A glut of photos and stories

We finally have some new photos on the computer to share. First let me tell you a cute thing Maggie did today. I often will tell her how sweet she is or ask her, "Maggie, how did you get to be so sweet?" Today we were playing around and she stopped, looked up at me and said "Mama so sweet." Years ago I never would have thought three simple words could make me feel so great.

Please crane your neck for this photo. I feel really stupid, but as you've seen before, I really can't figure out how to make these vertical photos post correctly. Sorry. Anyway, this is Maggie in one of Grant's shirts. She loves to wear our clothes and shoes.


This photo is from a cool morning a few weeks ago when I was making a Starbucks run and Grant stayed home with Maggie.


This is from Easter so it's a little late! (With my mom and grandma)

And finally, the long-awaited gymnastics photos (or as Maggie says "gymnactics"). The first one is Maggie, fellow student Catherine, and her teacher, Ms. Becca. They're practicing hanging from the bar like monkeys.

This is Maggie on the wedge mat. She's kind of learned how to do a somersault. When I say kind of I mean that I roll her body up into a ball and push her down the mat. Just kidding! She can do it mostly on her own with a little guidance.

And this is on the balance beam with a little help from Grant:
Carol (Grant's mom) asked me to post a few of her latest words. I'll start with the biggest:
quesadilla, gymnastics, cinnamon, sweet potatoes, Tiffany, chocolate, tomatoes, gnome (not big but funny), pancakes, Mexico, and Texas.

She's also singing a lot. We went to a birthday party a few weeks ago and then she started singing "Happy Birthday to You." It took us days to figure out where she had learned it but she got it after hearing it once at the party! Her other current favorites are "How Much is that Doggy In the Window" (with mostly made-up lyrics by me), "Row, Row, Row Your Boat", "Wheels on the Bus", and "If You're Happy and You Know It" (which she calls "Happy Know It"). Sometimes I feel like a one-woman show and I would be so embarassed if anyone ever saw/heard me. Actually, this is embarassing to even write. Oh well; it makes her happy.

She still loves to run everywhere. About ten times a day she brings me her shoes and says, "Walk around?"

If we are driving and she sees the downtown skyline she says, "Daddy's office!"

There's a nursery worker named Amanda at the YMCA nursery who Maggie loves.
I guess when she changes a dirty diaper she says, "Shoowee! Stinky!" Now whenever Maggie has a dirty diaper she says "Shoowee Manda! Dirty diaper!" And if the feeling of the dirty diaper bothers her she says "Diaper hurting!"

Hopefully this long blog will make up for my lackluster blogging over the last few weeks!