Madi is about 3 years, 9 months old right now.
She weighs about 34 lbs. (50th percentile) and is around 42 inches tall (95th percentile).
She is transitioning from toddler to little girl sizes, so the designations can be complex. Depending on the brand of clothing, she wears a 5T, 4, or XS.
Here she is with our Christmas tree, which we started putting up tonight. I must confess I am a little uneasy about this process, because this is the first year we've had an artificial tree. Actually, being raised by a forester, it's the first time in my whole life I've had an artificial tree. It was a cherished family tradition when I was growing up to tramp out into the woods and wrestle the thing to the ground ourselves. It was a shock to me to even pay money for one when I started a family of my own. You can see we've been on a slippery slope around here for a while. First, you start paying for one, then picking one up at the grocery store, and before you know it, your husband is perusing the fake ones.
Tim has terrible allergic reactions to real trees in the house, though, and has spent previous holiday seasons sneezing, eye watering, and generally being stuffy the whole time. I don't know which is worse, having a husband who is allergic to Christmas, or having an artificial tree, but I am about to find out.
Madi was very excited about the whole thing. She didn't seem to mind in the least that our tree was an ersatz impostor. The goats, however, are sure to be disappointed come January when we don't drag it out of the house for them to consume.
Madi is still really interested in words and reading. Here she demonstrates her new talent! She recognizes a lot of whole words, but she is also getting better at sounding things out that she doesn't know.
5 comments:
Well, that's too bad. Dang. Wait, could you think outside the xmasbox and make this less depressing next year? Why do you got to get a FIR tree? Why you ain't get like a ficus or something Tim's not allergic to and stick lights on that? You should take that dag plastic thing back to WalMart and tell them you found melamine in it and get a ficus. Or what about a little lemon tree! Lemon treeeee, very pritteeee, and the lemon flowa sweet... It could be a whole new christmas trad, yo.
Oh man! my word verification word is knocle!
now it's flysign! These are the greatest word verification words I've ever had. Odum Shahan Family blog is the best.
I'm happy to know we're blessed here at the Odum Shahan Family blog with such auspicious word verficication words.
Tim says you are welcome to drag your Florida self up here and make sure the chirens' Christmas is all ruint yourself.
These pore innocent cherubs deprived of a Yuletide lemon tree just because of a national obsession with maintaining the firtree monoculture. My god, what have we become, it's straight out of Dickens.
Aunt Su-su cain't seem to get out of Florida. Can I maybe wreck up y'all's February or March?
We are of course disappointed to hear Aunt Su-Su will not appear with a lemon tree in hand for the yule-tide season. You are welcome to come wreck up any other month you please.
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