The Haggard Herald

Matt's posted a few good posts about Madeleine in the last month or two.  If you don't know what his blog is, it's  biggywiggy.blogspot.com .  Also, he has a technical blog he occasionally puts things on.  Recently he wrote a satirical post also involving Madeleine.  That one is iffycan.blogspot.com. For those that didn't know--we went to Florida for a week at the beginning of December.  Despite being sick and getting colds again while we were there we had a great time.  Madeleine could say all of her cousins' names this trip and was in heaven following them around.  They are great at playing together and get along really well so it was fun to see Maddie included in the play.  One night the kids were together and wanted to put on a circus show so they all went upstairs to practice.  James got half way up and then turned around and said, "Come on Maddie!  Come with us!"  Melt my heart. We got to play at the beach several tim...

Story 1: Maddie and I collected all of her stuffed animals the other day.  She put them on her three little chairs but they wouldn't all fit so I showed her that they could sit on the couch together.  She climbed up and sat in the middle of them and just stayed there for a long time. Story 2: This morning she wanted to touch the Christmas village that my Grandma gave Matt and me.  I got the fence down from the village and an extra tree, a figurine holding a pumpkin, and a little dog.  She played with it for quite a while and kept wanting me to make the dog pretend to drink water.  It's fun to watch her pretend play and make her little one-inch-high dog run and jump and sit with her other toys. Last story for this post: A couple of weeks ago Matt asked Madeleine about dreams.  He explained that you can think about whatever you want when you go to sleep and he was suggesting fun activities that make Madeleine happy.  One morning when he went to get h...