Elly Grace Wade was born on August 15, 2005 at 9:05am. She weighed 7lbs. 5oz. and was 19.5 inches long. She was such a sweet baby. When Maddy saw her, she smiled for over 20 minutes. She kept saying, "I just can't stop smiling! I just can't stop smiling!"
Happy Birthday, Elly! We love you!
Check out Elly's game face!
Ta Da!
Team somersault...
and Ta Da!
Hope the Olympics inspire you, too!
Maddy is doing such a great job...hard to believe she picked it up so quickly! :)
Playing at the park...
Playdough... 
Deanna Rose Farmstead in KC with mommy & daddy! :)
They even had fresh cantaloupe! We are so going back to Red Robin!!
*I also took them to the library for story hour and crafts. No pictures, though, because I spent the entire time chasing Elly around the children's dept. When is that girl going to love the library as much as Maddy and I do? I keep taking her and she keeps thinking it is a great place for running... :(
This picture is from Valentine's Day 2007...so sweet...when they kind of enjoyed each other!
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Maddy: "I want to tell you a joke, okay mommy?"
Mommy: "Okay."
Maddy: "Look under there, mommy!" (whispers) "Say under where, mommy!"
Mommy: "Under where, Maddy?"
Maddy: (Laughing uncontrollably) "Ha! Ha! You said underwear, mommy!"
Ahhh...1st grade humor...you gotta love it! :) ************************************************ Maddy told Kevin today that his beard felt like a porcupine. She then told him rather sternly to "go shave it off, daddy!"
You will notice that the teeth in the middle were barely hanging on...the roots are gone. I don't know what was holding them in! We wiggled & wiggled... The teeth on the outside had deep roots...I think they may have fallen out in 2010! :)
That sneaky tooth fairy left Maddy a note (who knew the tooth fairy had such curly, loopy handwriting?), some special gum that actually prevents cavities (from our dentist, no less), some pet shop stickers, and some Strawberry Shortcake stick-on earrings and rings!
Maddy said she hardly slept at all last night...she kept waking up and touching the things that the tooth fairy left her. She is so sweet...she let Elly have one of the rings and try on a pair of earrings.
Adding tissue paper on top of the glue...
Peeling off stickers...
...to add to the top! :)
Fun times!
Maddy went to see Dr. Kelli Henderson at Growing Smiles this morning. She arrived with all of her baby teeth and left missing 4 teeth! Bless her heart. The little girl who has had no cavities in her life had to have 4 teeth pulled. She sucks her thumb (she is working on giving it up... a chart with 50 squares is in her room and when each one is filled...she will get a new bike and we get a cheaper orthodontist bill later!) and her grown-up teeth were coming in behind her baby teeth! In May, Dr. Kelli recommended pulling her two bottom front teeth (which were very loose but would not fall out!) and pulling the ones on either side to encourage her adult teeth to come up in the right space. Maddy was so brave (she took her brown bear for comfort). She enjoyed time playing with Elly in the waiting room while we waited her turn...
Nurse Mary came to get her and Elly & I walked her back while she got comfortable with the laughing gas. We left her during the procedure (I knew she was in good hands!) and Elly found this great octopus chair.
My friend Heather's husband, Grant, is running for County Commissioner in our district. That is him above standing with Heather, and their daughter Quillen, and Brady (who drove their truck.) Tonight was the CPA parade and we walked with them passing out water balloons, flyers, & magnets. The girls have been looking forward to this all week...especially since Heather gave us Grant t-shirts to wear...
They have been dancing around the house wearing their t-shirts singing, "We are the Eichhorn princesses! We are the Eichhorn princesses!" :) Our plan for the evening was to walk in the parade and then walk around the carnival to see some friends and get some cotton candy or a snow cone. But, Mother Nature had different plans for us today...a thunderstorm! Usually, the CPA parade is so hot you cannot breathe! Not today. The parade was scheduled to start at 7pm but because of the storm rolling in, they started it 15 minutes early. I don't know what was more crazy...us for walking in the lightning or the parade-goers for watching us from their metal lawn chairs! It was a good thing that we were at the beginning of the parade because shortly after we made it to the end it started pouring down buckets of rain! While the storm raged outside, Grant and Heather treated us to some yummy BBQ! Thanks, guys, we had so much fun!!
Maddy enjoyed sitting next to Quillen, Grant & Heather's daughter. They walked together in the parade handing out water balloons to the children. Quillen is so sweet to Maddy & Elly. :)
Elly ran into her good friend, Andrew, at the parade! She had to stop and give him a hug! We miss Andrew!
I took this before the parade...can you tell how excited they were? Vote for Grant!!
