over 4 months ago, after heather and mike‘s precious madeline passed away, a video was posted of sweet maddie.  this video is my absolute favorite of all the videos heather and mike have been so generous enough to share with me… with the world.

since the moment i saw that video of maddie, paul and i have been working on jackson saying what we now refer to as “the maddie WOW.”

and finally we got it…

only now we can’t get him to stop saying it.  but it’s ok, because with the magoo’s daily repetition of “WOW,” i think of maddie and the all-encompassing beauty that it is to truly be childlike.

ps- i apologize for my poor video editing skills… and the duplication.  (i guess it just goes to show you how often jackson now says this word.  ha!)

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