First & Last.

Madison's Valentines photo...one of many :)

Fifteen minutes ago ended Valentines day and officially started a new day. Yesterday was a great day for everyone in my little family. Madison and I woke up for the day and she had her kindermusik class where she found her first boy valentine besides her daddy. She crawled right up to him and grabbed his cheeks and just attempted to bite his nose off, but it ended up as a little peck on his nose, it was too cute. I wish I was able to record that on video so we can show her (and make her cheeks red) when dating begins in her life that she was after the boys at a young age. After her class we went to have lunch with her grandma at Molbak's and she definitely loved having lunch with grandma. Madison loved it so much she decided to stain her "1st Valentines day" onesie so that was the end of wearing that which only lasted half a day surprisingly. After lunch, we ran errands and came home to a beautiful bouquet of a dozen pink roses and chocolate (yum!). Madison decided she wanted to see her grandma again so we went over to visit for a bit so she could play and show off her newly found walking skills off before heading home. Jon made dinner for us which consisted of fillet mignon and risotto with artichoke hearts (simplified the name since I can't remember the exact name of it), it was very delicious and I loved that we were able to stay home and enjoy Valentines day as a family.

This is the first of the last for Madison's holidays experienced. It might not make sense, but I'll try to elaborate. Her first holidays are all done and celebrated with and the last one was yesterday-Valentines day which was the first of many for her. Now it's time to just prepare her for the next round of holidays and the years to come. Does that make sense? It makes sense to me, but sometimes it is just me :) Just thinking about this today made me happy and sad to know she has grown so much in the first 11 1/2 months of her being. Soon she'll be one and running around like crazy while I'm trying to keep up with her. Actually on a side note, she keeps me in good shape with her crawling around and I'm sure with her running around soon, it will just be even busier for me. So here's to more holidays with Madison as she embraces them throughout the years to come and eventually grow to love them as much as her mama does.