Easter Morning

It is the Saturday after Easter and I'm finally posting these pics. We've just been busy with Jess :) On Easter Madeline got a little Easter basket with a couple of eggs (she had a lot of fun with the cheap plastic eggs!), a noise maker, some wooden blocks, a bunny, a book, and a little clicky wooden egg. She's had fun with everything! We also had an Easter basket with eggs full of the little Cadbury eggs (who doesn't love those things?!) and Jesslyn had an Easter basket. I can't remember why Madeline was crying, I just know that we always snap pictures because it looks so funny (don't worry, then we take care of her!).









We had a nice time at church teaching our CTR5s about the Resurrection. It was kinda hard for them to pronounce, we heard "house arrest" and "afterated" from them. I hope that something stuck! It was fun for us to teach them-we can't wait until Madeline can understand some of the story! Happy Easter (late)!

Easter Egg Hunt

Madeline had her first Easter egg hunt today. We were late and rushed out of the house without time to get ready because we didn't want to miss it. We got to the park (Red Caboose Park, just down the street) in time for the toddler egg hunt. We didn't really care about the candy-Madeline can't eat it, and it isn't very good! We just wanted to get pictures and see the baby's reaction. She still has a cold so she was looking kinda dazed for a lot of the time!

When the hunt started I took her out and held her right over an egg to pick up, and she just whined and cuddled up to me. She wouldn't get it. So I picked it up and held it to her and shook it around and everything, but she was still unimpressed.

I think there were too many people around and she was feeling uncertain about the whole experience. So, she sorta dropped 4 eggs into her Easter basket and we called it good! It was still fun and funny to watch her. Jesslyn was there with us, and she was being such a good photographer I didn't realize until tonight that we didn't get any pics of her! We'll get some tomorrow! Happy Easter!

Jesslyn comes to town!!

We (well, Raymey) picked Jess up from the airport last night at midnight. It is her spring break and she chose to spend it here in Nashville with us. Madeline was excited, but a little confused, to find that we had a visitor this morning. She's had fun hanging out with her aunt Jesslyn. Unfortunately Madeline woke up with a really runny nose. It is only her second ever, but it is still so sad and pathetic to see. She just looks exhausted and like she doesn't feel well. She didn't make it a half an hour at the YMCA this morning before they had to come get me to take her. So sad! We got some Easter candy today and we plan to dye eggs tomorrow!

Circus

Madeline got some "new" toys from my friend's daughter who has grown out of them. One is a little circus train that plays music and moves. There are cool little blocks with animals in them. Madeline loves them! She's been playing with them a lot since yesterday. This morning she learned how to push the button so that she can turn it on herself! I love the toy, and I'm so glad that it entertains her. However, the "do do doodle-oodle" circus music (actually not captured in this video, but it is the stereotypical circus song) keeps playing in my head and it feels like a scary movie where I'm in a house of mirrors and a clown is going to jump out and get me. But it reall is a cute toy...there is just something eerie about circuses.

Madeline busts a move!

Every post is about Madeline! She's just so entertaining though! When my mom was here Madeline liked to listen to mp3s on her phone. Here is a video of her rocking out (Madeline, not Mom). [I tried several times to post this video, and there is something wrong with it, so here is a video of her listening to music from our computer instead of the phone) After Mom left, I was hanging out with Madeline and she saw my phone (which does not play music) and she crawled over and picked it up and held it to her ear. Then she thought for a second and started dancing. It was absolutely quiet, no sound in the apartment, but Madeline knew that you're supposed to dance when you're holding a cell phone. I think she misses her Grammy!

Madeline comes down with a bad case of "stick-it-to-da-man-itis"

It's fun to go to the YMCA

On Saturday we joined the YMCA! It is super cheap for us because we have a negative income right now. The Y here is only a year and a half old, and it is really nice. I'm excited to be able to exercise and take advantage of the child watch that they have! We went swimming with Madeline after we joined. She was pretty nervous at first. She kept clinging to me. I'd try to put her down (in the 2 inch deep water) and she'd cry and come over to me. There were a lot of kids around us and they were drawn to her (she was about the only baby for a while). I think all of their affection made her nervous! A set of cute little 5 year old twin boys started playing with her like they knew her! They were both pinching her cheeks and poking her nose and rubbing her head and making faces at her to entertain her. It was a little too much attention-she got grumpy-I just thought it was funny. Then one of them licked her tongue. It happened so fast I couldn't stop it! I just had to laugh. Here are a couple of pictures from this weekend. As I looked through our pictures I noticed that there were hardly any with Madeline and me together, so I had Raymey take a couple.

