Madelyn's 1st Photo Shoot

The picture taking begins. Annie and I spent 2 days and 250 pictures and these are just a few of them. Everyone is doing awesome and adjusting better than what I thought we would. The boys just love her!!!!!!!!

Madelyn Elaine Maschino

We are offically a family of 5. Madelyn Elaine Maschino entered the world Saturday, October 17th at 12:30 a.m. She weighed 8.1 lbs and 19 1/2 in long. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Everything went well although not exactly to plan. I arrived at the hospital fully complete and ready to push. You know what that means . . . no epidural. This was NOT the plan. Was definately scared to death. I had no idea I was that far into labor and I had an epidural with both the boys, but after 4 minutes, yes only 4 minutes of pushing she arrived perfectly. It all happened so fast. My labor didn't start until 9:30 p.m. and she was here 3 hours later. WOW! We are heading home from the hospital Monday morning to begin our lives as a family of five. Max & Brock have visited us in the hospital 3 times and they love her. Max will be great with her, Brock is the one I will need to watch. He is so loving, but wants attention to and he's doing it by trying to pinch and poke. Well Madelyn is going to sleep so I am too.

Countdown Is On!!

Things have been very busy around the Maschino Household. We have no more than 4 weeks left before Baby Madelyn arrives. Most things are ready, but I have a few finishing touches on the nursery. (Pictures to come) I always said I was not going to change it from when the boys were in there but I could resist. The boys are getting anxious, especially Max. He asks about everyday if this is the day she's coming out. We have told him all along that she will come this fall when the combines come out to harvest. Well, on Tuesday I told him it was the first day of Fall and we were going to make trees for a project. He said "oh yeah is Madelyn coming today???" Well I kind of wished he was right, but patience, patience. She will be here soon enough and this household is going to change forever, for the better (I'm sure most of the time)!!!

Max has been in preschool for several weeks now and is finally enjoying it. He also started his vision therapy, which is absolutley loves. Probably more than preschool. He has started learning braille. Yesterday he typed his name on the Braille Machine. It is amazing how quickly kids pick up on things. He is truely a very smart kid. His memory is unbelievable.

We also have been working hard on getting our yard back together. It doesn't look like it is going to be done anytime soon!!!!!!!! Which doesn't make this pregnant women very happy. The garage is done, but the concrete around it and the sidewalks are not done. We have dirt or should I say mud everywhere (beings it rained for the last 5 days). Water line trenches, rock piles, lime piles, ugh... I am very disappointed because I thought when we started building this garage it would all be done in time to reseed the yard and once again my schedule and someone elses schedule doesn't match up. Anyway, on this something else. I just needed to vent.

I haven't taken any pictures lately. Need to be doing that, but have been so busy. Will try to get some posted soon!!!!

Zoo, Museum, Fair, School . . . Whatelse????

Waiting in line outside preschool -
Was not an excited little boy!


Leaving home for 1st day of preschool



Played to hard at Museum - Needed a nap!

Work, Work, Work

Ice Cream Anyone???

Turn, turn, turn

Petting the baby sharks

Mommy, Max, Brock & Rex at the Museum

Max & Mommy take a break from the heat! UGH

Take a rest on the train!

It has been a busy last few days and although all of the pictures above are out of order, this is what we've been doing. We left Friday for the Indy Zoo. It was hot! The boys loved the dolphin show, the train ride and the playground. That was about it. We went back to the hotel and swam in their pool for 2 hours, which the boys also loved!

Saturday we headed to the Children's Museum. That was a great time. Max loved everything and we spent about 6 hours there. Sunday was another hot one at the State Fair. We had a good time, but we were just all tired from the weekend and did I mention it was HOT!

After getting home late Sunday and settling back into home, we had to get Max ready for his 1st day at preschool on Monday.

So, we get to preschool and of course he is the only one crying and they had to pry him off of Andy's leg and carry him inside. Once inside they said he did fine, but did not participate a lot. He didn't really want to talk a lot about it when he got home either.

Today, was day 2. He did much better going in and he said he did some of the songs, worksheets and coloring. So, I guess we are improving. Maybe next week will be even better.

BABY MADELYN update. Going to the doctor every 2 weeks now and am on the home stretch (last 9 weeks). Everything is going fine. Trying to get her room put together, but that is going slow!!!!! She moves like crazy. Andy said I said this about Max & Brock both but I don't remember them moving this much. You can just look at my belly anytime and just see it rolling around! Beautiful feeling but she could take a rest sometimes to & I would be okay!!!!

It's Been a While

Getting ready for VBS


On the Way to VBS


Having fun upon the dirt pile

Almost 28 weeks

It's been a while since I have done a post. It's one of those things that a lot is going on but not a lot to talk about I guess. Anyway, I'm almost 28 weeks along and had another doctor appointment this past Monday. Everything sounded great and I'm measuring right on. I had my glucose test done a week ago and that came back normal. Thank God, because there is no way I could do the shots everyday!!!!! She is moving around tons and I believe we have a gymnist in the works with all the summersults she is doing in there.

We have recently put another addition to our property. We built a 3 car garage, so we have been spending a lot of time trying to get that all put back together, dirt, grass, etc. . . The boys have loved it. Instead of a sandbox (which they have been wanting and I won't get) they have a dirt pile and a lime pile.

They also started Vacation Bible School this week. We've went two nights so far and they are enjoying it. Max has already been singing all of the songs and talking about his teacher, Vickie.

Oh and how could I forget. Max has a new invisible friend. For those of you who don't know, he has had one invisible friend named Dottie. She doesn't ever come with us anywhere because apparently she is sick a lot and goes to the doctor. But she feeds cows with him and he talks about her. Well, a couple of days ago he said he had another friend, named Robbie. Robbie lives close to Dottie and is a farmer. Anyway, I think this house is getting full enough but as long as his friends stay invisible we will be okay.

Holiday World

They rode these Monster Trucks 4 times


Brock rode the Rockets by himself & they went high



Brock with Holidog!!!!

We went to Holiday World on Wednesday and a great time was had by all. I really enjoy the place. It's big enough for us to have plunty to do but not to large that you can't do everything you want. The boys did great all day, especially Brock beings this was probably the first day in 2 1/2 years that he didn't have a nap! It was hot but we weathered through it with the free drinks and little fans. I didn't get a lot of pictures because it was hassle enough just trying to do things but we have a few. They absolutely loved the wave pool and the small kiddie rides. Max would say his favorite thing was the playground. Don't we have one here in town that you can play on for free? Brock will be the brave adventurous one when he gets a little bigger. He wanted to ride everything. There was a little kids drop zone and he stood at the gate for it yelling "I ride that, I bounce". He is not afraid of anything. Scary!!!

Swimming Lessons

We have completed 2 out of 5 days of swimming lessons with Max. Monday was okay but last night was definately better. He was kicking his feet on his back and stomach and making bubbles in the water. He is so excited about them and loves his teacher, Tara. She had him using the noodle to work with his kicking and also a kick board. She has been so great with him both nights and has gotten him to do more things then I would have expected. So far a success, three more nights to go!!!!