Teaholic not quite anonymous

So Maddy, Matt and I went to our new church today. Maddy was a bit squirmy, but not horrible. She lasted until half way through announcements at the VERY end of service. She ran out of milk. That is NEVER good, so her and I went off in search of refreshments. She seemed to enjoy her lemonade.

Interesting tidbit. My exboyfriend from High School and his wife and kid sat in the very pew in front of us today. Kinda funny--you can take the people out of WI but you can't take the WI out of people. We move states and still wind up in the same place, somehow. Ah well, that was 11 years ago, after all.

People were friendly to us today. Interesting and welcoming coming from WELS. At first Maddy was very clingy when we first entered and there were a lot of people around us. But after service she was much more sociable. She'd walk up to people and point at them (which I take to mean, "Hey you, I'm talking to you!"). She looked awfully cute in her little dress, sweater, tights and shoes. Here's a picture of the dress and sweater, unfortunately, I didn't get the opportunity to get a picture of her in the shoes and tights.

She is a flirt and she likes older 'men'. There was a kid sitting behind us, maybe 14 or so. He waved to Maddy at the beginning of service and Maddy could NOT take her eyes off him. She'd play coy and give him a shy smile. It was totally cute.

After church we all came home and Maddy was DONE, DONE, DONE. She barely at lunch before we got her down for a nap. Matt and I took a nap too. After we were all up, Matt finished the trim in the bathroom while Maddy and I went for a walk. Matt met up with us at the park. She had a lot of fun going down the slides, swinging on the swing, all the normal stuff. She has no fear of heights though and is still not wise to the way of slides. She'll walk right off them if she could. So it kind of takes two of us to be here right now to let her really go down them. One at the top and one at the bottom. We were very tempted to order in tonight for dinner, however, I made vermicelli with sauce and fried eggplant instead. Maddy loved the egg plant.

Our chinese neighbor gave us a cute sundress for Maddy yesterday and I wrote out a thank you note using one of my picture stationary cards. They seemed to like it a lot.

I'm hemming on getting my hair cut now. I like the way it looks right now (today). And I can pull it back in a ponytail or clips. If I cut it I won't be able to and summer is upon us. So I think I may wait a bit longer since I can't find a hairstyle I really love anyway. Claire, the reason I think I may go with something different is because I didn't like the way this one grew out. I really have to do a lot to it to get it to do what I want. And, eh, I don't take the time to do that.

Maddy's language is really starting to develop now. She's copying a lot of our words and they are really intelligible. She has even copied three word phrases of mine. It's nice to see it developing. She still seems to be a bit behind physically. She's not as agile as other kids her age doing things like climbing, figuring out how to maneuver equipment and what not. But, she's at level, so I'm not concerned.

Well, I hope everyone has a great week! Maddy and I have a trip to the zoo this week and also getting pictures taken. I'm signing her up for baby ballet with two other girls this week. Other than that, just the normal stuff! Have a great week, everyone!