To all of our friends and family, we wish you all a Merry Christmas today. As we have reflected on our wonderful year, we've been constantly reminded of our wonderful blessings from the Lord. He is our Saviour and older Brother who gave his life for us and we are most grateful to celebrate his birth at this time of year. Having Maggie in our family has made this year the most memorable for us and we pray each of you and your families has a joyous and relaxing Christmas.
ps: more Christmas pictures to come!
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Merry Christmas!
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008
This is how I feel today...
http://www.americangreetings.com/ecards/view.pd?i=479861051&m=4628&rr=y&source=ag999
ps... I'm still waiting for a picture of Julie as a 'rapper'...
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Monday, December 15, 2008
Friday, December 12, 2008
Santa is coming to town!
With the "snowstorm" that hit Houston a couple says ago, it has really been feeling like Christmas! Today it's back into the 60's but seeing snow in Texas is so exciting! Here's some cute clips of Maggie lately. You're all going to love how she 'kisses'!!
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Some days you get everything...
Like today! With the weather turning all dreary and freezing out, we knew we'd be trying to stay indoors today. So with that decision, Maggie and I play together and just hang out (you know, doing our normal routine). Then it's time for her to do a dirty diaper (yes, we usually know when she's going to do that) and put her in her crib to read books and play while she does it. Next thing I know, she's fallen asleep! With a dirty diaper!! Gross!!! Since she had just barely fallen asleep, I decided to risk it and slowly change her diaper trying not to jostle her around too much. Needless to say, pants were changed and the sleepy mood aparently passed. Naptime came and went without a blink so on to lunchtime!
Lunch went well- nothing too great except for the HUGE mess Maggie made with the squash and brocolli. My decision? To play with her for awhile, and then put her down for a nap. We're playing and today she did it! She put blocks back into the bucket!!!! Such small victories but huge steps! Not every block makes it back into the bucket, but it's an effort.
Then, she start saying "MaMaMa"!!! I was so proud to hear that! She's been saying Dadada since like 7 months, so to hear her say Mama was so exciting! I just love that little munchin!
And to top off such fun, at naptime I put her in her crib and she lays her head down and falls right asleep. I'm definitely recording this in writing because that never happens! She was out in less than 3 minutes.
So I'll leave you all with some cute pictures I took. This is Dude being mad at Momma for putting a lame Santa hat on his head.
This is Daddy Daughter time after work!
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Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Proof
Maggie's not the only one who's scared of Santa...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/chi-scared-santa-sm-081202-pg,0,52957.photogallery
Is it so bad that I laugh at these things??
Posted by Serena at 2:54 PM 3 comments
Maggie's first Santa visit
This picture about says it all. We had our church Christmas party last weekend and Santa made a visit. I really wanted to make sure we got a picture of her meeting Santa, but I knew it was going to be tricky. I knew big red rhings scared her. Every time we go to Wal-Mart or Costco and go through the toy section, they have the Live Elmo's on display. So we stop and have a fun time making him talk. Ok fun isn't exactly the word. Maggie usually just looks at Elmo like "Uh, Mom.. this thing is WEIRD!" So, I be you can imagine when we slowly start walking up towards Santa and she sees a big red thing talking to her. I've never seen her melt down so fast in my life! The waterworks were pouring before we knew it. So... Here is Maggie's first Santa visit. Poor thing!
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Thursday, December 4, 2008
Wanna play?
This is one of the cutest things ever. I love watching her play on her knees!! Look at the little footsies!
So many new things are going on with Maggie. She loves to crawl really fast, she pushes one of our dining room chairs around the kitchen (um, I think we know what to get her for Christmas now!), she loves to read, eating chicken and green beans is her new favorite foods, helping mommy put clothes back into the dryer once we've pulled them out, gnawing on her crib (and not to mention leaving teeth marks!), and 'loving' the kitties. She is almost 11 months- wow!! Looks like her first birthday is right around the corner!!!
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