Preparing for pinkalicious party

I've started preparing for Maggie's 3rd party! It's a Pinkalicious theme! Maggie loves the Pinkalicious books and of course her favorite color is pink, so I thought this theme would be prefect.

We took some pictures today to put on the invitation so we can get that sent out. I'll post the invite soon!

I also started working on the pink topiary. It's pretty easy, but it takes some time to do. Here are some pictures of the process.

Coloring eggs

On Sunday, while I worked on Maggie's scrapbook, Maggie colored Easter eggs with Grandma and Papa Steinmetz. She was asking for days to go to their house and as soon as we woke up, she couldn't wait to go over there. She wouldn't let them do anything else until they colored the eggs!! She had a lot of fun.

Hunger Games

So, being the big nerd I am, I saw Hunger Games at Midnight on Thursday/Friday. And Maggie must have known how excited I was to see it, so she was asking for me to braid her hair every day this week. The best is this one:

6 months have passed

Really?! 6 months since I have blogged about the best little girl ever?! Well, I suck..

Anyway... here are some things my little sweetie has been up to:

Not only can she recognize the beginning sound or words, she has been practicing writing her letters too! She is really doing well. The letters that she can write with no problem are capitals E, F, H, I, L, M, O, Q, T, and X. She can sort of write A, N, V, and W. Her R looks like a stick figure :) I'll post a picture of that soon!

She is really into rhyming. Pretty much every night when we go to bed, she wants to list a bunch of words that rhyme. It's pretty cute.

We are planning a "Pinkalicious" party! So, I'll be busy with that for the next few weeks :)

Letters

Maggie is getting really good at recognizing the letter at the beginning of words. She has been saying things like "M for Maggie" "D for Daddy" "B for Blakie" "E for Ethan" and even "K for Kangaroo".

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Summer is over

I can say we've had a pretty busy summer, as you can see by the previous blog pots. We've just been hanging around at the house, enjoying the last hot days of the year.

Maggie has been having a great time going to gymnastics every Tuesday, playing with Ethan almost everyday, and playing with her cousins and other friends. We are looking forward to many more days of playing with Blake, Emma, Ella, Mckenna, and Gavin, just to name a few.

We already are planning on going to the zoo, library, and starting swimming lessons again with Ms Maryanne over the next few weeks. Pretty soon, we will be starting a different class for Maggie, but who knows what?!

Fairs

We went to three different fairs this year. Maggie is really starting to enjoy the rides. Unfortunately, she is too short to ride most of them by herself, so an adult has to ride with her and Mommy and Daddy hate rides that spin! Luckily, at the Fairbury fair, Aunts Tonee and Dani were there to ride with her! At the state fair, they have an entire area that has rides Maggie could ride by herself, so Mommy only had to ride one and Daddy had to ride one. Maggie just loves the duck game. The first picture is of Maggie at last year's Fairbury fair. Look how much she has grown!

I rode one at the Fairbury fair with the kids called the "Crazy Bus" and when we went to the state fair with Aunt Emily and Uncle Tyler, Maggie was still talking about it. She rode several rides, then we ate, played some games, and walked around the rest of the fair. When we walked by the bus ride, Maggie yelled out "There it is! We found it!" as if we had been looking for it the whole time. So, Chris bought some more tickets and I got to ride on the bus one more time!