A quick post

I have quite a bit to post about, but I'm not going to right now. I'm too tired with too big of a headache and with too many other things I'd rather be doing, so I'll do it later. I did want to get the pics of Madie in her Halloween costume for this year up. She is a little butterfly and she is too stinkin' cute in her costume.
You can see the wings better when she stands up but I was lucky she let me even put the costume on her this morning, so maybe this weekend I'll get better pics.

Here you can see the wings better. Also, she will have pink bows in her hair on Saturday, not red. The antenna are too heavy to stand up on their own when she moves, so I just grabbed the nearest clips to see if that would help them stand up, and it did (I would just have her wear the traditional antenna on a headband but she won't leave one in for very long, but she will usually leave her pigtails alone).

Finally starting to feel better

We were all sick last week...it sucked. Zach & Madie both got over it fairly quickly but for some reason I just couldn't seem to shake it. I finally started feeling a little better yesterday (I started feeling sick last Monday). So now I get to play catch up on all of the things that I neglected for a week.

We had a kitten adopt us. Yes, you read that right...he picked us (I don't actually know the gender of the cat). As Madie and I were walking into the kitchen to get breakfast one morning she saw a cat on the fence outside the front door. So we had to stop so she could wave. I opened the door thinking the cat would jump into the grass and run away like every other cat has done. I was wrong! He came right up to us and starting purring and rubbing against my leg. You would think I fed the cat because he hung around for several days. He even enjoyed sitting on the front lawn right outside Madie's window, which she absolutely loved. Then one day he just disappeared. She still says "bye meow" when we walk past the front door.
Here is the little guy, sorry the picture is sideways but I don't care enough to go back and fix it.

Madie is really learning to like the weekends. She becomes my parents' shadow. She loves to just follow them around and see what's going on. My dad poured concrete about a week ago on the side of the house for the addition. She thought it was great to run up and down it. She also wanted to help grandpa. She was so funny to watch.

My mom sat her in the middle of the jacaranda tree and she loved that!

She also helped me make cookies the other day. :)

I don't know where she comes up with these ideas, but this is where she decided she wanted to sit to eat her snack the other day.

Odd fruits

So I was cutting an apple for Madie yesterday and just had to take a picture. I thought it was so funny how different in size the two sides of the apple were. I think Lori thought I was a little nuts for how funny I thought it was, but when you stay home you learn to find the joy in the little things...like lop-sided apples.

To go right along with my odd apple is this:

What is that? A turban pumpkin. I had never heard of or seen one in my life before Wednesday. We were at Sprouts with my mom and they had them. We're not sure if you're actually supposed to eat it :) I thought it would look cool just sitting on the table all month long but the sucker was heavy and at 77 cents/lb I thought it would be out of my budget for something that I wasn't going to do anything with. Maybe another year...

I ordered business cards a few weeks ago. I think they are super cute. It made me feel so professional when they came :)

This picture kind of goes with the odd fruits. She sleeps in the weirdest positions sometimes.