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Where would the world be without 2 year olds???? I don't know how I've lived my 22 years of life without a 2 year old. Oh man how I love that girl, she keeps everything so fun and has always got me laughin. The things she says just kill me! I am really enjoying Madelynn at this age, and I might regret saying this, but I CANNOT wait until Payton is that age and they're both like real human beings that talk and carry on a conversation with you... or each other. Sure, she has her 2 year old moments... like she did last week at the Dr. office. but I think its safe to say that the good times out weigh the bad at this time in life.

I really wanna start writing down all her little quirky little sayings and doings. For instance, what 2 year old asks to take a nap?? Mine does! She comes up to me ever so often and asks me to take her to her bed and tuck her in.

She has a little cough and was woke up a little to early this morning from her coughing and she walks in our room, eyes squinted and stumbling all over the place cuz she's still half asleep and says "I choke mama, I choke" so I got her some water and she crawled in bed with us.. then around 9:30, after she got in trouble for pushing her sister, she asked me to take her to her bed... and thats where she's been since.

She'll ask to hold Stetson (and sometimes even Payton) and when she's done she says "he stink momma" with a look of disgust on her face.

She loves to wear her "mits" , hat and "big pink jacket" inside

Right now for sleeping we are up to:

Jesse doll

bear

zebra

buzz

baby

special blanket

na na blanket.

and don't even try to walk outta the room without making sure she has every single one of those things in the proper place for sleeping.

No need for words on this one...

and of course we continue to have the every day battle with the "tucky"... and she sometimes wins.

She is starting to say a few words the correct way and it breaks my heart!!!!! I don't want her to stop saying "her" words

ne nuggets... she now says chicken nuggets

crebs... she now says the incredibles.

When she was first learning to talk, and still does a little bit to this day, she added an "f" to the beginning of everything. So Liz was and always will be aunt "fiz"... even tho she now says it correctly.

She is obsessed with having her back scratched! So she'll come lay on you, pull up her shirt and say "Frug a back" If she is crying cuz she got hurt, she'll come up to me, pull her shirt up and stop crying and ask me to "frug a back." Never fails. You cannnot hold that girl without her thinking she needs her back rubbed.

She also says, since she first started talking, "I hold you mama" When she wants to be held.

When Nat wasn't around, we had no routine for bedtime cuz at the end of the day I was shot and done and had absolutely no energy to do any kinda book reading, or song singin, We'd just say our prayers and go to bed. Now that daddy is here to help with bedtime, the girls have really, really gotten even more into books and we enjoy reading to them, and letting them read too. The other night Madelynn started reading to us.

Needless to say, bedtime has become the best part of the day, not just cuz I'm gonna get a small break in life, but its just a sweet time to be together as a family.