Diaper Dolphin and Minnow

The girls both took swim lessons and both "graduated" from their programs. Maggie was a Diaper Dolphin and has advanced onto the Flipper level (whatever that means!) and Kate was a Minnow and got a ribbon saying that she can "climb out of the pool unassisted," "float assisted for 10 seconds," and "holds face in water for 5 seconds." Quite impressive, huh?!

Dancing Machine

Kate Butler has apparently been a closet dancer just waiting for the perfect opportunity to show her skills! Don't get me wrong, she dances plenty to Yo Gabba Gabba songs, the Backyardigans theme song, and a variety of music on the radio (much to Ryan's dismay...I mean a 2 1/2 year old singing and dancing to "If You Seek Amy"?!), but she has much more in her that I was unaware of, until last weekend!

We went to Midland for a family friend's wedding and Kate had the time of her life. She warmed up slowly, but when she heard "Single Ladies" by Beyonce come on, she was overcome and she didn't stop until we left at 10:00.

"YMCA"
Doing the "Macarena" with Kamryn

Down, but not out!:)

(Mags wanted to dance but since she can't even crawl, that makes it difficult. Instead she had a bottle and fell asleep on Mimi's shoulder. But I'm sure she'll learn plenty of dance moves from her big sister!)

8 months!

Our little Mags is getting so big! I am loving that she has started to "love" on us with her sweet kisses (open-mouthed and slobbery!) and hugs. It makes me feel so loved and wanted. It's like the love you get from your dog, but better!:)

There really isn't anything new to report from the last month. She still hasn't cut a tooth, so sadly she will have to continue to ask Kate to chew food for her! With all this drool I'm thinkin' it's soon (but I've been thinkin' that for some time). And no mobility yet, but I'm still saying that's a good thing. I'm not sure that Kate and Lucy and Chuck are ready for Maggie to be mobile yet! Maggie is just a happy, chunk of a baby and I could eat her up!!

Pictures of the two girls on their 8 month "birthday". Maggie is the top and Kate is the bottom.

Happy Spring!

Easter wrap-up

We had a very full, very fun Easter weekend in Haslet with Mimi, PopPop, Uncle Kyle, Aunt Melissa, and Kamryn. I'll spare you the details but will overload you with pictures. And you'll note that Maggie is in many pictures this holiday...I didn't want a Christmas repeat with only 2 pictures documenting her first!:) Enjoy!

Our first official Easter outing was "Egg"stravaganza at Veteran's Park last weekend

Super pumped for the princess egg dying kit!

Maggie missed out on this fun, but don't worry, she caught Round 2 at Mimi and PopPop's

Egg dying...take 2!

See, there's Maggie! And please ignore the fact that yes, she's in her pjs still and they are saturated with drool!


Dressed for church

Sweet baby girls!

Mimi and PopPop with 2 of their 3 Easter babies

Kamryn and Kate were ready to get to the egg hunting

She found them all!

Yea! The Easter Bunny found Kate in Haslet!


Maggie's camera from the Easter Bunny

Yes, the chocolate sucker was indeed her Easter breakfast. Sometimes it just isn't worth the fight!:)

Hope everyone had a wonderful Easter!

It's the end of March for goodness sake!

We should not have been battling a snow storm on Saturday, but we were doing just that! It started coming down sometime during the early hours of Saturday and didn't let up until the evening hours, and it was snowing hard not just a light dusting! The even crazier part is that yesterday it was almost 60 degrees and today there is very little evidence that we even had snow on the ground just a short 48 hours ago! Strange weather!!

Kate was again so excited to get out there and play so she and Ryan bundled up and headed out after naps to throw snowballs at each other and build a snowman (although it was a half-hearted attempt on Kate's daddy's part!).

Maggie and I decided that we were better off inside where it was warm and dry!

Hopefully this will be the last time I post this season about snow, but who knows?!

7 months!

Miss Maggie is 7 months old! I'm so sad when I think that in 5 short months that we'll be celebrating her 1st birthday. But on the flip side, she gets better and better each month so there's always something fun to look forward to!

Big "firsts" for this month:

• Yea, Maggie is sitting up completely unassisted and rarely falls over, unless big sister pushes her!
  


• Mags enjoyed her first trip to Florida and even more importantly and fun, Disney World!
  


• Maggie is a Diaper Dolphin at Miller Swim School. Yes, I know she won't learn to swim at this age, but Kate got to do it and why should Maggie get the short end just because she's 2nd?!



• She has graduated into a convertible car-seat, of course still backward facing. This means that she grew out of her infant seat. This also means that when she falls asleep in the car it's a total bummer because I have to physically get her out of the seat versus just getting the whole seat out. But she loves that she sits up higher and can see her big sister to her left. I can see her in my rear view mirror and she is usually looking very adoringly at Kate and whatever she is doing to entertain at the moment!

Maggie is awesome! The only issue I have with her is that every Sunday morning I get complete anxiety because for some reason she cries the entire time she's in the church nursery. Miss Heather or Miss Kara usually have to come rescue her from her room and either take her to theirs or stroll her around. But maybe that's part of her master plan?! Otherwise, Maggie is truly a dream baby, drool and all!

Maybe next month we can post about a new tooth or maybe even more exciting...crawling! But on the other hand, I would rather it just be a new tooth. I'm enjoying this stage of her staying right where I've left her!:)

Another comparison shot...Maggie is the top picture (please notice the drool hanging from her chin!) and Kate is the bottom.