Maddy was up

Maddy pulled a good one on us last night. She woke us up at 3:30 am. She started stirring and just didn't seem to get back to sleep. So I got a bottle and went upstairs to find her standing up in bed. Nice. She was so happy to see me. I'm figuring out that her noises don't necessarily mean the position of her body. ha ha.

Anyway, I got her up, changed her and gave her a bottle. She went back to sleep after a bit and so did I. I woke up at 4:30 am and put her down. She instantly woke up and didn't want to be in bed. So I picked her up again and she fell asleep until about 5:30 am when I tried to put her in bed again.  She woke up again.

So I took her downstairs to see Daddy. She kindly woke him up and he took over. She never went back to sleep. At one point, I woke up to Maddy making noises in our room. I opened my eyes and it seemed as if she had crawled in our room and was just talking. I kept thinking that Jim would surely come in the room and get her - right?  ha ha again. He WAS in the room changing her diaper.

Needless to say, I grabbed my ear plugs and covered my head. I went back to sleep fast and was woken up by the lovely daughter. She was smacking my head under the blanket. Jim had put her next to me and was laughing at her attempts to wake me up. Sigh... 

I love stuffed animals

Maddy LOVES stuffed animals. Every time she sees one (especially her bunny), she crawls over to it and smashes her face into it. It cracks me up. She loves to snuggle.

Bed time was crazy

Bed time was crazy tonight. Reagan seemed fine until we had to push her towards bed. Then she seemed to get feisty. It was interesting. I am not sure what it is about going to bed, but she really doesn't like it. She was really tired though - she fell asleep pretty fast after reading books.

Matching game

Reagan is getting really good at the Memory Game. Tonight, we played in the bonus room and she beat me. I wasn't paying attention to try to help her, but she still did great. I was impressed how well she remembered things. We started with five pairs. She got bored with that. She pulled out six more pairs and wanted them in the mix. She won against both my mom and me. :)

My favorite part of my day

My favorite part of the day is waking the girls up and spending my mornings with them. I love being able to snuggle with Reagan some and hanging out with her. She's a little grumpy when she gets up, but she wakes up fast and is ready to go... as long as she has a few snugglies in tow.

Maddy usually gets up before I can get to her. She is so happy by the time I get to her that I think she might bounce out of her bed when I see her. She typically is standing up and giggling and talking when I walk into the room. She smiles to big and reaches out to me. It just makes my heart melt. Ahh mornings.

Once we get wrapped up, I get to drop them both off to start their days. It's perfect because I am also almost always home by the time they get home from school with Jim. I love it.

Maddy's first school pictures

Maddy got her school pictures back today. She had them taken a couple weeks ago and they are just darling. I can't believe my baby is old enough for school pictures. :)

Playing the piano

My mom came over tonight to play with the girls a bit. We hung out in the basement for a while. Of course, my mom went to the piano and started playing some suzuki music for the girls. At one point, she had Maddy and Reagan up on the bench with her playing the piano. Reagan was trying her best to show Mads how to play with her fingers. Maddy wanted to just smack the keys. They were both happy. My mom was thrilled. I took pictures.