happy 90th birthday, great grandma!

tonight we celebrated great grandma's (aka "great nana") 90th birthday with nana's extended family at a lovely restaurant, the boathouse. madelyn talked about great grandma's birthday most of the way there, sang "happy birthday", and held the presents. as you would expect she was very interested in the presents. we asked her if she remembered what the presents were, her response - "toys". after laughing we reminded her that we had painted picture frames for great grandma and that really got her excited!

she had a wonderful time painting a picture frame a few weeks ago at a pottery place near our house. we picked out the frame, but madelyn picked the colors (white, pink, and purple) and painted the whole thing herself. she even knew to rinse her brush between colors (at first anyway). she was having so much fun that she started to scrape the paint off so that she would have room to paint some more. we added her name to the frame and then put a picture of her in it for great grandma. she loves painting!

madelyn finished her dinner rather quickly and was bouncing off the walls so daddy and uncle derek took turns walking with her outside. she requested to go on a "ship", or so i was told. she later started calling them "boats". she also spent the evening showering nana, papa, and uncle derek with hugs and kisses. she has this thing right now where she is most interested in whoever is not visible which basically left her running in circles giving her hugs. it was a lovely evening for a lovely lady.

madelyn fell asleep shortly after we got in the car and we thought that she might be down for the night, but she just woke up after sleeping for about an hour so we will see how the rest of the night goes...

we did manage to get a family picture after dinner that i think came out pretty well (minus my pale, swollen legs). she was so good this trip! we are heading home after breakfast tomorrow so we will see how the return car ride goes (we are planning to stop for some shopping on the way). love.