Random...

For about 5 or 6 weeks this summer I am babysitting a 9 year old girl from our church. I started on Monday so this is our first week. It has been really good for Mady. Every morning she gets excited when "Lee-na" comes. "Lee-na" (as Mady calls her) brought some little puppies the first day she came and of course Mady loves puppies so they became instant friends! Every where we go they hold hands and Mady loves to sit wherever "Lee-na" sits. Whatever "Lee-na" does, Mady thinks she has to do too! But, overall I think it's been good for Mady to have someone around to play with even if there is such a big age gap! So far this week we've been to the indoor playground at First Christian Church and we've been to Hessel Park to play in the sprinkler things. Today we'll either go to the library or maybe the indoor playground again. I really love the setup at First Christian. It's big and it's not 90+ degrees! We'll see...

A couple of funny things that I wanted to blog about from yesterday:

Ever since I can remember, when Mady would toot, we would giggle about it and make some comment about "whoa what was that?" So now when she toots she giggles about it. Yesterday she was tooting right and left. I asked her, not expecting any response, "What was that" -- to which she replied "bubbles." Later in the evening, Daddy tooted (no, he doesn't know I'm blogging about this!) and I asked Mady "What was that?" I thought earlier just might have been a random fluke. She replied to my question with "bubbles!" Apparently toots are now called bubbles in our house -- which is interesting because she's obsessed with "real" bubbles!!!!

"Lee-na" and I were playing the game Sorry yesterday. We couldn't figure out whose turn it was so I started to backtrack through the cards saying "You, Me, You, Me, You." I ended saying "you" because it was now my turn. Mady pops up from across the room with a very loud and confident "ME!" It was too cute!