Madeline Rose: Play Date, Birthday Party AND Sleepover, oh my!

Maddy and Carson

Last weekend was packed full of fun activities, starting with Maddy's dance class on Saturday morning. It's a thirty minute stretching, ballet, animal impersonation, tumbling, free-style freeze dance type of class perfect for our almost-three-year-old! Maddy's school friend Karina is also in the class which is great, as the two girls are much more outgoing with a friend nearby (and it's nice for me to have Deepti, Karina's mom, participating with me, too). The class has been fantastic so far and is every Saturday through the middle of June.

After dance class, Maddy and I hopped in the car, picked up Steve at home, and headed over to Carson's home (one of Maddy's best school friends) for a play date. Carson and Maddy played downstairs in a big play area (on their own!!!) while Steve, Melina (Carson's mom) and I chatted. Melina made a big breakfast of pancakes, bacon, cheesy eggs, juice, coffee and mimosas, and Steve and I contributed strawberries and pineapple. Melina's husband and other son were out of town, so she and Carson enjoyed the company and Steve, Maddy and I had a great time visiting/playing.

Saturday evening our friends Christy, Andy and Luella Sweany came over, bringing Papa Murphy Pizza with them. Maddy LOVED her personal kid-sized "make-your-own-cheese-pizza" (brilliant idea!) and we all loved the chicken artichoke pizza. Our babysitter Tiana came a bit later to watch over Luella and Maddy while Steve, Christy, Andy and I headed out for our friend Emily's birthday bash. Afterward, the Sweanys stayed over at our place, and in the morning Steve made us traditional German pancakes- yum! Maddy loved having the Sweanys at our home the next morning- sleepovers are fun!!

Later Sunday Maddy and I headed to Colonel Sumers park for her school friend Kai's birthday party, which basically consisted of a mob of three year olds taking over the playground. It was lots of fun!!! : )