Happy 1st Birthday Madison!!

Wow how time flies! Just this time a year ago, I had been in the hospital since 6am to be induced with Madison. She was born at 5:11pm (Daisy was born at 5:11am...kinda funny!). It's amazing the things that have happened in a year. You don't realize how different your children are going to be until you have a second one. Madison has been a very easy baby! And she is happy pretty much all the time. Recently she has had molars and other teeth coming in and that has been pretty painful for her. I think she almost has as many teeth as Daisy! She loves food and has been eating table food since she was 9 or 10 months old. There is this one thing she does that is really funny...Daisy has a little plush princess couch and Madison will just plop down on it and roll onto her back! She looks like she is just relaxing from a hard day! So cute! They play pretty well together. When Madison was born, Daisy was a little hesitant about her getting all the attention and sometimes still has a little trouble with it, but for the most part they do well. Especially now that Madison is walking! They will run up and down the hall chasing each other. Daisy has a superman or batman mask and Madison just cracks up when she wears! Another thing Madison does that is so funny...she loves necklaces! When we were in AL during Mardi Gras we accumulated lots of bead necklaces. Now whenever she sees one she picks it up and puts it around her neck. There was one time she probably had about 10 of them around her neck and she'll just walk around the house playing and wearing them. I guess she's picked up the jewelry thing early! :) She also loves climbing things...the step stool in their bathroom. I try and keep the door shut, but sometimes Daisy will leave it open and Madison will go in there and climb up the two steps and look at herself in the mirror!

Needless to say she has been a blessing in our lives since we found out we were pregnant! We look forward to celebrating this day with her for many more years to come. And watching her develop into a wonderful woman of God!

I think by the time December is through, we will have celebrated her birthday 4 times...once in GA with my family, today on her actual birthday, this Saturday with TN friends, and then around Christmas while we are with more family in ME!!

More photos

Daisy and I outside the Grand Ole Opry

Going to see the Radio City Rockettes Christmas Spectacular

November 2010

Daddy and Daisy going to the Rockettes

Happy Birthday Babe!

November 2010

The dress I made for the girls to wear for Christmas
November 2010

Yes, we put up our Christmas tree up before Thanksgiving!

Madison waiting to have her ear tubes put in.

11 months old

November 2010

Madison playing dress-up at the Teachey's house

November 2010

Daisy and Juna getting in one last play date for a while

November 2010

Daisy learning how to milk a cow!!

October 2010

More photos

Halloween at HBC

October 2010

Madison is walking!!
October 2010

Matt and I went on a date to the shooting range before a short deployment!
September 2010

A camping weekend at Lake Barkley

August 2010

Daisy is 3!!

August 2010

Daddy home from another deployment just in time for Daisy's birthday!

August 2010

The girls and I at Uncle Rick and Mary's wedding in Maine

July 2010

Grampa with Daisy and Madison in Maine

July 2010

Celebrating July 4th with family and friends in GA!

Madison enjoying the pool at Grammi and Granddaddy's

June 2010

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Daisy looking out over Myers farm in Michigan

June 2010

Daddy saying good-bye to his girls for a little while
Madison (6 months old)
Daisy (2)
June 2010

Grammy, Great-Great Grammy, Great Grampy, Matt, Daisy and Madison
Our trip to Maine before Matt deployed
May 2010

The whole clan in Valdosta for Rosie's graduation from VSU
May 2010

Rachel on her way through town stopped for breakfast

May 2010

Photos from 2010

Here are some pictures that go with the latest update:

Our first Easter with a family of 4!!

April 2010
Papa reading to Daisy on their way to see the twins
April 2010
Daddy and Madison getting reaquainted after his first tour since her birth.
Madison (3.5 months old)
March 2010


Grammi and Madison - visiting GA while Daddy's deployed
(2 months old)
February 2010


