Planet Houston

The past two weeks have been most exciting and I must share. I want to share. But the trip to Ohio will have to wait until the next writing.

Not this weekend, but the weekend before, I got to visit Houston. Oh, the city was fine all right and we even got to see the Museum of Natural History and the Houston Temple. But the real attraction to those in the know was Maddie Mackay and her loving parents.

It was so great to see how happy and cute Nephi and Shandie are together. And they are both amazing parents to Maddie. Poochie remembered me and wagged her tail, old and slow as it is.

But to see Maddie in her own surroundings was S-W-E-E-T! So here's a flash of pictures I took with my heart because I am terrible at taking them with a camera.

She loves her bath, which Shandie does in the kitchen sink (which is really the best way!). Shandie made Maddie's hair into a mohawk while she was shampooing it and Maddie loved it. She loves the water and splashing around with her special bath toys.

Maddie went wild at the petting zoo we visited; and for some unfathomable reason, the pigs were her absolute favorite. How can that be when she was surrounded by deer, peacocks, cows, donkeys, and even ferrets?

She won't hold two people's hands while she is walking, so when Niel took her right hand, Maddie dropped my hand which had been holding her left. What's up with that?

Maddie has the cutest little coy look, glancing down with her big blue eyes and then covering her eyes with her hand. Maddie also has a most mischevious look right before she does something that she knows she's not supposed to. She looks out of the corner of her eye to see if she will get away with it. And if she thinks there's the slightest chance, she goes for it.

Maddie would much rather feed me Trix than herself and I was more than happy to allow her to feed me trix that had fallen in her little princess chair that she likes to sit in. Luckily they weren't day old Trix. You know, I hate Trix, but they taste great when fed with little hands.

But the best was the night before we were going to leave. Maddie waved good night with the cutest little princess/beauty pageant wave that you ever saw. How can a 15 month old have that much charm?

We should call her the Enchanting Princess, because enchanted I am.

She had the cutest little surprised, big-eyed, aprehensive look when I went to get her out of bed in the morning when she was expecting her mother. But she was fine as soon as I lifted her out of the crib and took her to "Da!"