Dear Lydia,

Stop getting so big.

Thanks,

Your Momma



Sitting up?!?! Giggling?!?!

Next she'll be driving a car.

mg

This girl

Madeline seems so grown up lately. Everyone said that once we brought Lydia home this would happen, but it wasn't as immediate as I assumed it would be. It may have something to do with the fact that Madeline has grown up so much in the last 5 months, paired with the fact the we are just emerging from a sleep deprived haze that we've been under for the past 5 months.

Madeline is full of energy and all about the drama. From the moment she wakes in the morning until she goes to bed at night is seems like she is constantly moving. She rarely sits for more than a few minutes at a time, and mostly just for meals. She is move, move, move.

She is also very dramatic. She is a typical almost 3 year old in her emotions, meaning she has her ups and downs. Where the drama comes in is in the range of those emotions. She is laughing one minute and on the floor crying the next and then back up giggling. She knows what she wants and she wants it NOW!

To say she is a challenge is an understatement. She pushes my buttons each and every day.

But the rewards she gives me far out weight those troubles. She is loving and sweet when she wants to be. She is totally hilarious and smarter than I am for sure. An example: she has used the words, bland, also, and hibernate correctly without any prompting AND today she told Kevin that flowers have pollinate* in them and bees collect the pollen to share with other flowers to help them grow. HUH? What almost 3 year old is articulate enough to explain pollination?!?! Totally smarter than me.

*She may not have the words just right, but the idea is totally on point.

So this girl is quite special. She is outrageous in her wardrobe and stubborn in her desires. She is laugh out loud funny and totally adorable. Even when I don't think I could love her any more, she does something that opens my heart a little wider. She is simply amazing.



Photos taken on March 10. 2010. Playing with her shadow.

mg

Hi there

How's your day going?

This is when you'd leave a comment so I know the answer...

mg

Our real Easter Best

That's better isn't it. (To be honest, I kinda like the other photo better...)



In her Easter Bonnet, will all its frills upon it, she will be the finest girlie in the Easter parade! (and she was... even if she was the only one in said parade...)


Madeline was quite the hunter as well. We had an early morning hunt in our family room/kitchen/dining room. Then there was a second hunt in Kevin's parents yard. That Easter bunny was busy.

This is the first year that Madeline got the egg hung thing. It was a lot of fun to see her hunting. She got the same excited look on her face after she found the last egg as she did when she found the first.

As for wardrobe, Madeline's dress is from Tar-shay. Fancy, I know. Lydia's dress was Madeline's. She wore it to a dear friends rehearsal dinner when she was exactly Lydia's age. I think Kevin was surprised I didn't buy matching dresses for the girls. I know that some day I won't be able to resist... but for now, we coordinate. :)

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter. We had a great day with both sides of our families. A lot of celebration. A lot of love. A LOT of chocolate! A great day.

mg

Our Easter Best

I told you it was hard to photograph two young children.


I hope your Easter was better than Lydia's*.

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*Let me tell you that this was not how Ms. Lydia spent the majority of the day. She was an excellent napper and woke up super happy. She was just fed up with being outside and very hungry...

mg

April 2010

I think this is my best header ever. I took two photos with the timer feature on my camera this week. I was trying to get a photo of Lydia and I together. This was the first one. Nothing planned, or posed. All totally hilarious.

I can't think of a better photograph to illustrate this time in my life. Total perfection.

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mg

Pickles

When Madeline was 8 months old she had her first pickle. Since then every time there are pickles she tells me she likes pickles. At Bread Company she always wants to take a bite. She has to have one at parties were pickle trays are involved. She insists that she likes pickles.

So earlier this week when Madeline spotted a jar of pickles in our refrigerator she insisted upon having one for a snack.

She had the exact same reaction this time that she does each and every time she eats a pickle.


Not so bad right?


Yeah, I like pickles. They are delicious.


Wait, did I say delicious? I meant tolerable.


Ok, so maybe tolerable is going a little far.


Why did you feed me this anyway?!

During all of those faces (oh how I love those faces!) Madeline continued to tell me how much she loves pickles. So I got out the video to capture her {love} of pickles.

Of course she changed her tune.



Man is that girlie a hoot.

mg