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.

Dora and Math

I guess Dora is good TV. Tonight, there was a question on the program that said "how many umbrellas do we need?" She came up with four right away. I didn't look up for a few seconds, then I got curious. She was right!! Oh My!

She giggled right after she said it. Math genius. :)

Grocery store?

Maddy is cracking me up. Today I picked her up and said we had to go to the store on the way home. She said "is it the grocery story mommy?"

Seriously?

Talking so much

Maddy is literally copying everything we say. It's amazing how well she is speaking and how long her sentences are. We can have simple conversations with her. She's able to tell us what she wants and likes to do that on a regular basis.

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