Catching up

I know we have been terrible about updating lately. There is a ton of things we have to report but we've been so busy actually doing stuff and visiting with people. We realized that this is the first weekend in at least a month and a half that we have been at home and not had visitors. (and I'll be at work all weekend) We've loved all the time with family but it didn't leave much time for other stuff.

So here is a recap of what's happened in the last few weeks. Maggie is now working on her fifth and possibly sixth tooth. She is apparently a teeth growing champ. She is also transitioning into a new class at school. I remember when Mac moved out of the baby class- it felt a little traumatic. In some ways it seems like she shouldn't be ready for that, but in other ways she seems to be growing and developing so quickly. On that note, she has outgrown her car seat. The week after Christmas we went and got new car seats for Mac and moved Maggie into his seat. Mac outgrew the baby carrier seat at around one year of age (by weight) and now Maggie outgrew it at 7 months (by length).
The car seat change was a big one for Mac as well. He is now the right size for a booster seat with a back so that makes him a big kid now.


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Anyone up for a little B-ball?

Ready for basketball season!



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it was just something in my eye

Mac and I were watching a Christmas movie (Jingle Bells) on Netflix last night. He sat on the couch by himself while I gave Maggie her last bottle before bedtime.
The movie really isn't all that good but he watches anything that isn't scary.
Anyway, there was a sad part of the movie and I looked up to see a few tears roll down his cheek.
I was impressed that he is paying enough attention to understand what was happening in the movie.

I was also not surprised when he denied that he was crying. As Samantha said "he's definitely your son." I figured he just had some allergy issues or something.

Maggie's tongue

Took this video at breakfast this morning. Maggie has discovered her tongue and it constantly sticking it out. Until I start videoing of course.

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Happy birthday daddy!

This post is extremely late due to some technical difficulties, but this is Mac taste testing Doug's birthday cake.

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Maggie

Maggie's teacher sent us this picture. She pulled the box of toys down and the rolled herself onto the shelf. At just under 6 months I think you call this precocious.



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Imagination and experimentation

It is so much fun to watch Mac use his imagination. It has become even more fun recently.
Here's an example:

Each Sunday on the way to church, Mac will close his eyes to shut out the bright sun. (we always seem to forget his sunglasses in our rush out the door) He says if you squeeze them really tight you can see colors. Then he tell us all about the red and black and yellow and green. He even wants us to try it out because he thinks it is so cool.

It's adorable that every time he lists things now he counts them on his fingers. So he goes through the list and then tells you how many things he has listed.

One of our favorite things lately is to watch how delighted Maggie is with everything he does. She will smile and giggle when he is entertaining her, but even when he isn't trying she loves to watch him. This morning he was brushing his teeth and she was just grinning ear to ear watching him like it was wonderful. She quite obviously loves her big brother.