A big week for Maddie P.

Maddie has had a good and eventful week this week.  We are happy to announce that she is 100% potty trained, sleeping in her big girl underwear and everything--she hasn't had an accident in about 2 weeks and we're so relieved that the whole process seems to be over, and that we're now only buying diapers for one of our girls.  And while it was a long road to get there, once she started using the potty it really only took us a few weeks.  Maddie is pretty good-natured and easy going in most everything she does, potty training included...we're so lucky she's such a good girl!  Of course today she had a little cold and was just...not fun to be around.  Like, she wouldn't just lay on the couch and watch Dora...she had to try and run around and play, and then would start crying when the slightest thing happened.  She threw up twice (awesome), and took the shortest nap ever.  We went to Whole Foods tonight to buy her chicken noodle soup and Gatorade, and when we tried to give her both she looked at us like we had cut up her favorite stuffed animals into tiny pieces and served them to her for dinner.  You know what, I'll just go ahead and say it...the Poppishes have seen better Saturdays.  Yes we have.  Hopefully Maddie will feel better tomorrow in time to go to her Yoga class, one of her favorite things.   This week at her little toddler "dance" class they played what is apparently Maddie's new favorite game..."Gween wight gween wight".  I guess the whole "red light" side of things was lost on her little ears. 

The weather has started to cool off in Denver at night, enough so that we realized it was time to hit the mall and get Maddie some new winter clothes.  This of course meant it was time for some new jammies as well...and I confess that I love when Maddie gets new jammies.  Both Luke and I have a tendency to overindulge in this area of her wardrobe because she just looks so cute in them!  So here are her new zebra jammies from Gap, my personal favorites.  She also got some new jeans and cords, lots of socks, some boots, and some supercute long sleeved sweaters and shirts.  Lucy got a new coat, the one thing she didn't have from Maddie, because for Maddie's first winter we were in South Carolina and she didn't even need a coat!

I have a hilarious video of Maddie "reading" and a whole blog to go with it, but I can't get the dumb thing to upload!  She continues to love her "bookies" and spends lots of time entertaining herself looking at them.  It has been exciting to see all of the reading to her we've done since she was born start to culminate into what seems to be a love of books...I really hope the girls love to read like I do, because it will give their uncle Scott something to make fun of, which will give me great material to teach them the lesson about how "people make fun of things they don't understand."

One of the funniest moments of our week.  Maddie and I were headed downstairs and I think I put one of Lucy's bottles or something in my pocket, and I said something like, "Hang on Maddie, let me put this in my pocket" before we went downstairs.  When we got downstairs I went into the kitchen to make breakfast and I assumed Maddie was playing in the dining room.  I walked in to find her with 5 toy cars shoved down her pants, and her trying to get another one under her waistband.  She looked so consternated, and when I asked her what she was doing she said, "I put da caws in da pockets."  If you look closely in this pic you can see a car bunched in her waistband and a few hanging down around her ankles.

This week Maddie drew her first object that actually looked like what she said it was!  Here is Maddie's very first balloon.  We've come a long way from everything she draws being "sneks". She went through a (long) stage where everything she drew, and everything she asked you to draw, was a snake of one color or another, a "mommy snek and a baby snek," etc.  When Maddie used to sing "Old MacDonald Had a Farm," her version consisted soley of poor Old MacDonald and his large snake farm, hiss-hissing everywhere he turned.   She once really scared someone who was walking down our street when she came out the door and said "Wook!  A snek!", when she saw her latest sidewalk chalk snake portrait on our walkway one morning.  Anyways, I digress.  It was so funny to hear her say "Wook Mommy!  I dwaw da bawoon!" and actually see a real balloon when I looked over!