Endless giggles

Maddy has got the best laugh ever. She laughs so easily and her laugh is just contagious. All you have to do is pretend to tickle her and she just starts laughing. She especially loves to get her bee-bo tickled.

Reading is taking off

Holy Cow! She is really taking off. The other night, she read "Go, Dog, Go". She's done that a few nights in a row. Tonight, she read me one of my favorite kid books - "A Monster at the end of the Book". I'm so impressed. She is getting so confident in her reading and other skills. She also starting to talk a lot more about what she does at school. I guess she is finally getting in to the whole school thing a bit.

Playing Jacks

Reagan is learning how to play jacks. I honestly forgot how hard it is to learn that skill. I just did it and, of course, she tried to copy  me. Then I realized when she got frustrated that she needed to get the basics down first.

So we started learning. I broke it down for her and taught her how to catch with two hands first with a bounce. She got that down. We decided to break then. I'll tackle the underhand grab tomorrow.

Reading like a champ

Tonight, Reagan read her daddy the book "Go, Dog, Go"!  Way to go Reagan!

Today is Saturday and we are resting

I woke up at an early time of 6:00 because Jordan had a swim meet. When she's up, she's not really quiet. So once Jim and she left, I went downstairs to do some picture editing. I was in the mood and nobody was up to tell me I couldn't. :) For the next hour, I spent some needed time on my computer. Ahhh.

Reagan got up a little after 8:00 am. I heard her rustling around and came upstairs. There she stood - right on the bottom step, holding her blanket filled with stuffed animals and her smile. "There you are mommy". Too cute.

We hung out and did some pictures in the kitchen. Once Maddy got up, we went to get her up. She only wanted Reagan. She didn't want mommy to pick her up one bit. It was cute. She threw herself right back into her animals in her crib. No Mommy - Reagan!

Once we got her up, we just played.  It has been a really nice morning. Pretend, blocks, painting, fort, princess, tea party and all sorts of stuff.

Ahhhhh love resting.

Missing my girls

Tonight, I went to Jordan's swim meet right after work. She did awesome, of course. But I have to say I really missed my girls. As crazy as they are, I really missed seeing them tonight.   When I got home, we ate dinner and the let them play for a bit. But then it was bedtime. I got to put Maddy in bed. She's so stinkin' cute at bedtime. She wants to read so much and loves to crawl up in her chair and read to herself. Once we are done reading, we have to say prayers (or she will remind me) and then I have to sing Amazing Grace. We snuggled for so long that I almost fell asleep myself. But then she lifted her head up and pointed at her bed - it was time for her to go to sleep.

I tucked her in and quickly went to Reagan's room. She was not sleeping yet. I just crawled in with her and said goodnight. Every once in a while, I will just sleep with her. It's so peaceful to be with her. She loves it and I do too. I needed it tonight.

Anyway, I just woke up and need to get to bed myself.

Good night!

Maddy's swagger

Maddy has the goofiest way of running. She's always been one to walk and run on her toes. But in the last few months, she's started to waggle a bit when she runs. She throws her legs out to the side and then just bounces up and down as she runs forward. It might be the goofiest run I've ever seen.