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!