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Madeline's second trip to the dentist was a huge success.  She was such a big girl and did great.  Hopefully she will continue to find the dentist this much fun!

For Thanksgiving, Madeline had her Seattle cousins with her the whole week.  They all had such a great time together and Madeline loved having 3 big kids to follow around all week long.

We took them to see the alligators on Monday.

Unfortunately this is the only photo I took all week of all of them together.

Peeking down the look-out tower

On Wed, the girls took a trip to the zoo.  Adama was so excited to feed the giraffes (her favorite animal) and Madeline enjoyed showing her around the zoo.

Two monkeys!

All smiles on the carousel

Feeding the giraffes

One of Madeline's big excitements for the week was the arrival of her 'big girl furniture' complete with her new bed!  It worked well to transition her out of the crib into a bed while all of her cousins were here, as she and Adama had a slumber party each evening, and I think this helped Madeline get comfortable in her bed.

Madeline wanted everyone to try out her new 'big girl bed'

Madeline loved having Adama read to her.

First night was a success!  With the mattress on the floor, Adama reported (as we suspected) that she rolled off onto the floor a few times during the night.

So far the big girl bed is working out pretty well.  We moved the mattress from the floor up onto the bed over the weekend.  Luckily, I think she has yet to realize she can just climb right out of bed if she wants!!