Bright shiny star

Even in my sleep-deprived grumpy bear-like state, I could help but brag about this...

That's right. She's a fucking genius.

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A spider and a bat walked into a bar...

More Halloween crafts courtesy of daycare - the bat is especially cute hanging over our kitchen table. Gotta love what you can do with egg cartons!

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Boo!

Maddie's footprint as a ghost. Damn this daycare provider is going to cost me another Rubbermaid bin just to store all the adorable crafts she keeps bringing home...

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E is for Elephant

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D is for Dog

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C is for Cat

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Cute fall crafts

This past week Maddie came home from daycare with a couple of adorable crafts...

This is a fall tree using thumbprints of different colours of paint for the leaves.

And this is Maddie's arm / handprint as the tree with bits of different coloured torn up paper as the leaves. I think it would work well too on wax/translucent paper with bits of tissue paper as the leaves.

So yes - this daycare provider is FAR more into crafts than our previous - which is great, because I'm hoping it teaches Maddie better concentration and attention-span skills. She's so all over the place now it's hard to get her to sit down and finish any craft at all. 

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A is for Apple

Maddie is learning her ABC's at this new daycare - starting with the obvious... A is for Apple...

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Mother's Day

We spent the weekend in Kingston visiting with the Grandma's for Mother's Day. I love to get home to visit family - and really, it's only 2 hours away - but it was tiring. Very, very tiring. No more lengthy car rides for me for a while...

My Mother's Day bouquet Maddie brought home from daycare on Friday.

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Happy Valentines Day from Maddie!

What doesn't say "I love you" like a heart-dude with crinkly appendages?

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Happy Not-so-Winter from Maddie!

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Happy Halloween from Maddie

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Maddie's First Fingerpaint

Maddie tried out her new birthday fingerpaints on Thankgsiving Monday. It was a creative process. To some of the pics - go here.  Otherwise, just enjoy the results:

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Happy Thanksgiving from Maddie!

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PS - yes, this post was totally back-dated. Whatevs. I am not authentic. ;-)

Do-do-do-do-do-da-Dora!

Maddie is super proud of this artwork. She frequently pulls it down off the fridge to walk around hugging it. Have I mentioned that she has learned how to pull a chair over to something and climb up on it? Fun.

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Maddie's catepillar

Maddie's catepillar she made earlier this week at daycare.  

It's now residing on Daddy's desk at work.

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Happy Easter from Maddie

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Happy St Patrick's Day from Maddie!

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Happy Valentine's Day from Maddie

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Merry Christmas from Maddie

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