blogger buddies

on thrusday we met some of madelyn's blogger buddies at chick-fil-a; brothers reece and trae, and sisters lorelai and kinley. all the older kids were excited to sit down to lunch together before checking out the play area. we weren't sure that we were going to be able to make it so our appearance was a surprise.

i told madelyn that we were going to see lorelai and she was so excited when lorelai walked through the door. since lorelai wasn't expecting to see her it took a few minutes for her to realize that madelyn was "blog maddie" - her modern day pen pal. once they had figured out who they were then there were smiles all around! thankfully, matt got a picture of the two of them together. while it isn't the greatest picture of them, it is the only one we got between lorelai's mom and i from both of our times together (they came out to visit us at the beach on friday night).

and now for the story everyone has been waiting for - why did matt want to kill a 7 year old? i was visiting with the other moms while matt supervised the play area. at some point someone came out and told me that the screaming coming from inside the play room was madelyn. i figured that she had just gotten scared in the top because that has happened before. but once i got in the room i realized that matt was up in the 'tubes' too. he was forcing madelyn down the slide in front of him and she was hysterical! it took her a little bit to calm down. she was asking to go home and matt looked like he was going to pass out. at this point i was concerned about what had happened. someone later pointed out that it was funny to see me holding a crying madelyn and asking matt if he was okay.

here is the short version of the story. matt heard a boy (that he guessed was 7) telling madelyn to kiss him and his daddy instincts kicked in to get madelyn out of the play set - now! before you worry, we later found out that it was really innocent. apparently madelyn had stepped on this boy's arm and was kissing it all better; matt just overheard him discussing it with her. on the way back to the beach we were trying to explain to madelyn that while it was very nice of her to want to make him feel better after she hurt him, she should not be kissing people she doesn't know. we even gave her a short list of people that would be appropriate to kiss. she didn't really understand what the big deal was so we are going to have to talk about this topic again in the future.

even with this tense moment, it was really great to see our blogger buddies! aunt abby joined us with annabell, ford, and briana too. we were quite the group! love.