Another day, another....duck

Ok, so you all know that I LOVE my animals! But seriously, something has to give! When my parents very first bought their house (pre Bryon days) I just happened to come home with some baby ducks. I thought they would be so cute in our backyard, which they are, don't get me wrong, but when you buy them as babies, you don't know whether they are drakes or hens. We have lucked out and even though we have had ducks come and go, we have never had an issue like this one. Our old hen that has somehow made it from day one lays eggs every day throughout the summer. Every morning when the dogs get out they find the eggs and eat them. This has been our system, this has worked. Our latest batch of ducks came with one hen and 3 drakes. This hen figured out that if she layed her eggs in the duck house behind our barn that the dogs couldn't get to them. We realized they were back there too late. After an incident earlier this summer when the dogs got to some eggs that where almost "done cookin'" I cried when I saw them eat them. So when we found the new eggs I didn't know how long they had been there, but I couldn't bear the thought of throwing them away or letting the dogs have them, so we waited. I honestly thought that because they were back there so long that they weren't fertilized and would never hatch. I was wrong. On monday we were blessed with four little additions to our ever expanding ranch. Then on Wednesday we were blessed with on more. They are so cute and Madi LOVES them. I think she thinks they are the ducks she plays with in the tub. She wanted to hold them so bad, but they are a little bit too squirrely for her and the momma duck is NOT pleasant to be around right now! YIKES!!

Any body want some ducks? Ü

My Sick Little Angel

This past weekend has been a little bit rough on the Davis household! Bryon was working graveyards all weekend and Madi started feeling a little bit under the weather on Friday. On Saturday she really didn't want to eat any thing and was really whiny. This is not the norm for Madi, she is usually very happy and content to play with her toys and hang out with the fam. She was also pulling on her diaper like it was putting too much pressure on her tummy. She was really lethargic all day and just wanted to sleep. By Saturday night she was out at 9:00. I thought it was great! I put her to bed, cleaned up a bit and I hit the sack too for some much needed rest. at about 7:15 in the morning I woke up to her SCREAMING in her bedroom. I ran in there to find her covered from head to toe in vomit and poop (Sorry if this is too much information, you may want to stop reading now). Needless to say her bed didn't make out much better than she did. I pulled off her clothes and hurried her in to the tub to clean her up. She was so sullen it was sad to see her so uncomfortable. I got her all cleaned up and had my mom come down to hold her while I cleaned up the rest of the mess. So all day Sunday Madi was pretty much the same, whiny, uninterested in food or drinks, really tired. By Monday she was feeling much better. We assumed the bug she had had passed. She was eating again, not all the way back to her normal self, but she was feeling better. Yesterday, she was still acting better and we were very relieved to have our little one back. We decided to go ride our horses last night and Madi wanted to spend some quality one on one time with her aunt Tenille. They went to a candle party and spent a couple of hours together last night. When we went to pick up Madi, Tenille said that she was kind of whiny again, and just acted like she didn't feel well. She was super lithargic again, so we hurried and put her in the truck and headed for home. No sooner had we pulled away from the house and her tummy just couldn't hold it any more and she tossed her cookies! Twice!!! Its a good thing we live relatively close to Tenille. As soon as we got home, Bryon grabbed Madi and ran for the tub while I parked the trailer and put the horses to bed. I cleaned up the truck as best I could and pulled the car seat out (YUCK!). I have a VERY weak stomach and it was really hard to keep from tossing my own cookies! I went down stairs to help Bryon and Madi was laying on him on our lovesac. She just wanted to be held! It was so precious! Bryon comforted her and she was loving every minute. Bryon did run to the store to get her some Pediasure to help her out and she seemed to love it, which makes me happy. She seems to be doing better this morning and Bryon is off work for the next couple of days so he will be able to stay home to take care of her. Hopefully she will be back to rockin' and rollin' in no time! Poor Kid!

Make way for the princess....

