Maggie's big weekend

Mags and daddy had themselves quite a weekend. It started off Friday night with a movie at the library, "The Great Mouse Detective". These are great cuz they're only $3 per person and that includes unlimited popcorn and red juice. The big bonus is that her tumbling teacher doubles at the popcorn passer-outer! They hit a local restaurant after the movie for dessert. I was brought back about an 8th of a bag of popcorn, and half a chocolate cheesecake. Score for me!
Saturday was uneventful. Mags and I hit Target and then we all went to church. She has a goose-egg on the back of her head where she apparently fell into a bookcase in Sunday School class. If that wasn't bad enough, she stepped on a patch of ice on the way out to the car and bit the dust in the snow. All around, not the greatest trip to church ever.
On Sunday daddy took Maggie to the Disney on Ice, Finding Nemo show. They went to lunch at the "hamburger store" beforehand and then had a great time at the show. They stopped at WalMart on the way home to and we are now the proud owners of the Finding Nemo DVD. Of course we put it in right away and watched the whole thing before dinner.
Both girls got a bath last night. Daddy was getting them dressed and I could hear a lively conversation about where to and where not to put lotion. Daddy was explaining, "Yes, buns are ok, b-jamma's are not." : )
This morning Mags had her last swimming class of the session with Mr. Dan. Next session we move to evenings so one of us can stay home with Maya. I'm starting to feel guilty about leaving her with the neighbors every Monday morning. Today, Becky took Maya and her 2 girls to Music Mondays at the Red Giraffe. Mags and I met them there after swimming. We sang a few songs and then proceeded to play with everything in the store with about 20 other kids under the age of 4. The poor store owners...they probably have to spend the rest of the day cleaning up and putting everything back where it belongs.

Maya with her first ponytail. : )

Daddy and Maggie waiting for the Nemo show to get started.

Mags and her swimming buddy Rachael.

Mags working on back floats with big flappy arms.

Word of the week

We've started doing a "word of the week". This week the word is "at". So we did a little project with all the rhyming words for "at". Mags glued the orange first letters and the pictures of each of the words.

Maya boots/mittens

New boots...well one of them anyways...she walked around like this for at least a half an hour! Ummm...is it too cold inside?? She just had to wear her mittens.

Monkey jams

100% polyester pink monkey jams : )

Mags in the fort

Maggie posing in the elaborate fort we made in the living room!

Gopher girls

Daddy thought everyone in the family ought to have Gopher apparel, so he and the girls made a quick trip to WalMart and came home with these lovely jerseys.

March 4

We've had a busy couple of days. Yesterday, Maggie had swimming and wore the new shiny, pink suit I made for her. You can't miss her that's for sure. :) Then we took the car in for new headlights, and stopped at Toys R Us on the way home. Maya got some new rain boots (I'd never seen any before so small! Hooray...they fit!), and Maggie picked out matching nightgowns for her and Maya. I suggested the totally cute 3 piece cotton Carters jammies, but NOOOO, she had to have the ugly, 100% polyester pink monkey jams. Whatever. Then, the lights went out for a couple of hours, just as we were getting the girls to bed...of course. Maggie freaked out in the dark, so needless to say, we didn't get them the early bedtimes they needed that night. And now, Maggie's obsessed with flashlights and heart candles. Today we got our security system installed, so now we're safe as can be. Although, Mags thinks we need a flashlight everytime the door opens and it beeps!

Saturday, March 1

All of us are fighting the cold that is going around. Maya and I are both stuffed up in the head, and Mags is starting to get sniffly now. Aaron took the girls to the "coffee store" this morning for hot chocolate and blueberry muffins, then Mags and I went to the zoo with our neighbors to see the dolphin show. Bad news though...no dolphin shows today! Luckily we avoided any meltdowns by all parties 3 and under, so that was a major victory! : ) Then off to bible study tonight, which Maya joined us at since she only lasted 10 minutes in the nursery. I thought the seperation anxiety was coming to an end...but I guess not! She said "Elmo" the other day and "daddy", and she thought she was hot stuff, but it still doesn't make up for throwing food across the room. Gotta work on that one.