Big girls!

Both girls had to go to the dr yesterday for regular check-ups. Maggie for her 4 year and Gracie for her 15 month (I know, I know, way late on both). Everybody did awesome. Maggie needed 4 shots, she was SO brave! She laughed during the first 2 and shed a few tears during the last 2, but quickly recovered.

The nurse asked Maggie if she could count to 10, I think Maggie may have responded with an eye role and she definitely had an 'are you joking' look on her face....and she said "yes, and I can read too." Apparently we need to work on tact :)

Both girls are still in the 97th percentile. Maggie was 50lbs and 43.5" and Grace was 29lbs and 34".

A few cell phone pictures, just for fun....

Hey mom, we're out of diet coke!!!


Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! Guess what, the whole bathroom is soaked :)


Maggie and mom went for a long bike ride, she was so excited because she made it all the way to the park by Aunt Keeli's. She's getting pretty good.


We stopped at Grandma's for a minute and Gracie kept wanting to check on Rory.


Gracie is getting pretty good at using her utensils. She tries to eat everything with her spoon (including goldfish crackers).

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First day, well sort of...

Maggie's preschool never really stops, she went a couple of mornings a week all summer, BUT today is the first day of the new school year. She'll start staying all day, at least one day a week and they'll go back to doing more school and less playing. So around here, we called it the first day of school.....

This is the start of Maggie's 3rd year at Montessori. She has done so well there and her teachers have been awesome. She seemed so grown up this morning...she seemed so little when we took her their the first time, I can't believe how fast the time has gone.



This picture was on her real first day of preschool, she wasn't quiet 2 and a half.



Catching up....

Whoa, I'm behind (again!). As the days go by I think to myself, "we didn't do much today, I wouldn't have anything to write about"....then after several days I realize I'm behind....the little things add up.

The big news is Miss Lauren had to go back to college yesterday :( We love having her around in the summer. Friday night she came to watch the girls and they had a pajama party. By 6:30pm they all (including Lauren and her sister Jill) had on their pajamas and were picking out a movie. Maggie told me they were going to eat lots of junk food and stay up really late. Lauren is so good to our kids. She's much more then a babysitter, she's part of our family. Our girls are so lucky to have her (me too!) Fall softball starts in a couple of weeks, so hopefully we'll get to go see her play soon.

At the first Panther Softball game of the year.

Clare let Maggie hold the "book", who knows what she wrote in there.
I'm doubting it was ball and strike counts :)

A few other pictures & captions from last week and the weekend.....

It was raining in Omaha on Friday, so Maggie and Grandma made an
bike obstacle course in the garage....then played follow the leader. :) She's
asked me several times in the last few days if I'd move my car so she could
set up our garage.

Friday afternoon the Dr removed one of Maggie's ear tubes. That little blue
thing is it. I swear he told me it was blue and the size of a straw. He must have meant
a stir stick. There is no way we'd ever have noticed it if it just fell out. He let
Maggie bring it home, she was excited to show it off.

Maggie and Lauren made cupcakes, they used 2 WHOLE bottles of sprinkles :)

Who needs toys, when you have dishes!

Now that's static!

Christmas in August....

Maggie got a pair of sequins pink high tops for Christmas from Aunt Trisha & Uncle Jeff....of course she thought they were AWESOME! At Christmas they were too big. She's been trying them on a couple times a week since....and this week, THEY FIT!!!

They made an interesting outfit with her capri leggings....she had a certain Punky Brewster-esq look about her :) I have a feeling we will all be seeing alot of these shoes in the coming months.

AND, not to leave Gracie out. Santa brought her a zoo for Christmas, and because I'm a space case, I put it in the cupboard and forgot about it. Until today (when she emptied the whole cupboard)! I should hide toys all the time, it's fun to see her try out something new.

Merry Christmas in August!!!

Just for fun here is a picture of Grace from our walk this morning.....I turned her seat around so we could "chat" while we walked....she thought it was fun for a little while. Then she got tired of me and wanted to see the scenery and wave at all the people we met along the way.....so much for our chit-chats!

A creative excuse...

Last night when it was time for bed, I was laying with Maggie and she said, "I have so many beautiful things in my room, I just don't want to close my eyes."

Fall??

Not really, but it sure felt like it today. It was a big change from the 100 degree days of last week.

We decided to try out the new bike park this afternoon. It was awesome! I have a feeling it will work its way into our usual rotation. It was really cloudy and fairly windy, so we had the whole place to ourselves. Maggie loved the real "streets" and all the signs. I ticketed her twice for failure to stop at a stop sign....she said, "mom, I don't have to stop when no one else is on the road.".....hmmmmm, I wonder where she's heard that before??

Grace was much more intersted in pushing her car then riding in it.

http://youtu.be/WMfPIxqvUDk

I hope this video works. We can thank Aunt Diane & Howie for the constant ringing! At one point we stopped her and explained that her bike would still work if she stopped ringing it.

Grace LOVED the kids sized benches all over the park.

Taking a little break.



Hello!!!

 Tonight after supper Pops had a special dessert picked out for the girls....

Surprise, surprise, someone has a little attitude!

http://youtu.be/P6btJttqymk

Pops was supposed to do the clean up, but somehow he got out of it :)

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