Madeline Rose

Saturday, April 22, 2017

February Fun

Steve's Birthday!

February catch up time! So many fun events and happenings at the Faust House. We celebrated Steve's birthday with a yummy dinner and cake, Melissa's birthday with a dance party. Steve continued his celebration with the guys in Astoria attending a Stout and Porter Beer Festival. As a family, we went to Northwest Children's Theater production of Sleeping Beauty (with Puppets!) with the Rocks and had an excellent time. We watched the Super Bowl (well, I watched the commercials) at the Flynn's.

At Vestal I attended STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Day with Maddy and made a bridge out of straws and rubber bands. I also went to Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration at Vestal and sat with the kindergarten class to enjoy the production.

Maddy got new footie jammies with kitties on them, and a kitty face on her bum (makes me chuckle). She drew a neat photo or two and we built a swing for Jingles together. Included in this update are some Chicago, Bayfield and Knife River family updates. February was a great month

Swing for Jingles

Sleeping Beauty - Northwest Children's Theater

Cinderella -Puppets!

Super Bowl at the Flynns

Maddy and Althea = Buddies

Melissa's Birthday Dance Party

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) at Y-Care

MLK Day Celebration at Vestal

Steve's Birthday "Dark Arts" Beer Fest in Astoria with the Guys

Maddy Mommy Selfie

Maddy's New Jammies

Maddy as a Rainbow Unicorn Butterfly Kitty

Maddy and Althea entranced by Trolls

Valentine's Day Heart Girl

Benjamin turns 14!

Jared and Jemma

Jemma and Grama

Heat Wave in Minnesota!

Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Southsiders Reunite

In February a bunch of former ChildRoots Southsiders (Maddy's preschool classmates) got together at Buckman School playground for a big play date. Miraculously the weather was perfect! All the kids had a great time on the slide, on the playground equipment and running around on the field. We also celebrated Attie's birthday and her parents provided cupcakes as a treat. Thavy and Amber, former teachers, also made it to the play date which made the kiddos very happy!

Saturday, February 25, 2017

Hug from Grandmom

Thursday, February 23, 2017

Welcoming the New Year

Happy New Year!

And just like that, another year was over and we welcomed in the new one. 2017 began with a sleepover at Eric, Melissa and Althea's home and a night out at a show (Fruition). We had a great time and it was good to get out and see music with friends!

In December and January Portland had a crazy amount of snow and ice- so much that we ended up having TEN snow days overall. Sheesh. It was hard to get work done with a little peanut running around the house but we managed to get through it! And we had some fun in the snow, too.

So far we've been playing, hanging out with friends, hosting sleepovers and sending Maddy off to sleepovers, warding off colds, avoiding watching too much political news, reading the series The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, watching Trolls, laughing at Maddy's antics (or Steve's or mine) and enjoying the occasional fire in the fireplace.

Maddy's enjoying her kindergarten class, classmates and teacher (Miss DeVille), Y-Care friends and "teacher" Miss Heidi, gymnastics with Carson (from ChildRoots) every Sunday and swimming twice a week.

We keep busy with fun activities and overall, it's been a good start to the year for our family!