Five years ago today, at this exact moment, I had been in labor for 16 hours and 11 minutes (it's 6:41 AM EST) already, and still had 15 hours and 19 minutes to go before Madison arrived. May 22, 2004, 5 years ago, was a hot and muggy Saturday, the town of Hallam, Nebraska was mostly destroyed by the widest tornado on record, Michael Moore's movie Fahrenheit 9/11 was awarded the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and our baby girl was born, on the same day her Great Grandmother Haefner was born many years before.
I cannot believe she is 5 years old already. The time has flown by so fast. She is so kind, caring and compassionate. For her birthday we are going to the Children's Museum. I told her she could ask one friend to go, so she asked our neighbor "D". While we were laying in bed together last night she turned to me and said, "What about "S" ("D"'s little brother)?" I had already talked to his mom about this and she said he wouldn't mind if "D" went without him.
Maddie hasn't really gotten the concept of asking for what she wants for her birthday until now. She asked for a Topsy Turvy, the Touch and Brush, Aqua Globes, a Snuggie (she was watching quite a bit of TV there for a while before we moved), and a big blue iPod (she hasn't seen the really big one yet). Out of all of that we did end up getting her the blue iPod. Right now she is watching Barbie of Swan Lake on her Nano.
Gabe keeps saying, "Where Gabie's presents?"
I have a little something for him later (although, I didn't pay even half of what amazon is charging for it).
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