Random Videos

I'm trying a new thing...I uploaded two videos into You Tube and will embed them into this post. Cross your fingers!

One is of an impromptu dance session of the cousins at Turkey Day and the other is of Maddie chatting on her phone this morning with "e-a", also known as cousin Eva.

Hiyo Con-hee

We miss you!

Daddy has a laptop and so do I!

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Tulsa Visit and Xmas

I don't have lots of pictures to upload, but here's one of Maddie and Connor last weekend while we visited Tulsa. They were so cute together! Connor is quite a boy and at one point shortly after I took this picture started eating with his hands. Maddie just stared at him as if to say, "That's too messy for me!" It was so cute!
And here Maddie rides her Christmas present. Two new words in her vocabulary are "bike" and "push." We've pushed her around the house so much the floors are getting dull!

Hanging ornaments

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More decorating

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Tree trimming is exhausting

And so is having a little cold and slight fever. But nothing a Baby Einstein and some stuffed animals can't make better.

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Christmas decorating begins

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New baby!

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The girls

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Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

View from the room.

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Chilly

Maddie watched daddy mow the lawn in all new clthes from her bday.

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Halloween

Preparing to trick-or-treat...
Conny and daddy took Maddie out into the neighborhood...
Maddie and Mac...
Mac in his tuxedo (Alice needed an escort in tails, you see!)...

Maddie Hatter Tea Party

We'll try and put some more pictures up of the party itself, but all we had on Conny's camera were some before and after shots. But here's for those who couldn't make it!

Maddie singing the ABC song to Grandma and Grandpa Freise while awaiting her guests...
'lil Alice...
Conny baked a special cake and we practiced singing and blowing out candles...
Opening a present while in her monkey pjs...
A tea party awaits...
Crazy number of presents to open the next day...
The special banner with pictures from her 2nd year...
The sign for outside the house that confused a couple of guests, since there weren't any directions to follow...
One of the decorations for the tea party...
The thank you tags...

Check out that cake!

The day after the birthday party.

After a fun 2nd birthday, Cloud, Blabla, and Bubba were all wiped out.

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Baking with daddy

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Maddie the Tigger?

Bouncy, bouncy, bouncy...



A tired sugar booger...

Scarecrows

We have a Fall Festival in our subdivision and our neighbor took this picture!

Wildberry for breakfast

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Ballerina Maddie

Maddie had her first Pitter Patter (aka Ballet) class today. Auntie Nancy and Conny went with her and took lots of pictures so Mommy and Daddy could see and share with all of you.

Mommy learns to can!

A couple of weekends ago, the aunties (Cindy and Nancy) offered to show mommy how to can jars of salsa. It was LOTS of fun and VERY exhausting, but the margaritas helped.

Frog pond out back - the frog house Maddie made for the aunties...look close, there are froggies hanging out in there!
Tomatoes...tomatoes...tomatoes...and Ella...
Mommy walks into the house to see the volume of jars to be filled...and we ended up having to buy FOUR more cases of them!
Some of the batches are finished...
A lunchtime visitor..."tomato burglar"...

Ella's Diner

Lunchtime Sunday after the kid's museum was at a place called Ella's Diner. It was pretty cool! Lots of fun stuff to look at including an Alice in Wonderland cuckoo clock and things flying overhead. It ended with ANOTHER ride on a carousel, this time with daddy. Giddy up horsey!

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Children's Museum

Sunday morning we slept in after a LONG night. Maddie is NOT a sound sleeper and people coming back from the Taste at 2am woke her up, so she ended up sleeping in between mommy and daddy (after a good 1 hour death grip on mommy - poor thing!) We headed about 5 blocks away to a children's museum where Maddie did A LOT. The first picture was a water area where she is filling up a cup with water and pouring it out. The second is on the rooftop where there was a garden area with chickens which she pet. She's saying "cheese" for daddy - how appropriate in Wisconsin, non?

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Taste of Madison

Saturday night after a nap (well, not really - after Maddie cried for an hour and we decided to give it up), we walked about three blocks from our hotel to the Taste of Madison. It was in the blocks surrounding the capital. Lots of food, beer from Capital Brewery, and music for Maddie to dance too. We loved it! Crowded on the streets, but plenty of space to walk on the sidewalks, and tons of room on the lawn around the capital to sit down, enjoy a drink, and watch Maddie bop up-and-down to the tunes.

Maddie in Madison

We headed up to Madison, WI for a Freise family getaway - the first with just mommy, daddy and Maddie since Florida last year! We arrived Saturday morning and went to the zoo. The pictures are from our cellphones, and we can't figure out how to rotate them, so turn sideways to see! There was a children's zoo where Maddie played on slides and then saw this carousel. She had to ride it!

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