Madeline Portraits

We went to have Madeline's pictures taken today. She is 16 months old. This is the dress she is wearing for Michael and Sarah's wedding this weekend. We are so excited. The other dress is one that Harmony gave to her along with a new wardrobe of clothes! She has loved hanging out with all her family over the past several weeks. Is walking everywear, almost starting to run. Loves dogs, cats, birds, rabbits, any animal that moves, which should make her dad happy! She would much rather be outside than in. Hope everyone has a great weekend. We are heading to the mountains!

Palace Gardens and Spargel Festival

Spargel, white asparagas, very popular here in Germany. We went to the Festival just in the next town from us to enjoy the food and have a day out. I ate a Spargel crepe, actually pretty good. Paul had the German version of a steak sandwhich and Madeline ate mine. We then headed to the Schwetzigan Place Gardens to walk through. And then it was nap time for Madeline as she refused to ride in her stroller any longer!

Getting into everything!

These days Madeline is trying to climb and get into everything. Her little green chair is the newest. She can sit in it and then can't always figure out how to get out. The other picture is with her friends Victoria and Max. Their mom, Vanessa and myself took the kids to the Farmer's Market this past Saturday and we all managed to fit in one SUV with a double stroller, a jogging stroller and 3 car seats. We even made it in and out of a very tiny parking garage elevator. Go moms for making it out of the house and back with no major melt downs! Vanessa is my training partner in our new tone, cardio routine. The Abs diet we'll see how it works in 6 weeks!

Madeline walking today

Madeline as a Baby

I finally have figured out how to upload a video clip, so hopefully this will be the first of many so we can show you how Madeline is growing these days!

Team 4 Non Blondes completed our half marathon this past Sunday and today has been a really good rest day. Madeline is walking more and more each day. Once she spotted our neighbors pink JEEP she had to ride and pitched a little fit when we had to go inside. This month we have gone to Belguim twice, had friends over for a nice Easter dinner at our house and I have been able to go to Schweinfurt to see my firend Christina a couple of times. The weather is warming up here and all the flowers and tulips are in bloom which if I could keep them alive I would buy more but for now I just drive by in awe.

Mix of March

Madeline 's personal fashion show! And then Madeline on a playdate with her friend Rowan. They are the same age and it is so funny to watch them play together or steal each others toys back and forth!

Bath time, dad did her hair a little crazy.

Madeline is finally growing more hair so in the back we had a little bow fest with different types of styles just for fun, until she realized they were back there and then pulled them out! We went to Souflenheim France this past week with my friend Christina after going up to visit her in Schweinfurt Germany. Found some really cool pottery and it is always fun to say you went to France for the day.

Madeline had a sitter today while I went to a spouses luncheon, which was nice to get dressed up and eat lunch with ladies and no kids (who refuse to eat, we are in that stage now!). She loves broccoli, tofu, rice, bread, noodles, yogurt, spinach, and of course cheerios! Anything else not listed is posion according to her this week. We'll see what changes next week. Which makes it fun to travel to different countries that don't have the same food. She is doing pretty well traveling in the car though so I can't complain too much. She loves pushing her giraffe, popper, stroller and walker around the house. She likes to empty trash cans and loves to take a bath!