converted

after fearing "the thump" every time madelyn is awake in her crib, i decided to go ahead and convert it to a toddler bed last night. once we finish construction in our basement we will probably go ahead and switch her to a twin bed.

madelyn loves her new set-up! while i was attaching the little guard rail she just kept getting on and off the mattress while laughing. so last night i got her all ready for bed (matt was working in the basement) and after reading some books i put her down and told her to get into bed. she climbed on in, hugged bear and i covered her up. there was not another peep (even when i went in to take a picture while she was sleeping). that is until there was a little thump followed by some crying at 2am. i went in to check on her and she was climbing back up into her bed. i just covered her up and she went back to sleep. (she gets a blanket now because i also dropped her sleep sack.)

what was most surprising is that she woke up this morning and still stayed in bed! she must have been in their playing 20 or 30 minutes before matt wanted to go in and check on her. he found her still in her bed. i am guessing that this won't last long, but she did the same thing at nap time. she didn't want to nap (long story) and just stayed in her bed playing/talking with bear.


earlier in the day we went down to the local "river walk" for a saturday morning stroll and stopped at the botanical gardens and then the playground. madelyn really likes flowers and even knows to be gentle with them. if a petal happens to fall off, she tries to put it back until i stick it in my pocket to hide it. she points out the flowers wherever we are - real or not. so she really enjoyed the botanical garden.

as we were starting our walk i was telling matt that last summer there were signs for a free ski show on wednesday nights on the river and that we should see if there are still doing it this summer. and not 10 minutes later we came across a ski team practice! the tricks were much more involved than i had expected. i was just picturing one guy out doing tricks off the ski jump, but this was an almost 20 member team with 4 boats! they were even practicing a pyramid pose on the dock. we will have to check that out soon (and take some pictures). last year the shows were at 7 so that might be a little late for maddie, but it isn't very far from our house so maybe we can make it.


well, maddie just woke up from her nap so i have to run. love.


p.s. this is post #200!