That is NOT your daddy!!!

Madeline did the funniest thing. Last week when she saw Raymey walk out the door she cried and cried. Then I distracted her in our little sunroom with some toys-bad idea! She looked out the window and saw Raymey walking across the parking lot towards where he catches the bus. She started sobbing again! She didn't want her daddy to leave her behind! So, that isn't the funny thing. Today she was playing with toys over by the window again and she started wailing. I looked over to see if she was OK. She was fine, but she saw our neighbor out in the parking lot by his golf van. He has dark hair and actually besides that doesn't look at all like Raymey. Madeline thought that it was her daddy outside leaving her again! Raymey had already gone to school like 3 hours earlier. I had to wait a minute to soothe her becuase I had to snap a picture or two! So, these pictures are of Madeline's heart breaking because our golfing neighbor was leaving. She's so funny!

We found an apartment in Cincinnati!

So, we decided on an apartment. It is the good one that we saw last weekend. It is actually across the river from Cincinnati in Covington KY. It is on the 3rd floor of an old mansion that was converted into apartments. It is bigger than our aparment now (but we do love our aparment now) and the guy that is leasing it will leave his furniture. So, it should be easier to fit all of our stuff in one carload. We did that once for the summer in Boise, but we furnished the apartment with a blow-up mattress, a card table, and a shower curtain. We're pleased with the Covington apartment and we're excited to be there for a summer!

Here are a couple of Madeline pics from last week. My mom was here visiting and Madeline loved to listen to the mp3s on Mom's phone! Mom also gave her a light up angel rubber ducky and a light up devil rubber ducky. Madeline prefers the devil! What do we have in store for us!?!?

Our first post:Cincinnati

So, the Raymey and Kelly Walther family is trying to catch up to the year 2008. Someone invited me (Kelly) to facebook today (which I didn't even know about) and I realized that there is this whole cyber world that I didn't even know about, or hadn't taken the time to look at. We are going to try to blog and see how that works out.

We went to Cincinnati this weekend to check out apartments that we may stay in this summer. When we left on Friday morning we had no idea that we were heading into Ohio's snowstorm of the decade. We heard there was snow, but since we have both lived in Utah, and I'm from Colorado, we weren't too worried. We had already paid for the hotel and rental car. On Friday, what should have been a 4.5 hour drive turned into a 6+ hour trip. At one point we were dead stopped on the freeway for over an hour. Madeline finally convinced us (babies can be so persuasive) to turn off the car and let her our of her carseat. I think that was her favorite part of the trip! We had appointments to see 7 apartments this weekend, and all cancelled but 2. We wanted to see some of the sights, but everything was closed. I'm still not sure that anyone lives in Cincinnati. It was like a ghost town.

So, the highlights of our trip were-- going to Famous Dave's BBQ (Madeline got to hold the rib bones and throw them on the floor), trying Cincinnati chili (which isn't at all what we think of as chili, but is still pretty good), Madeline crying when a guy at a pizza place waved at her (she kept turning around in her high chair to stare at him but when he said hi she freaked out and started shrieking!), seeing one good apartment (the other one was scary), and building a Monk-style cage around Madeline at our hotel (I couldn't let her crawl on the nasty floor, eat weird things, and stick her fingers in electrical sockets, so we got a huge sheet, put it down, and put our bags and chairs around her so she couldn't get off of the sheet. She liked it unless we walked out of it. It should be easier when she can walk-I don't plan on making baby cages forever.)

Oh yeah, to top off our stay in Cincinnati, we got up and drove to the LDS church this morning to find that it had been cancelled due to the snow which was already melted. So, our weekend was a little bit like the old movie "The Last Man on Earth". The houses and stores were there, but we just couldn't find people!How are you supposed to end a blog? The End.