Marvelous Maddie

My sweet little Maddie sure does keep things hopping in our home. I debated whether or not to post this story, but then I thought why not? The title of this story should be "Watch out for Wild Maddie!"

A few weeks ago I was awakened by the sound of the garage door being opened. I jumped out of bed sure that Maddie had escaped and I found Seth using the "toilet" on the front dirt. That was fabulous! Can't take him anywhere. Anyway I took care of that problem and then asked him if Maddie had come outside with him. He told me that she was upstairs sleeping. (Hint: never trust a 3 year old.) We decided to watch a show until it was time to wake Maddie to get ready for her last day of summer school. When it was time I went up to "wake" her and couldn't find her anywhere. I panicked and awakened the great sleeping bear (aka Joe). We both jumped into our cars to search for the wandering Maddie. Have I told you all before that she wanders? Just checking. He went one way and I went another way and had no luck for a while. Then after I passed him on the road I thought that I would try another place. I turned down a street not too far away from our street, and I saw a little person walking down the sidewalk in her Dora jammies holding onto some kind of toy. I pulled over and gave her a "talking to" not that it helps anything, but it makes me feel better. She was hanging on to an Elmo toy and a dalmatian puppy dog. The worst part of the whole ordeal is that they weren't our toys. I don't know whose house she "took" them from, and whose house or houses she had been in. This had all happened before 7:30 a.m. If it was your house and you are missing any toys, please let me know. Needless to say we have a few "stolen" toys at our house. I came to find out later that Joe thought that I had locked the back door and I thought he had done it. So we double and triple check the locks before going to bed now.