Madelynne. A sweet, kind-hearted little girl that cares about the world. So soft spoken that she is often the target for bullies and when someone is doing something she doesn't like, intead of defending herself she simply whispers, "Mommy, help, mommy please!" with tears in her eyes. She is opinionated and not afraid to give me directions on how to do something. "You wait right here, i will be right back do don't move. OK?!" uhhhh.. yes mam? She's becoming a little smarty pants too, "Mady it's time to go!", "Okaayyyyy, Just two seconds!!!!" Since when is my 3yo, 13? She says grace at the table and reminds us if we forget. She thanks Jesus for all things including the sun, school, friends, spoons, cereal, Scooby-Doo.. Mady is always eager to learn something new and so very proud when she wants to show you something. She's a giver. She picks a flower for me every.single.day. to make me happy, she will even pick a flower for the neighbor if they are outside. She sleeps perfect on her own and let's us know whe she's ready to wake up. 
Annabelle. High-maintenance and loud from birth. She is a daddy's girl through and through, I can't come close to being as important to her as her daddy can. She wakes up every morning about 6a starving to.death. She LOVES food, she loves to pick up things and put them in her mouth.. she wants to taste anything, even if that means she seems something on the floor so she lays flat on the surface and licks it with her toungue. She wants to taste electrical sockets. If you tell her not to do one thing, she looks at you with the sweetest funny smile, shakes her head "no" at you and does it deliberately anyway. She stands up in the bathtub despite knowing wrong from right. She scales and climbs over her sister or anyone that may potentially be in her way. Her favorite activities are emptying dresser drawers, cabinets, eating DVD cases & unwinding things, making messes. However, she doesn't like doing anything alone. She loves adult interaction, especially her daddy. When you carry Annabelle, altough she doesn't know a stranger, she will still lay her head on your shoulder and smirk when she meets someone new. Annabelle loves cuddles and being touched, she loves her special time being fed and rocked when she holds her bottle and kicks her leg all around in the air bc she can't lay still. She is loud and will yell at you if you dare let her highchair tray turn empty. She is a wild child but so sweet and cuddly at the same time, it's a beautiful combination but couldn't be more opposite of Madelynne.
We are ready for a vacation. July and August have been a pain in the rear for all of us, a rush to the finish to get to where we are today on August 31st. Grammy and I have spent some time this summer together doing some much needed canning, and staying busy making the girls dresses for Disney World.
The girls have both been taking turns being sick. First Annabelle with an odd virus, then Mady with a cold in combination with Annabelle cutting her 6th tooth. Finally Mady with Annabelle's virus that landed us a fever for 6 days straight and vomiting. Poor babies have had enough and we are all ready for a break!
Today means September is tomorrow.. and September means, FLORIDA!!! I have been packing for weeks now, I have all the girls things strategically labeled, our week's itinerary specified down to the hour and all necessary documents printed and ready to go! We truly can't wait. The most excited part of this trip is seeing our friends and being able to spend our time with them. AK and I have never taken a family vacation before, our girls have never been on a vacation or to the beach with us, I can't wait to take our first vacation but most importantly I can't wait to share this time with our dearest friends. We're so fortunate to be surrounded by such amazing people in our lives and I can't thank them enough for opening their home to us and spending their family time with ours. It will truly be a treat this next week. I can't wait to get back and share all the pictures we take, it's going to be MAGICAL!
Mady starts school the Monday after we return home from Florida. We visited her classroom last night and met her new friends and Mrs. Davis. There are lots of beautiful little girls in Mrs. Davis's class this year, although Landis will be in Mrs. Matthew's :( It's ok, the girls will still see one another. I really do think Mady will have a great time.. and I will be overly excited to start a new year, maybe more than that I am excited for her back to school outfit ;) It's too freaking adorable.
Annabelle's birthday is September 20th and her party will be the 22nd, it's a big big day in the making, as the girls parties usually are. The day of her party, Andi and I are also doing the 4mile walk/run for the Children's Hospital. I will be exhausted to say the very least! Im very excited for the big things coming up in the next couple weeks. It's going to be a busy ride and require lots of SD Card storage!!
I think the most amazing part that I am looking forward to are the adventures we are about to take our children on and the smiles on their faces. Seeing their happiness will be worth every single struggle, penny, lack of sleep I endure for them. We have been building up our vacation for months now and just to make our girls happy will rock my world. This must be it, THIS must be that feeling of parenthood that people say is undescribable. It's amazing, the drive to be a wonderful mother and the things we will do to make our babies as happy as they can ever be, loved, cared for and fufilled. Gosh it's all so exciting!
