I had to do it!!

Smile!

Good one!!

Trying to sit still for a pic

Maggie making an escape


Love these eyes!!!

And these!!

What a face......

This is a regular pose around here. I am just glad Julia has not realized that she can pick her up yet.

Enjoy this one is for you Pop!!

She makes climbing on the couch look effortless for a 15 month old. Julia would NEVER have done this until she was way over 2 yrs old.

100th Post!!!!

This is the garden that Wyatt built and planted with a little help from Julia (emphasis on little). This picture also accents our neighbors beautiful and overgrown lawn. Nice huh??

I love animal crackers!!!


"I love them more than you!!!"

"Do not!!"

"Do to!!"

Shovin it in......

Yummy!!

Showing off new flops for the beach!!

With this being the 100th post and all I figure it needs to be really spectacular. So I will tell you about all the craziness that has been going on around here. Right about the time Julia was sick from strep throat we were also having to have a "vacation relocation" around here due to the swine flu outbreak in Mexico. We were set to go there for a week with my parents and brother and sister and families.......until the H1N1 robbed of us of our Mexican getaway. All is well we will go to sunny Florida instead and have a blast. Hey at least the girls already have a passport so when we are ready to flee the country we can. So now we are counting down until Saturday when we head out. For now we are playing outside any chance we get now that the weather is better. Wyatt and Julia have planted a garden as well (i am sure you will hear more about this in future posts.....at least I hope you will if we are better with plants then we are critters). Maggie continues to keep us on our toes EVERYDAY and Julia is growing and learning and just being a great big sister. Enjoy the pics and video I could not resist.

Wyatt and I were eating left over Chinese food from last night for lunch today. We decided to let Maggie have some fried rice and she loved it. Then Wyatt gave her some of his Lo mein. This video is what happened after that she is a fan that is for sure. Mind you this is after a hot dog and rice she is quite an eater.

Blog Post #99...and a video trilogy

Wow I cannot believe I have posted 99 times!!! I have some video footage of the girls for you to enjoy. Mostly Maggie and the climbing/adventurous side of her but Julia made one of them think. We had a great Mother's Day weekend. Happy Mother's day to all the mamas out there!!

Julia the always helpful big sis!!

I love the "sneaky grin" she gives me......

At almost 15 months and she can already solve her own problems......what does she need me for?

Only kidding she still totally needs me :)

Catch up.......

Wow ALOT has happened since I last blogged. So I think a little catch up is an order. I am sorry to say the update on our animals is a sad one. The bunnies all died and we are still not sure why. I had to deal with them and bury them since Wyatt was out of town. My friend Jill saved the day and helped me (or did it for me rather) dispose of the them. The birds have also not fared so well either. Eggs started going missing and now I think mama robin has abandoned the ones that are left. Needless to say we have had a lot of lessons on nature around here.

Maggie had become quiet the handful around here. She is into EVERYTHING!!!! She loves the trash, the toilet, climbing chairs, stairs, toys, tables, couches, slides, basically anything she can get to she will try to climb. It is really starting to stress me out. We have had to turn things on its side to keep her from climbing on it. If she climbs out of her bed I am going to loose it........

Julia had a bad run of strep throat (which we have never had and actually she has really been healthy for the most part and only had 3 antibiotics in her whole 4 years of life) this past weekend. It was rather scary (for me) when her temp got to 104. The doc did the strep test to rule it out and sent us home saying it was negative. The next day they called to say the overnight test was positive. She is on her meds and doing much better.

Here are some pics from the past few days.

"what? i'm just sittin here mama....."

just checking out the backyard....

Such a pretty day

Maybe I will just try to
go out the window.....that will be fun!!!

Sleepy big sister with strep throat....(she got off the couch maybe 3 times on Friday)

Swim class......julia on the far right with the pony tail

the big pool

practicing with the noodle

I love that Coach Eric takes them all over the pool in this little train formation

Coming out after jumping off the side

Maggie here with pen all over her compliments of big sis

Julia picked her own outfit. Red glitter shoes that DO NOT match her dress. Oh well gotta love free will.....

This is Julia checking on the bunnies. They had a nest under one of our rose bushes.