daddy's girl

i almost fell out of my chair tonight at dinner laughing at matt teaching madelyn a trick he might regret some day. matt was pretty late getting home from work so madelyn had already had her dinner. when matt got home she came around begging for scraps at the table and pulled her chair right up next to daddy. she was particularly interested in his "chips". i told matt that one would be okay and madelyn agreed to "one". she asked for "more" a few times, but for the most part accepted that she already had her one chip. as usually happens at the end of meals, madelyn was being very affectionate and hugging matt over and over. he asked her for one more hug. when she hugged him he said "okay, now you can have another chip"! i said that she was a smart girl and she would figure out that daddy would buy her love. i told him that this was going to make the blog.

matt was also asking her about being a "big sister". tonight she was adamant that she wanted a "girl baby". matt said that it would be okay if another girl was just like her.

she begs for "ring around the rosie" all the time now (i just taught it to her recently after reading that her cousin annabell likes to sing it at the library). it makes me crazy dizzy after just one singing, but she likes to sing it again and again. luckily, she was willing to do it by herself so that i could take some video.

(apparently i cannot opperate my camera properly and will have to try the video again tomorrow.)



i thought that i would show why there are so few pictures these days. she was laying on the couch quietly reading a book yesterday, but the second i held up the camera she jumped up and stood on the couch with her "cheese" face. the picture of her laying down was a reenactment after i asked her to lay back down and read again. love.