she said "ma-ma"!

today she said "ma-ma" for the first time! i was so excited! so we are officially counting "da-da" as the first word and "ma-ma" as the second. she was totally doing the "ma-ma-ma-ma" thing too, but i was in the laundry room and missed getting it on film. i did get her saying it if you listen closely about half-way through this video. you can see how hard she is try to say it for me. the second video shows her saying "da-da", but she's been doing that for almost two months now. (she is covered in her prunes and rice/millet porridge in the video from her breakfast.)





after eating she had a lot of fun with the laundry basket and was so proud of herself for climbing into it (see photo sequence below).
as you can see, we are all set for tomorrow's chargers game! really, we were dressed for maddie's friend's first birthday party. it was a sport themed party and they asked everyone to wear their sport apparel. maddie's outfit is a 24 month size, but we couldn't resist the chance for us all to match (her other option was a padres outfit). the funniest thing at the party was that there was a little boy named brady (9 months) with a patriots jersey on and maddie kept taking his toy away from him. we were joking that the back and forth was a preview of tomorrow's game - and maddie won. (in fact, i felt bad because brady cried at the loss of his toy.)

oh, and did i mention that it was -2 this morning with a windchill of -27? yes, folks. it is a cold weekend here in wisconsin. our highs are going to be in the teens all week. brrrr.

love.