Happy Halloween!

Today is Madelyn's very first Halloween. She was going to be a monkey until she grew out of the costume so now she's a mouse. She makes a pretty cute mouse. These pictures below are from her music class Halloween party.

The mouse quit crawling after 5 minutes because she was exhausted from the costume.

Trying to figure out how to pick up instruments with no fingers out.

Goofy photo but check out that the top tooth!

Have a safe and Happy Halloween!

Another tooth!

We are on our 3rd tooth! The front left tooth popped through and her left eye tooth is not too far behind. You can see it right below the gum line. Pretty exciting for Madelyn.

Things have been busy lately, I have been occasionally subbing. It's the easiest thing to do with our schedules. It's nice to decide when to work and when to not. I give so much credit to working moms. Making dinner when they get home and trying to find a little time to give to your child. Those few days working truly made me appreciate my days with Madelyn more. I couldn't believe how badly I missed her. I would be fine for the first half of the day but then it would just get to me. I loved coming home though to her two teeth gummy smile and her hugs and kisses. It made those days that much better.

We are looking forward to this weekend. We are having a Michigan verse Michigan State party. So far about 80 people have rsvp'd that they are coming. Fortunatly we have a tent with sides being set up (with a heater in it), a port-a-potty being delivered Friday, and 3 fire pits in the yard. Hopefully the better team wins. Go State!

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The Ramsey's

She crawls!

After many requests (mainly my mom) of wanting me to put up a video of our monkey crawling, I have finally gotten around to it. Enjoy!

Madelyn Dancing

When I was recording this video I didn't realize what song was playing in the background. Sort of funny!

*Not the best quality, video was taken on my camera.

And we're off!

I never really considered an "army crawl" officially crawling but it's what she has been slowly doing for a few weeks. She would slowly army crawl in a circle. As of Tuesday evening, my little monkey has been crawling on all fours still slow but moving. She is pulling up on all the furniture and walking along it. She loves (mainly chewing) all cell phones, dog toys (I try to hide them but Colt brings them back out), remotes, paper, computer buttons especially the on/off switch that lights up, electrical outlets, power strips, so needless to say I am busy.

Her naps are starting to shorten and she is spending some quiet time in the crib. She enjoys it and I enjoy small amounts of time to get things done. She usually takes a 40 minute morning nap and 45 minute-1.5 hour afternoon nap. I've been trying to cut out morning nap but it's really a hard thing to do.

I've started substitute teaching. Just to work when I can and Ryan isn't busy at work. We really want to finish our basement. It will be a slow work in progress but it will be nice to just start the project. We plan on adding a den with an adjoining playroom (that will turn into a pool table room in a LONG time), a half-kitchen, fourth bedroom, bar, and a full bath.

Happy Autumn to all!

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The Ramsey's