Mother's Day Weekend

Here are a few silly pictures of Madeline before we get to the Mother's Day (Jenna's Shower) ones. So for some reason a lot of the times, when we try to take her picture, she always wants to pose like this:Almost over night, after her 2nd birthday, she turned into to this boisterous, silly little thing!

I think this was in the morning, hense the crazy hair.

On to Jenna's (Matt's sister) shower. Saturday, May 10th, the day before Mother's Day. We are so excited that little Carter is on the way!

Madeline helped out with the presents - almost half of them until she got bored.

Opening the present we gave her - a bouncy seat.

Madeline like choosing which present she would open next.

Opening the card...

Her room theme is dinosaurs.

Presents are so much fun!
She wasn't very patient. When Jenna had half of one open, she would ask for another.

I tried to get her to look at me for a few pictures, but that can be very difficult.

What is it?

I think this is about the time she started to get bored, and silly!

She liked the duck off one of the presents.
Show me the duck.

The house that we were at had an absolutly beautiful yard and this great big pond with fish and a frog. Madeline kept wandering back there to check it out.
Trying to get in the chair by herself. Now that she's two, I hear, "I do it." for everything!
Silly Monkey!


"Mmm... this is a good cracker!"
Is this your tough girl face?
This new level of exploratory defiance has set in... "what will it feel like if I shove this leave stem up my nose?... and let me make sure to look at mom while I'm doing this because she probably doesn't want me to do this."

The punch was great!

This was a great box to play in, and it kept her entertained for awhile.

"Let me show you my two-year-old claws!"

I think she's saying "I love YOU mom, happy mother's day." :)

So we actually forgot to take mother/daughter mother's day pictures the next day... we'll have a little photo shoot later today when dad gets home. I hope you all had a very special mother's day!