MADELINE AT TWENTY-ONE MONTHS

Big things:
Flower Girl in Aunt Lauren and Uncle Joe’s wedding – Oct 17
First pigtails – Oct 26
Found out she was going to be a big sister! – Oct 30

Maddie is full of surprises lately! She loves to yell “Surprise” and “Boo,” especially when hiding in her “fort” (a blanket laying over the rocker and ottoman in her nursery). She crawls under there and pokes her head out giggling when you pretend you don’t know where she is. She will invite Mommy and Daddy and toys to come into this 1′ x 2′ space and hide with her too. She’s loving her Halloween book Spooky House, she especially likes the skeleton Skelly Bob and the page where Willa the Witch is making eyeball & spider stew, bug bake, bat sandwiches and dead fly pie. This kid…

She’s moving so fast it’s really hard to get a photo where she is not a blur anymore because she just won’t stay still! She has also started doing a really weird smile when you say “Smile.” If we want a nice photo, we have to tell her to do her “ha-ha” face instead, and then you can get a smile (sometimes). All of these faces are practiced in the mirror after bath time when we wipe away the fog and she’s all bundled up in her towel. We do sad face, surprise face, sour lemon face, ha-ha face and we practice sticking out our tongues. Daddy does “flower face,” folding in his tongue in 3 or 4 parts and she thinks it’s the funniest thing.

She still loves dancing and is really into jumping right now, even though she still just kinda bounces her body in the air without having her feet leave the ground. She will throw herself into Lucas’ dog bed with reckless abandon and is climbing onto everything she can. She had her first injury from dancing too hard and tripping on the stage at the rehearsal dinner for Lauren and Joe’s wedding. She split her lip open a little and got a fat lip just in time for the big day. She bounced back quickly however and no real harm was done. It’s her first little scar though. From partying too hard.

She had a great time at cousins, Jordan and Kendal’s 5th birthday party and LOVED going down the giant inflatable slide off of the moon bounce. She was not interested in having her face painted even after Great Aunt Carol so generously went first to show her there was nothing to fear! (Thanks Aunt Carol!!) Maybe next time?

This big girl is just as sweet as can be and while sometime seems to be teetering on a little bit of Mommy dependance, is really a Daddy’s girl at heart. She has started riding around on Dan’s shoulders and saves all her biggest giggles for him.

After announcing to our immediate family the exciting news that we are expecting a new addition to the family, Maddie helped us with a photo announcement to help spread the word. Baby Rapp – due April 23, 2016! Maddie is going to be a fantastic big sister.