Daisy playing in the sand at Lulu's in Gulf Shores

February 2010

Update of the Fam

So, I know it's been almost a year since I've written on our blog. We've had a quite a busy year! Since I graduated from college, while Matt was deployed this year we made many visits to see family on both sides. Matt deployed from January to March. While he was gone the girls and I went and stayed with Mama and Daddy in GA for the month of February. We had a nice visit! My sister, Allison, had her twins in March! Twin baby girls, Adelyn Rose and Ella Claire! They are little miracle babies! Adelyn was in and out of surgery in Atlanta, so I was able to go down one weekend to see her and Allison. (They are both now doing great and growing...though still tiny.)
Matt came home for a few months and then was headed back out in June. While he was home we made a trip to Maine to see his family. It was Madison's first trip to Maine and both girls were great travelers in the car. Everybody got to meet Madison for the first time! She made quite an impression :) When Matt left, we went with Mama and Daddy in June to Michigan for a week. It was great to see the Michigan clan, since we hadn't been up since Christmas 2008. I got to take the girls up to the family farm where I remember going every time we visited! We took the girls to the park, the library, down to the river, and enjoyed the great weather! On our way back from MI we stopped in TN for a few days for Madison's doctor's appointment, then proceeded to GA with Mama for a couple of weeks. Poor Madison had ear infections on and off the whole summer, so we spent many a days at the doctor.
After spending time in GA, we spent a few days in TN before making another trip to Maine in July for Matt's uncle's wedding. The girls and I flew to Maine this time. Not my choice...not a big fan of flying! We went up for a couple of weeks. The first time we've made the trip without Matt! We really missed him on the trip. We had a great time seeing friends and family though. We even ventured out to Augusta by ourselves one day!! The wedding was beautiful! During the reception Matt called from overseas to tell his uncle congrats (a surprise for everyone!). He also had the DJ play our song, "Bless the Broken Road" by Rascal Flatts. Well, you could've guessed that I was balling like a baby during the song. What an amazing husband I have!! After our trip to Maine, we stayed home until Matt got home. He returned in Aug. We celebrated Daisy's 3rd birthday with some friends! I cannot believe that she is 3! What a blessing she has been to our lives! We gave her a dollhouse for her birthday and she loves it.
Matt had to leave again in September for a 20 day trip. When he got home we were able to see some friends that came to town, the Klawinski's. In October, we went to a local farm. Daisy went in the big tube slide, the corn maze and picked out a couple of pumpkins. She also learned how to milk a cow!! Lots of fun! We also went to the Battalion Fall Fest and the church's Fall Festival. Daisy dressed up as a fairy and a cupcake. Madison dressed up as a flower. I think next year I will let her pick out her costume!
Now November has brought a couple of trips to GA. The girls and I went down for a few days at the beginning of November to see our neighbors from TN that moved. Their daughter and Daisy were great friends. We've had quite a few friends to move out of TN this year and two of Daisy's great friends. They had a great little play date. The weekend before Thanksgiving, Matt and I took Daisy to see the Radio City Rockettes Christmas Spectacular in Nashville. What an experience! I had never seen the Rockettes before and they are amazing! Daisy's favorite part was the Nutcracker scene with the little girl and dancing ballerina bears. After the show she would say, "I want to be a 'halloweena'!" I think she called it that because one of her Halloween costumes looks like a ballerina.
Then for Thanksgiving we went to GA. We headed for GA on Wednesday night. Arrived around 11:00pm. Daisy got sick with a stomach virus about an hour later and proceeded to be sick throughout the night. The next morning, Thanksgiving, Matt, Daddy, Trent (brother-in-law), and Pat (my cousin) went hunting. Matt came home with a deer!! Way to bring home the bacon! BUT later that day he became sick as well. :( We were having Thanksgiving dinner at my aunt's house, so we left Daisy and Matt at my parents. Didn't want to get anyone else sick. We had a great time eating dinner and playing with the kids outside. I had to head back to my parents early to take care of the sicky's, the rest of the clan went for a hayride around town. Friday and Saturday we had our family Christmas, one of Madison's three birthday parties and family pictures. A very busy weekend, but completely worth every moment!! On our way home Sunday, I became sick. Makes for a very long trip. Thanks to a great husband who drove the whole way so I could nap.
Now that y'all are up to date here are a few random things that happened this year:
1. Madison started walking in October at 10.5 months! She is now all over the place and chasing Daisy everywhere.
2. Daisy is now in panties all day and most of the time has a dry pull-up in the morning!
3. I will be heading back to school in the spring to do my student teaching.
4. Matt will be home until the summer!! That's longer than he's been home in a while! We look forward to making many memories!

Well that's it for now!

Matt's Deployed

Well, we are now in Wrens! Matt has been gone for 2 weeks now and it's definitely been a learning experience with having two girls now. Madison is 7 weeks old and growing so fast. She is now smiling and starting to make baby noises.

NOTE: Today, Nov. 29, 2010, I just found that I had started to write this post and forgot about it until now. Thought I would post it anyways.

Welcome Madison JoAnn!!

Madison JoAnn Kent came into the world on December 8, 2009 at 5:06pm. She was 6lbs 7oz and 20 in long. Madison has a set of lungs that we've heard from the time she was born. She is a wonderful baby though. Daisy has been very accepting and caring of her. She loves holding Madison and taking pictures with her.

We went into the hospital on the morning of December 8 at 5:30am. My doctor had scheduled to induce me. My dad came up the night before so he could stay with Daisy at home and Matt could be at the hospital with me. The labor and delivery went well and Madison came about 10 hours after being induced. We moved to a recovery room a couple hours afterwards and then Matt went home for the night since he was going to work the next day. Madison shares a birthday with her cousin, Mary Kate Godowns.

We have had family come and go since Madison's birth. My parents, sisters, grandparents, nieces, and brother-in-law came about a week afterwards. They came to see Madison and for my graduation from Austin Peay State University. It was a wonderful long weekend with family!! We then were able to celebrate the birth of our Savior as a new family of four. It was lots of fun watching Daisy open presents this year and helping to pass them out. For Christmas dinner we joined family friends, the Klawinski's, and other friends to celebrate the season. For the holidays this year we chose to stay in Clarksville with the birth of Madison being so close. On Christmas night Matt's parents arrived. We had a wonderful few days with them before Matt's brother and sister-in-law flew in. Daisy and Madison took quickly to everyone. Most of the time we spent at home teaming up to play the Wii or cards (Spades or 63). Good times!!

Now it's almost been 5 weeks since Madison joined our family! And we are preparing for Matt's departure on yet another deployment. Soon Daisy, Madison, and I will be heading to Georgia to visit with family while Matt's away. Along with the happy times are sad times. We will miss Matt a lot, but will be looking forward to his return!!