Blue Butterfly...

Our Maddie, who loves music, is constantly singing. More often than not her songs are "original" works! Madelynn loves to stand on her chair at the dinner table and sing "songs" at the top of her lungs. Generally after she has favored us with a particular tune several times, she invites us to sing along with her....which is a bit challenging since we rarely are able to follow the tune, or the lyrics. :-) However, this evening we recognized the tune AND the words were priceless...and completely Madelynn...so we thought we'd share:

"Everyday I'm a blue butterfly" words by Madelynn Maschger
(tune "Mary Had a Little Lamb)

Everyday I'm a blue butterfly
Blue butterfly
Blue butterfly
Everyday I'm a blue butterfly
I'm a new little blue butterfly

We love our Maddie!

Emma is continuing to astound and amaze us! She has put together that when we run out of a particular food item, we must go get more at the "ommisary". Yesterday I took her to the commissary to pick up a few items...I reached for a small arm basket, and Emma insisted that she would carry it! Ever our stubborn and independent child, she hefted the basket that was pretty much as big as she was from the front of the commissary to the first aisle...mind you it took a good 10 minutes to get less than 10 feet...though I offered on numerous occasions to help out, she flatly refused! However, once I started to put items in the basket she lost all interest! :-) Emma is ever searching for things she can do "by my big girl"! And she is quickly mastering everything we put in front of her! We love our Emma!

Miles thoroughly enjoyed himself at Scout Camp last week! He spent his time fishing, white water river rafting, and shooting. He discovered that teenage boys can have at least as much DRAMA as teenage girls, and that being "cool" is such a relative term! He heads to Utah next week for his sister Elena's wedding! CONGRATULATIONS Elena! :-) However, after that the girls and I are hoping to have him home for more than 10 days in a row! SIGH!

We are, as you can tell, doing very well! I have a great recording of Maddie giving her talk in Primary last week...I just have to figure out how to post it...so stay tuned! We love you all!