Maggie as Rudolph!

How time does fly! Maggie is growing SO fast. At her 6 month check-up she weighed 20 lbs and 27 inches long, which put her in the 98%. She is always smiling and talking (her kinda talking that is, we often wonder what she really is saying) Since I have not made a post for a while I have added pic's for the last couple of months.

Here is a little update on Maggie...
- she's been sitting up on her own for awhile, she now gets on all fours from sitting position and rocks back and forth. She is going to crawl any day! We are in SO much trouble, she is quite the curious little one.
- she has just started pulling herself up on furniture and tries to stand by herself (I still sit next to her, she makes me nervous :) Santa brought her the fisher price learning/talking kitchen which she absolutely LOVES! She pulls herself right up and has to play with everything.
- she has her two bottom teeth. SO CUTE! Holy cow they are razor sharp. Sorry Maggie no more gumming on mommy's chin.
- The Whittaker cabin has log beams in the front room that we hang a swing from and we figured out she loves to swing. Funny cause she really didn't like the swing as a baby.

- While we were at the cabin Maggie made a snow angel. Her snow outfit is a bunny rabbit and on the back it has a tail. When we picked her up out oof the snow their was a perfect mark of her tail in the snow. It was the cutest snow angel ever!

- Ofcourse for Halloween she was a ladybug, I made her antenna's with the bow. I looked everywhere and could not find a ladybug costume that I liked, so I settled for a flower costume instead. But thanks to grandma whittaker she found one in wisconsin when she was visiting Echo. Yeah!! Both costumes were so cute I had to use them both on Halloween.

Lance and I are doing good. Well I think he's good we never see each other, now that I'm working nights we always just pass each other between work schedules. It really Sucks! Starting in January I am going to work tuesday, wednesday night shift and every other weekend day shift. We are hopeing to see each other more that way. Also, I am hopeing not to be Zombie mom quite as much either. Well I guess that's all for now.

O.k., so it's been a while. Like 4 months, "a while"! So here's an update on the last four months of our lives. The Wilsteads visited in June, and Maggie got to meet Grandma & Grandpa Wilstead, Kira and Ryder, and Aaron for the first time. She has visited the cabin several times, been to Colorado on vacation, and is in Arizona right now visiting the rest of the fam. We met her cousin Audrey in the first of June, and on the 3rd of July, MaKenna joined the family. It's been an exiting few months, and Maggie is growing like a weed. She is in the 98th percentile on height, weight, and head circumference. She holds her own bottle, sits up (kind-of, still shaky), rolls over (learned this at Grandma Jones, and won't stay on her back any more), stands up when you hold her hands, and talks as fast as a democrat up for election. There's something new every day, and we can't help feel like it's passing us by. Heidi went back to work in the middle of August, and that has been a challenge. She will going to nights went we get home from Arizona, and that will probably be a bigger challenge (daddy gets to take the night shift, and mommy may become the walking dead!). On the plus side, no more baby sitting scheduling! Yay! Don't get us wrong, everyone that helped out was awesome! Thanks a TON: Kim, Mom, Aunt Marnie, Kirstin, and anybody else we're missing! Maggie loves you all! So now it's just mom and dad. If we could find a health insurance alternative, mom would probably quit and stay home. So anyway, that's a QUICK update. We will try to be a little more consistent with future updates.

Love the Cheeks! (I really love this pic)

Maggie smiles a lot but we just haven't caught it on camera, until now! SO DANG CUTE!

I put this crib mirror on her changing table & she found a new friend. She loves staring at herself.

So, I decided to take a few pic's and buy cute frame to give to Lance for father's day. (he had mentioned he didn't have any pictures at his work) Maggie was very cooperative and I got some REALLY cute pic's!

I love this pic! Talk about attitude!

took this picture last night
my in-laws cat. No, Maggie is not Huge Tosha (the cat) is! She weighs 17 lbs. We thought it would be funny to compare them side-by-side. (side note: they have a second cat Boris, he weighs 20 lbs)
Maggie sure loves her daddy!
Mommy loves her too!

I know, I am really bad at this blog thing. Well here are a few pic's for now. Maggie is growing so fast! She is finally growing into her cheeks and feet. It's a happy sad seeing her grow. I'll try to keep the pic's coming! and one day I'll actually write a something interesting.

Maggie Online...

Maggie has a couple of cute pics from the hospital if you go HERE. There are two pics, the one with her eyes open is adorable. Thanks Debby!

Maggie's Arrival

Well everyone, she is finally here! Maggie arrived on Tuesday morning, May 12th at 1:57 am. She weighed in at 8 pounds and 10 ounces and is 21 inches tall. She came out with a full head of brown hair and long fingers and toes. Her cry is so squeaky and cute that we almost pause before we soothe her, just to smile. She is absolutely beautiful! Her dad is completely smitten, and her mom never wants to put her down. This is our first shot at a Blog and I did it very quickly so it's a little rough and incomplete. I just figure this is a quicker and easier way to keep everyone posted without having to keep emailing. We Have lots of pics, so I will keep adding as time permits.