Life As I Know It: Miss Independent

I've created a monster!! A few times I allowed Madison to feed herself yogurt. Yogurt seems fairly easy because it usually sticks to the spoon and I'd say about 85% actually ends up in her mouth. Well, one night I decided to let her eat her macaroni and cheese by herself. Oh goodness. She used her spoon at first and realized that it just wasn't doing the job and held the spoon in one hand and used her other hand to feed herself the macaroni. She was soooo cute!!!

WELL, now she won't LET me feed her. It's no causing some major food tantrums. One morning Trey had to leave the house early because he had to drive down to Jackson, MS for work...so I was left alone with Madison and two dogs. The morning started out horribly. I made Madison her regular oatmeal and yogurt and obviously wasn't what she wanted. She wouldn't let me feed her and she wasn't feeding herself - she just sat there screaming. So I put her down and she continued to scream. I couldn't deal with the dogs, so I threw them outside. About 10 minutes or so, I brought the oatmeal and yogurt to the coffee table and she proceeded to eat it there. It was awful. I made Trey pick Madison up on his way back from Jackson thinking that I could get a break and let him deal with dinner. Well I walk into the most horrific tantrum that I've ever experienced. Trey was just standing there watching her while she was just screaming refusing to eat dinner. Trey and I proceeded to walk into our room and just sit down and she screamed walking in and out of our room and 15 minutes later she walked back in and sat in my lap and was done screaming. However, she wouldn't eat her meal so she ate a food pouch and 4 peanut butter crackers. The next morning I proceeded with caution and just filled a bowl of dry cereal and she sat on the couch and happily munched on that but dinner kind of went the same way. She ate cheese, greek yogurt and banana. Today was a complete turn around. She fed herself all her yogurt and oatmeal in her chair and ate all her dinner by herself. Hopefully this attitude sticks around.

This past weekend we took a trip down to New Orleans because my cousin's wedding finally happened! However, it was storming all weekend. The wedding was supposed to be outside at City Park and then the reception to take place at my parents house under a white tent outside. That did not work out - everything was moved to inside my parent's house. However, it all worked out. It was so much fun! Also, Madison wasn't having everyone trying to pick her up and would only go to my mom until someone special finally showed up - AUNT ERIKA!! It made me so happy to see this happen: My sister just put her arms out to see if Madison would go to her (truthfully, I didn't think she would go because she wouldn't go to anyone) and Madison just went right to her!! Anyway - we all had fun together and I miss everyone already! Here are some pics of the wedding.

Side note: we had yummy Parkway Tavern po-boys this past weekend. I always order the roast beef because it's absolutely delicious! Trey always gets the shrimp po-boy. Madison had already eaten her lunch because she always comes sniffing around whenever someone else is eating. Anyway...she wanted nothing to do with my roast beef but the shrimp, on the other hand, she just gobbled up! I was such a proud New Orleans momma. YAY, my child loves seafood! She also enjoyed some beignets with her cousins.

We left New Orleans to go back to Memphis right afterwards and this was Madison within 15 minutes of the drive...I think she had way too much fun at the wedding!