It's Raining, It's Pouring...

What to do on yet another rainy day? We start it out with a big breakfast, of course! Mommy cooked us all a great big meal to fill our tummies, and then we were ready to start our day with lots of energy!

Sort of! You see, when it is cold and wet outside (as it was today), you sort of have to fight that urge to stay indoors and under a blanket, snoring!

Anyway, Mommy and Madison colored in a coloring book for a while, and Daddy worked a bit on next month's big series "EXODUS." For a time, Madison even used her new video game system, learning with Elmo about letters in the alphabet. This is another one of those things that she just giggles and giggles about. She really enjoys the games, and knows how to plug in the system first thing in the morning too. We have to hold her back and say, whoa! We don't want to have another video game addict in the house!

We did take a drive today and even stopped to eat at the Cracker Barrel once again. We had to get more tinkle dots there, because we were running out! Madison has been very good lately on the potty. She's getting better and better, and has been earning more and more tinkle dots. I can't recommend the tinkle dot program enough!

Back to the Cracker Barrel: She loves to play with the peg game they have at each table, but she doesn't quite know the rules yet - instead she just categorizes the pegs. Today she was counting them in groups, one color at a time. One, two, three, four, five... she'd use her fingers to count along to make sure she was getting the number right. Madison is going to be a natural with math.

In fact, we'll be celebrating with π Day very soon. That's right, it's almost 3.14 again (that's March 14th), and there's only one way to celebrate: with a great big pie!

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