It's HERE!

Annie's fourth tooth on the bottom has finally made its debut! We're so excited that she actually has all of her baby teeth!! Now she won't look like her teeth are offset, yipee! It poked through two days ago on February 24th.

Girl Scout cookies have arrived so we'll be delivering the cookies this week to the family members who purchased cookies. The girls enjoyed tasting the cookies we bought.

Today Madeline has a buddy over; Kara. Kara has the opposite personality of Madeline so they play well together. She's quiet and independent, versus Madeline who is loud and dependent. It's frigid again today. We got an inch of snow yesterday and it's been cold ever since. I heard that it's the 17th coldest winter on record. This does not surprise me. I know that we've received something like 7 inches more precipitation than normal too this winter.

We had a fun weekend. On Friday Ryan and I went to an awards dinner for his work. He received two awards. I froze my tush off underneath an air vent. The next morning we trekked back out to the same country club where Madeline received her fitting and instruction for the fashion show this coming Friday. She's going to carry a Bitty Baby American Girl and the two of them will wear matching moon-star pajamas. Ryan is her escort. Pictures are forbidden so I will not be able to share pictures until the photo package I ordered is made available. It should be fun. Madeline is excited. After the rehearsal we went to the botanical gardens where Madeline met her friend Sydney and celebrated her birthday with a few other girls. Sydney and I share a birthday :) It sounds like the party was fun. The girls made fairy gardens and walked through the indoor gardens. I heard the large Koi were a big hit. They would kiss their fingers. Ryan and Annie snuck in and played with the fish too. After the party we all headed to the zoo and played around there for awhile. It was a very busy day. The weather was fabulous. It was in the low 40s. (funny how your perspective on temperature changes through the seasons. If it were October I'd have been freezing at 40 degrees)

Sunday we went back to the zoo so Madeline could meet her Daisy troop for an activity. Madeline didn't like it and said it was boring. Apparently they just looked at taxidermy and talked about the animals for 1.5 hours. She was extremely disappointed at the end of the session because at no point did she have fun. So, Ryan, Madeline and Anna went to visit other parts of the zoo to make it more fulfilling.

Sunday evening Madeline rode her bike around and we enjoyed the last bit of warmish-nonfrigid weather.