Car?

This morning, I was holding Maddy up to Reagan's window watching life outside. Along came a car. Very quickly and quietly, Maddy said "caaa? Caaaaa" She pointed. Yes, there was a car. Yea Maddy. We saw a lot of cars this morning.

Rash?

Maddy has had a rash now for three days. It's gotten worse since last night, but she still doesn't have a fever. What gives with this kid!?

Principal's office already

Reagan got sent to the office again today. Once in Pre-K1 for not napping and disrupting (at my suggestion) and now in Pre-K2 (again at my suggestion). She cried, but then smiled. She doesn't really get in trouble because she isn't hurting anyone or anything. She just gets so inside her own head that she doesn't listen. Hmmm.

I have been struggling with her new sense of self since she turned four. She is a strong, stubborn, smart little kid. She has my way of dealing with "stressful" things and things she doesn't like. She smiles. My mom laughed when I told her what she'd do. She said "that's you my dear" with a pleasant little smile. He heeee.

Maddy's vocabulary

Is crazy! She is popping out new words on a regular basis.
The newest ones are: car, dog, cat, book, bed and this. She tries to say thank you. But that one is still more of a mumble.  She recognizes most of the animals and things in the picture book she has.

I can't stop being amazed at how she is growing. It is like she just took off in recent weeks. I feel like something clicked with her and she is just moving fast.

Silly girl

Tonight, Maddy was in a funny mood. Every once in a while, she will get her soft rainbow ball and carry it around in her mouth for fun. I think she mimics the dogs a bit. :) Anyway, tonight she had gotten it out of the drawer and decided to run around with it in her mouth. She thought it was the funniest thing ever. She run over to you and stick her neck out as if to tease you with the ball (like the dogs do). Then if you didn't bite the ball and play tug-o-war with her, she'd grunt a bit (like the dogs do).

So I started playing her game. She'd hold on and I'd hold on and she would giggle so hard it would make me laugh. My mom actually got a funny picture of this happening. Ha ha! I love how silly Maddy is.

Words from the week and new stuff

So the latest words she's been trying are:
heart (haart)
all meals = lunnn
penguin (pengwui)
shoes (shuusss)
socks (suxxx)
bye
love you (luuu uuu)
Reagan (ra ra)

 

She's also getting really good at all the body parts. She's known the basics, but now knows where her belly, bottom and hair are. Interesting.

She is really good at following instructions. When I say "it's time to go" she will literally run to the garage door and smack it.  She is also very particular about her dogs. She is very protective. But she also loves to climb on them and just in general snuggle on them.

Things she hates:
Taking her out of the bath too soon
Taking her away from her books
any type of yelling or screaming
any discipline towards her doggies

Favorite shows (I know I'm bad for letting her watch this early)
Mickey Mouse and Jake

The water is ON?

This morning, like other mornings, I needed to use the restroom before taking the kids to school. Maddy and I went into the master bath and I put a stool in front of my sink, a toy in front of Jim's sink to prevent her from getting into the drawers. I then pulled out her toys and went into the water closet. :) She and I played. She played with the toys. She came over and shut the door. We laughed and I opened the door.

After a little while of playing, she shut the door again. Ha ha I thought. How cute! The next thing I knew, the water was running. WHAT!? The water. I swung open the door (from a seated position) and there she was - up on the second step of the stool, soap in hand and looking back at me like "hi mom" with a HUGE grin on her face.

That a was a moment that I wasn't sure what I was going to do. I was a tad "busy" but she was totally in an unsafe place. In that same moment that I was thinking about what to do, she reached over and picked up my electric tooth brush and it's holder, which was plugged in. Decision made - GET UP!

I did get up. Neither one of us was happy. I personally found it hilarious that she did that at that moment. She amazes me every day at the things she does.

Note to self: don't use a stool to protect. HA!