Madeline and Her Daddy

Madeline Decorates a Cake

Madeline's passion for decorating cakes continues.  She truly has a great eye for combining color.  Though I helped to cover the cake in fondant and gave her access to all the sugar flowers I had made, she made the cake by herself (I did the oven portion), iced it, rolled the fondant and decorated it.  When she gets into a creative mode, she is in the zone.  And aside from this cake being beautiful, it was DELICIOUS!!!  Matt and I could not wait for after dinner each day, when we could have a piece.  You go girl!

Y Princess Meeting

Daddy and Madeline hosted the February Y Princess Meeting.  Watching them together, prepare for this meeting was priceless.  They first made invitations for each Daddy/daughter.  The invitations were boxes of sweetheart tarts, with a feather attached and a poem.  They then spent the afternoon delivering the invitations to each Tribe Member's home.  In the pictures above, Madeline and Daddy prepare for their meeting by making heart-shaped sugar cookies.  They rolled the dough together, cut out the hearts, and cooked them.  The Matt Daddy adores his little girl, and his little girl thinks her daddy is the greatest.

Ry's Sweet Letter to Madeline

If I Could Pick Any Sister, I Would Pick You!

If Only I Was the Queen

On our walk today, Madeline asked me if we could do something.  Because we were on a tight schedule to get home and get dinner going, I told her that we would not be able to do this thing today.  As she walked on, I heard her mumbling behind me, "If only I was the queen and she was my servant".  Whoa, how funny and cute.

I Also Pick My Nose

A simple cold is again plaguing the lungs of my sweet boy with asthma.  Cough medicine, albuterol, and pulmacort seem to be doing little.  After a coughing fit of more than 30 minutes, I brought him into our room to sleep propped up with us to see if he could stop coughing and get to sleep.  After another 30 minutes, I realized that he was not sucking his thumb, and thought I would give him permission to do so in hopes that it would help him sleep (the rule is that he can only suck the thumb in his room at night).  After a few minutes of sucking his thumb, my sweet Ry looked up at me groggily, and said, "Mommy, I also pick my nose".  Meaning that to get the full effect of the soothing thumb, he had to have thumb in mouth and pointer finger in nose.  Oh goodness did I belly laugh.  It was so funny and he was SO serious.  Of course I told him to go ahead.  Being a mom is such a joy.

Snow Day

Really. . .there's no better dog than Bobo.  He and Ry have such a special bond.  They like to play chase together and wrestle.  Bobo even nips at his bum-bum.  It's so precious to watch!

Is this really North Carolina?  Are not the winters supposed to be mild?  The day after Christmas we were hit with a crazy snow store that packed about 8 inches of snow.  It was perfect for sledding and snowman making.  The kids LOVE being out in the snow, and thankfully, so does Daddy.  Mommy enjoys watching.

Daddy scattered birdseed all over our deck.  For a week straight, we enjoyed watching the birds flock to their new found feeding place.  We even pulled out Daddy's out bird book, and attempting identifying the different birds.

The Snowman of snowmen!