Totally 2!

It's hard for me to even get started talking about Maddie because she is literally all over the place. We refer to her as the instigator because she typically starts all  screaming, wrestling, and dangerous games. She loves playing with her brother and he does too, but sometimes he gets annoyed. She has just discovered dressing up. She's not into dresses, but she loves bracelets, hats, crowns, shoes and bangs. What a diva!! She likes to collect her treasures in her purses or bags. In the mornings she likes to take our her paci and give it to they bunny she sleeps with and then covers the bunny up. She tells the bunny "night, night". When she is tired or relaxed she loves to twirl her hair. The cutest is when she is with her daddy and they cuddle and he twirls one side and she twirls another. Priceless!

Maddie is very musical and memorizing songs easily. She often sings different songs, i.e., twinkle  twinkle little star, ring around the rosy, ABC's, I like to Move it, Ai se eu te pego, cowboy cumbia to name a few. :) She is potty training, and she's doing pretty well. We are still using pull ups and she tells me about 50% of the time. If she's having fun she won't go potty, but she's been a good sport. She is starting MDO next week, which I'm excited and nervous about. She still LOVES her paci, but we are trying to cut back. She loves to scream! Sometimes its funny, other times annoying, but SO Maddie.

Speaking so much!! Maddie says:

Sanga sanga li - When one of the kids has a booboo, I say the old Spanish song "Sana, sana". Maddie loves to touch my freckles, then she gets this concerned look on her face and rubs my face saying "sanga sanga li" MOST PRECIOUS THING EVER!!

When reading her bedtime story, if there is an animal on he page. She likes to get possessive of her pacifier or her bunny. "No tiger, it's my bunny not yours"
"Take a bite Max, you can do it" - trying to deflect attention away from herself at lunch

"Be nice Max, I sad" - This is her pleading with Max when they aren't being nice. It goes both ways

"I big gurl" - After going potty and wanting to act "big"

"Get outta here right now" - when she is "going" potty or just wants to be alone.

I don't know

I can do it

Help me

She enjoyed watching fish at a baby shower. We practiced saying "Hola pececitos"

Such a big girl in her car seat that she has almost outgrown

She loves accessorizing!

I caught a "terrible two" tantrum on camera. Sad moment, but I couldn't resist.

Aprés tantrum, she fell asleep waiting on lunch. Tired girl!

Bad timing, bad parenting, bad kids, you tell me?

First off let me say I know that I am blessed to have two healthy and relatively happy children. However today went from great to bad in less than 60 seconds. This may have happened due to illness, teething, exhaustion, parenting, chance, bad choices, I don't know. But it did, and here is how it went down. This summer we have been taking advantage of the gym's kid's club as an activity the kids love and get to go to my two favorite classes: Zumba and Body Pump. They love going and I so do I! We did that and it went great, I was ready to tackle the world. I took the kids to subway, which I haven't been there in years, but I had a coupon so I thought why not. My first clue that they day was going bad quickly was the tantrum Maddie threw about opening her chips immediately. I decided not to give in today and Max was doing a great job. By the time I had to pay, Maddie was having an all out meltdown and said coupon was throwing the cashier for a loop. While I tried to be patient and calm Maddie down I went ahead and got the kids chocolate milk and sat them down. I go back to pay and as I'm gone the kids manage to get into a little fight, which Maddie won and left Max crying. I pay, separate the kids and get them settled with their lunch. We eat, Maddie proceeds to make a mess with her chips, fall out of her booster seat and cry because she has cheeto fingers, really?? I'm just thankful nobody spilled their milk....yet. Of course Max has to go to the bathroom, so we all go. Max is ready to go at this point, so I clean up quickly and start walking to the door. Of course, Max decides to run to the door, falls and spill his milk all while crying and screaming. And you know crying is contagious, so Maddie decides to chime in. I calm them down and I think I might be able to go into Vickie Lynn's to look at some jeans that are $20 off. Max seems ready to go. It looks like things have turned arounds. I find a cute pair of jeans, kids are playing nicely while siting in the dressing room. Then the crying starts again, I decide, I'll come back for the jeans. I get the kids loaded in the Expedition then Max realizes he left a train in the store. Really?!?! I tell him to go get it, no, then he falls again (not wearing those shoes again by the way). So I unload Maddie, take both kids in the store to retrieve the train with two screaming kids. Nice, I'm sure they love me at Vickie Lynn's. We drive home, one kid still screaming the other asleep. I'm sure one day I'll look back at this and laugh, not today though.