Some Maddyisms:

Mad: I am going to marry brud when I grow up. 

Mommy:  Honey, you can’t marry Joey, he is your brother.

Mad: I can, and if he has girlfriend, he can give her up.

And if I have boyfriend, I will give him up.

Then we marry each other.

Mommy:  Why is every place I want to go to closed?

Mad: The world is changing.

Mommy:Where did you hear that?

Mad: I just heard it somewhere.  Really, I have been knowing it for a long time.

Mommy:OMG, another place is closed.  What the heck?

Mad: Told you mommy, everything is changing.

 Mad:  Why did you paint my room yellow?

I don’t like yellow.

Mad: I don’t like my curls.  I don’t like brown hair.

After First day of school:  Mommy:  What did you do today?  Did you have circle two times?

We made ice cream.  My favorite, chocolate with swirls on it.  That’s what we did all day.  No, didn’t do circles.  No letters, no numbers, no name writing.  Went swimming, they loaned everyone suits.  Me and my friend (just met today) are going to be friends but he gave up with me.  We talked about it and that just seems best.

She has been talking about couples a lot.

 Today it’s a good thing me and brud are going to get married.

 He will give up with his girlfriend and I will give up with my boyfriend.

After Maddy saw a trapeze act on TV, she said she wanted to do that.  She said that we needed to get a bigger house with the kitchen on the top floor, with a black fridge and the bedrooms on the first floor.  It would have a big laundry room with a gymnastics room in it and you could touch a switch, lightly, and it would turn into a trapeze room.  And she would have her own big TV that only played Lalaloopsy.  She said her daddy would have his own TV and it would only play Big Brother.  She said that I would have my own TV too, but I am not sure what it would play but the story got derailed.  To be continued...

On the way home from school the other day, Maddy asked what was an expert.  I told her someone who is good at something...like daddy is with video conferencing and mommy is with laundry.  She said, "I am an expert at playing and going places!"

Recently she became teary eyed about the baby doing things with me, without her.  I assured her she would do things that the baby couldn't do.  For ex. we met Emma and Marie and baby couldn't play with them or talk to them like she could.  She said, maybe brother can be friends with Emma and Marie's little sister Louisa!  (sweet!!)

The day we got brother's sono, Maddy came over and asked if that was brother?  I said yes.  She said, "in misti's belly?"  Ahhhhhhh!!!

Fall 2012

Today we were at the Dr. for my allergy shot and Maddy just reached up and grabbed my legs and told me she loved me.  I got my shot and we went to the counter to check out and from behind me I hear, “Mama, I love you!”  Everyone who heard, said, “oh, so sweet??”

Then we went to the foot dr. and the waiting room was crowded.  Maddy was a little clingy then began to play on the ipad.  Then she just reaches over and grabs my thigh and hugs tight and tells me she loves me.  Then she climbs in my lap and just snuggles up tight and wraps her arms around my neck tightly.  WOW, what an awesome feeling!!!  I love her so much and I wonder if she will know it before she becomes a mom.  I don’t think I really understood the depth of my mom’s love (or patience) until I became a house mom to the 6 teenage girls.

November 2012

Maddy: Where are the decorations?  Me:  do you want to put lights outside?  MAddy:  Oh, ok.  When daddy come home he say, “Oh, my how beautiful is that!”

Watching Barney, Santa shows marbles from Madagascar.  Maddy says, My name is Madagascar!

(since we often use that as a nickname)

8/29/2012

At dinner, Maddy says, “Daddy, do you like relish?”  He tells her no and she asks, “Why not, it doesn’t have nothing in it.  It’s pickle-y!”

While Maddy was pooping on the big girl potty she asked me if poop was food for the potty.  I shrugged and said yes.  She said, so the potty eats the poop and pee!

One day Maddy asked if I cry when I fall.  I explained that sometimes I do.  I asked when she cried…she said, when she is missing someone, like Freddie, Ditto, Guy, Marmie and Maura, Chase, Aunt Susie and Uncle Mark and everyone else.

Sweet.  And then she bit the boy at the YMCA.  I asked why and she responded that she wanted him to come to his house.  Stephen and I talked about hurting other people and Maddy said the boy wasn’t hurt, he just said Ouch, he didn’t cry!!

A story for Maddy from Mommy:

Once upon a time, there was a little boy named Thomas.  Thomas had an older brother named Paul and both boys were friends with Ivan and Nick.  They loved to play together:  riding bikes, kicking a ball, climbing trees, selling lemonade and having sleep-overs.

One night, Thomas’ mom tucked the boys in bed.  The two older boys, Paul and Nick were to sleep in the top bunk beds and the two younger ones, Thomas and Ivan would sleep in the bottom bunks.  Thomas’ mom told the boys that the younger ones were not allowed on the top bunks because it was too high for them.  She reminded them not to talk and laugh too much in case they woke Thomas’s dad, Steve.  Steve had to get up for work in the morning and needed to get a good nite of sleep.

The mom, Ellen, left the room, but had to come back again after 30 minutes to remind the boys to quiet down.  The boys tried to be quiet, but began telling jokes and ghost stories and Ellen came in again, 2 hours later to tell them to be quiet and go to sleep.

The boys tried, but they had had too much lemonade and the sugar was making them hyper!  The big boys decided that the younger boys should sleep in the top bunks.  Both Thomas and Ivan said they didn’t want to and that Ellen had said not to.  The older boys said they would be fine and Paul and Nick kept trying to get the younger boys on the top bunks.

