First 3 weeks in January

This has been a really exciting month! Maddox has started to really get around the house, no where is safe! She has taken a few steps, prefers to crawl though. She LOVES Fisher, and he actually seems to really like her. He will get on my lap when I am holding her and even comes up to her when they are on the floor. I have caught him occasionally "batting" his paw at her but he doesn't use his claws. They are a lot of fun to watch together. She has a total of four teeth, 2 on the bottom, and two (fangs) on top. Over all she has been handling teething pretty well, we have had a few nights that have been rough but not terrible. She is a pretty tough cookie! 

On the 17th of this month she turned 10 months, and for those 10 months I have never been away from her over night...until now. Since the Ravens beat New England on Sunday it has been a mix of emotions for me. I am ECSTATIC to have the opportunity to be part of a team that will be traveling to New Orleans to compete in the Super Bowl! But am a little sad that I won't see my munchkin for 3 full days! Yikes...We have been working on FaceTiming. At least I can say the first time I left her was for the Super Bowl :)

I will be sure to post pictures when I get back  :)

Go Ravens! ;)

Christmas

We started our christmas on Christmas eve as usual. We went to mom mom and pop pop Carey's to celebrate with the Carey side of the family. Then we packed up and headed to Jen's to celebrate with the Bruce's. There was a surprise weather event, that we LOVED, it made everything so pretty! When we got to Jen's we had dinner and visited then opened gifts. Maddox had a little practice opening gifts, Sarah, and Lindsey gave her gifts earlier. By christmas eve she was starting to get to it, very slow but getting it. We decided to have Christmas morning at our house, it made things SO much easier! My mom, Donnie, Erika, Tyler, Aunt Connie, Tom, Sue, Richard, Zach, and Alex all came over for breakfast! It was a lot of fun to spend the morning with everyone. We had a delicious breakfast, and opened gifts. Maddox was very excited to see everyone and play with her new toys.

Once the morning was over we headed to Nanny's (My Grandmother) to celebrate with my dad, aunt Susan, Uncle Paul, Rachael, Amanda, Chris, Meagan, and Trey. We ate a delicious dinner then opened gifts. Maddox was really starting to understand this process now. She would pull the tissue paper out...then try to eat it. She would rip small pieces of wrapping paper...then try to eat it! Maybe by her year birthday she won't try to eat the paper?

Yike can't believe Maddox will be a year in 2 months! 

We had a fun filled new years eve celebrating with Riley on his 12th birthday! Maddox ate, and ate, and ate a lot more?! She chased Jango and Laya around and played with everyone. We had a lot of fun, but then we decided to head home to watch the ball drop with Fisher. (we didn't make it to the ball drop) haha.

Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday! :)

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving...was a really long day for Maddox, there was so much excitement she didn't want to nap. AHHHH...She fell asleep for like a half hour the whole day! We started the day at home then went to my moms where we celebrated a little early 1:00 per my request. (Thanks guys!) We were able to see Aunt Connie, the Carey side of the family plus the Loper's who joined us this year! It was so fun! I like having Maddox, everyone wants to see her so that means I get to see everyone ;)

Once we had our first "dinner" and dessert at my moms then we headed to Jon's grandmothers and saw the other side of the family, the Bruce's, Mabe's and Davis's. It was so fun to watch Maddox and Carly play together, they are finally both moving around now. Carly is exactly a month younger than Maddox and is Jon's cousin Julene's daughter. We hung out there with family and then we even went back to my house and had an impromptu girls night! Alex came up from Delaware and Lindsey and Julene came over, can't wait to do it again! Thanks Lee! ;)

The day after thanksgiving we had our annual Friday turkey fry event at Sue and Richards! This year we were missing many. Aunt Lauren and Uncle Russ moved to Hawaii, so their boys made the trip to see them...just a little jealous, we miss you! The turkey was still good and the frying competition was great! The girls stayed inside and fried multiple things in the "Fry-Daddy" while the boys used the turkey fryer. Girls Won! It's my blog so of course they did. ;) but in all seriousness the boys stuff was much prettier, and quite delicious!

It was a great time spending this hard week with family and friends. Now time to start with christmas stuff!Ahh...

A few more pictures of Maddox...

After bath time, I decided to blow dry Maddox's hair STRAIGHT back! Haha this is what it looked like. AWESOME! :)

Maddox's favorit time of day...BATH TIME! Can you tell she enjoyed her dinner...

Just watching TV :)

GO REDSKINS! I Love this hoodie on her :)

Maddox's new favorite "toy"

"What? I am just trying to help!"

 

Sitting in her big girl chair.

"Please come play with me Fisher...?"

Cool Girl...Will not leave them on her head :(

One of our Pictures for our Christmas card.

This is what I get to wake up to!

Very happy in the bath!

Still here...Jon's Anniversary

I have not forgotten about you guys, Maddox and I made it through Jon's year anniversary with the help of family and friends. The people I work with are wonderful and are completely understanding. Since this was the first anniversary I wasn't sure what the day would bring. Once it was here, sure I thought a lot about Jon, but I always do! However that day did not make me miss him more than I did the day before or the next day. Everyday I miss him, and I don't think that will ever change. I am just thankful to have the love and support that help me everyday.

With my day off, Maddox and I spent the day at home together. We started our morning by watching cartoons in bed, as Maddox watched Cat in the hat I perused Facebook. It was such a wonderful surprise to see that Jon had taken over my Facebook newsfeed!! Many of our friends and family changed their profile pictures to them with Jon or even just Jon, it was awesome! Thank you for all the wonderful posts and messages about Jon they were very nice to read. While I was feeding Maddox breakfast, we had another surprise, flower bouquets were delivered from some really amazing people that remembered what the day was for us. (Thank you Aunt Lauren, Uncle Russ, Granny, and Ms. Nancy) It was a really nice surprise that made me feel loved. I also received emails from coworkers that made me feel blessed to be working with such caring people. Sue, Jen and Zach came over during the day and we hung out, we played with Maddox, and played Just Dance 4, zwe looked at pictures, we laughed, we even made some really cute photo canvases of Jon. To continue my day I got a pedicure with Jen, my mom and Erika. It really turned out to be a good day :)

That night, was Thanksgiving eve and like many years the place to go was cobblestone, I decided to go out with friends and enjoy the night. Ben, Angie, Pat, Dave, Jen, Riley, and even Alex (Jon's Brother) came to my house before we went out! We hung out then we headed to Cobblestone. It was fun, I got to be out and enjoy a night with friends.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving :)

Here is an updated picture of my munckin! As of today, 1/11/13 she has 3 teeth, and has taken as, many as 4 steps on her own! Yikes...She is really good at climbing stairs.

I have included a few of my favorite photos of Maddox...

Maddox Hanging out with her friends.

 

Purple Friday.

Getting dressed to go to Oma's

"Look mom, I got a Radio Flyer!"

Touch Down!

Maddox checking out the turf.

She loves her Cozy Coupe

Maddox playing a little ball on the 50 yard line.

"Please keep pushing me mom, stop taking my picture"

This was taken by me outside my house, I was loading the car Thanksgiving day. Maddox was just making sure she could watch.