Eight Months and Independence

It has been 8 months since Maddie was born. Boy how things are changing. We have baby gates up now. She has two teeth now. She is a mover these days. She is crawling, but still a little unsteady. Her brain tells her to go, but her body is just not up to the challenge yet. So she is getting frustrated. Sooner than later her body will catch up to her mind and it is all over for Joe and I.

On the days that I am out of town, I think Joe is getting frustrated with Maddie's frustrations. She wants to walk and talk so badly that she drives daddy crazy when she fusses. We should all be so luck to have a good baby like her. Things could be dramatically different.

We went to visit my grandparents in Mesa, Arizona this past weekend. We had tickets through Frontier because of a cancelled flight last year when I was pregnant with Maddie. Because Frontier is based out of Denver, CO all of their flights go through Denver. So we had an all day event getting to Phoenix, AZ. We spent from 11am to 6pm getting to Arizona. It was a long day, but Maddie was the best kid ever. She didn't fuss much if at all. She slept on me for a couple hours and played with Joe and I the rest of the time. I was so thankful, it could have been much worse. Maddie's first actual crawling, on all fours, was at the Denver airport. Or at least the first time we had seen her crawling. She might have gotten in a few at daycare, but it doesn't count until mom and dad see it.

Grandma and Grandpa loved her of coarse. They were amazed at how good she was and how much she talked. We went to the Phoenix zoo while we were there on Sunday morning. It is a nice zoo. There are a lot of animals. Maddie saw a few animals before she fell asleep. We left after a couple of hours, plus it was getting hot.

I celebrated another birthday on the 21st of July. We didn't do anything speacial, actually I was in Merced that day. I had brought Maddie to Merced for two days. It is hard to work with a baby in your trailer, because everyone wanted to come in a see her. Also because she demands a lot of attention. I just means that your day is a lot longer. You can only squeeze a little amount of work in over a longer period of time. I enjoyed having her with me and everyone asks about her and when she is coming back. The drive was long but she made it. I had to sing "head, shoulders, knees and toes" and "twinkle, twinkle little star" about a dozen time on the way home. 2-1/2 hours in the car after a long day at the jobsite, she was not happy with me.

Maddie went to her first baseball game at Raley field to see the River Cats. She did great. She liked all the people. She wouldn't sleep so she got fussy at about 9pm. We left shortly after and she fell asleep in the car. We went with our friends Bruce, Cindy, Bryson and Whitney. And Uncle Mike too. Our car was packed full. I am so glad we got the Navigator. We were able to get two carseats a everyone else in one car. It was nice.

Well, that is all for now. Until the next events happen.