Keeping Busy

Last night we took Baxter to his first puppy class at PetSmart.  He learned to sit, leave it, and watch me.  

This morning Jocelyn made a monster at Micheals Kid's Craft Club.

Madison spent the morning at the VSU Red Hot's Dance Camp.

The VSU Dance Team taught the kids several dance routines.  Madison had the option to perform with them tonight at the VSU football game during half-time, but she thought it would be too scary with all those people watching.  Maybe she will perform with them next time.  

Here is a video of Madison's favorite dance routine.  

Dinosaur Diorama

Madison made a dinosaur diorama to illustrate this week's Monday with Madison lesson about herds and packs.  

T-Rex

Madison just finished reading Dinosaur Cove Attack of the Tyrannosaurus.

This Monday with Madison will be about T-Rex!

T-Rex was really...

SCARY!

So WATCH OUT!

Madison hopes you enjoy learning about T-Rex!

Triceratops

This week's episode of Mondays with Madison is about Triceratops!

Madison just finished reading Dinosaur Cove Charge of the Triceratops.  This is her new favorite series of books.  

She hopes you enjoy learning facts about the Triceratops.  

She wanted to include some pictures of Triceratops that we have seen at Dinosaur World and...

the Richmond Children's Museum.

Now enjoy the show!

Mondays with Madison

Madison is excited about her first episode of Mondays with Madison.


Today Madison will teach you about dinosaurs, fossils and the time periods in which dinosaurs lived.  

Noun Soup and Jingle

Madison wanted to share her Noun Soup and Noun Jingle with everyone today.

Noun Jingle

This little noun

Floating around

Names a person, place, or thing.

With a knick knack, paddy wack,

These are English rules.

Isn't language fun and cool?

Christmas Carols

Madison has been singing Christmas Carols like crazy this year. Last night she asked me if I could make some videos of her singing for everyone. Here are some of her Christmas Carols for everyone to enjoy this holiday season.

Rudolph the "Girl" Reindeer!

Deck the Halls!

Jingle Bells!

We Wish You a Merry Christmas!

Madison's Medium Haircut

Madison has been asking to get her hair "trimmed" for awhile now. We went to the PX and she saw the Beauty Shop and asked if we could go get her hair trimmed. We went in to see if they had time to give her a trim and they did. The hair dresser cut off one inch and then told us that if we cut off all of her baby hair it would make her hair look thicker and she wouldn't get as many knots because the baby hair is the really fine hair that gets tangled easily. I asked the hair dresser to show me how much she would need to cut off. She recommended cutting off at least 6 inches. I wasn't sure that Madison would go for it, since she only wanted a "trim." We showed her how much we needed to cut off and explained why and she decided that she wasn't a baby anymore so she didn't need her baby hair. :) Here is a video of Madison explaining and showing off her new "medium" haircut.

Pledge of Allegiance

Here is a video of Madison saying The Pledge of Allegiance.

Tutu Tuesday!

Jude came over this morning because Nyx had a dentist appointment. The girls were playing dress up when he arrived, so he decided to join in the fun. It didn't take Jude very long to find something he wanted to wear.

Too cute in his Tutu!

Madison and Jude decided to do the Bella Cinderella Dance DVD together.

They were so cute dancing together.

Here is a little glimpse of Madison and Jude in action.

Tent and Tissue Paper Tt's

The girls were so excited to see what was inside of the "Alphabet Mystery Bag" this week for T Week. It was a...

T is for Tent!

Madison decided to go get Jocelyn's big red blanket and make a campfire out of it. She put it close to the stairs so that she could pretend that the steps were logs to sit on. Then she asked me to get her some marshmallows and toothpicks. Time to toast some marshmallows. YUMMY!

Today we decided to make Tissue Paper Tt's.

The first thing you do is cover a transparency with a glue and water mixture.

Then place tissue paper squares all over it.

Madison was very proud of her finished Tissue Paper Tt's.

Time to let them dry.

Our finished Tissue Paper Tt's!


Madison wanted to make everyone a video to explain how to make Tissue Paper Tt's. Maybe someday we will see her with her own show on HGTV.

Wii are having FUN!

Lance and Nyx are letting us use their Wii for awhile to see if the girls are old enough to enjoy it before we invest in one.

Here is a video of Madison Wii Boxing in her own unique way. I'm not sure why she has to run in place while she is boxing. :)

Here is a video of Madison and Jocelyn pitching in Wii Baseball. They strike the batters out just like Uncle Kyle.

H is for Hop!

I surprised the girls by putting blue tape on the floor in the shape of a capital H and lowercase h this morning. We HOPPED along the Hh's.

Afternoon at the Pool

This afternoon the girls and I met Nyx and Jude at the base pool.

Jude spent most of the afternoon climbing in and out of the pool.

Jocelyn got tired of swimming and decided sit in a chair and watch.

Here is a video of Madison showing you what she can do in the water.

Family of Four!

I am in the process of going through old pictures and videos.

The first weekend after we brought Jocelyn home, we took the girls to the Navarre Zoo.

It was our first outing as a family of FOUR!

Sisters!



Here is a video of Madison feeding the giraffe that day.
(Sorry there isn't any sound. My old camera didn't record sound.)