The Dahle Family: Madi is Five!!!

I can't believe it has already been 5 years since this beautiful little girl joined our family. Seems like that snowy January night when we drove to the hospital was just yesterday. Madilyn Pearl is such a special girl and we are so glad she is part of our family. She is such a tease and always keeps us laughing. I call her a little Lynn because she literally acts just like her dad. She has the same amount of stubbornness, likes her naps and loves to make people laugh. Hopefully she will grow up just like him and have the same love for her Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ, the same love for the gospel and the same caring/giving heart.

Look at how she has grown! Madilyn's favorite things to do are: play with Annie, help me cook, dress-up, play with her princess dolls, watch cartoons, dance, eat ice cream, pastrami sandwiches and Mac & Cheese, go to preschool, camp, play on the computer, snuggle with 'Pink', and copy everything Parker does. We love you Madi... Happy Birthday!!! The kids get to have a birthday party every other year and since this was the off year, we just called a few of her close friends to go to McDonald's for lunch on her birthday. It made it nice and easy for me and she still had something special to look forward to.

The McDonald's clan... Madi, Ewan, Annie, Jude, Myles and Sylvie.

Enjoying some ice cream! Madi, Annie, Silvie, Ewan and Jude.

Did I mention that Madi's favorite thing to eat is ice cream?

This year she asked for an Ariel cake. Probably one of the easier cakes I've made lately (which I was thankful for) and she had fun helping me stick on the fish.

The night of her birthday we had Uncle Kevin, Aunt Candace, Lillian, Isabelle and Grandma & Grandpa Dahle over for dinner (Madi's favorite chicken and rice), cake and ice cream.

Lynn rode Madi's new bike down the hall for her to see it and she didn't show much emotion, just said "huh!" However, the next morning she was looking at the bike and said "That is super-duper what I wanted!" Thank goodness!