Things I Want Recorded

This post has been in the works for months. Literally. Months. Ugh. So when you're reading what my kids are up to, remember the first half of this post is what they were up to in, like, early fall...yup.

Some artwork by miss Maggie My:

Maggie got all dressed up. New dress from cousins, fancy shoes with flowers on the toe, princess crown, and of course her stuffed unicorn. "Mommy, I'm pretty and you and Caroline are handsome. I'm the only one in pretty things".

Caroline over the past couple of weeks has mastered the stairs. Going up them at least. She's managed to make it all the way up our stairs and into her Daddy's office before I know what has happened. I've become waaaay too complacent with her immobility and have not adjusted quickly enough to it's sudden demise. **She now rocks at both going up and coming down the stairs. She's still very good about going down backwards never even attempts to "walk" down.**

Maggie is so full of funny sayings I can't even keep up. It makes me sad because she is hilarious:

Maggie says, "Mommy, what is this wrinkle?" Bacon honey. It's bacon.

Maggie says, "Mommy, you need to shave your spikes."

Maggie says, "But...I'm not done with time out!"

Maggie asks for a spray of my perfume. Later that day she approaches me for more and says, "Mommy, I don't smell like heaven anymore."

Sept 9th. First true walk from Caroline. Soooooo proud. That girl is all about lazy and learning to walk is a whole lot of effort!

We've decided Caroline is much more interested in increasing her intellectual abilities than learning to do that silly walking stuff. She has learned most of the alphabet and can even recognize some basic words. Yes, I know she's just memorizing certain words and not actually, truly reading them but its super cool! We went to Borders the other day and from the car she emphatically pointed at the big Borders sign and named each letter in order: "B! O! R!...etc. I was pretty stunned. She can also recognize the following words. She can barely SAY them but she does know them: smiling, point, keys, eyes, mouth, diaper, wave, tongue, and rattle. Those are the words from the level one Your Baby Can Read program DVDs. I was using them as pure entertainment (my chance to shower, etc). Who the heck knew she was actually picking up on the stuff?? Once we pulled the flashcards out and she started saying the words we were just laughing it seemed so unbelievable! **She is still amazing us with what she's remembering, retaining, learning. Like...whoah...**

Caroline is pretty good at asking for "hup" (help). If she wants a book or toy she can't reach or gets stuck in a precarious spot she can't climb down from she yells, "hup...hup...HUP!!" Occasionally she also yells, "STUCK!"

**ACTUAL CURRENT STUFF:**

Caroline in the doctor's office (diagnosis: croup). Weight 20 lbs. Just 20 small pounds at 20 months!

Caroline is a singing FOOL! She remembers and sings along to an astounding number of songs. She even makes up variations to songs. One of her favorites is Once There Was A Snowman. She regularly substitutes Snowman for any other thing and thinks it makes the song hilarious. She makes other pretty funny substitutions in other songs and we always get a big kick out of what she comes up with.


She also loves to count. She counts everything. First she counts in English then immediately starts over and counts the items again in Spanish. Thanks Dora! I regularly get people commenting on how verbal she is.


Caroline has started nursery at church and loves it--as long as I stay in the room. Bummer. She completely freaks out if I try to leave. I guess I shouldn't be surprised. She's scared of everyone and refuses to let anyone get too close to her.


Hungry Hippos is the girl's favorite game.


For the past few months I've been in charge of the Activity Days at church. It's been an adventure and Maggie has loved being with the 8 and 9 year old girls every other week for an activity. I swear she thinks I'm setting these up as little play dates just for her. I was released of the Activity Days calling recently and now I'm the Primary secretary. I told Maggie and she was so bummed!


Maggie is a little-big person these days and is starting to sound like one too. It's not uncommon to hear her say, "...and I was like....and she was like...".


She is still obsessed with all things girl. Barbie, princesses, etc. but her favorite thing in the world is playing any sort of game at all with her Dad.


Over the winter break Maggie got to have two special dates with her Dad. First, the happy couple skipped off to Red Robin for lunch and then it a movie. Apparently Tangled is the greatest movie of all time because we've been playing Rapunzel games ever since. Here's a pic of the two of them in the theater:


Their second date was to the Rec Center for some swimming! Patrick told me that after 3(maybe 3.5) minutes she decided she was too cold and had him bundle her up in towels. They spent the next 45 minutes on the plastic deck chairs while Maggie babbled...and babbled...and babbled away to her favorite guy.