Another Rainy Day

     We've been so blessed as of late with the timing of our events.  There has been quite a bit of rain lately - in fact, there's another flash-flood warning for our area today.  But the things we've planned thus far have been rain free.  In fact, the last two days in Gatlinburg were absolutely perfect.

     Today, we didn't have anything of significance planned - so it rained and rained and rained.  Daddy went off to work while Mommy and Madison did a bit of grocery shopping.  When Daddy came home, there was quite a bit of horseplay.  In fact, Daddy and Madison did the Butterfly Game, which was another game she made up where we basically run around the house fluttering our hands like butterfly wings.  Sorry, no pictures of that!

  

   How much she has grown in a year - and how fast time flies.  Look at this picture from Burt's Pumpkin Farm last October.  She was so tiny back then...  Of course, she's still tiny, but within the span of a year she has really gotten taller.  She's learned a lot as well - every day she's speaking new words, or at least trying to.  She's even putting words together - like "blue car."  It comes out a little funny, but Mommy and Daddy know exactly what she means (it helps that there is a blue car nearby!). 

     She's also developed quite a little sense of humor.  She and Daddy fool around all the time.  Yesterday, we had the riders in the gondola cracking up - of course, everyone was laughing at Madison and not Daddy.  But Daddy is part of a comedy act that I think we'll take on the road soon.  He'll be the straight man - the one that gets bonked on the head with random objects, or swatted in the butt.  

     The rain will clear tomorrow - and just in time.  It is the day of the church's fall festival.  Madison will be there, dressed as Minnie Mouse.  It's a cute little outfit that you'll no doubt be seeing pictures of very soon.  On Friday and/or Saturday, we'll be heading out to do a little trick or treating.  A year ago, she was dressed as a tiny little ladybug - pretty clueless about what was going on.  This year, she's going to be a pirate... and there'll be plenty of booty out there!  Arrr!