Happy Birthday Maddox!

Happy First Birthday Maddie!!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Today we went over to Great Grandma Jahnke's house for a little bit. I played with my daddie's cousin Sam and ate some potato's and a dinner roll. There was alot of people there. My great aunt's and uncle's, daddies cousins, my grandparents Diane and Kirby, and Uncle Lewis and Julie. After that we went over to Grandma Mary's house. Aunty Amy, Uncle Kerry and my cousins were there. Uncle Eric came over too. We had lots more food. Grandma fed me Pumpkin Cream Pie, Chocolate Silk Pie, and Aunty Amy fed me Corn. Mom stuck to the basics and just gave me some potato's and sweet potato's... and a tiny bit of of Turkey.

Me and Sam playing


Dad and Me sitting at the table at Great Grandma's.


Uncle Eric's dog Precious licking my face


Mom, Dante, and My photoshoot




Kaden trying to lick Grandma's plate!


My first Thanksgiving sure was fun!

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Miscellaneous pictures of my favorite toys!

Foam Apple and Tin Cup


Mommies New Scarf

Maple Maze!

Daddy went out of town last weekend to go hunting with Grandpa! Mom, Grandma Diane, and I hung out and it was alot of fun! Friday night we went out to eat at D'Amico & Son's and then went to Ace Hardware to find a new paint color for in the living room. Saturday we didn't hang out with Grandma. We went over to Aunty Amy's house. I got my flu shot and then we hung out with my cousins. Aunty watched played with me for awhile so that mom could work on my scrapbook! Sunday Grandma Diane brought us on a surprise trip to the Maple Grove Community Center. We went to the indoor playground called "Maple Maze" and it was alot of fun! At first I was a little iffy, but I warmed up after awhile and started walking around the whole area. This mean older boy kept coming in the 3 and under area. He kept stealing my balls from the ball pit and he pushed my down twice. Mom didn't see it the first time, but the second time she saw him come up from behind me, put his hand on my head and push me onto the ground. He really scared me. Everytime he came in after that, I started to cry. The staff girl made him leave and everything was ok after that!








Mom discovered today that I do not like baths anymore. I like to take showers. Everytime I am put in the bath I cry. Mom has to drain the water and turn the shower on to rinse off the bubbles. Tonight, mom laid the shower head on the bottom of the tub and let me play in the water. I had a great time trying to drink it!

Out For A Walk

Today was such a beautiful day! The high today was 61. Mom and I were going to go over to Caribou Coffee, she started to put on my winter jacket and my mittens.. and then she remembered that someone said it was going to be in the 60's so she opened the door up and it was gorgeous! We decided to go to the park instead. We got to the park and mom locked the wheels on the stroller and got me out and a couple of Ducks came up and were trying to get into the basket of the stroller. Mom decided to give them some cheerios and hoped that after they at them, they'd go away. They didn't, however, and then she gave them some more to buy some time. The ducks started to snap at my pant legs and at my hands and then a bunch of Canadian Geese came. Mom just picked me up and pushed the stroller away. Luckily, none of them followed. I decided to get down and walk and mom and I played on the path, picking up leaves, and walking in circles. The ducks and geese left the park and then there were two other boys at the park, both of them older than me, but I wanted to play with them anyways, so we went back.

Happy Halloween!

I know that it isn't until tomorrow, but we celebrated yesterday! We carved pumpkins and then we went to Como Park Zoo: Zoo Boo. Carving pumpkins was great! Mom and Dad had a bowl they were throwing all the pumpkin guts into and everytime they'd throw something in there, I would take it right out and fling it around everywhere! I was having alot of fun. Mom opened the big pumpkin, cleaned it out and put me inside of it. I was a little too big to sit down in it, so she carved me some leg holes! Daddies pumpkin rotted while it was waiting to be carved, so he got to carve mommies pumpkin!

Throwing around pumpkin


Too big for pumpkin


waiting for my leg holes


pumpkin with leg holes!


We went to the Zoo Boo Aunty Amy, Uncle Kerry, Dante, Ariana, Kaden, and Grandma's boyfriend's son, Jordan. It was really jam packed. Mom is glad that we went, but she doesn't think that we'll go back to it again. Aunty Amy said that it was a little different than the time they went. We got lots of stuff in our bags and I got to have a tea party with Alice and some of her friends.







It was also my 11 month birthday yesterday! I am 11 Months old!

Forgot our pictures from today!

We played in the leaves! Well.. Mom raked and I played in the leaves! It was alot of fun!

Pine Tree Apple Orchard and Misc Pictures

Mom, Dad, and I went to the Apple Orchard yesterday to pick pumpkins from the pumpkin patch. After we picked our pumpkins we went and had a piece of Apple Pie (Ala Mode for mom and I) and dad had a cup of cold cider with his. We bought a strawberry rhubarb pie too. I cannot eat that though. Mom says it is the best pie in the whole world. So go buy a Pre-Prepared, frozen, non-cooked Strawberry Rhubarb pie from the store at Pine Tree Apple Orchard, bring it home and bake it. It is awesome (says mom). Dad went out and found a tall skinny pumpkin for mom and a short fat pumpkin for himself while mom and I stood guard of the very large, fat, round pumpkin that mom had picked out for me. It weighs about 10lbs more than me. Mom is hoping that when she empties it, she will be able to fit me inside of it. You'll get to see pictures later if it works. The pumpkins are outside on the front steps waiting to be carved. We're waiting closer to halloween so they don't spoil.









After that we went to Northwestern Bookstores to try and find something for Kaden (no luck) and then to Target. Nothing too interesting. I ate 2/3 cup of Gerber Graduates Turkey Stew for lunch. I ate ALL but 2.5 pieces of chicken and carrot pasta pick-ups. Mom was real proud of me yesterday. She said I did a great job eatting my food.

Now for the miscellaneous pictures!

October 8th, 2005 (after hitting my nose on the footboard of mom and dad's bed) Here I am giving Dad advice on how to play World of Warcraft.



October 14th, 2005

Driving my car and looking under the hood.





Mom and I went to Northwood Park. We were playing on the ground with the leaves and mom thought the background was nice so she took a few pics.

Flu Shot #1

Just a record.

Walking!

I am getting so good at walking! Today mom and I went to my ECFE class and I walked to one of my teachers to play with a toy. I had to have taken 10 steps. I have been walking lots today and several times have taken over 6 steps! Maybe tomorrow I'll come on and tell you that I am officially walking now! hehe!