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!