Four scratches and a tired little girl

Tonight, the girls were very excited and also not really wanting to go to bed. We had a big day and a bigger weekend with Reagan's birthday party. They were tired.

As we got closer to bedtime, Reagan got a tad more defiant. She didn't want to do anything I wanted her to. Poor thing. I felt bad, but still needed to prove a point. Un

Reading

Maddy loves to pretend to read. She will almost always find a ton of books and take them to her room. She will sit down amongst her animals and blanket and just read. She reads like she's actually reading the book. She looks at the pictures and is able to make up some pretty accurate stories based on her viewing of the pictures in the book.

It's just so sweet to watch her do this. I used to love watching Reagan. I'm so glad to watch Hootie too.

I want something new mommy

Maddy is so talkative and has such a wonderful ability to speak in very complete sentences. Today, I picked her up from school and she was happy to be on the way home. I turned on the TV at her request but she was unhappy with the selection in the player.  She immediately said "no mommy, I want something new".

Interesting she could do that.

Barstools and my monkey

Maddy loves to  climb on the barstools in the kitchen. She climbed up and got flaming mad when I pulled her down and told her no. She started running to the bathroom and said "I have to go potty". When we got there, she walked in and got mad when I followed her. She pushed me out of the way and ran back to the kitchen to climb up on the barstool. Do you think she had that planned???

It's a snowy morning

It snowed last night. We actually got enough snow to play in it. We are totally excited about sledding with our cousins. :) I personally want to take pictures.

Picnic in the basement

We've had family in town for a little while now. We all decided to stay home tonight and play at our house with our new toys. We bundled up and came home about 6 pm. We ordered pizza and had a picnic in the basement and watched "wipeout".  

The girls played with all of their stuff. Maddy played with her new toys, Reagan played with her Princess Castle and her cash register. She and Maddy eventually climbed under the fort and hung out with Furbie for a while.

Reagan is getting the hang of the cash register and how it works. Now we need to find the directions so we can play some of the games for her to do.  Maddy played one of Reagan's new strategy games - it was cute to watch her play with it. She and Reagan also played with the basketball hoop. It was way too cute to see them play together.

We let them stay up until almost 11pm. Wow. But we've stayed up all week. Needless to say, I'm tired. But it will be nice to sleep in.

Reagan's 5th birthday

Today, my wonderful, beautiful daughter turns five. Sniff. She is getting so big and is growing up fast... She woke up in such a good mood - excited to be turning five. We went to Mimi and Papaw's house for the morning to hang out with the family. All the cousins were here.

Jim and I ran home to put Maddy down for a nap and to get all the stuff ready for the party. This was the first time all her cousins were at her party for her ever. So cool. When I was about ready for the guests, they all started showing up. As usual, we got the party decorations done at the last minute. :)

Reagan had a blast. Playing and laughing. She is so different this year than last year. She is so much more assertive and in control. She definitely knows what she likes and does not like.

She loved blowing out the candles and being sung to, but the funniest part was when she opened her presents. I told her "let's open presents next" and she immediately went to the pile in the living room and waited. Waited... not patiently, but waited. She said "I'm waiting". In normal circumstances, I would have been mortified, but she had already waited for five minutes. Anyway, she was so excited.

She started opening gifts and shouted "Oh Yea!" about every time she opened one. It was hilarious. She loved literally everything she got. I was so happy to see such a positive response. She opened one present and actually did a whole fist pump and said "OH YEAAAAA!"

hilarious.