Grampa Babycakes Comes to Cleveland

Madelynne calls Matt's Dad "Grampa Babycakes". This started when grampa started calling her his Babycakes. Soon after she started calling Matt's parents Grammie and Grampa Babycakes. I love endearments!

During Ron's visit we were able to visit the Bronze Statue Exhibit at Historic Kirtland and attend a baseball game. Matt's family loves baseball and Matt is passing that love onto his children. Madelynne has been talking all winter about going to baseball when the weather gets warm. A few weeks back Matt purchased a baseball glove for Madelynne. I stumbled across this one night when getting ready to put Madelynne to bed. You never know what she will come up with next! This is what Madelynne prefers to catch in her baseball glove-marshmallows. (It is hard to tell in the picture, but the marshmallows are pastel bunnies.)


As we were trying to find our seats at the baseball game Madelynne started crying. She said,"No! I can't sit here. I have to go down there!" She thought since she had her own baseball glove she got to go down on the field and play with "her guys". I adore how her little brain works. Precious!

Madelynne loved having Grampa here and was totally spoiled by him when he bought her two Disney princess shirts from the Disney store. (Something Mommy and Daddy would have never done.)
Thanks for coming to visit Grampa Babycakes. We had a blast!

Speaking Madelynne-ese

Toddlers have the cutest way of expressing themselves and often their own language. Madelynne is quite articulate for her age, but she is also fluent in what we like to call "Madelynne-ese". Here is an introduction to the language.

Polka dots=Pochantos
Lotion=Loshe
Delicious-Good-licious
Upside down=Upsy down
Brother=Bruder
Tinkerbell=Tinkerbuns
Juice in a mermaid sippy cup=Mermaid juice
Strawberry milk=Pink milk


This picture is for Grampa Ron. Grampa Ron found this sweet, little dress while Christmas shopping with Grammie Melanie last December. As Melanie tells it she was shopping for other things and Ron kept bringing the dress to show her until she agreed they needed to buy it for Madelynne for Christmas. When Madelynne wears the dress she reminds us she is Grampa's "babycakes".

Madelynne is really excited to see her Uncle Joel at the end of the week(we all are). Joel has not seen Madelynne since right before his mission and she was only six weeks old! Madelynne has changed just a little bit in two years...