Rodeo

Our little animal lover was in hog heaven at the rodeo!  Kirby rode the ponies - twice, a camel, and lots of rides...saw chicks, turkeys, bunnies, pigs, sheep, & cows!  It was so fun to spend the day with her!  I look forward to one on one dates with Maggie and William one day, too!

Kirby was just giddy on the ponies - she petted Dolly's mane and talked to her the whole time!

Meet Nick, the camel.  Notice the guys t-shirt.  I almost peed in my pants I laughed so hard.

She was fearless on the rides!

We loved our Kirby-time!!!

Eight months!

Number 2 and Number 3 are 8 months!! 

 the signs aren't really working anymore!

M &W:
Y'all are the most laid back babies I've ever met - you are all grins 98% of the time, and we're sorry that since there are 2 of you, you don't get credit for being as sweet and patient and chilled as you are!

You've been sleeping like champs - sometimes 12 1/2 hours!  We put you down at 7 or 7:30 and you usually don't make a peep until 7 in the morning.   Thank you SO much for that!

You "play" with each other...by play, I mean take each others toys and pacifiers - you already only want what the other one is playing with. Oh, and Kirby only wants what you are playing with!

You are not spitting up nearly as much as you used to - your pedi said by 9 months you should grow out of it - whooohoooo!  Our cleaning bill will get significantly smaller when that day comes!!

You love fruits and veggies, but you're not too patient when we have to feed both of you at once.

You both reach your arms out for us to pick you up - melts my heart every time!

William...

You are close to crawling - you get up on all fours, rock back and forth for a while and then lay flat out on the floor like you've just run a marathon.  You scoot around in circles and can move yourself backwards.

You're kind of sort of waving - we aren't totally sure it's not a coincidence that you move your fingers when we wave at you, but it happens often enough that we're going to go with it!

We think that you've GOT to have some teeth coming in - you are a droolin' fool...but you've been that way for the last 4 months, so who knows!

It's next to impossible to change your diaper these days - you flip over so fast which has caused some really big messes

William, there just aren't that many nicknames for you, buddy.  The only one that has stuck is William Tell.  Someone called you Will the other day, and it was just weird.  How crazy is it that I think Will is weird and Peekie Peep Eyes isn't?

Maggie...

You couldn't care less that you have a helmet on your head!

You finally started rolling over - now you're a little steam roller.

You have the cutest buddha belly I've ever seen.

You smoke William  every time you drink a bottle - we hope that's not a sign of things to come in your college years!

You are also known as Mags, Maggersly, Mooperville, Mag Pie Jones, Sister Sue

Kirby Clause...don't want to leave anyone out!!!

You are acting so grown up these days - you "read" by sounding out words based on the picture under the word, so the word "bunny" is RRRR-A-Bit, and "puppy" is Duh-O-Guh.  You're so proud of yourself (and so are we!)  You get us to sound out things and then tell us, "Good job!"

When we ask you how you slept or how school was or how swimming was you reply, "Oh, it was GRRRREAT!"

You still love to put things in bags/boxes/purses - some of the things we've found - pajamas in the trash can, Cam's Aggie ring in a diaper box, wash rags in Jim's sock drawer, balls in the kitchen cabinets...and others we haven't - my engagement ring, for example.  We've turned our house upside down.

You LOVE Sid the Science Kid.

You have decided that you want a pet.  You tell us all the time that you "sure wish you could have a cat" and you seem to think that Molly is coming back to live at our house.  We offered to take you to get a fish so that Jump could have a friend to swim with and you told us, "I think I don't want a fish - I think I want a puppy!"


You want you wear princess dresses and tutus everyday - you are SO fancy!

Your baby dolls have specific names - Megan, Maggie, William, and Ella.  I have no idea where the name Ella came from, but I love it!!

You won't eat anything for meals but peanut butter and honey sandwiches and chicken nuggets and french fries.  You of course always find room for goldfish, grapes, strawberries, and pretzels.

Helmet, what helmet?

Mags did great with her helmet today!  She will be easing into helmet headedness over this week, and the couple of hours she wore it today weren't too bad (easy for me to say, right?).  She is definitely happier with it off, but she tolerated it well.  Her poor head got all sweaty while she wore it, though - they promise this will get better as she acclimates to wearing it.  The worst part of the whole thing is that we can't kiss her head when she's wearing it - I never realized how often I kiss and rub the babies' heads until today. 

Since shopping makes everything better, we stopped by Doodles on the way home and got some head bands with big bows to go around the helmet.  The thought of being able to wear bows made Maggie more comfortable with the whole helmet situation - I could tell.

I think we're looking at wearing it for 4 months which means by her 1st birthday, Maggie will have the most perfect head ever!!

Magnificent Mags

Happy Friday:)

Great Days in SA

We had such a great time in San Antonio last weekend!  The kids loved getting so much attention from Nana and Papa!

Kirby has been asking to go back all week.  I can't decide if it's Nana and Papa she's been missing or Jack, though.  She is absolutely in LOVE with Jack.   Kirby has been an animal lover since day 1, but seeing her with Jack was something else.  She talked to him just like he was a person, scratched his ears, back & tummy all weekend long.  Jack was in heaven.

"Come on Jack, follow me."  "Where's Jack?"  "I sure wish I could have a dog like that."  "Do you think Jack wants a bone?

When Pam's cousin visited for Christmas, he brought her a rocking chair that had belonged to her father.  How neat that his great grandkids can enjoy it now!

As you can see Kirby was thrilled to get her picture taken.  Can this girl can give the evil eye or what?

 

Here are some smiles!! 

 

On another note, we found out today that Maggie will be sporting a new accessory in a couple of weeks.  She'll be a helmet head for a few months to get rid of the flat spot on the back of her head.   Unfortunately, these helmets are NOT cute, but I think it will be fine - this kid would look cute in a paper sack. (biased?  maybe.)  I've decided we need to go all out with this new look, though - there's no hiding a helmet on your head, so I'm thinking some big bows and bedazzling may be in order!

7 for 7 months!

 

 

 

1. Maggie, you "mmmmm" through every bite of your cereal and veggies.  There's no doubt that you love to eat!
2. William, you've decided to be a tummy sleeper which makes your mommy very nervous!
3. Maggie, you're doing a great job with your neck exercises!  You're even sleeping with your head turned to the right some of the time. 
4. You both still adore your big sister.  Sometimes she likes y'all :)
5. William, you "di-di-di" and "da-da-da" all day long and in the middle of the night, too!  It's so sweet to hear - even in the middle of the night, which brings us to #6...
6. You are both back to waking up several times a night - we're about to let you CIO...again.
7. William, you loved watching your first SuperBowl with BFF Wyatt!  Maggie, you were just there for the commercials.

   

 

Swimming like a fish...

...no, a mermaid...no, a dolphin...no, a duck...no, a CROCODILE!  She tells us every day all the animals she's going to swim like - over and over and over again.  She gets so excited just thinking about going to swimming lessons!