I came across a box of my old baby/little girl clothes today and gave a couple of jackets to Madeleine to try on. I love the color yellow and here she is in my yellow jackets. She's really sprouted and doesn't fit into anything lately, so this was a good find.
She's such a big girl now. She is all grown up at the park these days and has fun finding new friends. Yesterday she and two other girls hooked up and marched around as a train, then they rode the slide together on top of each others' laps and then they made sand castles. When we left she was SO sad because she wanted to play with her "new friends a little longer". We all remember mom calling us in for dinner and now it's my turn.
At home she likes to make tea parties for "the girls", teach her baby letters with her Leap Frog set (but she answers for her baby), ride her scooter, and request "cuddles mommy" with arms extended and THE sweetest look on her face.
Below, she is pictured building with LEGO's that she got this weekend, on a play date trip to lunch and the LEGO store. Both kids had tons of fun picking out their own pieces and filling their tubs from the wall-o-lego.
The kids are always doing projects at the counter in the kitchen. We seem to have a lot of photos with the same dining room background.
The next picture I call "Buckeroo". My cousin, Steve, uses this nickname for his son Clayton. The kids noticed that he does this and started using the same nickname for him. It's cute to hear them call their cousin "Buckeroo". The other day Madeleine was riding around on her favorite little 3-wheeler Radio Flyer (she's outgrowing this too but still gravitates to it over other options) with some frog glasses and a cow girl hat she found in the garage. In this moment, I thought she looked like a "Buckeroo". I think it's the hat.
Can't go without one story about Matthew. After we looked at and tried on a few of my antique baby/kid clothes Matthew came to me and said he liked my hair and wanted to save some to show his kids someday. I was wondering if he wanted me to clip some off, but he informed me that this wasn't necessary since he already found my brush and pulled some pieces off to save. I was shocked and touched all at the same time.
