about that. Other than that she is doing well. Eating well, sleeping well, hasn't been sick in about 2 weeks, knock on wood....! Our next two major hurdles ( at least from my standpoint) are getting rid of the pacifier and getting her potty trained. Both of which I am hoping to do by the time baby number 2 gets here...but of course that'll be done on Maddox time, not Mom time. So we'll see. I had a baby number 2 check up last Thursday and all is well. She seemed to think my uterus was on the large side and wondered if I had had any ultrasounds thinking that maybe there were possibly 2 babies in there. But, I reassured her, and myself!!, that I had had one about a month ago and there was only 1. She just thinks this baby is going to be bigger than Maddox. But, we'll have specific measurements taken on Jan 27th....maybe they'll move up the due date too if it IS measuring big? We'll have to see. We get to find out the sex that day too....so it will be a BIG day.