LOVING this weather!!!

Who wouldn't! :)

We have spent a lot more time outdoors playing . . . with Tucker. She loves watching him catch the ball.

Her giggle box has turned on BIG time. It is soooooo cute. We have yet to capture it on video but promise to do so. She has gone back to squinting her eyes and nose in excitement.

She was so exhausted after playing hard one morning she crashed for a 2 hour afternoon nap . . . which is normally nearly impossible for her to take.

Before . . .

and

After!

The painters are FINALLY finished. It was a long few weeks under house arrest!!!

Margaret had a great time watching the guys from each window and occasionally from outside. Who could stay indoors on such a gorgeous day!

We love the color and can not wait for the shutters to be finished!

Books!

Memo brought over a bunch of my books that I had growing up

Margaret was obviously in heaven

and didn't know which one to read first!

Saturday started off a lil messy

which made for an early bubble bath

The weather was so nice this past weekend, we had lunch outside while dad organized the garage.

She finally thinks the sippy cup is not a game. She spits the water out most of the time but she is getting the hang of it.

Loving the warm weather!

Daddy's Little Helper

Daddy is always working on something around the house and Margaret is not far behind him

She is normally watching from the inside

waiting to see what window he is going to pop at next

Repetez s'il vous plait

In the last few days, Margaret has gotten really good at repeating words. She has always loved saying Tucker and Dada but last night she said yellow and thank you, just to name a few. Her biggest accomplishment was "bye". Mom headed to Target to get a few things while dad and Margaret were outside looking at what a wonderful job the painters have done so far. Our neighbor was pulling out of her driveway and Margaret starts to wave and says, "bye"!!! Daddy could NOT believe his ears. He of course tried to get her to do again but that was a negative. I'll believe it when I hear it ;)

10 Months!

She is growing up so fast!

We took dinner to some friends of ours the other night who had a baby a couple of weeks ago. John and I couldn't get over how tiny their precious daughter is. We looked at each other and tried to remember those first few weeks. Wow sooooo much has happened!

I have tried to get her to walk behind this toy but she will have NOTHING to do with it. I ran to get some coffee and came back to her walking across her play area.

Margaret is (crawling) all over the place. You can not take your eyes off of her for one second . . . right Papa :)

She is such a daddy's girl and loves watching him cut the grass.

Daddy where are you????

There you are!!

This past week I heard a lot of ruckus on our front porch. Blue jays were going crazy so after a few minutes I decided to see what all the fuss was about before they woke Margaret up. This adorable little guy was at the front door. Scared me to death! He stuck around til the sun went down and off he went.

Margaret LOVES books!

and bath time! The moment I open the shower curtain, she bolts to the bathroom . . .

to watch the tub fill up with water!

Such a happy girl!

We finally found a food she does NOT like . . . cauliflower.

(Seems she is starting to not like much these days! She not only threw sweet potatoes on the floor tonight but spit them out! Um what. She loves them!)

We did find more food she loves . . . blueberries and cranberries! YUM!

I made a recipe in my baby cookbook this morning - old fashioned oatmeal with cinnamon and vanilla. Margaret loved it and even fed herself several bites. So proud of my big girl!!

This pretty much sums up our last few weeks. Wild and crazy!!! When Margaret was sick she started a new nap schedule that makes it VERY hard for mom to get anything done. Which means we have barely left the house.

Sweet Langston brought over some adorable summer outfits for us to try. We are all set for a fun trip to the Keys!




Margaret is waving and clapping. When I read a book that says clap your hands or patty cake, Margaret claps away.

Friday we said good bye to yet another tree . . . the huge palm tree that made a big mess (all over the yard thanks to the squirrels)

Over the next few weeks we are going from stark white to . . . ??? We have narrowed it down to a couple but man is it tough! Especially when I was told on Thursday I had to have a color picked out. Sounds easy . . . No way! Have you seen how many colors are out there!!!!!

Stay tuned for pics of our newly painted house.

Answer to Prayers

After an exhausting morning at Wolfson's the other day, Dr Kim called to let us know everything looked great. It is a lymph node. Thank you Lord. After both of us in tears while they had to take blood from her tiny arm and holding her down to get her neck xrayed, we did not want to go back!

Another blessing . . . we made it to the doctor without dad running into the back of us :)

Now if we could only get these teeth in and get rid of this cold . . . we were reminded this morning that we do NOT miss the 2am wake ups anymore. At least after the feedings we all went back to sleep!