Two and half years ago yesterday, our little girl decided it was time to come into the world. Its amazing how fast the time goes. Madison has grown so much in the last 30 months, and she is now a little girl more than a baby.
She loves to sing us songs, mostly solos. Her favorites right now are the ABCs, Twinkle Twinkle, I'm a Little Teapot, & Ring around the Rosie. She also loves to sing Once upon a dream from Sleeping Beauty and Part of your World from Little Mermaid. She can sing the first 2 lines of both by herself, but needs a little help from Mom after that. But she knows all the words. (I've trained her well :) ). She can finally count to 10 without skipping 5 and is working on counting to 20 at school. She has also learned her name is "Madison Smif" supposed to be Smith, but we are working on that.
Bolt is her favorite movie right now. Probably because there is a dog, a cat and a hamster. She is my little animal lover just like her Aunt Ashley. And she loves Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (most requested TV show, but she doesn't always get her request...). We also found the Disney website which lets you pick out clothes for your favorite princess or play games with Mickey and Friends. Again she wants to do this very often, but doesn't get to often enough for her taste.
She talks constantly now. Rick often comments that she doesn't ever seem to stop. She loves books, which makes me very happy. We go to the library all the time for story time and to keep our rotation up and scope out the good books to buy.
She is doing very well with the potty training. We still have some accidents and some days when she just doesn't seem to want to do it, but for the most part we are getting there. She is almost always dry after nap and overnight too, so we'll have to working on getting rid of diapers for that soon. We hit a spell where Madison was spending lots of time in the naughty spot. But she seems to be on a good stretch for the moment and has learned to listen to mommy and daddy better. I'm sure we'll hit another bad spell soon. They seem to come and go.
She is also very particular. Before she can put her clothes on, we have to spread them out for her and we can't accidentally sit on them. And of course most everything she wants to do by herself, unless she needs help and then she wants help right away. If she has a jacket with a hood, she wants the hood on. She likes to shut the door to her room every morning when we leave. She only wants to eat with certain spoons or drink out of certain cups, and mostly doesn't want a lid. She loves to pour things, we call her our Mad Scientist. She pours water into one cup and then back and then back and then she wants to add some milk. She can also spend hours on walks or in the backyard collecting acorns, berries, rocks and flowers. Oh and we were driving the other day and she pointed to every kind of tall building and called them castles.
Mostly Madison is just really fun right now. She is constantly moving and talking, and wears us out, but she is so funny. Its wonderful to see her personality, her likes and dislikes (which are constantly changing). I'm sure it will only get better from here, but the last 2 1/2 years sure have been wonderful, amazing, exhausting, thrilling, and definitely worth it!
Smores! Madison was not so sure about the marshmallows, so she mostly ate chocolate...
Ducks at the pond.
Fishing with Dad.
Madison got a little bored with the fishing and decided she needed to take pictures. So she took this picture of Sadie. Not bad!
