Winter Fun

Recently Madelyn has been exploring every nook and crany of her kitchen.  I knew she liked playing with it, but I never imagined I would find her sitting in the oven, or playing peek-a-boo from inside the refridgerator. She has started to turn into a real kid.  I am often suprised by the things she comes up with. 

It finally snowed here in Ohio.  We have been waiting for the snow to come for a very long time. I started teaching Madelyn how to make snowflakes out of paper in October, and I think she was beginning to mix up the color white for the word snow by the beginning of January.  Thank goodness the snow finally fell from the sky and we were able to go play in it.  She loves the snow and she lasted longer outside than I thought she would. 

 Over the past few months Madelyn has started to dress herself.  She has not quite mastered putting her clothes on, but she loves putting socks and shoes on.  She could put socks (aka gocks) and shoes on all day long if I let her.  This past Thursday she thought she would try out tying up my running shoes. Then she went ahead and went running around the house.  The pictures on the bottom are of Madelyn backing up and running, but really they are of her hair.  It was also the first day she sat still and let me do her hair so of course I went all out and braided it.  It will probably never happen again, but it was sure cute while it lasted.

Last but not least we celebrated my birthday on Friday. One year older and wiser I guess, but really just one year closer to being over the hill. I think this was officially my last birthday that I will celebrate my real age. I guess it is time to stop adding on the years. The only bad thing about this plan is that no matter how many people I tell that I am 21 my wrinkles will start telling them other wise. 

 However much I enjoy complaining, I am lucky to have a great husband who knew just how to make it a special day.  He bought me daisies to brighten up my morning, a wheat grinder to keep me younger, and an ice cream cake to keep me content. It ended up being a good day considering I fell on the ice, had to take Madelyn to the doctor, and the vacuum belt broke a few hours before our friends came over for dinner. In the end I am greatful I have a loving family and friends who I could share my birthday with.

Survey Says?

Over the past 2 months Dan and I have been trying to guess the gender of our next baby.  Here are the results.

The wishbone said,

"Boy"

Dan said,

"Girl"

Sara said,

"Boy"

Madelyn said,

"Baby!"

The cake said,

"Girl"
(green is for girl and blue is for boy when you don't have red food coloring)

The Doctor said,

       " GIRL!"

I read on my friends blog that the cakes was never wrong, so we put it to the test and once again the cake was correct! Baby number 2 will be a girl! And as you can see Dan has already started teaching Madelyn how to properly wash her little sisters feet.

A New Camera

We have a working camera!!!  Yeah, for the blog!  I have a little catching up to do, but for the most part we really didn't do anything too exciting for the last three months.  The best thing that happened in November is that Grandma Willcox came out for Thanksgiving break! While she was here we all went to the Air force Museum.

Then we came home and made a cherry apple pie.

 Read some stories and got ready for bed time.

 Here is a picture of the Thanksgiving crew on the Sunday after Thanksgiving.

 Then for Family Home Evening we went to this beautiful Mill and looked at all of the lights. It was amazing!

After Thanksgiving Madelyn and I flew home with Grandma Willcox for a long Christmas break.  We Had a lot of fun at Grandma and Grandpa Sheweys. Here is a snap shot of some of our favorite things we did.
Madelyn playing in Grandma Shewey's sink.  This is turning into her favorite pass time these days.

 Madelyn getting ready to go swimming.

 We helped decorate the Christmas tree.

We played with cousins

Then when Dan came into town our fun moved over to Grandma Willcox's house. Madelyn got to open a new pair of P.J. for Christmas Eve (a Shewey tradition).  

  Then Christmas morning came and we started into our presents.

 Then when all of our fun was over we flew back to Ohio to see what Santa Clause brought Madelyn.  Turns out Santa knew it would be to hard for us to travel with a kitchen so he dropped it off in Ohio and had it waiting for Madelyn for when she got home.