Giving Thanks

We had a pretty great Thanksgiving holiday.
After a delicious meal at Nana and Papa's on Thursday, The Lewis Troop headed off to Black Friday outlet shopping and a weekend away at The Falls at Mills Inn.
Maddy and mommy getting ready to head to the Cawley Famous Thanksgiving Breakfast

Ray acting goofy.

The amazing anniversary gift from Ray...


Maddy relaxing

The view from our porch at the Inn

Maddy with cupcake aftermath

Maddy's favorite thing to ask me now is... "what doin?!"

Insider view at Lewis home:

I put on Christmas music last night and pulled out the wrapping paper, bows and presents. As I wrapped each present Maddy would help by holding different paper folds as I taped.

Maddy: "Momma, what doin?"

Momma: "Wrapping Papa's gift."

Maddy: "Maddy's?"

Momma: "No, for Papa"

Maddy: "Happy Birfday to Maddy?"

Momma: "No, Merry Christmas from Maddy."

Maddy: "oh"

Maddy: "Momma, what doin?"

And repeat :)

Nana Pam-a-lama

Last night Maddy wanted to watch videos we have stored on the camcorder, but she only wanted to see "Nana" videos... SO, I thought it was fitting to include a post of Nana Pam for Maddy to see.

Little Big Girl

Almost overnight my baby Madelyn has turned into a little girl.
She talks in full sentences, understands and answers anything you ask, and pronounces her R's (I have no idea who she learned that from!) I have so much fun just being with her. Thank you for being my world sweetheart.

All the Cool Kids Trick or Treat in November

Because of last week's OCTOBER snow storm our annual Trick or Treat with Sabrina & Ethan was held last night.
All the kids looked as cute as ever! Sabrina was Izzy... she even had her own parrot, named Ethan!


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We also are in the process of installing french doors leading into the sun room. It is still a work in progress, but I am so excited at how beautiful they are I needed to share photos.

Howl it is Ween

Most of southern New Hampshire cancelled or postponed Halloween last night. This is not something I took well. I wanted, no needed to see Maddy in her Mickey costume. (I also really like the bag of candy.) We packed up and went to Uncle Matt and Lauren's. Maddy (who fell asleep on the ride over) was cranky. She begrudgingly opened the cute-as-heck Gap sweater and clothes she received as a birthday gift from Uncle Matt & Lauren and then even more begrudgingly put her costume on for trick-or-treating.

As sad as she looks she did have a fantastic Halloween! And was the cutest Mickey Mouse I have ever seen!

Someone is 3!

What an interesting weekend! Maddy -through all the chaos- had a fantastic birthday weekend.
She opened gifts from The Farley's and Grandma & Grandpa on Friday night... She loves her Dora video & clothes. She also promptly hung up the pictures of her cousins that were enclosed. Dada loves the contribution to the college fund.

Then Maddy opened her big gift from Mimi...

I would have loved having a doll house this size! It is at least 1' taller than Maddy.

Chuck-E-Cheese birthday party:

A picture Maddy took of mumma. It came out really nice!
Chuck-E-Cheese lets their special birthday guest take a turn in the ticket blaster. Maddy didn't want to go it alone, so they allowed her friends to jump in.
Maddy seems very excited.
Until the machine turns on.

Everything was all better when she saw the ticket loot she got.

After her party we went to Nana & Papa's where Maddy received a full wardrobe for her birthday. Literally. She is the best dressed kid on the block, that is for sure!

Mumma and dada gave Maddy an American Girl baby which she promptly named Jaime.

What a fun birthday weekend. Thank you everyone for making it so special for our little cherub.