What Maddie chooses to wear, when she's given the option of selecting her outfit...This past weekend, wasn't really much of a weekend. Saturday, Maddie had two birthday parties to attend for some of her friends from school (Madison and Savannah) The good part was they were timed well, one in the morning, ending around naptime, and the other starting later in the afternoon. All in all it worked out pretty well, even if it was exhausting corralling an almost 3 yr old at overstimulating locations (a place called Xbos - a much more intense version of Chuck E Cheese, and the other called Little Gym) I liked the Little Gym, they teach gymnastics, dance and karate (Maddie also seemed to really like it as well - the instructors marveled at her ability to bend in half and hang from her hands and feet off of the parallel bars) And yes, I'm considering sending her there for classes with other 3 yr olds *heh*
From Birthday Party #1 of the day....
From Birthday Party #2...Sunday, was much worse, in my opinion...Mommy spent the day Christmas shopping, hitting two different malls, and several stores in between! It was the last weekend day we had with nothing scheduled before Christmas - so the shopping HAD to be done.
After shopping, I had wanted to wrap everything right away, of course Maddie, the helper, wanted to, you guessed it, help Mommy. So, instead of wrapping, Maddie and Mommy made gift tags while Daddy cooked dinner. After Maddie's bedtime, Mommy then wrapped the various presents and added the lovely gift tags hand made by Madeline.Now for some miscellaneous musings...
- I love some of the things that come out of kids mouths...
- like when Maddie walked up to Daddy and said "May I love you please Daddy?"
- Ron and I were having a conversation about music while driving in the car somewhere, and Ron said something about classic rock, and from the back car seat we hear "MGK" - for the non-locals, those are the call letters of a classic rock radio station that we listen too when driving...guess they really DO listen and pick stuff up all the time!
- Maddie has been afraid of Santa, wanted nothing to do with him, well, apparently that all changed today, he came to visit her school, and he gave her a candy cane...now all she wants to do is go to the mall to sit on the other Santa's lap and tell him that she wants a pink present for Christmas (never fear - pink wrapping paper has been purchased!)
- I really, really, really wish there were Chinese lessons for 3 yr olds in our area...something where she could hear it being spoken and practice saying things. The one near us, children have to be 4 yrs old in September in order to start, so Maddie won't be able to start until she's 4.5...She picks stuff up so quickly, it would be so much easier to learn how to speak anyway now...
- Maddie already repeats the phrases that we've taught her in Mandarin, as well as those from her Ling Ling doll
- She also sings in Spanish and tried talking to me in Spanish (apparently some word she learned at daycare, but silly me didn't understand, Daddy did, he took Spanish, guess my minor in French isn't coming in handy yet)\
- Guess it's going to be more videos until I can find an alternative...
3 comments:
Miss Madeline is quite the social butterfly! Way to go Maddie! And, by the way, her fashion sense is simply mah-velous :)
She's just growing up so fast...can't wait to see her (and you too) next weekend!
Ok, OK! So I'm dying to see the official Cole family holiday portraits... and the non-official holiday family pics as well :) Hope you guys had a wonderful Christmas!!!
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