Blake's 2nd b-day party

We went to Maggie's cousin Blake's 2nd birthday party on Sunday. Maggie refused to sleep on the drive down to Normal, so by the time the party started, she was exhausted! Her daddy took a nap with her, so unfortunately, she missed everything!! After Maggie woke up, we took some cute pics though.
Maggie loves eating "kit-cakes". She's only had 4 her whole life, but she knew what they were where called after the first time she saw them. Aunt Tonee was eating one about a month ago, Maggie looked at it and said "cake"!


Maggie loves her "papa" Miller from a distance. She likes to look at pictures of him and she knows who he is as soon as she sees him, but she still won't go to him. When he got to the party, he tried talking to her, but everything he said or did, her response was "NO!"


It was pretty cold out once the sun went down, so here are the 3 older cousins in cute stocking hats! We couldn't get them to look at the camera though!

Maggie is the cutest!

Maggie is saying more and more words, but they aren't always that clear. For example, when she says sandwich, it sounds like sa-wah. Shower sounds like sha-wah. Sailboat sounds like see-bah. She finally started saying Dani for her Aunt Danielle! She said 2 phrases so far, "aunt home" and "hi daddy".

Maggie is learning her colors. She can point out red, green, pink, orange, blue, and yellow. Sometimes she will say the wrong color, but she gets most of the right! She starts to sing the ABCs by saying "A B C D" then a bunch of other letters and sounds. Maggie is starting to sing other songs too. She say "name-o" for BINGO, "up-a-bup" for Twinkle, Twinkle Little Stars, and "see-bah" for a song we sang at gymnastics.

I can't believe she's getting so big and SO smart!!

New tricks

Every day Maggie is able to do more and more!

She loves to color, although she would rather look at the crayons than actually color with them. We are trying to teach her colors. She wants to call everything blue or orange. I thought for sure she knew orange because she kept pointing it out on everything. We'll get there soon!

She stopped asking to use the potty, but now she says diaper when she has just pooped, so it's a start back in the right direction.

We took Maggie and her cousin Ethan to visit Daddy at the firehouse. The both wanted to either "drive" the firetruck or walk around and touch everything. The vehicles are a little intimidating!


We were supposed to get pictures taken outside, but it was raining all morning! So, we took a great picture ourselves! Then we went to lunch with Aunt Emily and Uncle Tyler at Portillo's before heading over to our friend Maggie's 3rd birthday party. Maggie loved riding the car there!

Park

On Saturday, Chris took pictures of John & Missy at the park, so Maggie and I joined him to spend some time outside. It was a beautiful day! We walked around the park, looked at the ducks, sat in the grass, and played on the swings. Maggie was so tired that she fell asleep within about 5 minutes after we left the park.

Stack

Maggie is now learning how to stack things. She stacks books, blocks, cups, pretty much anything that she can! Here is a video of her trying out her new skill.

Crazy Hair!!!

Maggie has very crazy hair, so I just wanted to share some of the best pictures!

Lake Geneva

We took Maggie to Lake Geneva in Wisconsin at the beginning of August for the 6th annual "Murphy Family Reunion". We kept very busy!

Sunday night was the pizza party and bowling tournament, which Maggie was still a little too young to participate in. On Monday, most of the men participated in the golf outing, so Maggie and Mommy hung out in the room, then went swimming in the kiddie pool until Daddy returned.

On Tuesday, most of the women enjoyed several hours at the spa. Maggie did the same thing as yesterday. We were very proud that she peed in the potty for the third day in a row! (Although she hasn't been very consistent in the last couple days).

Tuesday evening, we had the annual rewards dinner at the Supper Club. We received awards for the golf and bowling days.

We were free to do what we wanted on Wednesday, so we went to the pool and had dinner with Grandma and Grandpa Steinmetz and Emily!