Fashion

Madison has been enjoying her click-start computer as of late, and her skills are growing. She's calling out the letters of the alphabet as she sees them, and the Disney Princesses are helping out in her education now. One cartridge she got for Christmas features the Little Mermaid, and even Cinderella. Here she is below helping Cinderella make a dress.

This program is a bit different from the online Princess dress maker we did a few days ago. In this one you choose the colors, and even drag and sew different objects onto the dress itself: ribbons, bows, flowers, and beads in a necklace. Madison liked dragging a ribbon on the dress so much that she started dragging more ribbons. And more ribbons. Soon the dress was swarming in ribbons. This was very entertaining to Madison, although I imagine Cinderella was not telling the truth when she came back and said how thankful she was for the help!

Daddy got her to try again though, and as you can see below, this time she started pasting bows all over the place as well.

Yes, I know it isn't a dress you would wear around the square at Gainesville. Or even Atlanta. Maybe Five Points though.

Okay, so perhaps I'm being a little too judgmental. Yes, after a moment of thought, just maybe we're raising a fashion design genius. After all, what she's designed above is pretty tame when compared with what you can see going down the fashion walkway these days:

Anyway, after spending some time as a fashion designer, we got our things together and went to our friends' house, the Canadas. They had invited us over for dinner, and that's something you don't want to miss. They have a young son named Smith, who is slightly older than Madison - and the two just hit it off every time. Smith is very considerate of Madison, and the two have a ball and make all of us laugh.

Before heading over, Madison would say "Smith House" in her own special way. She was excited! It was a very nice evening together, just sitting around and talking as Madison and Smith ran back and forth with musical instruments, or played catch.

We stayed rather late, and so Madison once again got to bed a little later than normal. On top of this, she got up really early this morning, calling out "dad-da" at around 6:45. I bolted right up, thinking something might be wrong. But in fact, she was just plain awake.

Yikes! Hope that trend doesn't continue!