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A Party and a New Friend

Our weekend started off pretty relaxed and low key. We’ve been shifting things around and it seems like each room hasn’t quite recovered. The day after Christmas we got rid of our TV. Not on purpose, but just more because we never really used it and it took up a ton of space. I only kind of miss Oprah. Friday we spent time reading and sipping on hot beverages – it’s the new us apparently.

Saturday brought my parents and Sparky to visit. They got to see Maggie play in the Radio Flyer up and down the hall and I’m pretty sure my dad wished that he had ear plugs because Maggie would not tone down her squeals of glee.

Sunday we braved the roads and headed to A-Town to celebrate Midge’s Birthday – Happy Birthday, Grandma! – and my aunt Nancy had brought some old home videos of all the cousins. It was hilarious to watch and also really sweet at the same time. The highlight, by far, was a snippet of my older brother bustin’ a move. I laughed so hard I was crying. I think as a teacher I would have really enjoyed him…

On our way back home we stopped to meet Jeff and Jill’s new baby, Jenna. She is SO, SO sweet and perfect. Maggie was really tired by this time and quietly played with some of Jeff’s old toys. At one point Jeff put Jenna down next to Maggie for a photo, and Maggie bopped her on the head. Luckily, Jenna slept through the whole thing.

Once we got home it was bath time and snooze time. Well, we wanted it to be snooze time, but Maggie had a different idea. She threw a party for a while and we sipped on tea and talked about our weekend and potential snow.

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Photos of The Magster @ Work

Now that Maggie has wheels of her own, she is constantly on the move. I decided to try and document things for a few hours the other day. Just ignore the blurry-bad-lighting shots and imagine they are beauts, okay? Okay.

We were getting ready to go on a walk and she was able to combine two hobbies: playing with shoe laces and happily screaming.

I just wanted to get my shoes on, but sometimes letting her play is just as much fun as anything else we might have up our sleeves.

After we got her shoes on, she wanted to test them out while standing next to the table – her latest hangout.

Hat on? Check.  It is January, you know.

THEN WE WENT FOR A WALK AND I TOOK ZERO PICTURES. One of the joys in my life is to NOT wrangle a baby, a Pug AND a camera. I’ll leave that to the pros.


When we got home from the walk, the hat and shoes instantly came off because both can be distracting when you’re trying to pull on a Pug. Syd has become a lot more tolerant of Maggie as of late.

After Sydney had enough, Maggie decided that she was going to head down the hall to our new-fangled den to see what was happening. It was at that moment that she flashed me the peace sign and yelled “Peace Out, Mama!”

I decided to follow and see what she was up to.

We’re in the middle of revamping that room and so we had stacks of books and CDs that were of interest to The Mags.

She WAS interested in the CDs for about a nanosecond, but decided to move on over to our ugly plant and pull on the leaves. The above picture was snapped at the same moment that I realized that she was EATING the plant. I put the camera down at that moment and promptly dug out part of the plant from her mouth. So awesome.

After the plant eating incident it was nap time. Again, I didn’t take pictures of this because napping at our home involves me cuddling and holding a sweet, sweet baby and so it is impossible to document such perfectness. Sorry.

Up from her nap and at her favorite hang out – again. I’m telling you, if you ever wonder what Maggie is doing or where she is, she is most likely standing under the table and squealing. Just this morning while Barry and I were enjoying our pancakes she stood under the table and ‘talked’ to us the entire meal.

My mom pointed out that Maggie is pretty careful about getting herself down from the standing position.

What my mom failed to mention – although I am quite sure she is well aware – is that it takes Maggie less than a second for her to shoot off like a cannon towards something intriguing.

In this case it was the vacuum cord.

Later it was junk mail….

and books.

Quick talk with Dad around the dinner table about our day…

and once the jammies go on, we sometimes hope that Little Miss Busy Body will tone down the exploring, but on this day she decided to climb on one of our side tables.

Eventually Mags was ready to call it a day, but I’m telling you, a crawling child can be exhausting. I can only imagine what it’ll be like once she starts walking.

Or running.

Or sprinting.

Or….