Some Maddy-isms

 Maddy has been talking so much lately, and the more she talks, the funnier she gets. Tricia gave her this letter thing for her birthday. She loves it and any puzzle, book, or game with letters in general. When she plays with her letters she sings this little song to herself that sounds something like the following: "Lackalazy x! Lackalazy x!" We cannot figure out what she is singing.

 As most of you know, dinner time is a constant struggle. Maddy usually ends up scattering and dropping about as much food as she eats. Or just making a duck bill out of a bite of burrito.

 One day at lunch I gave her macaroni and banana. She love mac 'n' cheese and ate a lot of it but still managed to scatter a lot of it too. Then she looked at me and said, "Mac 'n' cheese EVERYWHERE!".

 Maddy likes to try to help out with chores. One chore is cleaning animal hair off the furniture. But wait! Why mess around with that. Let's just go straight to the source.

As you can tell by the tail in the air, crouched, ready to run away stance here, the cat did not appreciate this ingenious idea.

She is also trying to figure out how what she does or has or wears relates to everyone else. When she gets done eating she will always say, "Mama all done too!" Then I have to explain that I am still eating. In the mornings (this happens on weekends mostly) she will get up and want to come to our room. We put her in bed with us. She hangs out for a little bit and then sits up and pushes on us saying, "Mama get down!" Meaning she wants me to get out of bed. When I get up she will go over to Aaron and push on him and say, "Dada get down!" Until he gets up too. This morning she brought some diapers into the bathroom where I was getting ready and said, "Mama put on diaper!" I explained that I did not wear diapers. Then she asked, "Dada wear diaper?" I told her no. Then she said, "Bye bye diaper. Maddy no wear diapers." If only potty training could really be that easy!