14 February 2017

Tonight's special family Valentine's dinner was cheese fondue and chocolate fondue for dessert. The girls had never had fondue before. Madelyn's general opinion of the fondue was, "I LOVE IT!"

13 February 2017

While walking home from the bus stop:

Madelyn: I want to play iPad.

Me: You know the rules. No iPad during the week.

Madelyn: Then why did you let us play on Friday?

Me: That was after school on Friday, so the weekend had basically started. But, I can also not let you play on Fridays if you want.

Madelyn: No! Fridays can count as weekends!

12 February 2017

I tried a sample of a new protein shake today. It really wasn't good, but I drank it anyway. It was vanilla flavored, but was green colored because it boasts to contain two servings of greens. Eventually, Madelyn decided to be adventurous and taste it even though she knew I didn't like it.

Alyson, after Madelyn drank some: What does it taste like? Grass?
Madelyn, after drinking some water: Yuck! No. It just doesn't taste good.

11 February 2017

While eating dessert after dinner, which was chocolate cake:

Tony: This cake is really rich.
Madelyn: What do you mean by rich? There's too much money in it?

10 February 2017

Madelyn's school had their Valentine's Day parties today. Madelyn ate a lot of treats during her party. I was there. I saw it all. After the party, she told everyone she could multiple times, "At our party, I ate everything I could get my hands on!" That was only a bit of an exaggeration. 

09 February 2017

After dinner, Tony was doing is DuoLingo Spanish lessons. Madelyn decided she needed to chime in with what she knows and said, "¡Hola, penguino! ¡Adios, penguino!"

08 February 2017

Madelyn picked out scratch and sniff dessert themed Valentine's cards for her class. Her class's party is on Friday, so she went ahead and addressed her cards today. As she was getting them out of the box, she was in Heaven and exclaimed, "Ooooh, these smell so good!"