Happy Birthday

And a Happy Birthday it was!
Madeline loved the balloons, and thought "Happy Birthday" was being sung to her, not me. She beamed! Her first birthday will be a treat.

Fun with watermelon.
Our new favorite activity is pulling everything out of the cabinets!
We enjoyed a beautiful Sunday morning at the Riverwalk.
Pretty flowers, pretty girl, but the sun was too bright so I couldn't get her to look up at me.
Enjoying the fountain!

Happy Labor Day

What a patriotic girl!
We celebrated by watching the parade downtown Naperville.

Madeline and her buddy Aiden had so much fun that they had to take a break from it all.

Great-Grandpa Luzinski turns 85!

We helped Great-Grandpa celebrate a milestone birthday! We were happy to be there on such a special day.

Trip to Quincy

We took another trip down to Quincy at the end of August to visit Great-Grandma Schmitt again.
Madeline has grown up a lot since our last trip down!
We enjoyed the train again! Here Madeline reads one of her favorites, Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom with Grandpa.

A sensory experience- Butterscotch pudding

Laura suggested I let Madeline explore different textures, so I stripped her down and put her in the bathtub. She definitely was using multiple senses here!

A few weeks ago my dad got a call from the owners of the house I grew up in. The neighborhood is full of tear-downs, and they wanted to let us know that they will be tearing down "our" house and building a new one. They offered us one last walk-thru before auctioning off everything inside and tearing it down. I've been through the house a few times since we moved, and although I thought it would be sad knowing that it would soon be gone, it was more of just a pleasant drive down memory lane.
Our cutie patootie.
She's crawling all over the place now, and has a few hairs that I can finally clip into a bow.
Clint and the Wyckoffs came over for a picnic in early August.