Madie Kai's Special Day

It was Madix's dance recital today, so we decided to make it her special day. We got a babysitter for the other 2 girls and just took Mads for her special Dance Recital then out to eat.
She couldn't have been any cuter. She LOVES this kind of stuff- getting all dressed up and her hair done and makeup done.

Her recital was right at nap time, and luckily she took a little nap on the way there.

All rested and ready to go dance!

Her and her best friend Hanna. They are the cutest together and just LOVE eachother!

On stage. She did SO good. I was SO proud of her. Ofcourse she was a little nervous, but did her dance so dang cute.

At the end when they brought everyone out for a final goodbye.

Gigi and Grandpa came to watch.

Me and Tami with out CUTE CUTE girls!

She got a rose from Gigi and Grandpa, Tami and Me and Dave and loved them.

It was so much fun spending the day with this girl. It was so fun to watch her in her dance recital. We love her to death and think she is just the cutest thing ever.

Snow in Goodyear!

It's starting to look a lot like Christmas! Yep, snow in Goodyear. They had some really fun winter activities at Goodyear Ballpark. And it was so nice to play in snow and not be freezing!!

SNOW!!!! Madix liked it for maybe the first 5 minutes then was done with the snow and on to all the 10 different bounce houses they had.

Ty on the other hand couldn't get enough of the snow. Trying to throw a snowball at Mike.

Then Mike got her

Building a ginger bread house with grandma Eastman. She's here visiting for a week and the girls can't get enough of her. Especially Madix who is constantly on her lap.

Rolling the gumball to make a window

The finished product. Not bad! (we bought the kind that's already put together you just have to decorate, brilliant, we could never get the other ones to stay together)

Thanksgiving 2010

We are SO incredibly blessed in everyway that I can't even express my gratitude enough. But most of all I'm SO thankful for my wonderful husband who works so hard to provide a good living for our family. A husband who comes home from a long day of work (usually 12 hrs) and still has the energy to take time to play with his kids and then give me a back massage almost every night. And also I'm most thankful for my 3 healthy and incredibly beautiful girls.
We had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend. We had Thanksgiving meal at my Uncle Clarence and Aunt Kelly's house with the Schaub side. There were about 80 people there, there were a lot missing. Then that night we took the kids to see Tangled. It will definently be one to buy, really cute.
It was so fun to have Dave's sister Amanda and husband Mike join us this year.

Tayte's first Thanksgiving and first roll. She LOVED it! She was so happy for about 30 minutes just sucking on that thing.

Friday morning me and Dave got up early and went out to conquer the black Friday crowd. We did pretty good and got all the girls shopping done.
Then Friday night went to Glendale Glitters. A great outdoor Christmas festivity.

They had a bunch of bounce houses and slides the girls LOVED.

In front of the big Christmas tree.

Blurry, but we got a yummy chocolate covered cheesecake

And Dave's Mexican hotdog. He said it was the best hotdog he's ever had. It had like cucumbers, avocados, salsa and who knows what else.

Then Sat. morning it was time to decorate for Christmas. The girls had been waiting for this day. They were sooo excited to pull out all the Christmas stuff from the containers. And Tayte just had fun sitting and watching.

Ty and Mads LOVED decorating the tree and looking at all our fun ornaments

This mouse tells the night before christmas story. Tayte didn't know what to think.

And the stockings were hung. (we still need to make Tayte one, this week hopefully)

The final product

They are all ready for Christmas! Now it's the waiting that 3 and 4 year olds just don't quite understand. Madix asked me this morning if its Christmas tonight when it gets dark. Its gonna be a long month for them.

Tayte 6 months

Wow, I can't believe Tayte is 6 months old tomorrow. She's almost a year! Why can't we freeze them as babies?! She is just so dang cute and fun. She doesn't have her dr. apt for another week, so I'll give stats later.
What she's doing at 6 months:
She has 2 bottom teeth
Eats oatmeal and rice cereal and loves it
Takes 3 naps a day, sleeps 9-11am (when I'm home which is rarely), 1-3pm (all 3 girls go down, awwwwww), 5-7pm, gets up and eats then back to bed 8pm-7am
She loves watching baby sesame, she plays in her excersaucer and loves to watch her sisters be crazy
She's really good at holding her own bottle. I love when they can do this, frees up so much time for me.

I love how she ALWAYS holds her legs up. Look at those chubo thighs! I LOVE it! She also has the most beautiful lips and mouth. (which will make up for my droopy eyelids she got)

She is STILL not rolling but she can sit! (little backwords but I'm sure the rolling will come)

She sits for about a minute then usually tips over

Playing Mr. Potato Head with Mads

First bike ride. She loved it, and Mads took good care of her.

She LOVES sharing dads popsicles. They have one almost every night.

She's just started banging on things with her hand. So she bangs on the little piano perfectly

Happy 6 months baby!