Happy New Year!

I can't believe Christmas has already come and gone, and now it is New Year's! We had so much anticipation about Baby's First Christmas this year, and then it just kind of snuck up on us and actually turned out to be pretty mellow! We just stayed in town and laid low. It was fun to watch the excitement of Christmas through Madison's eyes: the lights, the tree, the presents, etc... The kitties even seemed to understand what was going on and were right in the middle of everything, playing in the wrapping paper and chasing the bows, it was funny!

Well I was really affected by the Christmas shooting that happened in California, and was semi- thinking about writing about it, but I decided that was too depressing and I'm sure everyone who read my last article about the Va Tech shootings knows how I feel about gun control. That was so sad though. All of it.

The latest news with me is that I've come down with a case of mastisis, ugh. If you don't know what that is, you don't wanna know! I think it's a result of Madison sleeping all night long for the past few weeks and therefore not nursing as much. So I'm on antibiotics and trying to be healthy and just waiting for it to go away! Made for a fun New Year's!!!!

Look what Santa brought!

A couple videos:

Bein silly:

Favorite games:

"chasing" the kitties

crawling up the stairs

"hiding" while we look around

Peekaboo

Pattycake

Picking out books to read

Dropping things on the floor (a classic!)

Favorite words:
Mama, Mommy (of course!)
Dada, Daddy

Baby

Kitty (which ends up sounding more like "diddy" or other words that rhyme with "kitty" :)

Hi

Bye

Ya-ya!