Maddy goes to a birthday party

Maddy got invited over to her friend Sophia's today for a birthday party. She prepared as any girl would by painting her nails.

 Not a bad job for the first time without help.

The party was great fun. They painted masks and decorated cupcakes. Here's all the kids sitting at the table.

 The best part was that Maddy finally got to experience a pinata!! And oh the candy that she came home with.

It was a fun day and she was quite exhausted by the end of it... and sugared out, but mostly exhausted.

BONUS CONTENT: Carl reads The Cat in the Hat. (It take him a few seconds to get started, but he sounds great!!

Maddy gets a haircut and loves fire.

Maddy has never liked long hair. She is too busy. Long hair gets in her eyes when bouncing and having to brush it is a misery. It's much better to have short hair that you don't have to brush in the morning or put up in barettes or give any thought to at all.

This pretty much sums up why Maddy cut her own hair a couple of years ago. Now we don't let her hair get any longer than shoulder length before it gets a trim. This time, she wanted a little more than a trim so Maddy is ready for summer with a cute new haircut!

She has such a pretty face. I think she looks delightfully Maddy!!

Tonight we went over to Nan's house. We tried to ride bikes for a while, but it was still a little chilly outside and of course we forgot to bring coats with us. As much fun as bike riding was, we decided to retire to mom's house and build a fire. Who knew how much fun that would be. Maddy got the fun of destroying boxes.

Maddy was even cute hulking out tonight. Good times were had by all.

A lazy evening?

It has been a busy day. Maddy finished up her school work early today so that she could have more time in the evening to play and, boy, did she play.

She played outside while Ash cooked dinner. Then she we went over to mom's and she played on the swings, and played basketball against the garage. Afterwards she collected sticks for the best thing to do at mom's... make a fire! Maddy spent the next 20 minutes destroying boxes and burning sticks like anything.

By the time we got home, she was ready for a snack. Here's Maddy enjoying Pokemon and a little personal pizza before bed.

This little girl was out in 5 minutes after laying down tonight. Best kind of day.

Easter

Happy Easter!!

Today's has been nice. It was drizzling for most of the day, but that did not stop the kids from having an Easter egg hunt in Scott and Carolyn's backyard. This was the first year that we did it with them and I had no idea how many eggs they normally hid. There had to be about 100 eggs in that backyard! It was great fun. There were even a couple kids from church that came over and helped Sven and Leif with the hunt.

Good times were had by all and now Maddy has enough candy to last her till Christmas!

Saturday quickie

OK, so this was not what I had planned on sharing today, but it is too cute not to. This is exactly what taking Maddy's picture is like.

 Let me know if this moves when you see it on the computer like it is doing on my phone.

Maddy's castle

Maddy has a new game when she goes to Nan's house. She goes shopping. And by shopping, I mean, she takes everything out of the cupboards and loads it into an old shopping cart. Then she takes everything into the living room where she stacks it up.

Today, she decided she was going to build a castle out of her groceries. It is actually a pretty neat structure. Part of it got knocked over while we were getting read to take the picture, but it's still pretty good.

The hard part is putting everything back when it's all done. I don't think mom is going to be able to find anything in her cupboards for a long time.

Cellphone pictures

I never know what kinds of pictures are going to show up on my phone when I am at work. Here are some of my recent favorites.

Maddy at mom's after a bath.

Maddy's new haircut

Maddy goes bowling... at home.