May - 2010

Madelyn:

Oh my goodness, this girl is so amazing. She is a little adventurer. We call Madelyn the creepy crawler, because you normally hear her before you see her. There are times, I look around and she is gone -- so I start to look everywhere. Can't seem to see her, but I can hear her. She is normally under the dining room table - crawling in between the chairs. She isn't afraid of anything. She'll crawl into dark hallways and/or rooms just looking from left to right checking things out. Then if you call her, she puts the crawl walk in high gear and off she goes (giggling all the way).

She is so full of life. New things she is doing:

• Waving bye, bye and saying it at the same time
• Madelyn LOVES music. She will sing and dance when she hears music
• She repeats sounds. Kaitlyn and I were listening the the A,B,Cs of ACE in the car and she repeated four letter sounds. I could hardly believe what I was hearing.
• Smiling all the time.
• She wants to move, move and move. Doesn't like to be confined by a dress. She wants to crawl around everywhere.
• She can climb up stairs now. (scary because we have stairs in our house)
• Madelyn is eating food. Never liked baby food, but is really enjoying fresh fruit and cooked vegetables.

That's all I can think of at the moment. She is still real attached to me. Won't let new people hold her. She loves everyone she knows, but her favorite person is her big sister Kaitlyn. She is always around her and wanting to be right next to her or on top of her. Kaitlyn tries to be patient, but soon becomes a little frustrated with her excitement.

Kaitlyn:

Kaitlyn is real protective of me. If she thinks someone is not being nice to me, she'll raise her voice and say, "You be nice to my mom." I love her so much. Well, as my last post stated, she is becoming quite independent. Dressing herself and wanting to comb her hair. Kaitlyn is a Princess. No, she is a Prissy Princess. She is all girl. She always likes to put on lip gloss and normally manages to put it all over her entire face. So funny. She loves dressing up in her princess dress and high heels, with tiarra, purse and wand. However, she does NOT like to draw attention to herself. She is a mini Eric personality wise. She is growing and changing so much. I must admit she is like her mom in one big way -- she is a BAG LADY. She will always have a purse and a bag with just about every toy in it with her at all times. She will NOT let her purse or bag at any time. She even will sleep with her purse to make sure she doesn't lose it. It cracks me up, because I am and always have been a bag lady, too. So sad to pass on this terrible trait to her. One last thing, last night during Wed night church, Kaitlyn got up and sang with her school class. Normally, she would try to work up the courage and then cave in right as they call her class up. Last night, she sang in the microphone and did an awesome job. Daddy and I were so proud.