19 Months

February 11th Maggie turned 19 months old. She is turning into a very independent little lady! Here's a snapshot of what she's been up to:

• She doesn't like if you try to help her eat
• She put on her own hat and takes off her boots
• She watches everything we do and want to do it herself! She wants to help cook, do laundry, get dressed...
• She loves Wheel of Fortune - I think its the colors and the clapping
• She goes to bed around 7 every night, but may bang around in her crib until 8 if she's not too tired
• The second we leave her room after putting her to bed she stands up and turns on her light
• She wakes up around 8 on weekends and takes a single 2-3 hour nap a day
• She doesn't climb out of her crib, will climb out of her pack n' play at daycare
• At daycare she is able to shuffle the pack n' play next to her friends (who is a year older than her) and then she climbs out of her own crib and into her friends!
• The daycare lady tried buying some pants and sewing the legs together to prevent her from climbing out...well Miss Maggie simply took those annoying pants off (she's a problem solver!)
• She quickly fell in love with the box that her Christmas present came in - she uses it to stand on, sit on, as a booster to get what she wants off the counter

• She loves her baby doll and hugs it, kisses, it puts it to bed and rocks it
• She loves to carry a purse

• She still depends on a pacifier
• She doesn't have a huge vocabulary but she babbles stories to us all the time! She can say mama, dada, Lyla (all dogs are Lyla), uh-oh, hello, buh-bye, belly button, nose, toes, all done, owie, all gone, and how could I forget - "NO!"
• She understand so much more and get frustrated that she can't communicate her wants to us
• She is still super busy and doesn't stop for a second
• She LOVES to color:

• She thrives on routine - she has to wear the same hat, coat, and boots.  It is incredibly hard for us to get her to wear a different hat or shoes
• The poor girl has been getting so many teeth lately - I think she has gotten 8 in the last two months alone for a total of 8 on top and 8 on bottom

• She is a Mama's girl and for the most part mama loves it!

Bellybutton!

Maggie went through a phase about a month ago where she loved finding hers and anyone else's bellybutton. She also likes to point out her nose, eyes, ears, and toes!

Happy December!

Here's a little video of Maggie getting into the Christmas spirit:

 

We got a few inches of snow overnight so Maggie had to go check it out:

 

 

Yeah, she wasn't super impressed. She didn't think she could walk for some reason. She was much happier by the garage where the snow wasn't deep:

 

And here she is trying to discover where all this snow is coming from:

 

 

Halloween!!

While Maggie still has no clue what Halloween is, we had fun dressing her up! She went as a giraffe this year:

That was one of the few smiles we got from her.  5:30 is pretty late in the day for her!  We saw much more of this:

Yep, she's lying in the street.

A hug from Charley helped:

And here is her posse:

The little girl in the peacock costume, Josie,  is exactly 3 months older than her.  It looks like she is trying to give Maggie the glow-stick the fire department had just handed out. They are hilarious together.  Whenever they see each other they wave and scream and act like they haven't seen each other in years.  Then they run up to each other and don't know what to do next.  They just turn and do their own thing. 

She also didn't bring a candy bucket as she doesn't eat candy, but she was in luck because Charley's house was giving teddy grahams!

Time to go home and have some milk:

Maggie went to sleep around 7:00 and didn't even flinch every time the doorbell rang.  We had around 65 kids come to the door.  Happy halloween!!!!

P.S. This was Maggie last year:

October so far...

The lack of posts have been due to the fact that we just haven't been around! Last weekend we ran the Monster Dash in St. Paul (I did the 10-mile and Craig did the half marathon) and then went to a halloween party afterwards. The weekend before we had sprinkler blow-out day (a big event in our neighborhood) and a baptism in near Rochester, MN for our Godson, Nicholas:

The weekend before that we were in South Dakota for another baptism for our neice Cora.

We gutted our pumpkins tonight and of course Maggie was there to check it out:

 

 

Shortly afterwards the poor girl took a spill and ended up with her first bloody nose:

Moveralls

Moveralls = Mock overalls! Yes, I made that up. Here's what they look like:

Maggie and I picked them up on a shopping spree for fall clothes this past weeked.  Poor Maggie only had a few long sleeve shirts in her size! Luckily we found these cute moveralls.

Fall Photos

I decided to take some fall pics of Miss Maggie. This little girls does not sit still for a second, so taking her picture has become quite the challenge.