Maddie’s last day of Pre-K

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Tuesday May 22nd was Maddie’s last day of pre-k.  I can’t believe how fast this past year went!  She was really upset because Mrs. Rice won’t be her teacher next year but she is finally understanding that each year she will get new teachers.  I am so proud of all that she learned this year and that finally by the end of the year she had learned her address and her phone number!  The phone number was a little harder on her because we only have the cellphone and it is a different area code than where we live, but she finally got it!  So proud!! 

This week the daycare that she goes to is closed until Tuesday after Memorial Day so before I got hired I let them know that I would need those days off.  It has been nice spending time with her these last few days and we have some exciting things planned for the weekend and then Shane is off all next week and they have some more fun stuff planned for his vacation.  Wish I would be able to join in but I’m sure they will have lots of fun!

Here’s some pictures from her last day of school! 

Since I didn’t ask I had to crop these 2 pictures…
Maddie being pushed by one of the boys in her class

Maddie enjoying her ice cream party on the last day with her best friend

 

She also got her picture taken with the BlueJay as a prize for bringing in the most box tops for her class that month!

 

Here she is on the first day and the last day!!  (she actually hasn’t changed that much lol)

 

My baby is growing up!!!

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Today we went downtown for a bit and I took just a few, yes only about ten, pictures.  It was kinda cool and really windy!  Anyways, this one picture I got of Mad is so adorable!  You can just see what she is going to look like in a few years.  It’s amazing! 

Since I have been home with her and am around her so much, I don’t always notice the changes in her.  Some days though she just says something, does something, or looks a certain way and you can just see that she’s not my baby anymore.   

 

 

Maddie’s big Monday!

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I can’t believe that my little girl is going to be 4 on Thursday!  It sure went by way too fast!!  She is growing up so fast and is so stinking smart and so very creative.  I am so proud of our little girl.  She keeps telling me that she doesn’t want to turn 4 and I keep asking her why?  She just tells me because she doesn’t want to get old and she doesn’t want to go to school!  What a little stinker!

She has been making a lot of necklaces, since I have been making mine, and she started making earrings too.  She has been asking for about a year now to get her ears pierced and we told her if she still wanted to then she could do it when she turned four.  Man that got here awful quick!  Monday Shane was off work and she kept saying she wanted them done so I took her and got her ears pierced.  (Shane didn’t want to watch her get them done.  Poor tough Daddy, didn’t want to see his baby in pain.    )

We just went to Wal-Mart to get them done and thankfully they had 2 people there so we could get them done at the same time and she was glad she could pick out her very own pair.  I was so proud of her.  She did really well.  She did cry a little bit but I think it scared her more than it hurt.  Well, she did say it hurt a lot more than she thought it would, but by the time we got everything signed and paid for she had stopped crying.  While we were leaving, everyone she saw she had to show them her new earrings!  We are so proud of her! 

Sitting with ‘Tooth’ and ‘Dr. Doggy’ waiting to get them done.

 

 

That look of uncertainty, I trust you mommy and want this done but I’m not totally sure now!

 

Our ‘Baby’ Girl

 

Tooth, her comfort bear!  (yeah, she named it ‘Tooth’)

New bed/room for Maddie

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My baby girl is growing up!!  Went from this.... 

to this..... 

to this.....

Well a little bit over a year ago we switched Maddie's crib to the toddler bed.  This year we thought since my aunt had a double bed she was wanting to get rid of that we would take that and make her bed into the big bed for her.  When she goes to my mom's she sleeps on a full size bed so we didn't think she would mind it.  Well she loves it!  OK, love it might be a little of an overstatement right now.  She loves it during the daytime but come night time she doesn't want to go to sleep and says that she is scared.  We just got it Sat so she has only slept 2 nights in it.  Sat. night she screamed, I kinda heard it on the monitor but then she stopped, I guess Shane was still up and he went in with her.  I woke up this morning because I had to go to the bathroom and thought it was strange that she wasn't awake yet at 7a when she is normally up a little after 6a every day.  I noticed her door was open and went to check on her and she was awake sitting in her bed and daddy was still passed out.  lol

Today we rearranged it, again, and then she was jumping all over the bed, which I made her stop, and loved that this way we did it gave her more room than it was on Sat.  She kept playing in there most of the day.  Come bed time again and she kept wanting me to stay in there with her.  I decided to lay down with her again and read a book, and do her 'Princess Maddie' story, some songs and prayers she started crying saying she has nightmares.  I told her it would be alright and that she is still in the same room just that the bed is bigger so she would be alright.  She has been sleeping with her bedside lamp on for the past month now too, so I reminded her that the lamp was on, gave her her little flashlight and she put it under her pillow.  I told her just to try to go to sleep and if she started to have a nightmare then she could call for us and she could also start to think of happy things, playing, her babies, Vaughn, and she could also talk to God and He would keep her safe.  She was still crying some so Shane put on her TV and let her go to sleep with the TV but I had to remind her that it was only for tonight.  She was asleep within 15 min. 

Didn't figure that this would be so different for her and thought that she would love it.  Like I said she does love it during the day time but I guess at night it will just take some time for her to get used to. 

Here are some pictures of what we did to her room.  She picked out the dots that are all over the wall and put most of them on herself.  (not sure how long they will last since we got them at Dollar Tree (=  ) 

After we set it up on Saturday 

and the decorations I put up in her room on Wed or Thursday of last week

Then today after we rearranged it again. (She has so much junk!!) 

Took off the big comforter and using this one for now since it is so stinking hot!

Dancing to some music

Her reading/art area

Just more pictures of the decorations.

 

Sorry this was such a long post!

My mom- My mother and friend

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Growing up my mom and I usually got along pretty well.  Of course we had our normal mother daughter arguments and when I was a teen I didn't want to talk to her much about what was really going on.  I really wish I would have had the relationship then that I have with her now.  I guess it is a little different now because I am older and understand that most the stuff they did for us back then was because they cared and wanted to keep us safe. As I got older she didn't really have a choice but to let me do what I did and am sure she prayed that I would learn from my mistakes.

I  am also so very thankful that she raised me up in church.  I didn't always want to go to church but she made us anyways.  lol  It wasn't really that bad and am thankful that I went because a lot of that did stay with me.  I know that once I graduated and finally got to go out in the world and experience things, which unfortunately a lot of it wasn't the best, that she was constantly praying for me especially since I had started getting off the path a little bit.  The fact that she was constantly there for me whenever I needed her is so amazing!  She could have easily just turned her back on me and made me grow up the hard way but she stuck by me.

Once I started working in group homes with clients that were mentally and physically challenged I started calling her and apologizing for how I used to treat her and asking her if I did this or this when I was younger!!  I know it's not PC to say but working with clients like that is kind of like having children.  I was overwhelmed at times and was right there calling her for help and also apologizing.  I never understood the love you could have for your own child until I worked with them. (and then really felt it once I had Mad) I loved them like they were my own, even though they were older than I was.  They became family too me and loved, joked, argued and defended them like family.  I think that job is what helped me to grow up a little bit.

Then of course as the years went by mom became my best friend and still is.  She is someone that is always there for me when I need to vent about something, ask opinions and advice from.  Now I'm not so afraid of what she will think when I call her about something.   Once we had to move for Shane's job Mom moved to the town we were moving from and now there are so many times, especially since having Mad, that I wish we were closer.  It's just not the same talking on the phone as being there to talk to her and then have her give me that hug that tells me every thing will be alright in the end.
Love you momma and thank you so much for always being there for me!!!