Fall Festival

Madison's school had a Fall Festival tonight that we went to. She dressed up as a scarecrow. The cutest scarecrow I've ever seen!

Looking out at the rain. It's been raining all day here!

Madison with Mrs. Jennifer and her friend, Amari. She talks about Amari all the time!

Madison coloring with Ms. GiGi. When Madison first starting going to this school Ms. GiGi was the only person she would go to without crying.

Waiting in line to pick a duck.

NO MORE PACI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You read it right...no more pacifier! Madison has been off the paci except for at nighttime since she turned one, but now she is completely done with her paci. She's such a big girl! She's been chewing her paci's cause she's teething her back molars and she will chew holes in them. So her teacher at school had to throw her paci away at school on Wednesday because she chewed a hole in it. And I told Madison that was it, no more paci! She did well the first night considering she's slept with a paci every night for over 2 years. She cried for about 15 minutes and woke up a total of 5 times in the middle of the night. And she did fine at school today. She did really great tonight going to bed, she didn't cry at all!!! We'll see if she wakes up in the middle of the night or not.

Anyways, I was really excited about that and I just had to share!

Here's Madison posing for the camera.

Swinging like a big girl!

My little diva!

Tomorrow night is Madison's Fall festival at school, so she will dress up in her scarecrow outfit and go play games and get candy and all that good stuff. I'll post up pictures of that as soon as I can.

Update

Hey everybody! Just thought I'd send out an update since it's been a while. Madison is doing great with her potty training. She wears big girl panties while we are at home and when she goes to school. And she wears pull ups whenever we are out running errands. She hardly ever has any accidents. She's such a big girl!

Here's a picture I took when we were getting ready to go to church the other week.

Playing on the trampoline.
At the honeybee festival in Hahira.
Here's Jason and Madison in the waiting room at Toyota (we were getting the oil changed on the truck).
This is Madison saying "cheese"
Hope everyone is doing well. We are doing great and can't wait to see everybody again. The next time we will be in Panama City will be for Thanksgiving.

Pure Redneck

First off...this is Jason posting...not Leslie:) After going to Grassy Pond yesterday I didn't get my redneck fill. I had "heard" from a coworker that if I stayed on Knight's Academy and drove till it became a dirt road it would dead end into a river. Well yesterday I went to look for it and it was better than expected. Dang near a redneck's paradise if you ask me. So today after church, Leslie, Madison, and I loaded up the ATV and fishin poles and headed down to the river(now that's redneck). The river is very shallow in some areas which makes it passable with ATV's. At one point we crossed though it came over the fenders and the engine was completely submerged but they are designed for such abuse. Anyway...we found a nice little area and we started out...

Here's Leslie getting Madison acquainted to the water

Absolutely gorgeous white sand!!!

This kinda shows you how nice it is. Leslie and Madison are standing on a sandbar and fishing from there. At that point the river gets real deep fast.

Daddy pulled the only fish in but it wasn't without the family's help. Leslie used Madison's Barbie Net to catch a minnow which I used to catch this monster!

Here's Madison playing with her net. The water was a bit cool cause it's late September but she loved it still. Next summer we will probably live down here:)

Thanks for viewing. If you're ever in Valdosta and get bored...we can always go down to the river. I love it here...

Grassy Pond

Hey eveybody! Jason, Madison, and I took a trip out to Grassy Pond yesterday to eat lunch and go fishing. I thought we were gonna just rent some fishing poles and stuff, but Jason surprised us and we all went to Wal-mart and got our own fishing poles. Madison picked out a Barbie one!

Here's Jason heating up some hot dogs and baked beans on the grill.

Madison getting the hot dog buns ready.
Madison playing peek-a-boo. She could stand on the step bar on the side of the bug and she was just popping up and saying "boo!"
Madison trying out her new barbie fishing pole.

I love this picture!
Fishing some more.
It must not have been a good day for fishing. We didn't catch anything and neither did anybody else there. Oh well, next time!

Jax Zoo

Hey ya'll! Jason, Madison and I went to the Jacksonville Zoo yesterday. It was a really nice zoo, and we all enjoyed it, especially Madison. She can now see and recongnize giraffe, elephant, monkey, fish, duck, bird, and I'm sure some other things, but I can't remember them all!

Here's Madison posing for a picture.

Jason and I in front of the swan fountain.
Madison and Jason going down the slide.
Madison playing with the goats in the petting zoo.
Giraffes
Madison and Jason
Leslie and Madison
Madison riding a horse.

Silly girl:)

Okay, now I don't know where Madison learned how to do this! I'm guessing she saw somebody do it at school. She was sitting on the potty tonight and I just looked over at her and this is what she was doing. I cracked up! .