Grandmas & Hats

I have occasionally written about how blessed Maddy is to have so many living grandmothers. Over Mother's Day weekend, we had the opportunity to spend a little time with all 3. Our church held a 'Hats off to Women' brunch on the Saturday before Mother's Day that my mom & mother-in-law attended. We had a really nice time & enjoyed listening to women at different places in their life speak about the 'hats' they were wearing in this season of their life. Here are a few photos of the event:

Maddy with Grandma Mommy & Grandma Linda


My mom was the grand prize winner for the best hat- she is a Red Hat Lady so she is semi-professional in her hat wearing & collection

On Sunday, we headed to a nursery after church to pick out some flowers & veggies for our gardens. My stepmom came with us & was also wearing a hat that day. I thought this was pretty cool to be able to have each grandma in a hat for the weekend. Here are a few photos from that:

Hanging out with Grandma Lenore at the nursery

Easter Part 2

I know it's been a little gap between posts. It was a stressful week, which started with my e-mail account getting hacked into & auto-sending e-mails to my friends about a new i-phone. And as if that wasn't bad enough, all of inbox & sent mail got deleted along with all of my contacts. Grrrr... Anyhow on to part two of the Easter Post.

On the Saturday before Easter our church had their annual Easter Egg Hunt




Then came Easter Sunday.....

Easter Part 1

I see that's been almost a month since I've posted, so I thought at a minimum I would post some Easter photos. We celebrated a whole weekend of events (starting all the way back to Wed of that week w/a very monumental birthday for me). Matt put a sign in our yard so all the neighbor's would know:

Matt had mandatory training for work on my actual birthday so Maddy & I headed to Benihana's for my free birthday dinner & she walked away with a little gift from the manager who was smitten with her:


On Good Friday, we headed out to Amery for church with Mom & dinner with the family. It was a little chilly, but we headed to the park next to Mom's apartment so the kids could run off a little energy. Here we are at the park:

Wordless Wednesday

Silliness

Maddy's been sick this past week, but seems to have finally turned the corner. We are hoping she can go back to daycare tomorrow.


Here are a couple of silly photos from the past couple of weeks.

Hanging out with Clifford sent home from her preschool (reading box):

Powder!!!!

Using my laptop:

I'm 3 now!

We celebrated Maddy's 3rd birthday last weekend! She has proudly learned how to use 3 fingers to show everyone how old she is, by the end of the weekend she had gone from a 'gang sign' looking 3 to a normal 3 with her fingers.

She had a full couple of days, with mom taking Friday off to celebrate with a free all you can ride wristband at Mall of America's Nickelodeon Land (quite a bargain for birthday kids as it's normally $30) and a part on Saturday.

We had a fun mommy / daughter day at MOA, but she was still too small to ride many of the things by herself. Of course, she really wanted to go on the big roller coasters but is too little even w/mom. We still has fun & went on a lot of rides. We had a nice lunch and topped it off w/a new dress. I am in big trouble when she gets to be a teen! I went to Children's Place to buy her socks but she took the liberty of picking out a dress & kept bringing me shoes that could go with it.

On Saturday we celebrated with a party with some family & friends at a local indoor playground. The kids had a blast & I was thrilled to be able to do it somewhere other than my house for easy prep & clean up! She got some Kai Lan things & princess things. She is all about dress up now and is really getting into pink, frilly & princessy everything.

A month of firsts

Maddy had a very eventful month. She started attending Rainbows at church- this is the preschool class for 3 & 4 years on Wednesday nights which is the prep for
M-Pact (a girl scout like group where the kids ages 5-12 earn badges). Although she won't be 3 until next month, they allowed her to start as they began the new session after the holidays. She is so excited each Wednesday to go!

Maddy also started in preschool/day care last week. It's at a small church not too far from us & they have a wonderful program. She has really liked going and is so proud to come home each day with what she did & tell us what she learned.

Lastly, Maddy started a Chinese dance class for 2-4 year olds. She likes going but once she is there isn't all that interested in actually listening to the teacher. They have a recital in the spring but the jury will be out for a while as to whether or not she will be in the performance. It's fun because many of the kids in the class are our Red Thread friends, but it's a new teacher this year who doesn't seem to have worked with this age group much.

First Day of Pre-school:

A Rainbow at last!
Dance Class :