kiss it better

i am proud to say that i am posting tonight from our newly completed basement office! matt has been working so hard on all the finish work so that we could move all my stuff down here this weekend. the lighting is so much better down here and it is warmer than the upstairs now that the weather is getting cooler (something to do with being under ground).

matt even took madelyn to monkey joe's (i guess it is a cross between chuck e. cheese and pump it up) after church so that i could have a few uninterrupted hours to go through all my work files and clean them out before moving everything down during maddie's nap today. i will post pictures once we get some more of the basement cleaned up and ready - so you can get the full impact.

quite a while ago we taught madelyn to "brush it off" when she fell down. no matter what part of her body gets hurt, we will tell her to "brush it off" and she will brush her hands together and the go about her business. recently we added "kiss it all better". which after a few times started to put an end to tears. now today for the first time, she came to have an ouchie kissed better. she was exploring the new office and pinched her fingers in a drawer. she ran right over to me and put her fingers to my mouth and then ran away after she touched my lips. i was sitting on the ground so she didn't need help reaching my mouth and i didn't even have to really kiss them. she did bring her injured fingers back a few times for some more kisses, but there was no more crying. love.