Something else you may have missed...

During our long absence a few exciting things happened besides finding a perfect house...

One Saturday we hit Disneyland early to beat the crowd and was able to ride some of the Fantasy Land favorites... And we walked over to Toon Town to see if Madison was tall enough to ride the roller coaster Lily absolutely LOVED when they visited last April/May and she was! She was easily taller than the pencil so we were kicking ourselves for not trying it sooner! Anyway, Dave and Madison rode together and me in the back for the first time and I actually thought it was a little too fast for little kiddies but Madison just had so much fun and wanted to go right back on... Thanks to the slower crowd there wasn't much wait so Dave took Madison again and I was able to record this precious milestone moments in film and pictures...:-)

Happily going for the second time...

Then last Saturday of February we headed to the Los Alamitos Air Force Base for the annual Race on the Base which if you are a faithful reader of our blog you might recall a post about our friend Daniel trying the triathlon last year... Well this year was Daniel's brother, Brian's turn and as you know Madison is really attached to Brian so Madison practiced her cheer at home and off we went to witness Brian's victory...:-)

She got so shy around Brian when he came over to give her a hug...:-)

Madison actually went up on there to sit by Charlie on her own... I thought it was soooo sweet! Charlie and his wife Peggy came to see Brian also(they are members from Church)...

She made a new friend that day... Madison had sooo much fun playing with Kim:-)

BFF!

For some reason Madison's tummy was bothering her that day and after making a trip to the dirty porta potty we grabbed the portable potty I bought just in case when she was really afraid of automatic flush and refused to go on regular toilet... Wow that thing saved us!! It comes in a nice carrying bag and we can set it up anywhere! I believe she went 4 or 5 times and ended up using up all the bags that we had:-) We absolutely recommend this portable potty for your child(ren)... Oh it's sold on Amazon.com for like 10 bucks!

In case you can't view the video for some reason... Brian came in 1st!!!

And this is more like a bonus since this goes back all the way to something in October... When Dave had a class or internship one Saturday I got out my painting kit and Madison put on her painting cap and did an awesome art project for Daddy's Christmas gift... I was planning on posting this after Christmas but totally forgot to until now but it's too cute to skip so please enjoy our little artist...:-)

Checking out all the colors she has to work with... Looks satisfied:-)

Before picture!

Madison used her brush really well but she definitely enjoyed making her palm prints to finish up the painting!

Checking out her colorful hands...

That was sooo much fun!!