15 Months

Each month I say the same thing....I can't believe how time flies. So what have you been up to lately?

• Working on getting your first set of molars...they are making you very unhappy.
• No matter what time you go to bed you are up around 8:30.
• You are talk ALL of the time.
• New words: no, go, play, out, uh oh, side(outside), duck, bear, cup, thank you, awww
• You are such a loving little girl and I hope you stay that way. Everything that you come in contact with gets a combination of hug, kiss or pats. Makes my heart melt!
• You love it when daddy chases you around the house. You run to him and then fall in the floor and giggle and shrill.
• Flirty flirt indeed...especially to older men in public....I guess you think they are all grandpas! haha

• Your appetite has decreased and will not eat most food we fix you, but you will always eat any type of cracker, cookie or sweets (I wonder who you get that from)!
• Rice is definitely your favorite food.
• You are walking all over the place and want to walk when we are out in public.
• You are very determined and strong willed.
• You have learned how to pet the dogs and cat and you are sweet to them most of the time. They even get hugs and kisses. You like to stick you tongue out for Asia and you like to have her kiss your face! Not one of my favorite things!
• You love having books read to you. You also like to "read" your books.
• You like to sit in our laps and we love it!!!

Saying No

Dog Days of Winter

Another snow day for the Phillips household. Madeline and I enjoyed spending another day with Mike. Since it is the first of the month, Mike had some reports he needed to work on for the office.

She spent her morning playing and loving on the dogs. The dogs have to earn their keep around here so they are employed at Mike's office as guard dogs so they are not usually here either. I think she likes having them around...can't you tell?

She also LOVES dragging out all of her toys!

Snow Day

I LOVE LOVE the snow....especially when it means the hubby gets to stay home (a very rare occurrence) and play with us all day. The storm started last night with rain and sleet, followed by 6 inches of snow.

Absolutely beautiful!!!

Madeline was also excited that daddy stayed home!

I decided to make up some blueberry pancakes for breakfast, vegetable soup for lunch and Mike is cooking up some burritos for dinner as I type this! Although Madeline technically experienced her first snow last year during Christmas and was only a little over a month old, today was the first time we actually went out a played in it.

I don't know if it is because she is teething AGAIN, but she is soooo clingy lately and had little interest in the snow. We put her in the wagon and pulled her around....she did not like that and wanted to be carried. We thought this walking thing would give our arms a rest, apparently Madeline disagrees!

The dogs had a good time. Addie didn't like it at first, but it might

have something to do with her belly touching the snow.

After she grew accustomed to it, her and Asia had a blast.

Looks like we might have a snow day tomorrow too! :)

Birthday Celebration

We traveled back home this weekend to celebrate my dad's birthday (a little late).

Sitting with Granny, watching Gramps open presents.

Eating some cake and ice cream with Gramps.

Playing with the empty box

Megan and Gramps....she is a good helper when its time to open presents!

Madeline enjoyed her grandparents.

Had fun with her cousin Megan.

Madeline made a new friend with my parent's new puppy Sadie.

Weekend Recap

After a great weekend with friends, our house has finally caught up on sleep and are back on schedule. We had a mini vacation to Ruidoso and we had a blast!!!

We even got a little bit of snow on our last day there.

Friday afternoon we headed to Lubbock to drop off the dogs with my sister. She tried to get us to leave Madeline with her as well, but I told her it was important to see how well she took care of the dogs before we dropped off the kid! haha

Three families met up in Lubbock for the road trip. Mike told me all week I had to limit our "cargo" because there would be other stuff from everyone else to put in the Excursion.....good thing we have a big vehicle because when we go any where it is F.U.L.L. with all of the baby stuff, 2 large dogs and their beds and pillows, plus our stuff it doesn't take long to fill the truck....

We managed to get 4 adults, three little kids, a baby and all of our luggage plus food in the truck! Good thing Mike doesn't need to see out the back window! ha!

We meet up with the Major family in Ruidoso for a low key weekend. It really turned out to be more of a girls weekend, but the boys didn't mind too much.

The kids had a blast together and Madeline enjoyed all of the big girls taking care of her. They even helped her walk around some and know she is walking all over the place!!!!!!

It was sad to leave Ruidoso and was way tooo short, but we enjoyed ourselves. I miss those girls! We have known each other since junior high and became good friends in high school.

Although we live in different places (Lubbock, Amarillo and Abilene) we all managed to stay close and never miss a beat. We might still act like we are in junior high! ha!