holy freak. she's two years old and i swear yesterday i was snuggling her new born tiny self in the hospital and now she's crazy big. how did it happen and how do i make it stop? luckily she is super cute and way fun, so i guess i can handle her getting bigger... plus i guess i could always have another one...
so here is the last picture of miss maddie on her chair... i am planning on putting all of them together on a single page and framing it - so stayed tuned for the final product. i am way excited to see it done! it's a pretty good final shot though, i crack up every time i see it.
she is so big and she is so smart and i love her more every day. she is 83cm tall, she wears size 0 and 1, and talks non stop. she answers all our questions and tries to tell us things all the time that we don't get, but she keeps going regardless... her hair is long enough for a beautiful little ponytail, she still loves crackers, and strawberries (which she will steal from the fridge), juice, yoghurt (which i have also caught her carrying around the house on numerous occasions), polony (which she jumps up and down for in front of the deli at coles for) and just food in general. she's definitely a little polynesian our maddie. she also loves to hear the car horn honking and constantly yells beepbeep from the back seat while we are driving and pushes her hand in the air while she does it. she also loves loves loves nursery rhymes and sings them along with us as best as she can, as well as demanding them one by one when someone puts her to bed.
being two is obviously hard work, because after a hard night of trying to stay awake, she was still fast asleep sucking her hand in our bed at 9:00am on her birthday. lucky she is so cute, otherwise i would have had to kick her out.
when daddy got home from his training we went for lunch together at innaloo at the coffee club... toasted ham and cheese for miss maddie and of course a babycino.
but before that, we went to the pet shop and bought maddie her birthday present - two siamese fighting fish! she loves them and spent the afternoon standing on her little chair peering through the glass at them. mummy even named them herself, much to daddys amusement after method man and red man from the wu tang clan - they are now to be officially known as meth and red (clearly the red one is red...)
we unwrapped presents in the afternoon and as per usual maddie had the time of her life ripping into them...
i love watching kids open presents, i swear there is nothing cuter than that wide, bright, excited look in their eyes when they are still at that age where they have no way of guessing what's inside and whatever it is is a complete and utter surprise.
her favourite though, was of course the jumping peppa pig that daddy bought her, it jumps on the spot (for my friends reading here... please think back to the very late nineties to a bouncing tigger - kind of the same concept) and says things like "i love jumping in muddy puddles...splish splash splosh splish-splish". she is obsessed already, i can tell.
and dessert... custom cupcakes from the local shopping centre, one for each of us and candles in miss maddies! she totally has the hang of them now too thank goodness, there was no repeat of last year, when she tried to grab them while they were burning. she made us all laugh though, by yelling hip hip hooray along with us. so smart. i can tell she's going to be running circles around us soon.
she is so freaking beautiful, and every single day i thank heavenly father for giving her to us. i can't think of any thing that i am more proud to have.
happy second birthday miss madeline, we love you for always!
