First two-word phrase!

This is so exciting! Madeline said her first two-word phrase tonight. Andy was taking her up to bed and I said goodnight to her. Typically Madeline will say bye-bye and wave but tonight she said, "night ma." Andy and I both screamed with excitement and Madeline looked at us like we were crazy. Ahh, these new developments are so much fun!

She is also starting to say No to things. When we ask her if she is ready to go to bed, she'll say, "No, no, no" and shake her head. It's hilarious and we crack up laughing. I'm sure we won't find this funny after awhile, but for now it's entertaining. I think it's because it's fun having the conversation reciprocated from her now. She is repeating everything we say, or at least attempting to say what we are saying. I wish I could get some of this on video, but once she sees the camera, she wants to be behind it looking in the view screen.

While I'm rambling, I'll tell you about our Toys R' Us trip today to shop around for Christmas gifts. We went to look at wagons first and found one that we liked. Right now we just have a small, toy one that Andy will take Madeline on rides in. But she is really too big for it. We need a real wagon. Anyway, right next to that section was the bikes and toy cars. We wanted to put her on a Barbie power wheel, but the batteries were dead. Then we saw this and put her on it.

Oh my gosh, she loved it. In fact, she wouldn't get out of it. So we finished up our "shopping" by pushing her around the store in it. Hopefully no one else wanted to try it out while we were there. hahaha

Here are some recent pictures. This one was taken at daycare doing what she does best, read books.

This is from one night when she was playing and decided to pull everything out of her toy box and climb in. She thought she was so funny.