MaRch MadNess...

So the reason I am feeling like there is so much madness is merely because I looked at my kids this month and realized they are growing up! And growing up "like mad." Coleson loves to sit on, tackle, and hug Addellyn. This picture of him sitting on her lap makes him look gigantic! They really have become little buddies in the past few months as he has gotten old enough to pretend like he is "her little kitty" and sit at the table with her and eat all of her pretend creations. They usually are happy together, they definitely have their moments of meltdowns over a particular toy or two though. Addellyn has been playing memory games very well, putting hard puzzles together with ease, singing anything and everything, painting beutiful pictures (if she ever gets the chance) and she is very awesome at "I spy" she usually finds the object before I can...I tend to forget she is almost three...she fell into the mix a little when Coelson came to us so quickly after she had...somtimes I don't give her enough credit and let her do "older things" because she always has to be doing things with her little brother. (Oh the joys of a middle child I guess.)

Coleson is talking and singing like crazy now. Some of his favorite words: "Byankie," "yhino," (he has the most fitting stuffed rhino) "tink ooo," "ear tums" (when a movie is starting...here it comes) "Peas Moma!" "that, YAH!" with giant head nods over the thing that he has pointed at and said peas moma for the last 5 minutes to have...I'm still a little slow on his new found language :) He loves to sing: Old MacDonald "eeeeee-i-eeee-i-yo," Row, Row Row Your Boat "meyee, meyee, eeeem," and MANY more songs that he tries to copy his sisters in singing.

When did she become a grown-up? When we chopped off her hair? When she started building amazing lego ships? When she started reading any book she picks up? When she began writing interesting made-up stories in "her journal"? I don't know, but it has GOT to STOP! I looked back at her asleep as we drove home from our trip this last week and almost started crying because she is so pretty and so much older, she's not a little kid anymore, she's a big kid that goes to school and everything...and it all went by so fast! I can't believe it!