Pryorisms

Today is a very, very special day in the Pryor house - Maddie Jane is TWO! I cannot even begin to explain how incredibly fast these two years have flown by. I swear I was just at the UCLA hospital yesterday welcoming this sweet ball of energy into the world. She has thankfully been our easy going child and has adapted to all the crazy changes we have thrown at her. She has changed homes (and states!), changed schools, been on over 30 plane rides, slept in a bajillion different homes, beds, and hotel rooms. We are so so proud of her and her resilient self!

Birthday Questions
(This year I answered them for her, but next year I will let her do it on her own :))
My favorite TV show: Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
My favorite color: Pink
My favorite toy: Her stuffed animal, Ping
When I grow up I want to be: the boss, ha!
My favorite book: Love You Forever
My favorite movie: The Grinch
My favorite food: ice cream
My favorite animal: Elephants!!
My best friend: Maggie

She is very strong willed and definitely will let you know when her mind is made up. We are working around that by making her think the things we need to do are totally HER idea! She loves having Molly to boss around, and tries to keep up with the big kids in her life too. She is starting to form some pretty strong opinions about her clothes and hair.. if it was up to her she would wear her Minnie Mouse dress, her red polka dot shoes, and her ginormous white bow every single day. (And NO jacket Mom! Are you crazy!?) She plays HARD and never slows down, and I guess that's why sleeps 7pm to 7am solid, pretty much every night.

Maddie Jane's Stats

Height: 33.7 inches (50th percentile)

Weight: 24.7 pounds (46th percentile)

Head: 19 inches (78th percentile)

Sorry for giving you that melon baby girl!

Diapers: Size 5

Shoes: Size 6

Clothes: 18-24 months and some 2t

The first year of her life, Maddie Jane was not a "hold me" baby and now she gives alllll the snuggles. Her favorite place is cuddled up beside me in the mornings with her milk. She loves giving hugs and kisses (even to complete strangers, ha!) When we are at the grocery store or a restaurant she is going to say hey to every single person we walk by. We always tell her she should be a greeter at Wal Mart, ha! She loves her baby doll from Gigi and will pat her on the back saying "Shh, shh baby.." She could "rock, rock" for hours if you just keep reading her books. She loves being outside and exploring. She will sprint out the door if you turn your head -- straight to her tiny tikes car saying BBYYYEEE and blowing kisses.

Maddie Jane is the life of the party. She is a dancing, twirling, singing fool. She is finally starting to string words together and every single little sentence makes my heart beam with pride. "Tank you Mama" "Dada, you all done? more?" "Maaeeee NO NO, go ou-side!" Her favorite food is by far ice cream, would eat every single day if we let her. (And sometimes we do, oops!) She knows where everything is in our pantry (and other peoples' too!) and will happily help herself. She loves a good condiment like her Mama and will request to "dip dip!" I'd say she is a Mama's girl but definitely notices if AJ has been on a trip, or missed a couple mornings getting ready because he's at work and then she will CRAVE her Dada time.

Oh Maddie Jane we love you SO MUCH. We are so incredibly proud to be your parents. We love your free spirit and how things run in your own little world. With every little tiny word that comes out of your mouth I fall more in love with you sweet child. Keep being you baby girl, the world needs a little more spunk :)

And here is a big ole photo drop of some of my favorite pictures from the last year with our sweet girl! Man oh man the ones I chose capture her personality to a tee!

And it all started right here... On Monday, November 30, 2015 at 6:36am PST in Los Angeles, CA. She weighed 5 lbs, 11 oz and was 18 inches long. You can read all about her birth story HERE.

Restoring Grace

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A month or two ago I offered up our house as a new venue for Thanksgiving. Little did I know it would be an insanely chaotic time in our life, but we made it happen and it was so perfect! I loved filling my home with so many people I love and making some pretty incredible memories with those sweet folks. This is going to be a pretty jam packed post of mostly pictures (thanks to our family shared album) and not much words. But I'm sure you don't mind :)

Mom brought me up some eucalyptus, I scored bags of pumpkins for $1 at Wal Mart and threw some craft paper on the table and called it a day :)

Maddie Jane is pretty enamored with all of her big cousins, but she has a special little bond with Peyton and it's THE sweetest thing.

Thankfully the weather was perfect and the sun was out for our feast outdoors!

Shout out to Amanda for ensuring the kids would actually eat something!

Aren't my grandparents the cutest? Traveling three hours and staying over night wasn't the easiest for them, but I am so incredibly thankful they did :)

I don't think Molly was fed actual dog food for three days straight. She seriously lucked out!

Gigi and CC! I'm so lucky to call them mine :)

The Jones clan from Arizona joined us too!! They rented a house on Lake Allatoona just a couple miles down the road.

Oh this sweet man of mine. We did a ton of yard work, and house cleaning, and a To Do list a mile long to pull together this weekend. I was/still am struggling with awful headaches, so he is the ONLY reason this was all possible.

That was the BEST nap.

These are the corn hole boards from our wedding that Mr. Arlis and my Grandpa made (that I have painted over a couple times..) MANY tournaments were played on them this weekend and it was so nice having a little piece of P & B's Pops there.

As the sun went down, we bundled up in blankets and roasted s'mores on the fire pit.

Maddie Jane found Barrett's mask and she thought it was HILARIOUS.

Friday night we did a shrimp/crab leg boil as our family members started to dwindle.

These were Maddie Jane's first crab legs and to say she was a fan is an understatement.

Saturday morning.. Game Day! AJ was pretty quiet because I think he knew what was coming :)

Rob and Becky joined the party for our at-home tailgate. We had tried to get tickets but now I'm glad we didn't spend all that money for 10+ people to go. It was .. a blowout :) Glory, glory y'all.

Big R and Little R baked us some cookies!

And this girl was jumping sides all day between saying Go Dawgs and Bzzzz. I know she will pick the right team in the end :)

Our Arizona family are Tech fans.. but we claim them anyway.

And Saturday night we brought out allllll the leftovers from the past 3 days and cleaned out the fridge! We spent more time outside and watched the rest of the days rivalry games.

We were SO thankful our family came up and let us host our first ever holiday! After 6 years of apartment (and west coast) living, it is so nice to finally use some of those cute serving dishes I got at my wedding all those years ago, ha!