Finally the younger boys gave in, not happily.  Each boy began climbing the ladder and then settled into the top bunk.  A few hours later, the boys were still awake and Paul decided it would be fun to try to jump from one top bunk to the other.  Again, the older ones egged the younger ones on.  Ivan went first and he jumped from one bunk to the other.  The boys cheered and then Thomas tried to jump.  Whooosh!  He landed in a big pile of legs and arms on the floor and began to cry immediately.  Ellen came running into the room and saw Thomas crying and she knew he was hurt.  She asked what happened, but no one could give an answer.  She told the boys she would take Thomas to the hospital and the Dr. would need to know what happened.  Thomas continued to cry and Paul finally said that Thomas had tried to jump off the top bunk.  Ellen said she had told the younger ones to stay off the top…what were they thinking?

Ellen and Steve drove all four boys to the hospital, with Thomas still crying.  The nurse and Dr. came in and asked what happened but he couldn’t understand Thomas because he was still crying.  Finally Paul admitted they had dared the boys to jump from bed to bed.  Ellen just shook her head and told Paul and Nick that they would have a talk later.  The Dr. took Thomas for x-rays and came in and said he needed a cast on his arm.  Thomas continued to cry and the Dr. told him he shouldn’t be hurting that much anymore.  But, Thomas continued to cry, all the way home, up to bed and then again as soon as he woke in the AM.  Ellen couldn’t understand what was going on.  She finally calmed him down and Thomas told her he was afraid he would get in trouble for jumping from bed to bed.  Ellen asked if he knew what he did was wrong, because he did something his mom asked him not to do.  Thomas said, yes, he understood that.  Ellen told Thomas that she wouldn’t punish him, this time, because she felt he was being punished enough with a cast on his arm.  No swimming or biking for 6 weeks!  Ellen explained that they didn’t tell him not to do things just because, but for different reasons, in this case not to get hurt.  Thomas assured his mom he would never try to jump from bunk to bunk again.  Ellen hugged Thomas and told him that was great, but he also needed to listen and do what his parents told him to do!  Thomas agreed and gave his mom a big hug.  Then they went downstairs for pancakes, which Paul had to cut and feed to Thomas, since Thomas had his arm in a cast!

A few weeks ago, Maddy had a hissy fit about eating at the table with Stephen and I.  She said she wanted to "eat lonely."  I almost burst out laughing.  But, I didn't!  She wanted to watch a show on the computer.  She said that we could have an adult meal and that she loved us, but we could take care of each other.

One afternoon she told me she had a dream that all her friends were at the trapeze and fell off.  C3P0 was there and R2D2 and then Darth Vader broke both of his legs.

Last week, I was talking to Sylvia on the phone.  Maddy was quiet in the kitchen but I didn't want to rock the boat because S gets so irritated when her conversations are interrupted.  So...I should have known.  Maddy comes walking to me with a handful of hair in her hands, "Mommy, I cut my hair."  I almost cried.  As she is walking she is leaving a trail of hair.  Fortunately, she has the long curls around it so it is hard to see that right above her forehead is a patch of 1/4 inch hair!!!
When I put Maddy to bed, I told her that she really shouldn't cut her own hair; that people go to school to learn how to do that.  She asked if she could "tell" me a few questions.  She asked if she could be a hair cutter when she grew up and what school would she go to.  I told her and then she proceeded to tell me all the other things she wanted to be and asked me what schools she would go to to learn how to do those jobs.  A Doctor, a dentist, a driver - of buses, a pilot - of planes, no of helicopters.  I told her we could talk more about it in the AM.  She asked me to write them down so we could discuss them.  So I did.  She also wants to be a sprinkler fixer, a car doctor, a ring master, a builder and do e-nastics (her pronunciation for gymnastics!)
As soon as she got up the next morning she ran into our room and asked me where her list was and to show it to daddy.
Tonite she told Stephen she also wants to be a nurse, a basketball player and a teacher.

Maddy went to sleep late for her nap and I had a VERY hard time waking her, so I let her sleep, then sleep some more. I finally shook her awake and she crawled in my lap to cuddle. I told her it was almost supper time and she looked outside and said in the most pitiful voice, "Oh no, it's almost dark. I didn't get to keep any daylight." Poor thing! So you can imagine my surprise and exhausted relief when three hours later I asked if she was ready to take a bath or go to bed, she said, "I'm ready for bed!" That's my girl!!

Granted I can still hear her talking, so who knows when she will fall asleep.  Last nite, when Stephen and I went to bed she was sound asleep in her bed, but she had made a bed on the floor and her light was on.  When I asked what happened she said she made a bed for Mannequin (her friend.)

Last week Stephen was driving Maddy to one of their dates.  He turned the music up really loud.  Maddy asked him to turn it down cause it was hurting the other cars' ears.

Yesterday on a date to Target and Starbucks, she asked to go to the car wash (which she always says she is afraid of; she hasn't been in one since she was about 1 - when she freaked out!).  They went through it and she said she wasn't scared, but the brushes hurt her ears.

At nap time, Stephen put her down and then she called out, "Daddy, DADDY!"  He went to her and she asked "Dad, why does R2-D2 not have eyes or a mouth?"  He replied, "He has speaker to make sounds and that big blue lens has a camera behind it so he can see. He also has many sensors to detecting the world around him."