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!!

Maggie's first tooth!

Maggie's first tooth started coming in October 24th and the second one is starting to show as well! Look close, you can see it!