Maddy and I had quite an enjoyable day today. First thing this morning she got all gussied up in her dress (as she spins she calls it a tutu) and we went to Portrait Innovations to get her pictures done. She wanted to go after the house had its pictures done. She's such a girlie-girl. Anyway, our appointment was for 9:30 but we were there by 9:10 and they were able to get us right in! As always, they do not disappoint. They took over 50 pictures and I was able to narrow it down to two. I bought the great package deal (follow the link above) for one of the shots and then a 5x7 sheet of the other (of which*I*scanned*cough*and*printed*cough*my*cough*own*copies*of). So I'm excited for those to be arriving in the next week. I also printed some of her Easter pictures as well which I had been meaning to do but never got around to! Maddy did great with the pictures. She was wonderful! I knew she would be since she asked for them after all. While I picked out pictures she played legos. It was quite an enjoyable experience without much if any stress. On our way out the door they told me that my pictures were already coming out of the printer so they'd be done in about 5 minutes. We went over to Whole Foods and bought a mini Hagan Daz for Maddy since I told her originally we'd go to Maggie moos for a snack but it doesn't open until 11. We walked back after our treat and picked up the pictures! They turned out cute.
After we got home, I quickly scanned 'em and we went back outside to play for a while. Then we had our first picnic lunch outside. Maddy really seemed to enjoy that! I had a blast, too. The morning must have worn her out because at 12:55, right after Franklin, she walked to the upstairs gate and called me to take her to nap! WOW! I loved that!
After she woke up we went back outside almost immediately. We played outside for QUITE a while and we took a good long walk. I was inundated with neighborhood kids selling 'newspapers' for .25. They'd cut out pictures of magazines and glue it onto paper and then write a story to go with it. It was cute and Maddy LOVED buying it from them. Then she'd take it to her piano and stand it up right and play it as if it was music. I told each one not to come knocking after 6:30 since Maddy would need her bath and bed.
We ordered Vocelli's pizza tonight. Maddy saw me taking out the cash to pay for it before the driver got here and she kept saying, "Maddy do it! Maddy pay?!" Ok, kiddo, you can pay for it. She wanted to play with the coins (I didn't have enough $1s for tip) and I let her but only if she promised me she WOULDN'T lose it!!! She didn't! In fact, when the doorbell rang she grabbed the money and was ready to throw it at the dude! He thought it was pretty cute since he was giggling. As she handed him the money, she said, "Thank you! See you soon!" hahahaha... I laugh since we very seldomly buy pizza from Vocelli's we like our other places better. Tonight we did have a great chicken, artichoke, spinach and onion pizza. Maddy loved the red onions! She'd pick them off and eat them plain and they were virtually raw, too. She also loves onion rings. Anyway, after pizza I did splurge and we bought a La Dolce cinnamon sugar pizza. I can tell you that I've never had such heavenly sugary, molten goodness in a very long time. Maddy didn't like it and I thought she was nuts. Fine kiddo, go ahead and eat your raw onions, that means more dessert for me!
She's been so cute lately with her little sayings. If I ask her if she can help me she says, "Of course, mommy." Or if I ask her if she wants to go and play something she'll say, "Sure!" I don't know why, but that little sure coming out of her mouth was really cute. We took our long walk today and ask people would pass us on the sidewalk or the like I'd tell Maddy we need to move over. We have great neighbors here and it's not that anyone would run us off the sidewalk, but we are slower than them so we step aside to let them pass in either direction. Well, after the first time she had it down. She'd see someone walking a full block away and she's say, "Mommy pass, pass! Move over! Move over!" Ha! They weren't even close yet! I told her tonight at 6:52 that she needed to get out of the bath since Joe needed to bed fed at 7 so we had to be out in 3 minutes to get dressed. She said, "Joe shot? Ok, mommy, quick! quick! Quick like a bunny!" Again, she hears that from me often enough. And of course there is the, "Faster, faster!" when I come to a red light or if I'm behind someone who doesn't like to drive like I do. I also love the "DUDE!!!" when she hears a car beep. Thank goodness I don't use any other words (anymore) in the car! It's funny to hear her little annoyed, upset "DUDE!" when a car beeps. Too funny.
Ok, that's it for tonight. I'm falling asleep so off to bed I go! Have a good night everyone! Click here if you want to see some new pictures for today. Oh! Yes, I did put up a new gallery since Maddy is officially 2.5 today!!!