Our new friend

This is our new friend, "'Licious" (short for "Pinkalicious"):

Madelyn is in love with this crazy thing! Abby is quite fond of it too. It's funny because everytime Madelyn picks this weird ball-like toy up she runs over to me and says "thank you!" Why? Because I won it for her in one of those crane grabber games at Red Robin. It was big excitement at the restaurant and the whole way home. Yes, this is my big prize (and hers!) I feel like such a star. We named it Pinkalicious because of it's pink hue, but also that is the title of one of our current fav. books. {Dana, you'd especially love this book!} But you know how nicknames come about so we affectionately refer to this UFO toy as 'Licious. She has taken many naps (notice the closed eyes in the photo) since she has been with us. Madelyn wants to take her everywhere including church yesterday. Kevin and I have both lost bets on how long 'Licious would be the top toy. Surely we thought she would be at the bottom of the toy box by the weekend's end but alas, she still has the reign.

So Madelyn was more than happy to pose with 'Licious. As she always does, as soon as the photo is snapped she says, "see it, see it!" Kids today are just like adults. They need to see the image as soon as it is taken. It's so funny! Even Abigail will give us this look like, okay you took the photo now let me check myself out! Sometimes with Madelyn we have not even had time to get the photo and she is running to check herself out. Funny how technology changes things. I may sound ancient here but we never had that when we were kids.....but we also did not have the same car seat safety, we slept on our tummies (the horror!) and we ate peanut butter whenever before 2 years old.

The best part about today: I had mostly uninterrupted scrapbooking time today. My friend Sharleen came over today and while the daddies entertained the kids we worked on our scrapbooks. After about 4 hours, we each only got 3 pages finished. But they are darn pretty pages!