Maggie's trip to Mexico

Maggie went on her first vacation to Mexico and it was full of excitement!

We flew into Cancun, which was Maggie's first time on an airplane. It was a 3 1/2 hour flight and she did really well! When we landed, we took a 30 minute van ride to the ferry, then about a 20 minute ferry ride to Isla Mujeres. On the ferry ride, we found out that Maggie has some motion sickness because she started throwing up everywhere on the ferry. Poor thing!! I can't forget to mention that it was pouring when we got there and didn't stop for 2 days!!

Things went pretty well after that for us in Mexico and she looked beautiful for her Uncle Erik's rehearsal dinner and wedding. She also got her 8th tooth while we were there! I was wondering why her nose was running so much!

What we've been doing

Maggie and I have been spending a lot of time at her grandparents house. She loves listening to 50s music with grandpa and walking around with grandma. She has found new things that attract her attention, such as the marble fireplace, the glass doors of the entertainment center, and my crutches!


After getting knee surgery in January, I haven't been able to do too much. I can't put any weight on my leg, so I can't carry Maggie around :(

She stood for the longest time today by herself (about 15 seconds)! So, I'm hoping that she and I can start walking at the same time.

She also had some fun with her Aunt Tonia and cousin Ethan! My sisters and Chris have been a great help since I've had this surgery, but I hope I'm better soon!

Maggie's new tricks

Maggie has a lot of new tricks in the last month or so (I know I'm making her sounds like a dog....) ;-)

She can say yes:



She can give five:




She can play Patty Cake:




She can say Mom:




She can say Dad:




She also waves hi and bye, signs for milk, crawls, pulls herself up on things, crawls up the stairs, points at your nose and is working on saying teeth!! I'll try to get as much on video as I can and share it.

What a Winter!

We've had a pretty busy winter! We went to Iowa for Thanksgiving, central Illinois for Christmas, and we had TONS of visitors for New Year's! Maggie got a lot of good presents, but didn't really care about too many of them until a few weeks ago. Now, I'm getting ready for knee surgery in a couple of days and I won't be bale to walk around with Maggie. We'll see how well she deals with that!!

she's getting ready!

And finally.......
she's getting ready to crawl, and she'll get it as soon as she is willing to stay on her tummy for longer than 5 minutes!!!

Halloween!

Maggie's first Halloween was somewhat busy. We went to a party the weekend before Halloween. We were dressed as Lois Lane, Clark Kent, and Superbaby. Then Halloween weekend, we had Grandma Steinmetz over for pizza on Friday and Aunt Tonia, Uncle Jason, and cousin Ethan over for dinner on Saturday.

Baths are fun now!

Maggie used to hate baths and really hate getting out of the bath. But now, all is wonderful!!