NO!

I think that this has to be Madelyn's favorite word right now...and I'm sure it was learned from her older sister Alyse. Whenever I ask her to do something, like help clean up or take her diaper to the trash that she just took off for no apparent reason, she yells, not says nicely, but yells, NO! I think this easily comes from Alyse who is also frequently heard saying no, although in a much calmer, I don't really care what you want me to do, tone of voice. For instance, two nights ago it was her turn for family prayer. So, we say, Alyse could you please say the family prayer tonight...without any hesitation or change in her voice or what she's doing she says no and leaves it at that. What?!! Since when did my children have a say in what they do or don't do...crazy kids!

I have a few things to catch up, so my kids know what went on in their lives. Madelyn has been in a bed for a while now, but every once in a while, she won't stay in it, so she has to sleep in her crib for punishment. One such night, after she had fallen asleep I went to go check on her and turn off her night light. This is the sight I found....pj's off, as well as her diaper!!!
It is a good thing I check on the girls before I go to bed at night!!

I am going to sum up what's been happening in our every day lives with pictures...The girls love the wii...alyse not so much, but the other girls love it...Annie is really liking guitar hero, doing either the guitar or the microphone....madelyn loves to do anything we let her, which is mostly holding a remote that is not actually connected to the game :)


The girls love to dance and be silly together...I would say that almost everyday we have some sort of dance party in our house, sometimes with dress ups and other times with just being plain ol' silly. Annie, however, is quite the dancer with her quick feet...you can view the video below...





Some other random shots are of Madelyn eating pepperoni for breakfast...some mornings are just like that...Alyse also ask for hot dogs on occasion and sometimes I really am just not in for a fight that early in the day, so she eats hot dogs or like this day...Madelyn happily eating her pepperoni!

The love to help me clean most of the time and the girls favorite job is the toilets....one they love the clorox wipes used to clean the outside and seat, etc and they REALLY like using the scrub brush to get all the blue cleaning stuff off on the inside of the toilet...If I could just get them to like mopping floors I'd be set!

All in all they are just girlie, silly girls at heart...one of them in the shower, one of Alyse getting her nails done (my girliest!) and two of them in their authentic German dressed from Opi and Omi (Kurt's grandparents)...they are just too cute. I am so grateful to have these three precious girls in my life, through the good and the bad, but mostly good!!!