Maddox had a Thanksgiving dinner at preschool. As usual, she ate nothing but the cookie and the muffin. Hadlee and I came to watch and so I let Hadlee eat the rest of her food after they left the tables to go sing songs. And, as usual, Hadlee ate everything.
This weekend was Winterfest in Waukee. Santa arrived in town at 4:30 and rode around all the neighborhoods in a firetruck greeting all the kids until he arrived at the downtown triangle (no, it's not the square, it's the triangle here in Waukee) to let kids sit on his lap. I heard the fire truck siren at the corner so I grabbed Maddox and ran outside to the side yard where Santa waved at her from the cab and said "Ho Ho Ho" over the microphone. She thought it was pretty cool. It was a very cold night but we went downtown where we met Suzy and the kids. Separately neither Maddox nor Emily were willing to sit on Santa's lap. But once they were together they would do it. They're both much braver together. Emily is the only one that talked to him. Maddox refused to speak or even look at him, just like every year.
I don't remember if I ever posted this picture but it's been on my phone forever. I think it says a lot about Maddox. It was taken this summer while we were camping (Maddox loves camping) while she was playing on the playground (again, Maddox loves that). She's wearing her butterfly sandals (which she hardly took off this summer) backwards (because she NEVER could get the right one on the right foot so I just gave up and let her do what she wanted) and a butterfly landed on her foot (loves nature, outdoors, bugs, and animals... she's her mother's daughter)! So this picture is just full of things and memories that Maddox is and loves.
