Madison is 3

Where in the world has the time gone?!? When I think back, it seems like yesterday I was pulling into the hospital to be induced. I seems like I've blinked and here we are three years later. I can't imagine our family without her in it. She is adorable, funny, smart, bossy, easy, shy, busy, loving, caring, chatty and she has our hearts.
We are not having her birthday until Saturday (the 19th) so we wanted her to feel special on her real birthday. She had picked out a bike that she wanted awhile back. She picked out the Barbie bike. This is her when she first saw it. She is all smiles.


of course she had to give it a try. She's still not great at pedaling, that's why we got her a bike...so she could learn. We think it will be easier than her tricycle.


she also got a barbie to sit in the barbie bike that is attached to her bike


After she opened her presents we went to the donut store. The girl gets her love of donuts from her Momma. The donut lady just loves Madison. Anytime we go in there she just smiles and tries to talk to Madison. If you know Madison, you know she doesn't say a word back. I think the lady thinks her outfits are cute. She's either in heels, pajamas with crazy hair, decked out in accessories and the list goes on. I make it sound like we go alot. We really don't. I would go everyday if I wouldn't gain 1000 pounds. Anyways, the lady gave her a blue donut for free since it was her birthday. She kept calling it her blueberry donut.

I'm guessing she's showing me her blue tongue in the second picture!

Since we aren't having her party for a few days we wanted her to have something special on her birthday. I let her pick out what she wanted and she picked cookies. She's having cake balls and cupcakes for her party. Cake balls are her FAVORITE. Since these were for just her, I let her decorate them the way she wanted to decorate them.



Most of the icing ended up here...in her mouth. She got distracted after a few cookies and was only interested in eating the icing. I finished them for her.


It's only 10:00 am and she's had donuts and icing! But just wait...we continue to add unhealthy things!

Trent goes to workout camp every morning from 8-11. When he got home he thought we should take her to McDonalds to eat and play. She loves to play at the McDonalds by our house.



After lunch we told her she had to take and nap and then we'd go swimming. She slept for 3 hours. I ended up going in and waking her up because we were running out of time to go swimming.


Everyone is ready to go!


I love how he's looking at her like, "what in the world are you doing?"

sweet siblings!





This was our first time to go to the pool this year. This is where Madison and I lived last summer. I hope to do the same again this summer.




I took her awhile to warm up. She was nervous. By the end she was just fine and even asked to go under with me. We only did it once and she was good with that. :)


Cooper had a GREAT time!


LOVE this picture


Barbie is going for a swim




On our way home...

to eat ANOTHER cookie!

I have been trying to think about what all I can write about her and what she is doing at 3 years old. It's hard with her. I wish I did better at keeping up with small things she does. It's the conversations that we have that I am so amazed with her.
In the past year:
-Her vocabulary is amazing. She knows words that I didn't know she'd ever heard much less know how to use them correctly in sentences
-She has long conversations with you and you forget you're talking to a 2 year old.
-She remembers everything and I mean EVERYTHING. She remembers everything she sees and everything she hears. She'll bring up things that happened a year ago without anyone mentioning them.
-Her memory amazes me.
-She recognizes all of her letters and numbers to 10
-She can count to 29 on her own and then you have to say 30 and she can keep going until 40. When you say 40 she can keep going and this continues to 100. We've never tried past that.
-She can write her name. She does better if you write it first and she can copy it.
-She can write Cooper's name
-She has memorized several books and can "read" them pretty much word for word back to you
-She's VERY particular. If she does something once, she has to do it the exact same way every time
-She's pretty anal about things
-She likes to clean
-She won't let you forget anything (Trent pinched her leg once with her car seat. He accidentally snapped her leg in it. EVERY TIME he puts her in the car seat she says "Daddy, don't pinch my leg." He's put her in a 1000 times and not pinched her but she only remembers the one time he did)
-She LOVES her brother. Her main goal in life is to make him laugh. He loves for her to fall so she runs around falling all over the house.
-She's such a caring, loving sister to Cooper. She watches out for him and is his second mother. :) I love that. I hope they continue to love each other as they grow up.