Sunday Funday

Another Sunday and another loss for Dad and Maddie and their beloved Bears. Maddie got to wear her Bears chearleading outfit today. She looked absolutely adorable. For those of you that watched the game, she may have been the best thing going for them.

I'm going to go off on a little tangent for a minute. I know this blog is supposed to be about Maddie, and this sort of relates. The Bears are in Shambles. The front office is garbage, Jerry Angelo, the GM, has not put together a good draft in years, and I don't see next years draft being much better with no number 1 or 2 round draft picks. Lovie Smith and his coaching staff is really turning into a very unlikeable coaching staff. Jay Cutler, the savior of Chicago, is having a horrendous year, I believe he is tied for second most int's in a season. Yes there are still two more games to go, let's get after that record. While some of the pics can be blamed on the receivers, the six picks in the red zone are inexcusable. The reason I mention this here, is that I'm torn raising Maddie a Bears and Cubs fan, is it fair that she is raised to support two losing franchises. Maybe she can be raised Steelers fan or Yankees fan, or I can save her any
heartache and not allow her to watch sports.


Maddie also got to visit with Santa a little early this year. Luckily I don't think she will remember that she got to see Santa before Christmas. I would have to say Maddie has been on the good list for the most part this year. Really what has she done bad, nothing. She is actually as close to perfection as Peyton Manning and the Colts or for those people in the South, The Tide. I could stare at Maddie for hours and just continue to smile. Every different face she makes, just makes me melt. Normally if I had to clean up someones, number two at 3 am while being thrown up on, I wouldn't be doing it with a smile, rather I would be quit upset. Not with this angel though.

This weekend Team Beck decided to finish up their holiday shopping and went to Old Orchard Mall at 1 pm on Saturday. Turns out this day has a specific name, "Super Saturday" should be called "Hell Day". The mall was packed, it took nearly 20 minutes just to find parking. The good news was we had our wonderful stroller from Grandma. This thing is great, it keeps Maddie toasty warm, and has plenty of space in the under seat storage for all the Christmas presents. In addition to finishing up the Christmas shopping we looked for Mom a push gift. I guess that's the technical term for a gift for having my baby. I don't think I can ever give mom something good enough to ever match what she gave me. Madeline Ruby is the absolute perfect present! I love this little princes. So back to Mom's push gift, we were looking at rings. Sorry people, they were not engagement rings, that is something that will be a surprise for everyone. We were looking at sapphire rings, but the first one we saw was $5500. While Dad is doing okay financially that was a tough bill to swallow, and luckily mom told the nice clerk, that was a little more then we were thinking. I wonder if it's true that the thought is what really matters, if so maybe I can make mom a card and something else, like a knit scarf or something.

This weekend was great, we had a lot of family time. Even Aunt Lindsay got to come over and spend time with her niece. This week is going to be great as well, we get to see Amanda, Peter, Andrew and Danny. Amanda is Dad's sister and Maddie's Aunt, it will be the first time Amanda will be able to get her hands on my little girl.


Dad and Maddie also have their favorite song to sing when Maddie is a little fussy, "We Bid You Goodnight, by the Grateful Dead" attached is the link to the song;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhqkPWCuyKI

Team Beck would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. For the Jewish Community, I hope that this was the best Hanukkah to date.

On a side note anyone that is religious or has any faith I would like to send out two prayer requests. The first if for my Uncle Brian, one of the funniest and kindest people I know. The second request if for my true friend Tim. Please keep these two people in your prayers. The picture above is Tim with Maddie.