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Hee Haw Part 2 and Sandbox



Aaron: Maddy can I have some chips?

Maddy: No.

Aaron: Maddy, you need to share.

Maddy: I'm sharing with Maddy.



Maddy (randomly in the middle of Walmart): Do bees smile?




Maddy thinks inanimate objects have the same feelings and emotions as humans. She has apologized to her stuffed dog for spilling water on him and to Eeyore for stepping on him. My favorite is when we were painting the house and a friend brought over a ladder and set it on the front steps. Maddy saw the ladder and said in a bright and perky voice: "Hey ladder! Whatcha doin'?"

Last week we did some Bible lessons at home on Adam and Eve. We talked about how Adam and Eve disobeyed God and that made God sad. One of the activities involved some apples that said "Do not eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil." At the end of the lesson I asked Maddy what she learned. She answered, "Don't eat the apples!"

We were watching the Ranger's game the other night and Maddy kept asking what the players names were. It got to the point where we'd told her everyone's name several times. Kinsler (sp?) was up to bat and she asked what his name was for the 6th or 7th time. I told her she knew what his name was. "Do you recognize him?" I asked. Completely misunderstanding that I was trying to get her to remember the name I told her before, she asked, "What is Recognizer doing? Is he batting?"

Another hilarious incident with names and Ranger's players occurred at the game we went to at the end of June. Yu Darvish was pitching that night. She asked who he was and we said, "That's Yu." Maddy pointed to him and and said, "That's Yu? That's Maddy?"

On a non-humorous note, we got a sandbox this week! A friend called and had some leftover sand in his truck and wanted to know if we'd ever thought of making Maddy a sandbox. I'd actually been planning to make one out of a kiddie pool when we got back from vacation but this one is so much better. We have ply board to cover it to keep out the cats. Maddy loves the sandbox so far. Here are a few pics:



I'll leave you with a video of Maddy having a blast in the pool:




Comments

bee said…
Hee Haw for sure. Maddy is a riot! I love reading about what she says. On the sandbox, that looks fun. I forgot that we had a sandbox when we were kids until Mema reminded me of it. It was a lot of fun.
July 9, 2012 at 8:56 PM
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