Oops!

I forgot to add these two pictures! Our new flowers that we are going to try very hard not to kill!

Spring Fun!

Besides school I think all I've been doing is being outside with Maddy. Two days ago we had lunch outside and she loved that. Then we headed to the park for a while. She loves the ladder and the highest slide and although it gives me a heart attack I let her do it. We had to leave though when a group of rowdy 8 year olds came over, she gets so excited about them being there and it's just not safe because she tries to keep up with them. We then headed to walmart for a few groceries and she helped me pick out some flowers. Had to wait until today to actually plant them due to school but it was fun. Here are a few pictures!















I told her to smell them... I guess this is her smelling face? haha. She likes them, even if this picture doesn't make it seem like she does.


I got some more pictures from the other day when she was outside playing in the water. Some cute ones, and one where she looks like a mini me of Jon. I'll get them ready to post soon.

Garage Sale

I'm attempting my first garage sale! I'm scared. I've already gone through most of Maddy's clothes but I still need to put prices on them. I can not believe how many clothes she has from just 2.5 years! I had always planned on keeping them for the next child but doesn't look like there will be a next child for a very long time and I am drowning in boxes of clothes. I've taken out some special ones of course. You would also not believe how many pairs of shoes this kid has! I'll be having the garage sale at my parents house, kind of a joint thing with my sister. I'm not sure we will be able to fit all of Maddy's clothes in the garage. I'm hoping to sell most of them, what's left will probably end up in a donation box.

Besides that we've been busy enjoying the outdoors. School of course takes up a lot of my time and Maddy and I have been experimenting with planting seeds for flowers. It isn't going so well, haha. She likes to point and tell me "grow". I am going to buy some flowers all ready to plant today I think and let her help me with that seeing as how badly the planting of seeds went. Oh well it's all just for Maddy to get to do something fun. I know she gets bored with me and Jon as her only people she gets to play with on a regular basis.

I've also been reading a lot. In just a little over two weeks I read the last four Harry Potter books. I've read all but the 4th one before and I'll probably end up reading them all again. I should try and put down the fun books and spend more time with my textbooks.

In Maddy news, she has surprised me with a few things regarding her speech. She has been saying two words together for a few months now but nothing more. The other day she said "me a big girl". She hasn't said it since but I've noticed her using words like "it" and "too" which she wasn't doing before. She'll grab my nose and say "got it!". She loves to talk about how she's a big girl and she'll say "mommy big girl too". She is also obsessed with pointing out things that are big and small. She's really got that down!

A funny thing that I thought she'd be done with by now is that she calls both of her grandma's "Murray". When Jeff and Kathy came to visit in Feb. I was trying to get her to understand that this was Grandma and Grandpa Murray. She caught on to Murray and will sometimes say Grandma before it but mostly just Murray. She also calls my mom Murray even though I've tried to explain time and time again that she is Grandma Green. On occassion she'll say "Murray Green" as one name. I suppose she'll get it eventually!

Amazingly I don't have any photos to share right now. I did take some the other day but have not had the time to get them ready to post. I'm sure they will be coming soon!

Mid April already?

The last month has gone by so fast! I started school again about two weeks ago and it is tons of homework. Probably going to be one of my most challenging yet. After this quarter just two more classes left so I'm trying to look at the bright side.

We haven't been doing too much. For Easter Maddy and I went to my parents house a few days before. It had been a few months since we were there and Maddy loved spending time with her cousins. She loves baby "wyditt" as she calls him. She still talks about Bridgette a lot and has added Jess and "Poof" (Paige) to her daily conversations. She loves looking at her picture book and pointing them all out to me, including Alex. On Easter Sunday we drove home to be with Jon and then on Monday Maddy and I took off again to visit a friend in Tennessee. It was a nice little vacation and we had alot of fun. Here are a few pictures. She loved the waterfall and scared me because she was not afraid at all and wanted to climb through the fence, she's nuts!

Here are some Easter pictures first. This is a scrap page I made of her first Easter.


These are some tutu's I made for Maddy and Bridgette, they pretty much hated them... Maddy loved finding her basket and she loved coloring eggs the most I think.

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Icing cookies and coloring eggs



She loved it so much I just let her keep coloring the same eggs over and over. Pretty soon they were all different shades of green.


Some pictures I took while we were waiting on everyone to show up





Found her basket!


Holding baby "Wyditt"


Here is a scrap I made of Bridgette


A scrap from our time in Tennessee


We had some nice weather last week and we took advantage of it. Maddy loves to slide and I love to read so we've been sitting out there. Unfortunately my reading material has been textbooks. She carries these chalk eggs around in a cute little basket that her Grandma and Grandpa Murray sent for Easter and loves to put then down the slide and then go chasing them. We also got out to the outlet mall and got her some new summer clothes as she's grown a lot this year and definately needed them.





It's cold again this weekend and we're not happy about it. I just hope it warms up again quickly. We went outside yesterday anyways because Maddy was dying to water something. We planted some seeds inside the day before and she was upset that she couldn't use her new pink watering can. Her first try was a bit of a disaster, she spilled water all over herself. But she tried again and enjoyed it. She's really going to love when our flowers get bigger and we actually have something to water other than random bushes outside. The first picture is blurry because I took it as I was trying to save her from getting completely drenched.






Here is a short video from yesterday too. It's hard to hear her because of the wind.
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