A Sad, but Loving Goodbye.

This memorial day weekend started off on a sad note as we said goodbye to Great Great (In Madisyn's case) Grandma Vi Friday night. She was a super grandma and will be missed greatly. We're all glad we had as much time with her as we did. And being 102 we had plenty of good years with her. It's crazy to think that there was 100 year difference between Madisyn and her Great Great Grandma.

Weekend Retreat

Its been a while since we were able to see friends Jenny, Ryan, and Reese so we planned a get together in Racine this past weekend. We all had a great time especially the little girls. We met up at Apple Holler just off the highway, a place we've driven by countless times since being kids. It was fun to see the goats, rabbits, llamas and donkey, but I think as Ryan said, we were there "off season."


Then it was off to the harbour (harbor) to have lunch and just catch up. The mom's talked, the kids ran around, and the dad's had a few beers.

Dad...you finished another one.

Sunday we stopped by the outlet malls where all of us made out pretty well getting the necessities for Mexico in a few weeks. Madisyn even got into the shopping spirit, lucky for us she doesn't have a credit card yet. Not that it matters though.

Madisyn making goofy faces in the car

Lastly, we stopped in Milwaukee to have lunch with Uncle Andy and Aunt Sarah. Sorry...no pics, but it was some yummy pizza.

Also, Madisyn decided she likes her ASU SunDevil horns she got for her birthday, and now wants to put them on whenever she sees them.

Catching up.

Where's my big hat?
We watched the Kentucky Derby on Saturday. Madisyn went crazy when she saw all the horses. It was pretty hilarious. It might have been the two sippy cups of mint julips though...who knows.


Nap time on Madisyn's 'stay home from daycare sickday.'

Last weekend we celebrated Simon's first birthday. It was a blast. Madisyn was pretty interested in what Simon got and volunteered to help try things out if he needs help.


Madisyn LOVES to color and draw now. Thanks to Simon (Jeni and Adolofo) for the party gift of crayons.



Here's Madisyn at her table drawing agian. She really seem to like it. She seems to go thru paper pretty quick. Dad was a little disappointed that she looks to be a right hander. Oh well.


More drawing.


Here's the gang at Simon's 1st birthday party. We all had a great time. Free wagon rides thanks to Simon's Uncle Fredrick and Grandma Harkness.


Simon's friend Liam trailing behind the little ones on the chopper.


Madisyn doing her best "Ben Hur"


The new 1 yr old himself - Simon.


L. O. L. A. ~ Lola.


The gang together to celebrate Veronica's ____th birthday!

Happy Birthday Veronica! Great monkeybread cake!!

Walk this Way.

Well, Madisyn has proven she CAN walk, the question is now is she brave enough to try it on a regular basis. I think she's getting more and more confident as each day comes. Here's some video of WobblesMcGint.

Howdy.

Were all starting to get better after our latest bouts with illness. Not a ton of new news. Madisyn continues to work on her walking. She's getting better and braver (if that's a word). She's been taking a few steps between mom and dad and just today we caught her practicing her balance in the hallway. More teeth are on the way too, leading to less sleep for all of us along with a consistent stream of drool from the munchkin's mouth. Hopefully we'll have some walking pictures soon! We'll work on it.

A plastic penny saved is....well, still a plastic penny.

Mmmmmmetal. We know...weird.

"Look Mom....No hands!"

Our favorite little sausage, trying to bring the brew crew good luck on opening day.

Smile.

This is what Madisyn does now when you ask her to smile.

Just checking my wee-mail.

What!?

Not So Hoppy Easter.

Well, another holiday another sick day. First Christmas, now Easter. Yeah...the Berggren's were all sick again for yet another holiday. It sucked to be honest. Our easter dinner that was so promising turned into grilled cheese. And while it was a good grilled cheese. it didn't compare to the ham we were supposed to have. We were so sick, that even Riley had to make a trip to the doctor today because he seems to have caught the cough we all had. Not fun. But...here are a couple new shots at least. Thanks to Tinytown for the Easter pic, which turned out to be our only one.

Just waiting for nicer weather!

Comin' to get ya!

Dude...where were we?

So...again my apologies for the lack of postings. To catch you up on whats been going on. Madisyn's continuing to work on her 'walking.' She got some pretty spiffy new shoes that will hopefully help with it. I think it will still be a little bit yet. We'll keep working on it. She's starting to say certain words...just in her own way. She also moved up to the next room at daycare. It was pretty hard for Amie and I to leave her in there the first couple of days because she just looked like she had no clue where she was. They said said she did okay though....so thats comforting. Its pretty crazy though , she went from napping in a pack and play, to now sleeping on a mat on the floor. We'll see how it goes. As you can see from the picture below though, she's starting to take a liking to laying on the floor. Hopefully it won't be too long before you hear from us again.

Waiting for the big bath to fill up.

It's time to start taking care of those pearly whites. All 4 of them. Madisyn's taking a liking to brushing her teeth. Or...as she does it...she slurps the water off of the bristles. Most of the time at least.