Snow, birthday and pigtails....

Our little girl is now 2 years old. I don't know where the time has flown from when we met her until today. She is a charmer and a stinker, she has enough hair to put into pigtails, she can sing several songs herself and read along in a book with you, she loves to "cook for Elmo" in her kitchen, she will test you to see if you REALLY meant not to touch something or do something by doing it 3 more times immediately after you tell her not to, she likes to sit on the potty, not neccessarily use it, but sit on it, and has seen her first snowfall in Delaware.

Maddie all bundled up for the miniscule amount of snow we received, yet, it was snow and she enjoyed being outside playing in it! I just love her cute hat, don't you?

We celebrated her birthday the weekend before her actual birthday. It consisted of Mommy, Daddy and Maddie - just the 3 of us, and we opened presents which contained more Little Peoples - specifically the camping and boating, played in the snow, and had a cake that Mommy made (it wasn't pretty but still tasted good!). We also learned that Maddie LOVES icing. Not really into the cake itself, but she can down some icing!

I have struggled with what to do with Maddie's hair for a while. I don't want to give her bangs, even though I know she would look adorable with them. I don't want to have to go through what my sister is going through with trying to grow them out with my niece, so I thought I would just go through it now. The hard part is that her hair is, as one would guess, always in her eyes. She takes barettes out of her hair, but I went to pick her up for school and her teacher had her hair in pretty ponytails like this! Now, mind you, I can't get them as straight as the teacher can yet, but I'm working on my technique!


Maddie checking out her Birthday cake with candles. She liked the candles, and the fact that we sang a song just for her with her name in it! The blowing out of the candles was a little odd for her at this point but she's definately understanding that it was HER birthday. She also celebrated (along with 2 others for a total of 3 parties in school during one week) her birthday at school with cupcakes (a word she now knows well and loves).