Mom's Little Helper

Maddox and I went to HyVee today, one of our usual stops on either Monday or Wednesday. We generally have a good time until I have to put her in the entry way to unload the groceries from the RAV. She usually gets upset that I am leaving her there but today she was happy to get into a couple of the grocery sacks 'helping' me empty them. She managed to get this bag around her foot and it was stuck on there for like 20 minutes while she toddled around the house. It was really funny and I managed to get some video of it! We got to celebrate our last Christmas with Aunt Diane, cousin Hannah and Uncle Brian at Grammy Marti and Grandpa Dick's house this past weekend. Despite Maddox having a pretty bad cold and fever we managed to get a couple of smiles. Maddox was AGAIN showered with too many gifts....but had a great time seeing the St. Louis clan. Maddox is feeling better, finally without fever, just a little stuffy nose and cough. But, she slept through the night last night for the first time since Sunday night which was a real relief for Eric and I. PHEW!! We are really working on teaching her to say words. She is getting good at watching our lips and trying to put her mouth and tongue in the same position to be able to say them. Her latest word is DUCK. Actually she says DUCT with a T sound on the end instead of a K sound. But, that's ok for now...I figure this way she'll already have a head start to say DUCT TAPE. We have been able to see Baby Carter a couple of times on SKYPE. He is really cute. Maddox doesn't seem to quite understand the concept of SKYPE but I did get her to say BABY, sort of, tonight! It was really more like BAEBA but that's ok. It'll come. Take care.