Mondo Blog-o!

Hard as it might be to imagine, Madeleine is now five months old. She's grown up so much in that time. Don't believe me? Take a quick gander at these before and after shots.


Before, at five days old.
After, at five months and in the same dress.
A couple of days before her birthday, Madeleine was really excited...
when Mom told her that there were going to be some visitors coming over. She loves entertaining guests you see.

Baby M and Sarah.
Liesa joins in the fun.
As much as she loves guests, what Madeleine loves even more are monthly birthdays, and cakes. Here she is at the precise moment when she was told that it was in fact her five month birthday.
Count 'em, five candles!

Even though family portraits came in last in the recent "what the people want" poll, it still got a vote so someone must want to see them. This shot is for that person.

Don't be scared Aaron, that's not a shark. It's just Baby M.
Pa(w) and Madeleine strike a pose.

Madeleine and first-cousin-once-removed Brian, who is obviously scheming up a plot to snag Baby M's sweet hat for himself.

How precocious, already walking!As a special birthday bonus, here are three more wicked Madeleine pictures making this the largest dog blog entry yet.

The Fair at the PNE

Hey Madeleine, guess what we're doing tonight? The PNE! Yeah!Despite the rain, what fun we had. Mom and Baby M partook in a little Roll-a-Ball.
The Four-H club was full of all sorts of nifty barnyard creatures.

But of course the best part of the PNE, as everybody knows, is the mini doughnuts!

Poll winner and other blog-worthy stuff.

Slave to the dogblog...
So the big news around here (and the world in general) is the close of the 'What do you want more of?' poll. While many were wondering whether Phelps would win 8 gold, an even greater number were poised on the edge of their seat in bated anticipated of whether anything could possibly get more votes than yours truly eating? Well the votes were counted, then re-counted at my demand, and the people have spoken. And when the people speak, I oblige.

So here she is, the winner in all her glory... Madeleine with hats.






Saturday was beautiful and the family spent a bunch of time outside taking some sweet photographs.
Baby M has learned to wave!

Even without a hat, Madeleine is pretty darn cute, n'est pas?
Maybe Dad with a carrot will be more popular that him with beets? Only time will tell.
Saturday night we were all supposed to go the Lantern Festival, but internet difficulties precluded the purchase of the requisite admission ticket. So the back-up plan was implemented and it was off the Richmond Night Market; famous purveyors of knock-off sunglasses, ill-fitting $3 t-shirts and very odd culinary concoctions.
After that trip, Madeleine was spent...And after this epic blog entry, so am I.

5 of the same, or are they?

Baby M wants to play a little game!

She will pose in quite similar, yet different ways and it's up to you to spot the differences.

And the winner is...

The polls are closed, the votes have been counted and it wasn't even close.

With an overwhelmingly ridiculous 100 per cent of the vote, the winner is Pa(w) Leggo!

Some of my fans check out the very latest news.

Baby M loves horsin' around.

This weekend was very relaxing. Many festivals. Here are a few pictures from the Richmond Maritime Festival.

Yes, boat tours!

Liesa also stopped by for a wee visit.

Technical difficulties resolved!

Apologies for the long delay in posting, fortunately the internet problems that caused it have been resolved.

Hey Madeleine, do you know what time it is?Swing time!
Yeah!

Vote while you still can, the poll is closing soon!

Who will it be?

Madeleine with hats?
Family portraits?


Dad with beets? (I hope not)
Me eating? (hint: this is the correct answer).
What do you think Baby M?

"Enough, no more pictures!"