Weekend update: Maddi's home and Kam's grown

Well, Maddi's home. We picked her and Grandmom up from the Philadelphia airport on Friday. I know Madison was tired because she wasn't as chatty as usual. That night, while unpacking, she started crying. She got us a cute little glass bottle that says Navarre Beach (where Mom-mom and Pop-pop DiPilla live) with some shells in it. The bottle, which was in her suitcase, got a little broken during transport. I told her that the little broken out piece makes the bottle look more like it was something found on the beach...it looked cooler. It took a little while, but she got over it. She has a journal that she wrote in every day. She posted it on her blog at Maddi's Sprinkles. Check it out. There are some real gems in there.

I want to thank Mom-mom and Pop-pop DiPilla for taking such great care of Maddi while she was in Florida. I knew she would have a pretty full itinerary. Every night, when she called she sounded so happy...excitedly spilling the day's details to us. It was a nice break for us, too. We were back down to one child for a little while. Though in the end, we did miss Maddie.

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Kam's doing great. She's starting to say uh-oh, ma-ma, da, ba-ba, she knows dog, door, dora, daddy, maddi, mommy, no, yes, come here, outside...and probably some others of which I'm not aware. She is teething and it's keeping us up at night. She wakes up often in the middle of the night and doesn't want to sleep or nap anymore, it seems. She shrieks a lot. We do what we can...give her things to chew on and give her Infant Motrin and Orajel as needed. She's also growing in other ways. She's mastered crawling and is now trying to crawl up stairs. This is quite fun for us. She's also begun to pull herself up to a stand. She got into the wipes the other day while I was standing right next to her putting her clothes away. It reminded me of the time Maddi got into her baby powder when she was about 18 months old, but it wasn't quite as messy.

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Mike is doing well. He's putting in some late hours at work. He still loves it, though. He hasn't spoken to me about moving west since he took the job at Teva, so he must love it. As for me, I had a great weekend. I got called into work on Saturday morning, I put in about 4 hours there. I had another client on Sunday...a 90 minute session. It felt good to be working so much, but on Monday my body was sore. After being out of work for so long, I welcomed the feeling.

Summer's coming to a close and we really haven't taken the kids anywhere. Looks like we're due for some sort of outing. Perhaps someplace frugal, local, and somewhat educational? Check back to see what we're up to.