but i was pleasantly surprised. the only rough spot in the day was trying to get mason to skip his morning nap in an attempt to get him back to sleeping to at least 7am again. madelyn and mason played together great and were great listeners.
they were acting so silly while i was working but i didn't have the camera with me. they were both shaking their heads back and forth while laughing wildly. madelyn would make some sort of silly scream noise and mason would make it back to her. i can't stress how much i wish that i had caught them on video - they were so funny.
like all younger siblings, mason loves to mimic madelyn and even though he isn't really talking yet he comes really close to sounding like the words she says. and he is really working hard to say her name. i have heard him say "mad" a few times but nothing consistent yet.
madelyn was also in a really helpful mood today. almost a little too helpful. while i was in the bathroom madelyn wiped mason off from his snack, unbuckled his booster seat, and helped him down from the chair so that he could go play with her! i told her that while she did a great job, it would be best to let mommy and daddy be the ones to take mason out of his chair.
and then while i was making dinner matt came home. he went to check on the kids playing in mason's room and asked if i knew that mason didn't have a diaper on. when i came back to see what was going on i found a jumbo pack of diapers all over the floor, a diaper less mason, two diaper raisins on the floor, and a very proud madelyn telling me that, yes, it was a poopie diaper and she had put it in the diaper pail. apparently madelyn had noticed that mason's diaper was poopie, took his shorts and diaper off for me, being a responsible sister had cleaned up the dirty diaper, and was working on getting a diaper back on him when daddy came in. again we thanked her for being helpful but that she should leave the diaper work to mommy and daddy.
there aren't a lot of pictures from today because madelyn decided to take her clothes off early in the day and as she often tells us when she strips down, "i just want to be cold". but i did take some video of mason putting 'coins' in his piggy bank toy. i showed him how to do it yesterday and he was very proud of himself tonight doing it all by himself.
i also thought of something cute madelyn did yesterday while we were saying prayers. madelyn tells on everyone, even herself. so when we were praying she told me to "tell God about..." i can't remember what it was but it was something she had done that day that got her put in her room. i explained that God already knows all about everything she does and loves her anyway but that we could pray for God to help her not do it again.
so a wonderful day and both kids were asleep by 7:30 tonight. so i will get an early night too. love.
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Amen for normalcy!
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