Winter Days

We don't really do much in January, so I've been struggling the last couple of days not really knowing what to write about. But here's what I love about our little family: we all love being in our home with each other finding laughter and adventure in spontaneous moments.

Madelyn is at that age now where she loves to be tickled but then begs you to stop only to ask you to start again. Repeatedly. This same pattern also applies to playing chase and hiding in dark rooms and popping out at her.

Maddie wearing a BeeBee toga.


This book, Oh Baby The Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss, is Maddie's hands-down favorite book right now. She totally gets the fun of rhyming words, and I think she really likes this book's small size and many tiny illustrations. "Oh Baby" goes everywhere with us--grocery stores, friends' houses, church, in the car, to the potty, etc. We often deliberately mess up the words when reading it to her and she will correct us--correctly--every time, which is saying a lot for a Dr. Seuss book! Hearing a 2 year old say "fizza-ma-wizza-ma-dill" is really quite great :)


Our beautiful daughter...