12 Months!

Maggie is 12 months old!  She has had a busy month and is at such a fun age! Here's what she has been up to:

• She can take 5-6 steps
• She knows how to go up and down the stairs
• She DOES NOT sit still.  Ever.
• She started whole milk now instead of formula and does a good job with it
• She still likes her bottle at night with dinner, but the rest of the time she'll take a sippy cup, but most of all she loves straws

• She LOVES bread.  Today her special note at the bottom of her daycare slip said "put hotdish on bread to get her to eat it".  Yep, that sounds right. 
• She also loves tortillas so we have been making her quesadillas stuffed with chicken, veggies and cheese - she won't eat chicken or veggies plain
• She loves fruit
• She gives nice sloppy open mouth kisses
• She blows kisses with prompting
• She waves to people she knows
• She knows to wave "hi" and "bye"
• She still mostly babbles but with prompting she'll say uh-oh and mama and dada
• She is in size 9 and 12 month clothes
• She has her top two and bottom to two and is working on to more teeth on top
• She goes to bed between 7:00 and 8:00 pm.  She needs her sleep and rarely cries when we put her in her crib
• She wakes up between 7:30 and 9:00 am on weekends.  When I wake her up at about 6:45 am on weekdays she sometimes cries because she wants to stay sleeping.
• She had her one year appointment this past Thursday and is still in the 90% for head (47.5cm), weight (23 lb 1.5oz) and height (29.75 in.)
• She had to get three shots: MMR, PCV13 (prevents against 13 types of pneumococcal bacteria, some of which cause pnuemonia and meningitis) and Varivax (chicken pox)
• She got one shot in each arm and one in the leg - and they all bruised!
• She also got one finger poke to check her hemoglobin which was normal (11.7 gm/dl)
• Did you know that 3 shots + 1 finger poke = Milkshake with mama?

Happy birthday sweet Maggie! We love you so so much!

Maggie's Birthday Party!

Even though Maggie's birthday isn't until Wednesday, we celebrated this weekend.  The party was picnic themed, starting with the invitations I made:

We setup in our backyard and the weather was perfect.  The heat wave broke so it was in the eighties and sunny.

We had picnic food - sandwiches, fruit, veggies, chips, and lemonade:

We served homemade ice cream sandwiches for dessert:

Obviously we had to give the birthday girl a cake. 

Maggie was so funny! She put her hand in the cake, tasted it, and then went in face first:

Here are just some more pictures in case there aren't enough already:

Independence Day!

Happy 4th of July!

Last year at this time we were waiting around for a baby - Maggie was due on the 4th of July. Since there was no sign of a baby making an appearance that day, Craig and I went to get pedicures (I made him go with me) and I made myself busy by making goodies for fireworks that night. 

We went to Blaine to watch fireworks with Connoys, Rachel and Amanda (she was down from Duluth thinking she would have a niece or nephew).

This year we have our Maggie with us and it's crazy to think that she will be one in one week! We are all sick with a nasty cold and it's also 100 degrees with 70% humidity, so I think we'll hide out indoors.

Maggie last year:

Maggie this year:

Water!

It was warm and humid here this past weekend - in the 90's and 80% humidity so I bought Maggie a water table.  They are little tables you fill with water and kids are supposed to stand at them and splash around.  We decided Maggie could just sit in it! It did the trick and she was cooled off in no time!

11 Months

Is it possible that Maggie is turning one in a month? I think not. But since the calendar says she is 11 months old, here is what our baby has been up to:

• She waves hello and good-bye if you say hi or bye
• She shakes her head "no" if she hears it
• She talks all the time - she copies us when we say "uh-oh" or "hi"
• Still no actual meaningful words
• She crawls FAST - including up the stairs
• She stands on her own, but once she realizes it she quickly sits down

Here she is up at the farm scaring herself by standing on her own:

• She claps when she is excited about something or if you sing patty cake to her
• She is finally coming around to finger food and is pretty open to trying most everything- especially if she see mom or dad eating it

Do I have something on my face?

• She's down to three bottles a day - breakfast, lunch and dinner

Bottle time for all the babies at the farm:

• She holding strong at two bottom teeth - no signs of more at this point
• She is a mama's girl
• She HATES being in that car - which makes mom and dad hate being the car:)
• Her bedtime is around 7:30 and she'll sleep in on the weekends until 8:30 or even 9:30!
• She still takes two naps a day (unless she sleeps until 9:30 in which case she skips the morning nap)
• She loves being outside
• She is starting to sit still (for about 1 minute) for story time

• She is still a happy happy girl!

June!

Ok so I'm a little behind on here.  Work has been crazy for me - a few trips and working after Maggie goes to bed + Craig has been a mad man working outside. I think we are slightly slowing down now that a few projects have been checked off the list, but we have a busy summer ahead!

It's mid-June so I owe everyone the June picture of Maggie:

This picture is from May, but I like it anyway:

Chocolate Pudding

Up until now I have been somewhat of a health nut when it comes to what Maggie consumes. She doesn't know what she's missing out on with sugar and unhealthy snacks so why introduce them to her?  Well lucky for her, her Papa (Great-Grandpa Newcomb) convinced us to let her try chocolate pudding.  I bought a box of chocolate pudding a while ago and forgot about it in the pantry.  The other night she was a little crabby so I whipped out the chocolate pudding.  She loved it!

Of course we took a little video for everyone to enjoy:

I don't know though, I still think she likes her bottle more (this is seriously her reaction every time she sees her bottle):