Pictures!!

I'm finally getting around to getting the 'Washington Grandparent visit' pictures posted!! We are so busy at work. My paperwork ends up spilling into my days off.....especially with picking up extra patients on the weekends. Hmmmmm it'll be nice to have a break from work when Baby Kies arrives....although I think the 'work' will just be slightly different!! The pictures turned out pretty well. Maddox has turned into a monkey the last couple of weeks. She LOVES to climb up on the kitchen chairs and benches to get at whatever happens to be on top of the table, which is generally my laptop....although in the last 24 hours it has found a new home on top of the buffet! She is almost unstoppable and can tear up a few paper napkins into bite size pieces in about 1 minute if the napkin basket happens to be sitting up on the table. Since it's been nice out the last week or so we have been opening the blinds by the kitchen table and she is really mesmerized by all the birds. It seems with spring arriving, all the little birdies have returned to the corn field and the trees behind our house ( thank you Bettendorf for not developing this land...!!) She will squeal and point to them while we are sitting at the table having meals. I don't think she really knew what a birdie was until we were at Grandpa Jim's house over Christmas and she watched all the birds coming to his feeders on the back deck. Imagine how excited she'll be to see the birds when we are there in April....!! Grandpa Jim and Grandma Jean brought Maddox a DORA fishing pole on Sunday. We are excited to use it when we go over to visit in April. (hopefully the weather will cooperate) Right now it is sort of a hazardous weapon though......she doesn't quite know what to do with it and has no idea of its size in spatial relationship to her body so it ends up jabbing her and other objects ( or people) nearby!! Hopefully Grandpa Jim can give her a good lesson on fishing pole safety when we get there in April. Enjoy the pictures!!