Sunday, January 31, 2010

up and at 'em

Since Maggie and I are up and at 'em rather early today (she seems to be taking a hiatus from sleeping through the night; we were up at 1:30 and then again at 5:00), I figured I'd stop to document the fact that the little miss has at last figured out how to get herself into sitting position!

Friday, I went in to collect her from a nap and found her sitting in her crib, so I knew she'd managed to figure it out, but it was a little later before I got to see her in action. The process is pretty cute:


Down for the count


Getting the knees assembled


And the arms


taking her seat


and a bow :)

And, she's quite the little mimic. For instance, she's made some good near misses with putting shapes into their appropriate slots, being so good at "monkey see, monkey do". Along with this, she's taken to being much more communicative, especially at the dinner table. We have pretty much agreed that her first word will be credited as "more" - simultaneously spoken (mah!) and signed a few weeks ago. And more recently she's been all about the bananas (again, both signed and spoken). Does anyone know the sign for avocado?

Now if only those two top front teeth I'd have sworn were arriving for Christmas would make their debut, we'll really be making strides! ;)

Friday, January 29, 2010

Sisters

...kicking back and reading.







pay attention, Maggie! there will be a quiz!



excuse us, but do you need something?

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Happy Birthday, Dave

Dave turned the big 3-8 (5 years older than me...for now!) on Sunday, so I am now settling in to the realization of what it means to have 3/4 of our family's b-days all clustered in a 4-week period: I have lots of gifts to wrap and cakes to make!

The girls were happy to be celebrating once again and I was happy to give Zoe the chance to see some gift-opening that didn't deliver any goods for her...good practice for Maggie's upcoming b-day when Maggie will be the center of attention.

Anyhoo, developmental strides aside, I think Dave's weekend was a good one.

Saturday, January 23, 2010

kung fu Maggie?

Well, that's all I could think of when she came home from daycare the other day, looking like this:

Friday, January 22, 2010

indulgence

After sleeping until 10am (or was it 10:30?), Zoe had a pbj for "breakfast" and then a jaunt to the zoo on this nearly sunny day.

She squeezed a juice out of me at the zoo and is now watching Sesame Street.


(don't the dolls get to watch too, Zo?)

Sometimes, you've just got to say yes. And yes. And yes. ;)

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Sisters

Building



and breaking together


(M obliterated that tower with her legs and a squeal of approval from her sis)

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Up

Maggie definitely gets around, but she doesn't make a habit of getting up. We're working on breaking her of that ;)