Weekend Away

We went to Charleston this past weekend for the first time since mid-July to visit Gabe's mom. She hasn't seen Maddie in over two months and boy was she surprised to see how much she has changed! Maddie is a different little person now-one who sits up, feeds herself, gets in crawling position and "army-crawls" forward when she wants to, and even stands on her own for a few seconds at a time. What a difference a couple of months makes! We went to the Tanger outlets and bought some new clothes for all of us, walked around Charlestowne Landing, and enjoyed a wonderful dinner at Bowman's Island. The views were incredible. Nothing is finer than to be back in Carolina :)
We had a nice time visiting, but it is such work traveling with a baby! I am completely exhausted. We never get to do and see everyone we want to. It took over 5 hours to get home-traffic was horrific!!! We never saw an accident, so we don't know what was going on. We were all very cranky to say the least once we finally got home. Maddie wasn't phased and went right back to sleeping in her crib (I think she was glad to be in her own bed...she slept 11 hours straight last night!)
I will have to get a video of Maddie doing her "army crawl". It is hilarious. She will usually only go and get her pacifiers. When her "diddy" is in reach she will do whatever it takes to get it!

Here are some photos of our weekend...