College Game Day

Since today is the opening day for college football, Madeline decided to get geared up and support her team.  Go Big Red!

Officially a...

TALKER!

Well, we're pretty sure anyways.  Madeline loves to look at babies and say "babeeeeeeee."  She has a little friend, Helen, who is only a couple months old, and calls her baby.  She points to her pictures around the house and says baby.  She points to her dolls and says baby.  Yes, occasionally she points to the chair and calls it baby.  But, we're pretty sure it's her first word, so who cares!  

P.S. We are close to walking.  This getting bigger business is exhausting!

Experiment

My Aunt Maria threw a going-away party for her son and daughter-in-law and their twins, Madeline and Jacob that we attended yesterday. The twins are about 18 months and my Madeline was just enamored with them. This is all beside the point, but I thought I would just give a little background. The other Madeline had a baby doll that she brought to the party, which my Madeline promptly picked up, thinking it was hers (of course, because what isn't??). So, we told her that was "baby". She then kissed baby, made me kiss baby and made everyone around her kiss baby. As you can tell, she loves kisses. She then said what sounded like "baby" several times. I think we witnessed a first word! Todd is a little skeptical. So, today we are going to Wal-Mart to get a baby to see if it happens again. I'll keep everyone updated on our experiment! Hopefully it works!