Coloring Eggs

Last week Nicci and "baby" Lyla came to visit for the day....so we decided to color some Easter Eggs...

Madilynn of course loved dying her eggs purple.

Daddy was even there to help!

Madilynn with all her eggs

Meredith with all her eggs

 

 

Madilynn's Favorite

 

Meredith's Favorite

Lyla and her eggs

 

Lyla's Favorite

 

We had a good time - only one spill...not too bad for 3 little ones!

Snow Fun!

We have had quite a bit of snow this January / February....but first lets flashback over the past couple years....

 

Madilynn January 2013

Meredith Winter 2014

Madilynn and Meredith Winter 2014

 

Now onto this year.....2015

 

 

Making snow angels....

 

Madilynn loves sledding....

 

If Meredith goes down the hill she prefers to do it without a sled!

 

Snow doesn't change their love for swinging.... 

 

You would think it was spring.... 

 

Meredith likes to get her chairs out and sit and just watch all the snow...

 

Even Tugger joined us for a bit! 

 

 

 

 

We've had a lot of fun this winter - but I think everyone is ready for Spring!

Madilynn is 4 years old!

Here are some photos of our 4 year old Madilynn...

She loves all animals - especially her buddy Tugger (and Aggie too!)

 

Now that she is 4 she is so much more cooperative with smiling for the camera!

 

What a busy year we have had - we kept busy by going to music time - though now she feels like she is "too old" for it and we actually didn't do it this last session. She did however complete 2 sessions of gymnastics at the Circleville YMCA - she had a lot of fun - but this winter we have been taking a break from all the activities and just relaxing (which is fine with me - any sort of "rest" during this pregnancy is a blessing!).

She is getting so tall - at her check-up she was 42 inches tall and 36.5 lbs. She is currently in size 11 shoes - though I am sure 12's aren't that far off! She mostly wears size 4T clothes - although it is good spring/summer is coming because a lot of her pants are starting to get too short!

She loves wearing nightgowns to bed (probably because they remind her so much of dresses). She also loves long knee high socks, and still loves wearing her dresses.

She still sucks her thumb - we have been trying hard to stop - she got a new bike - but in order to get her helmet she knows she needs to stop sucking her thumb....we'll see if she can do it! Spring is coming soon!

Her favorite color is still purple though lately she tends to say she likes green as well. She has moved up to the PreK class, and is doing great! She can even write "Madi" now. She recognizes all her letters and numbers, and is starting to work on writing them.

She still loves watching TV shows on our days home - some of her favorites are Little Charmers, Team Umizoomi, My Little Pony, Curious George,  and Scooby-Doo.

She also loves movies - Brave seems to be her favorite, though she also likes Tangled, and The Princess and the Frog. With some of her birthday money she bought 101 Dalmatians - and has already watched it a couple times.

Madilynn is getting so grown up and baking is one thing that we tend to do during Meredith's nap time....I've even started letting her crack the eggs - she surprisingly does pretty well!

She is such a great big sister - and loves trying to help encourage Meredith, and keep her on the right track. She likes helping her....and does a pretty good job of helping me too! She is pretty excited about the new baby - she loves listening to the baby's heartbeat, and has even gone to a couple of my Dr's appointments with me so she could hear it.

She likes to help with the laundry, and is getting good at helping set and clean up the table for meals.

This past summer we weren't able to do swim lessons - yet once she started wearing her goggles she was able to start swimming (in the shallow end - a few feet at a time).

Favorite foods include: chicken nuggets with BBQ sauce, cheese tacos, deviled eggs, cake, mint chocolate chip ice cream, jello, bagels with cream cheese, plain cheese pizza, peas, and most any kind of fruit. She enjoys going to eat at Applebee's, Buffalo Wild Wings, and YO.M.G frozen yogurt.

It's hard to sum up an entire year - it's going by so quickly, I'm sure there are several things I forgot to mention.....all I know is I love this little girl more than anything and feel so blessed to have such a caring, sweet little girl that I get to call my daughter.

Love you Madilynn Rose - now PLEASE - STOP GROWING!!!!

 

 

Madilynn's 4th Birthday!

 Madilynn's birthday this year was on a Tuesday - and I was off - so the girls and I  had a fun filled day celebrating Madilynn's big day!

We started the day with playing out in the freshly fallen snow.... 

Even in all the snow they still LOVE to swing!

 

 

In the afternoon Madilynn decided she wanted to go check out the play area

 at McDonald's....They loved it!

 

Afterwards we went to get some frozen yogurt - complete with sprinkles!

We had a pretty fun day!

 

The Saturday following her birthday was when we were planning her birthday party. Just a small family get together - however once again this year the weather did not cooperate - so we had to cancel her party. Even though no one was coming over to celebrate with us we still had fun baking her cake and opening her presents....

She made a white cake with purple specks in it, and purple icing topped with sprinkles

I helped ice the sides - but Madilynn did the rest of the decorating - which included nearly 1 entire bottle of sprinkles.....

She was so surprised and happy with the horse we got her.

We were sad we didn't get to celebrate with a party - but we still had fun....with all the snow we were able to play outside too.

Maybe next year mother nature will cooperate and we will be able to have an actual party for Miss Madilynn.