Butler Family News

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Happy Birthday to Maggie!

This sweet girl is 3 today! Maggie had a fantastic birthday day. She had pancakes for breakfast and pizza for dinner - both her choice. She wanted Qdoba for lunch but since we had a late breakfast, we convinced her to postpone it until lunch after church tomorrow.:)

Some favorites in Maggie's life right now:
*Huggies - her lovie
*Clark - her BFF
*the color blue
*Mickey Mouse
*grilled cheese sandwiches
*chocolate milk

Happy birthday precious girl! You are the best 3 year old that I know! You are sweet, happy, silly, love to sing, love to play pretend, and love Kate and Ben. You say some of the funniest things and I have a great running list of those things to share with you when you get older. I love you to pieces and know that your 3rd year will be your best yet!!

Friday, August 26, 2011

Big Events for Maggie

We celebrated Maggie's 3rd birthday yesterday with a swimming party. She had 10 friends swim with her and then eat a dinner of grilled cheese and french fries - her favorite! The kids had a ball swimming and dinner was a success and of course there were cupcakes to enjoy as well! We'll be celebrating the real birthday tomorrow and she's got her list of breakfast, lunch, and dinner choices ready!:)

Maggie with her great friends, Clark and Kynlee

Ben enjoyed the party too!

Loving her grilled cheese and waffle fries

Embarrassed to have her friends sing to her!

Modeling their party favors - sunglasses

And Maggie had a school change today. She and Kate now go to Monte Cassino together. She's in the 3 year old program and her teacher, Mrs. Wahl, is great. I left Maggie happy and busy this morning. Can't wait to pick her up and hear how her day was!

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

3/4 Of the Way There

This crazy hair boy is 9 months today! Every month it's the same thing...I can't believe how fast this is going by. He'll be 1 in three short months!! But instead of being sad about it, it makes me happy because he is getting better and better each month and it is so fun to watch him.

Some highlights from Ben's last month:

*Ben finally cut a tooth. He was a major crankpot which I totally blame on him being a male. The girls never made a peep when they were cutting teeth. His molars ought to be real fun!:)

*We have a crawler. I posted about it a few weeks ago, but he's made progress since then and is all over the place. The girls are really good about keeping their toys out of his play area, but I occasionally hear "mom, Ben has a choking hazard!":)

*Ben started MDO yesterday and had a fantastic first day with his new teachers and his old friends.

*We also had a family reunion at Mimi and PopPop's and Ben got to meet many of his extended cousins and they were smitten over him!

Ben is still a sweet as can be baby. Mags was like this and when she turned 1 her real personality came through (which is not a bad personality, just a little more opinionated). Based on that, I'm going to enjoy these last 3 months before he turns 1, just in case!!

Monday, August 22, 2011

First Day for Mags and Ben

Maggie and Ben started MDO this morning at our church. Mags in is in the Middle 3s class with Miss Emma and Miss Kim and Ben is in the Crib class with Miss Jan and Miss Brenda. I left both kiddos happy and playing with their friends and picked them up from school very sleepy. Maggie said she had a fun day playing with Kynlee and Clark and Ben's report sheet said that he was "friendly, happy, and busy." I think they are both going to have a great year!

Ben with his crib class friends, Mary Cate, Brooks,
and Brady

Maggie with her friends, Clark and Kynlee

And on a total side note, Kate was beyond thrilled today to get to check a book out of her school library and has told me no less than 10 times "it's due back on Monday."

Monday, August 15, 2011

Kindergarten...So Soon?!

So in the blink of an eye Kate is 5 and started kindergarten today! She was super excited to go and did great at drop off - happily went into her room to put her backpack into her cubby with Mrs. McKenzie. I also did great - no tears! I think I would have been more emotional but since this is her second year at MC, I wasn't as worried about if she'd make friends, would know where to go, etc. The only major difference is that she goes 5 days/week from 8-2:45. We'll have a tired and probably crabby girl come Friday!:) But if the first day is any indication of her year, I know it will be a great kindergarten year!!

Kate loves her new backpack

Posing with our cousins, Coleman and Preston

Kate with Mrs. McKenzie

Friday, August 12, 2011

It's a Whole New Ballgame!

Ben is crawling. While not overly fast yet, he's still making it from point A to point B. And those points typically involve something of his sisters'. Yikes!! Not only are the vast majority of the girls' toys "choking hazards" but they don't really like him getting their stuff. This ought to be interesting!:)

(Please ignore the TV in the background! The girls were resting on my bed.)

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Family Reunion

We had a small family reunion over the weekend at Mimi and PopPop's house with the McIlhenny crew. There were about 30 of us, including kids big and small. We had a blast swimming, playing, and eating BBQ. And Kate, Maggie, and Ben had fun re-meeting family or in Ben's case, meeting everyone for the first time.