My little singer

Maddy has really started to play quite a bit with the microphone in the living room. It cracks me up. We got it for Reagan, but she never played with it much. She plays with it when Maddy does. So it now sits in our living room and we get "American Idol" played out in our living room frequently.

Maddy picks up the microphone and sings her bible songs or twinkle. Too cute. She gets the pedal going and pulls the stand out and spins it around. It's a whole act. Funny stuff kids!

Playing possum

Tonight, Jim and I went to the movies and left the girls with a babysitter. When we got home, she told us that Maddy had a hard time settling down, more than her normal. So she went back in a held her some. When she didn't settle down, she said loud enough that Reagan could hear "let's go check on Reagan. I bet she's sleeping and we don't want to wake her". Reagan figured it out and played possum for her.

Great big sister! Maddy saw that and settled down pretty quickly and went to sleep. Love that kid.

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.