Blue Eyed Baby MJ: Merry Christmas

We had a wonderful first Christmas with Madeline. We both feel so incredibly blessed to have such a beautiful and special daughter. I looked at Madi in wonder so many times, just amazed at that little creature. She was a stinker at bedtime. She didn't want to go to sleep knowing that everyone else was outside Grandma June's bedroom opening presents. She fussed for 45 minutes before I gave up. She sat in Daddy's lap, half asleep, until Bethany took her into the laundry room to put her to sleep. She went to sleep, finally, at 10. What a stinker. After breakfast and presents from Grandma and Grandpa Larson and her aunts and uncle, we went on to Andover to Curt's side of the family's party at Jenny's and Jim's house. We had a delicious lunch and lots of treats along with a big 4-wheeler present from cousins Jake, Joey, and Julia. Unfortunately our camera died at Jenny's house so we have very few pics of Christmas Day. We're relying on Jenny to email us pics from her camera to fill in the blanks. Madi had so much fun playing with her cousins that we stayed overnight. She pooped out at about 9 and slept until 9 the next morning! Then took a 3 hour nap. She was so exhausted. We finally got back to Rockford and washed clothes, unpacked, did dishes, vacuumed, etc. Madi played with a lot of her new toys and had so much fun. She is now in bed for the night - we hope. It has been a crazy week with the waterpark last weekend, sleeping at Grandma and Grandpa's, sleeping at Jen and Jim's, sleeping in the car, and now back sleeping in her bedroom. Poor girl doesn't know what's going on! Enjoy the pictures...