Maddie Kate - what can we say about Maddie Kate.
Cute. Sassy. Girly. Ornery. Fun. Brilliant. Loving. Bossy.
Those are just a few words we'd used to describe our girl. She's just a little ray of sunshine and she makes us happy. Her happiness and giggle are infectious. We love her a "bushel and a peck" and "moon and back" a million and one times.
At her 2 year checkup Maddie Kate weighed 33 pounds (96 %) and was 3 ft tall (92 %). She's grown since then! She's our big, healthy girl! She wears a size 3 in most clothes, a size 6 diaper and either a 7 or 8 shoe. She loves her sparkly shoes and her leopard boots. She likes to play with my make-up and as she puts it on she'll say "I boo-ful" or "I so pretty!". When she finds something she likes she holds it tight and says "I yuv it!" or "it's so boo-ful!".
Maddie Kate's vocabulary is amazing. She's been speaking in full sentences for a long time now, she can sing the ABC's all the way through, she can count to around 13, she knows most of her colors and can name and point out all her body parts - including eye lashes. She can almost do the sign of the cross perfectly and joins in our mealtime prayer. Sometimes she prays for "all the people" - she got this from hearing her bubba say he wants to pray for all the people in the tornado a while back after he heard about a bad one. So sweet, these kiddos!! Ornery too - but they sure have their sweet moments that makes us grin.
Favorites...
Foods - cheese, pirate booty, popsicles, strawberries, blueberries, cheese ravioli, macaroni and cheese, squeeze applesauce, cheese eggs...really, she likes most all food and especially loves anything with sugar in it! If you give her something she isn't fond of she'll say, "I not yike that!". Her very favorite thing is sharing a breakfast bar with her daddy in the mornings.
Books - She loves her "Hello" by Highlights book subscription that her Aunt Barbara gave her. She also likes Fancy Nancy, Ladybug Girl, and she is particularly fond of plain ol picture books. She likes "Brown Bear Brown Bear" and one of her recent favorites is one she received for a birthday gift called "Izzy the Ice Cream Fairy".
Television - Sofia the First on Disney Jr., Doodlebops, Barney, the Children Singing video at Nana's house and PAW Patrol.
Songs - Maddie Kate can sing! She knows the words to so many songs and sings a lot throughout the day. Her favorite songs to sing are "The Wheels on the Bus", "Jesus Loves the Little Children", "Jesus Loves Me", "If You're Happy and You Know It", "Ba Ba Black Sheep", today she started singing the hokey pokey and she loves the nursery rhyme cd we play in my car. She also loves the singing nuns that she and her nana listen to and her favorite song to sing at church is the "ha-ya-you-a" or hallelujah!
Activities - She's still a big fan of swinging when the weather is nice, she likes to put together puzzles, play with toys, read books, color and "write her name", play with her babies (and she uses kitchen towels instead of baby blankets!), play with her bubba, cousins and friends at school. Her friends at school are of course still Papi, Julia, Hazel, Ryan and Charlie Gray. She comes home telling all kinds of stories - most of which have to do with biting Papi...and most of the time they aren't true...which is good considering the fact that if she bit Papi as many times as she's told us she bit Papi she's be expelled.
If you can't tell - we're quite proud of little Maddie Kate. She's probably going to grow up to be a bossy, arrogant little thing as a result of everyone always making a fuss over how smart she is...she's going to keep us on our toes for sure!
Maddie Kate, your daddy and I love you so much!! You keep us entertained, you make us smile and we are very lucky to have a couple kids as great as you and your bubba.
Oh no! I almost left out talking about sleep habits! I don't know if it's because we're just done obsessing over it or if it's because it's actually getting better. Both...but it's not perfect. One of us still sleeps with her and we continue to indulge her in her horrible sleep associations that will take til she goes off to college to break. Watered down juice at 2am - diaper changes a 3 - elbows in the ribs ALL night - toenails digging into our sides - then there's the sweet way she says "I awake!" when she wakes up that just almost, but only almost, make us forget.
PS - Landon had a GREAT party today and turns 5 on Monday. 5! 5!!!!!!!! Maybe I'll get his 5th birthday post published before Easter.
