07 January 2017

Today was the first basketball game of the season. It was also the first game since Madelyn got her ears pierced. The league rule, which is why we had them pierced in early summer, is no earrings, and they can't even be taped over. Madelyn knew this. She got in her basketball clothes this morning, and I told her we would take out her earring before we left about 2 hours later. About every half hour so after that reminded me that she needed her earring taken out.

06 January 2017

During dinner:
Madelyn, quite randomly: What does "addociate" mean?
Tony: Addociate?
Me: I don't think that's a word. Use it in a sentence.
Tony: What song lyric did you think you heard it in?
Madelyn: "Addociate a time and place."
Tony: Oh, it's "negotiate".
Madelyn: Ohhh....

Madelyn, maybe five minutes later: What does "negotiate" mean?

05 January 2017

As soon as Madelyn got off the bus, she bounded up to me, opened her mouth in a wide smile, pointed to the new hole between her teeth, and practically yelled, "I LOST MY TOOTH AT SCHOOL TODAY!"

04 January 2017

As we were walking home from the bus this afternoon, Madelyn told me, "Today, before writer's workshop, I told my class all about visiting all of the parks! [Teacher] thought the special breakfast was tomorrow since I was at school on time, but that's silly because it was today!"

02 January 2017

We visited Bill and Amanda today, and the girls loved seeing baby toys there that are the same as some that they used to play with. Madelyn took a shape sorter toy like what she used to play with all the time, put the lid on the floor like she used to do, and put the shapes in that so that they stuck out some. She then announced, "It's a fruity tootie shape cake! What? That's what it looks like!" This is exactly what she used to do when she was 3 or 4 years old.

01 January 2017

Madelyn went to see "Mary Poppins" today with Aunt Gina and Uncle Matt for her birthday present. After she got home:

Me: What was your favorite part of the play?
Madelyn, very excitedly: When Mary Poppins actually FLEW! She used the zip line thing to go from the stage all the way to the BACK of the theater! 

31 December 2016

We exchanged Christmas gifts with Julie today. Madelyn received a Santa with the body made of a spring like a Slinky. She stretched it out as far as it would go and said in a Santa voice, "I'm so tall I don't have a body!"