Madelyn's Birthday! 9/11/11

Today at this exact moment that I am typing this... 10:37pm... Madelyn was born. She turned 3 today. This minute 3 years ago, changed my life forever. I don't know what I would do, or who I would be without Madelyn. She learns so many things so quickly and some things I don't know where she learns them. She loves going to Junior Church and church in general. She loves her little sisters and loves being a big sister. She has a heart for other kids. She loves to sing, play "VBS" and LOVES to laugh! Then there are those times where she acts like a teenager. After the "discussion" is over, most of the time I can laugh about it.

Like today at church, I asked her what she wanted for lunch. Chicken or pancakes? She told me pancakes... Then 10 minutes later, Derek tells me to ask Madelyn what we are doing after church. She says "going to a restaurant for my birthday - Applebee's". ???? Not like we go to Applebee's on a regular basis. Just little things like this that surprise me. Another one - This morning, Derek was singing "happy birthday" to her. She told him to stop; she was getting embarrassed. Then she started singing "happy birthday to Abe, happy birthday to Abe..." We have friends whose son's (Abe) birthday is also today. He is one year younger than her. Yesterday I told her it was Abe's birthday today too and she remembered!

Today we visited Deland Wesleyan Church. The people there are so friendly. The congregation is small so we stuck out like a small thumb! Especially with 3 little girls! Madelyn went to Junior Church and had a lot of fun! Then afterwards we ended up going to Chili's. We were told the nearest Applebee's was in the next town over and we needed to go to Wal-Mart, which the next twon didn't have... Confusing I know. So we went to lunch, then Wal-Mart and back to the house for naps.

Once everyone was up from naps, we played a bit then had supper. Again, Madelyn said she wanted pancakes. So I though it would be cute to put a candle in her pancake. I wasn't going to bake a cake because she doesn't like cake. So I thought this would work just as well! They played some more, the girls watched some "Curious George" and got baths. Nothing really special for Madelyn's birthday, but it was a good day! Here are some pictures.