Our niece Maddie turned 5 back in May, but I’m just now able to get around to blogging some recent shots of her. She LOVES when I take her out for pictures. This little girl has come a LONG way from the toddler who I can still here crying, “No more pitchers aunt Tawa… nooo moww!!” We used to have to bribe her with candy and 4-wheeler rides.. now she asks me for new pictures. I can’t get over how she will just strike a pose now, without any direction from me. Even with her Uncle Billy standing behind me and making funny faces and noises, it didn’t even phase her. When we were done she was even making a list of the “props” she wanted to use next time. ;)

She wanted to pretend she was asleep.. and she specifically wanted to be hugging the penguin. ;)