Hello Again

It's been a busy couple of weeks around our house! Matt finished teaching his Harding class this past week, so hopefully things will start slowing down a little bit! We've kept busy with some fun times, so here's what we've been up to....

Playing some serious dress up. Madeleine is really into role-play right now. Her favorite thing to play is school and she has to be the teacher & Harrison the student. Well, last week he decided he'd had enough of being the student and INSISTED that he have a turn being Ms. Simpson. Madeleine nicely agreed to be Ms. Putnam (the principal) and Harrison got his turn at being Ms. Simpson! Ha! He went to Madeleine's room and returned wearing one of her "dresses" which was actually a nightgown, but the only thing he could reach! :) He added high heels and a hat to complete the look. He was HILARIOUS as he "taugh" class using his high-pitched voice.
Last weekend I braved my first out-of-town trip alone to go to Little Rock. The trip down there was wonderful -- Charlotte slept the entire time and we made it without stopping. The trip home....not as good. She screamed the last 30 minutes. Needless to say, it's going to be awhile before I attemp that trip again.

While we were there, Charlotte had her first playdate with Miss Caroline. I had the BEST morning getting to visit with my college roomate Carrie and love on her sweet Caroline. We've been praying for Caroline and it's amazing to see how wonderful she's doing! She is such a cutie! And, I'm amazed by the strength and faith that Carrie has had the past 4 months. We had fun swapping birth stories and mommy stories and I'm looking forward to more playdates to come! Of course, we had to get a picture of the girls for one day when they're roomies (hopefully!). I love the look on Caroline's face....like why is there a baby on me???? Charlotte slept through the entire thing!

Sometime in the past weeks Madeleine hijacked my camera and took this picture. Not sure when that happened...

This week we all got up early one day to see Madeleine's class sing at the monthly assemble at her school. They sang a song about "caring and sharing" since Caring is their word of the month. It was cute and Madeleine just sang her little heart out!

Of course, we've done some good lovin' on baby Charlotte. She's still such a good baby! She sleeps great at night -- just wakes to eat and right back to sleep -- and has even started sleeping some 6 hour stretches at night. :) I feel so good on those nights!

We celebrated Matt's birthday with a fun family party! The kids were so excited to give him his gifts they'd picked out. Madeleine got him a new cap for when they play golf and Harrison got him a new BIG flashlight. They both sang so sweetly during the birthday song -- I loved listening to them! I think they were more excited about this birthday than Matt was. Hehehe!

We've also spent some good ol' quality family time this weekend. Last night Charlotte even got to participate in bedtime stories. :)

Which didn't help her sleep any since she didn't go to sleep for the night until almost 11pm! Yikes!

Today Matt put the kids new bikes together! Madeleine thought she was hot-stuff on her big bike and I was impressed by how fast she got the hang of it. Before we knew it she was whizzing by our house and begging us to walk around the neighborhood with her.

Harrison, on the other hand, was more interested in helping Daddy put the bikes together than actually riding his bike. :) As soon as Matt pulled out his tools to work on the bikes, Harrison ran inside to get his tools as well. I think it probably took Matt twice as long to put them together thanks to his little "helper." But, they had fun in the process, and that's what counts, right??