Here are a few pictures of Brody. He's getting big and chubby. I'll try to get some pictures of Sydney's birthday up soon.

A few mini videos of Sydney and Brody.

Here's our new addition. Brody Paul Madsen was born on December 9th, 2008. His sisters love him! He really doesn't always have his pacifier in. Guess I need to get a few pictures without it. I feel quite proud that I'm updating my blog so quickly. Merry Christmas everyone.

We set up our Christmas tree already. I usually wait until December is a few weeks in, but since this baby is going to make it harder to keep a schedule, decided to put it up early. Besides, waiting was killing Kylie. She's super excited to have a baby brother. Sydney's excited because Kylie is; we'll see how excited she is once she sees how noisy he is, and how much mommy is tied up by it. Sydney is hillarious as usual. I can't believe my girls are so big. The only thing getting me through this baby is that it's the last one. I keep chanting it constantly. He should be born on Dec. 9th. I've been so excited to get him out, that I temporarily forgot which exit they use to get here. I'm really dreading that part. I'll try to post some pictures and updates once I get semi-back to normal. Maybe this kid will never cry and sleep through the night. That could happen right? Well, here's hoping the holidays are more fun than stress for everyone. I still can't believe I'm having a boy. This is going to be interesting.

Kylie is well into Kindergarten now. Sydney and I were walking her to school and a couple of boys were walking behind us. One of them was like, "hi Kylie." I asked her who he was and she said that she didn't know his name, but everyone knew her name. I think she has her father's problem with names. She seems to be liking it though and I've enjoyed some one on one time with Sydney. She's always preferred playing with Kylie, which I liked, but now that option is gone, she tells me lots of funny things. She's also made record messes without her sister to tell on her. Mike is also busy with school-both work and college-and I hate it. He's never here and when he is, he's working on grading papers or homework. I'll probably be slightly crazy after the baby's born. I might start asking people that walk by my house to come be my friend. This kid better be an easy baby or I'm screwed. Well, that's us for now. Look at how much blogging I've been doing. Now I better get something else done.

While I'm on here, I might as well post another picture. If anyone knows how to do the slide show thing, let me know. I'm too lazy to figure it out on my own. Sydney got into her sister's makeup and look at what a good job she did. She seems to think chapstic and lipstick go on the chin.

I told some of you about the pink tulle skirt I was making for Kylie. The pictures turned out shady even though they looked good in my camera. Oh well, here my two ballerinas are. I'm starting the patience-testing task of potty training Sydney. We just started two days ago, and I'm still not sure she quite gets it. Hopefully she'll catch on soon. I take her to "potty" constantly and she manages to go shortly after-in her pull-ups-without fail. I just don't want two kids in diapers, so she has till December to figure it out.