"Uh-Oh Manny!"

Madie makes me laugh so hard every single day. The photo above, exhibit A: While we were in Saipan we decided to go to a buffet for lunch with Casey and MariLou. Food was great, it was a lot of Asian. After the meal we all got a little ice cream, Madie got her very own bowl of chocolate ice cream which she was ecstatic about! After she finished it, she asked for more, or "maw-ey peas". We try to control sample sizes of sweets as much as possible with her, so Mal and I immediately said "No, all done for now." Her face in the photo above was her response. For about 30+ seconds, she had this tense/quivering-lip thing going, clenched spoon, and would close her eyes for three seconds at a time in disapproval of what we just said. Oh, and completely silent while doing all this. We all just started laughing. I was even able to get out my camera to snap this shot! About 5-10 seconds into it, Grammy got up and ran over to save the day with a second bowl of ice cream. Phew! Crisis averted! When we tell her "No" or "Madie be gentle", she will often close her eyes in disapproval an do the same thing. But this incident at the restaurant was priceless!

Some of you may be wondering what the title of this blog post means? Whenever something goes wrong, like dropping a cracker onto the floor, or her sock not being perfectly onto her foot, or almost anything....she says "Uh-oh manny! Uh-oh!" without fail! Now we don't know where the manny came from. It's definitely not Madie, because she can say her own name perfectly fine. She is actually getting pretty good with her pronunciation.

One more thing about Madie that cracks me up but at the same time drives me up a wall is how we have to confirm we understood her by repeating the word back to her correctly. Often times she will point out the moon, a bus, or a horse. If we respond "Yeah, isn't that neat?" or "Yup", she will continually repeat the word with a more frustrated tone until we repeat back the word she is trying to communicate. She is a very persistent girl! I'm smiling just thinking about these Madie-isms.