Drag-Racing Princess

You've never heard of such, you say? Well, welcome to our world. Within mere hours, Maddie transformed from a mild-mannered pirate princess to a drag-racing diva. But the pics really tell the story. It has been a pretty low-key couple of weeks, but the weekends were fun.

Let's back up a bit to two weekends ago. The weather was gorgeous. Everyone wanted to be outside, including us. Besides lots of walks and swinging, I took Maddie to the park to meet Stella Dot, who happened to bring her Mom, Amy.

They were pretty gracious with taking turns on the slide.

Then it was on to swings. Maddie is a swing addict, while Stella Dot knows how to ration her swing time. Since Maddie made no effort to de-swing, Stella Dot reconsidered and hung out a little longer.....several times.

And then it was lunch time. The genius Moms packed healthy lunches for the girls...um, but nothing for themselves. Did I mention that I also left all Maddie's lunch items on the counter and Frank had to deliver them to the park. Right....

Picnic time! We were the envy of the playground.

So that was two weekends ago. Fast forward to this past weekend. Cold, dreary, and raining all weekend. Maddie had cabin fever and so did we. I returned from nursery duty at church to find this.
I think we've been watching the Dora pirate movie too much. Frank had her convinced she was a pirate princess.

Later yesterday, we invited Robin, Waylon and Noah over for some toddler interaction. Poor Noah has been sick and we were all tired of the rain. It was a very long weekend. Did I say that already?

Noah and Maddie were a little low on energy and so were we. After some Mexican food takeout, we all felt better. Apparently, the kids felt so much better, they started drag racing with the doll stroller and the push car. They had a blast and we hated to break it up. But we did...