How do you spell stubborn? M-a-d-i-s-o-n

So, little Maddie may be small in size but she makes up for it in will! This little peanut is as stubborn as a mule (or as stuborn as her mother used to be)! I have already written about her only drinking from a blue bottle. She refuses to drink from anything else. If you bring her a different coloured bottle, she will purse her lips together, throw the bottle on the ground and throw a mini tantrum. She has now decided that she doesn't want the soother with the brown nipple, she will only take the clear one. She only wants specific coloured socks and she will only wear certain t-shirts. She will only eat purple lollipops unless Emma has a red one. If Emma has a red one, Madison will throw her purple lollipop on the ground and demand a red one too. Sigh she is lucky she's cute.

We had a great weekend - the weather was nice. We went to the park and Emma sat in the swing and said "look at me everybody!" She climbed up the big kid stairs through the big kid tunnel and down the big kid spiral slide all by herself (with John at the bottom of the slide just in case). Madison wanted to do it too, but she couldn't get up the tunnel herself, so I had to go with her (and it is not as easy as it looks). Then she somehow turned on her way down the spiral slide and ended up going head first. John was at the bottom thank goodness, but she was a bit scared, so she stuck to the little kids slide. It's tough getting them to leave the park and getting them inside the house after playing outside. They love to be outside, especially Emma. When a loud car drives by Emma yells "lookout Mama, be careful!" Their vocabulary continues to amaze me. Madison actually says a lot more than we give her credit for, she just doesn't say it as clearly as Emma, so you have to listen for it. Emma strings multiple sentences together and sometimes I am struck by what a little lady she is. I am not nostalgic for my baby girl (they will always be my babies) as I adore this age. While they do have tantrums, they are not that bad. But we are holding our breath for the terrible twos that just might come when they turn three!