Maddie's Birthday and other stuff...

Alright gang... so I've not updated in quite a long time and I have heard the pleas of my family and have decided to catch everybody up. If you want to see more pictures just go to my facebook page and you'll get the pics faster!

So August 30th was Maddie's 2nd Birthday and we celebrated it by taking her and her friends to Boingo's which is an indoor play place in Visalia. It is complete with huge inflatibles and slides. Maddie had a BLAST! She ran around everywhere and even went down the big slide by herself (which you can see in the video in the previous post). Enjoy the pics!

Maddie with a Ped Egg

Maddie's New Rain Gear (she has worn it for real since)

The Birthday Girl!!

Maddie and Gigi (her word for her Great Grandma)

Eating Pizza in the birthday girl chair!

Dora Cake!

Eva wishing it was her birthday

Nana and Granddad's Gifts

Cutting the Naps out of Eva's hair

The Carter women!

The Slide...

'Nuff said...

Bob the Builder

This last weekend we took the girls and "Ma" up to Fresno to the Fresno Metropolitan Museum to check out the "Bob the Builder" exhibit. What a time we had!!! Maddie was in hog heaven! There was so much to play with and experiment with and it was all age appropriate. They had beach balls suspended in the air by an air current, vacuums that shot balls up to the top of a Plinko board and she watched the balls trickle down. She also played with a spinning wheel, an air pump and a whole bunch of other stuff. Again, she was loving life! Afterward we went to a restaurant called Sweet Tomatoes (think Soup Plantation) and she enjoyed some yummy food and chocolate ice cream... which ended up on her shirt... check out the last pic.

Summer Visitors

This summer we were lucky enough to host my family (minus "Gandad") and here are some of the pictures. Heath and Thais came first... actually let me restate that. Heath and "Wendy" came to visit at the end of July. On one of our drives we were watching the Incredibles and Maddie asked "Ah her name?" and Courtney, thinking she was talking about someone on the movie simply stated "Wendy". Little did we know that Maddie was talking about Thais. So for the rest of the trip Thais was known as Wendy. Even when we tried to correct her she would just get upset... so we stuck with it. We went swimming and walked to the park and just enjoyed each others company.

Then the following weekend Nana and "Aunt Mackensey" came. I always call my sister "Mac" but Maddie was having none of that and would refuse to call her anything but Mackensey. We had a ton of fun doing Nana and Mac things including looking at the stars and playing in the backyard. We also celebrated Maddie's birthday early with Nana and Mac.

What a blast! Enjoy the pics!