Maggie’s Journal

You know those weekends people talk/blog/facebook about where the whole family hung out and did spent time together just having fun? Yeah, we’ll yesterday we had one of those. I’m not saying we don’t have fun on the weekends or that we don’t go out, but usually we are trying to fit so many [...]

Emily had her belated 18 month checkup on Monday and is looking great. She only cried for a split second after her two shots and was done before they even had the bandaids on. Although she promptly ripped the bandaids off.
Her Stats:
Weight: 23.6 lbs 37%
Length: 32 in 58%
She’s been an adorable joy. As long [...]

It’s all ready been a very hot summer and it’s just the end of June! We’ve been keeping busy and having a good summer though.
Brenden started a class at the area rec center a few weeks ago called “fundamentals of preschool”. He seemed to be getting bored at home and had started to ask someone [...]

Brenden turned 4 at the end of last month. To celebrate on his actual birthday we took the kids to Chuck E Cheese for dinner and play time. Brenden had been wanting to go there for some time and he thoroughly enjoyed his first visit. There was even a little area that Emily could play [...]

We have a huge jar of pennies in our room that Brenden likes to dump out and play with whenever he comes in. Today he’d dumped them all out and then abandoned them to watch a movie. When Emily came into the room she stood in the pile of pennies and threw them everywhere. Brenden [...]

When we first started going to Hands Down support group meetings at Scottish Rite, someone asked what age the kids would become aware their hands were different. Several parents answered that it would be around age 4. Patrick and I thought this was crazy late. Brenden always played with his hands and he [...]

Emily is getting to be such a big girl. She cruised for about 6 months before finally decided to walk a couple of weeks ago. Now she is bravely taking more and more steps everyday. I think she likes that if she walks, it’s easier to carry stuff with her.
Grandma and Grandpa taught [...]

We had a low-key Easter today. We’ve been running around like crazy so we decided to just have a slow weekend. The kids were excited to wake up and find the Easter Bunny had come. But I did get to wondering how kids are ever supposed to feel safe at night when they [...]

Ok, no music really, just trying to be funny. We got around 9 inches of snow on Thursday and Friday and all Brenden wanted to do was play in it. So we made several trips out and even took Emily one time. I was fortunate enough to have been given a snow suit for her, [...]

Brenden was actually a pretty good boy this week. He’s been sweet with lots of, “you’re the best mommy in the whole world!” And as long as we haven’t had to go anywhere and his sister isn’t taking his toys he’s been pretty agreeable. Monday night he was getting a bit sassy as we refer [...]

Emily has really been growing and changing lately. She is in some ways a much easier baby then Brenden was but in some ways so much harder. She gets in to all the things he never even thought about. She plays in the toilet. She gets things out of the trash. She puts EVERYTHING in [...]

I’ve been working on taking pictures of the kids so I can enter them in the Regis and Kelly baby contest. No, I don’t want them to be models, but it’d be fun to see them on the cover of a magazine and it’d be great to have the money for college. Here are two [...]

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He’s wearing my shoes.

You might notice there is a little recurring theme of Emily in chairs in recent posts. She working hard on climbing up in the chairs herself but can’t do it yet. But when I put her in the chair she [...]

Stats:
Weight: 20 lbs 8.8 oz (41%)
Length: 29 in (46%)
Head: 17 3/4 (50%)
She got four shots and took those much better than her brother who got the h1n1 mist in his nose and freaked out!

After having a blowout of a 1st birthday party for Brenden, we decided to go low key for Emily’s big day. They say the party is for the parents at this age and since we’ve already had ours, we skipped it this time around. So I hope they are right about that and that Emily [...]

This man needs a 12 step program.

In case you can’t tell he’s using his laptop and the internet on his iphone at the same time.

Emily was excited to be driving in this car cart. All of the sudden she’s just big enough to do so much more. Both kids were in awe of all the blow up displays that Lowe’s had. 3 aisles worth. Who knew going in for a new kitchen faucet would be so exciting.

Last week we went to the park. The weather was beautiful all week and I was disappointed in myself that we hadn’t been at the park every day. But we all played hard to try and make up for it.

Brenden always looks at the rock wall and when I offer to help him climb it [...]