*One day as Madelyn was playing with her cash register, she got a coin stuck in it. I noticed that she was shaking it, looking all over for the coin, and then she got up and left. She came back a couple minutes later wearing tiny blue glasses that belong to Mr. Potatohead. She crouched down next to the cash register to look for the coin again! It was so cute!

*Gracie: "Mom, you put your big butt right in my face!" (Jim chuckling)

*Driving through the snow-covered mountains, Gracie said, "That mountain is as tall as 88 cars!"

*Madelyn said she couldn't take a picture with her eyes because she wasn't wearing her (beloved) brown shirt!

*the way Madelyn says "smarshmallow"

*drinking hot blueberry tea last night--yum!