Maggie- 10 months old

On January 27th, Maggie turned 10 months old!!

Here are some things sweet Mags is up to:

Her days consist mostly of eating, sleeping and talking.  She loves them all!!  Apparently we are meant to have noisy kids- we have 2 of them.  I feel like Maggie has really found her voice over the last month.  While I still think she’s quite the observer and will sit back and watch quietly for long periods of time, she now will chime in on how she’s feeling.  We hear noises (she does raspberries now) and either ba ba ba, or da da da all day long.

Little Mags is still a big fan of food!  While she’s still in size 3 diapers, she’s moving slowly but surely to size 12 month clothes! She’s in all 12 month jammies.  Our little pre-term peanut is growing for sure!!

Although still not crawling, she scoots around on her tummy and she now goes from her tummy to sitting up!  This is usually followed by giving herself a round of applause.  She did this first on January 22^nd. 

Maggie loves to pick up her sippie and drink by herself, and then she promptly throws the cup.  Never gets old for her. 😊

She had her first bath in the big tub with brother!  She loved it!  Bath time in general is something she enjoys. 

She’s still sporting her 2 bottom teeth smile.  While this is super cute, she has (I’m told) about 4-6 teeth getting ready to come in at any time.  I strongly dislike teething!!! I really feel like she is much more affected than Asher was.  This has made for many not fun, non-sleeping nights for the two of us.  And while I don’t want to wish time away- I can’t wait until teething is over!  Speaking of time- how is my sweet girl 10 months??!!! As the one year mark grows closer, I get more sentimental.  My baby is growing up!!

There are 2 teeth there, I promise!!

Like Asher, I have my little song for Miss M:

You are my Maggie,

My little Maggie.

I love you so much, oh yes I do.

You’ll always be my little Maggie.

Maggie Jane I love you!

Being silly!

Love that we got these 2 similar shots with them!!

Man does she love her brother!!

 Future Chi Omega?? Wearing her owls.

Love doing life with my friend Lindsay and baby James.

Asher- 3 1/2 years old

Here are some things that Asher is loving at 3 1/2 years old.

Cooking!! (With adults, but mainly mama.)

Distinguishing between what kids and "adults" can do; and he'll say the word adults a lot

Good guys and bad guys- while playing

Being a superhero- and assigning others super powers too

Mickey Mouse!!

Being "fancy"- this means having his hair styled

Being a doctor 

Putting toys in time out because they don't listen to the other toys. 

Swinging

Candy Land- he’s just getting into games more

iPad- playing little puzzle and games, or watching shows

Doing pretty much everything by himself. 

Favorite color- red

Learning about days, months, and seasons

At Thanksgiving 2016 when asked what he was thankful for, Asher said Maggie. Melt my heart!!  He's such a great big brother!!

Common phrases of Asher's:

Are you kidding me? 

It's a volcano! A volcano's coming!!- for some reason, this comes out of his mouth a lot

Yeah but...

Why?

Other funny things he's said:

I keep my shirt out so people think I'm handsome. 

No don't fix my hair!! I only want it a little handsome!!

After having to have me use the wooden spoon to swat his bum, he says, "You should get a bigger spoon."

Why is it that kids/boys find the word poop so funny?? Trying to teach him not to just randomly say it. 

I'm a medium boy. 

I'll go potty because superheroes go potty. 

My latest invention, (turns around and pulls pants down) my bum!!

Singing- yes, this boy still loves music and singing!!

Favorite song- Hallelujah (Pentatonix)

We are working on understanding when it's appropriate to sing and also about voice volume.

He was obsessed for months with the songs/videos from VBX.

3 little Asher's are on the go song – a song he made up; we aren't sure who the 3 Ashers are lol!! Not sure if song writing is in his future.

3 little Asher's are on the go.

He's the boy and he's ready to go.

He's the boy and he's ready to go!!

Thanks for bringing so much joy and excitement into our lives!  We love you buddy!!