This past Saturday my mom, Tenille, Kristin, Madi and I met up with my cousins and headed out to Swiss Days! This was the first year that Kristin and I have been there. It was really fun! We checked out all of the booths and everyone of us had a moment of weakness and made a purchase. My moment of weakness was this adorable booth filled with a lot of princess dressup stuff for little girls. Madi was drawn to the wands! She wanted one so bad. Then we found the crown, we couldn't leave without buying her the crown. Then it turned into, well we could dress her up like this for Halloween. So, we ended up getting her wings, a tu-tu, a crown and a wand. I was really sad that I forgot my camera when we went up there because the whole rest of the day Madi wouldn't put down her wand and a couple of times she almost hit people walking by us (I think it was intentional too!) By the time we got done, Tenille had a really cute flower wall decoration, Kristin had scored a cute hat and purse and my Mom had bought hats for all of the girls to have their pictures taken in. It was a definite score! We also saw countless idea's for wall decorations and picture frames. Now we just need to organize a craft day so that we can get some cute stuff to fill my bare walls! I will leave you with this cute picture we took of Madi trying on her costume. The wings are still a little bit big, but we thought she looked pretty cute!

4wheelin' Mama...

On Sunday when we got home from Logan we decided to set up Madi's 4wheeler (finally)! So Bryon busted out the box and started putting it together. I think Madi remembers riding our big 4wheeler and figured out what it was pretty quick. She would not leave Bryon alone while he was working on it. She kept grabbing the handle bars and rocking back and forth like she wanted to go. Since the battery had to charge for 18 hours, she was only able to sit on it, but she didn't care! She LOVES that thing! Here she is helping Bryon set it up. Notice the dryer sheet she has in her hand that she seems to be using to polish up her ride....

Here she is on the maiden voyage! Woo woo!!!!

....and here she is reminding us exactly why we spoil our child rotten....

it's all about the smile!

I'm a Pouty Pants!

I took this picture the other day and have neglected to post it until now. It is too funny not to share. At first glance this looks like Madi had fallen asleep on the floor and some joker put her doll on her back. In reality, Madi had thrown a gigantic fit, threw her doll in the air (which landed perfectly on her back) and preceeded to throw herself on the ground in a full on pout! The funny thing is, I have no idea what she was even pouting about, but whatever it was, it sure ticked her off! Some days this kid is full of it!

Madi's LAST Bottle

It has been a long way to this point!! To any of you that are thinking that formula feeding is the way to go for your baby.... think again!!! It is SO expensive! I can't believe it! You pretty much need a second job to afford it! Especially when your baby requires special formula! Anyway, since Madi is now officially 1 year old, it is time to retire the formula. We had one big can of it left and decided to just let her finish it off. The day finally came! We took some pictures in honor of the big day! All I can say is WOO HOO!!!!

Here is Madi showing off the last couple of ounces of formula.

The first taste of the last bottle.....

Savor the flavor.... it's all over now!!! Ü

Madi's new BFF

This past weekend we had our Region horse show up in Logan for our riding club association. Bryon, Madi and I packed up our car and headed up to Logan about 9:30'ish on Friday morning. We were a little bit apprehensive about taking Madi up there to camp in a tent all night but we went anyway. We got up there about 11:30 and had just enough time to change our clothes and had to be in the arena to show. My team did alright, no complaints, we just weren't fast enough to move on to state. Anyway, that was my only event up there so we had the whole rest of the weekend to hang out and support our other club members in all of their events. Madi has recently decided that she LOVES to ride the horses! My friend JoDee's little brother Andy puts her up on the horses just about everytime he holds her, hence, Madi has a new best friend! We would be sitting in the bleachers and if JoDee or Andy rode by Madi would start whining and reaching for them! Luckily for Madi, Andy didn't have too many events and he was able to take her around a lot. Here are some of their precious moments this weekend.

Here Madi is just checking everything out from the back of a horse.

Here, Madi and Andy are out riding in the arena during the cow cutting

Ta Da!!! Madi is doing her best impression of a Queen wave

And here is our little future Maverick, taking the reins and ready to join!

After a full day of riding, Andy and Madi were pretty tired, they were perfectly content to take a nap under a tree in the cool breeze.

Jake & Tana were nice enough to let Madi use their tub in their trailer after an unfortunate diaper incident that ended up needing 3 people to take down. Wow, what a mess! Here is Madi after her tub chilling on the blanket like nothin' happened.....

During the Cow Cutting, we sat in the bleachers and watched and tried to keep Madi occupied while Jodee and Andy were busy. She decided it would be fun to play with Dad's sunglasses. How cute is she?

The weekend turned out better than we planned. Madi was really good for the most part and most of our club members moved on in everything they did. Some even placed 1st in their events. Way to go Mavericks!!!!