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i can't even tell you how busy i have been! matt and i have started a workout at night (p90x) and by the time the kids are down and the work out is over i have nothing less to give and blogging has fallen to the bottom of my to-do list. i have no pictures (at least none to post) but a long list of notes about things the kids have been doing. so here we go..,

- madelyn has discovered the negotiating power of the phrase just "one more..." if we say no to something she will ask for "one more" because she knows that there is a good chance we will cave. we are really trying to be stricter about this. i think she has more success using this tactic with daddy...

- if she doesn't like dinner she says that we can "save it for tomorrow if you want".

- mason has started to communicate, and even matt agrees that he says "ma-ma" - not like a first word - but clearly and seemingly for me. today he added "mo" when eating. and yesterday i got some video of him trying to wave. he is very clearly trying to figure out how to communicate with us.

- matt and i must say "honey" and "sweetie" to each other a lot because madelyn has started to call us by these pet names from time to time.

- another one of madelyn's favorite expressions is "it's nothing". sometimes we have to tell her, "yes, actually it is something, madelyn."

- madelyn told me that one of her friends at school, gavin, bumped her today but told her that he was sorry. and then she told me that she gave him one of her common explanations - "it happens". she makes us laugh a lot around here by telling us that, "it's okay, mom/dad. it happens sometimes."

- last night mason took his first real bath in the tub with madelyn! madelyn was ecstatic and i think mason was a little overwhelmed because she kept trying to teach him how to splash - it was just a little too much action for him. i will say that it was really nice not to have to mess with the toddler tub. we took some cute pictures, but i try to refrain from posting nudity. :)

- it's so neat to see how different mason plays with the same toys madelyn had at his age. he is really into the texture of things and loves to rub his fingernails on them to check it out. he also 'carries' toys more than madelyn did. he likes to pick toys up a lot more than i ever noticed madelyn do. and not just to put them in his mouth; he picks them up to move them around.

so there are a few updates to tide you over as i try to figure out how to get more personal time in my day for blogging... love.