This New Year's Eve was the first one that Madeline got to celebrate. We went to a friend's house and enjoyed a small kid-friendly party. We had lots of good food and the kids got to have a toast at midnight with sparkling pear juice and peach pear Italian soda. We also had confetti poppers that we shot at midnight.
Madeline had a great time playing with the other kids and actually made it to midnight semi-gracefully. At about 11:50pm she broke down out of sheer exhaustion, cried, and threw a little fit. We held out for 10 minutes to ring in the new year then hit the road. I think she was asleep within 3.5 seconds of pulling out of the driveway to head home.
All in all we had a fun night and are so looking forward to what's ahead for us in 2012!
I wish you a healthy, happy, and prosperous New Year!
One of Madeline's favorite things is puppies so we recently stopped by a puppy store during a recent trip.... 
Most of the puppies were two small breeds mixed together. They were all so cute. When we walked in all of the puppies perked up and looked at us with this "I'm cute, please take me home" look.
They all had their A-games on!
I mean how cute are these???
Madeline was in heaven!
They were all in short, open cages so we could easily pet them or pick them up.
It made me really want another puppy but ONE IS ENOUGH! We enjoyed our visit though.
