Second, Maddie turned 4!
She had her birthday party at The Fun Park. Here is a picture of her and all the friends she invited.
She loved her Tangled Birthday cake.
The kids had a lot of fun playing in the soft play and eating pizza and cake and ice cream. She got a lot of fun gifts and ended up having a great 4th birthday!
Here are a few things about our sweet, little Maddie at age 4:
She has the cutest little accent in the world. Sometimes she sounds like a little New Yorker, especially when she says "Parker". She says some things very funny and we don't ever want her to start saying them the right way (stop sign/thop thign, sparkles/farkles, nevermind/neverfind, teasing/cheating) Her voice is one of the cutest I have ever heard and we will be sad when her baby voice is gone.
She is really into coloring, cutting, and drawing lately. She wants to cut things ALL day long these days! She also has been drawing the funnest pictures of people and I love to see the things that she comes up with, like earrings and ponytails! She is very good to play by herself and she is very imaginative. She plays with things forever and I love to hear what she has her little toys say to each other and hear the different voices she makes up.
She is such a GIRL! She still loves to dress up and is still really in love with pajamas, but she has finally started to mellow out and not change her clothes 20 times a day. At least now she doesn't go straight to her room when we get home and change her clothes. She is very observant and always notices if I have on something new or something she hasn't seen before and she will say, "Mom, that is a cute shirt (or watch, necklace, boots, etc.) When we go shopping she always wants clothes and LOVES to try them on and pose for me. She got some makeup from her aunt and uncle for her birthday and has been obsessed with it, can't you tell? It really is a lot of fun to have a girl!
She is a pretty friendly little girl, but she does become very shy when she gets put on the spot. Like for her dance recital or opening presents at her party, she gets VERY serious and it is crazy to see how she changes. She is very clingy to me sometimes when I drop her off at dance or preschool, but is fine the second I leave, but she does ask for me while I am gone and she says that she misses me. She never does this when Cam drops her off, so I think she just does it because she loves me so much.. ha ha! Obviously she is just putting on a show for me.
We love Maddie so much, even though she can be quite sassy and VERY dramatic at times. I guess that just makes her a true girl!
We also celebrated Cam's birthday a couple days after Maddie's. My Dad's birthday is the same day, so we all went out to dinner to celebrate their special day. Here are the 2 birthday boys.
Cam went skiing with his Dad and brother and rememberd how much he loved it, so we took the kids skiing for the first time the day after his birthday. Aren't those tiny boots and skis too cute?
Grandpy helped Cam teach the kids how to ski.
They had a great time and I think they really loved it. Parks and I spent most of the afternoon in the lodge, but it was a beautiful, warm sunny day. It couldn't have been a better day to learn to ski. Taggart keeps asking when he can go back. Maddie thought the ski lift was pretty cool when before she knew it, they were very high up in the air and she was a little surprised and scared at the same time! It turned out to be a fun 36th birthday for Cam.
Parker turned 7 motnhs old on the 21st. He continues to be such a happy baby and really brings such joy into our home. He is loving his exersaucer these days. We started him on solids and he pretty much likes everything but peaches. He will eat them, but always puckers his mouth at first. He finally rolled over and is getting soo close to sitting up. He can do it for awhile, but falls to the side if something catches his eye.
Here is my sweet little choir boy..he just loves to hold his hands like this and it is soo cute!
We also spent a fun weekend up at the cabin in Bear Lake with 2 other family friends, but we were so busy having fun that we didn't even take any pictures! The kids had so much fun playing with each other, sledding, and riding around on the Rhino. It really was a fun weekend! And that is pretty much our month of February in a nutshell!
