My 90 Day Warranty is up - I think I made it!  Don't jobs have a 90 day probational period?  Don't some products come with a 90 day warranty?  How about motherhood?  Does Maggie get to "send me home" if she wants after 90 days?

Well, Maggie and I have been a family for 90 days.  And she is still here!  She did not leave, she has not packed her bags and she has not booked a flight - well that I know of at least.  She may, in fact, still want to be with me!!!!!  LOL

I cannot believe that we have been a family for 3 months.  The time has on one hand flown but yet I feel like we have been together forever.  I don't miss my life before her and would never want to return to it.  She has filled that missing piece in my life and I hope I have in hers.  We are a pair - mother and daughter forever.  Magster, I love you and delight in what you teach me every minute of every day.  I love living life through your sweet two year old eyes.

I thank God for you every day.  How He brought us together at just the perfect time.  How He laid the pathway for me to get to you.  How He opened doors that would normally have been closed so I could be your mom.  I love how you are learning about Him and learning to sing His praises.  One day, hopefully soon, you will know who Jesus is and that He died for your sins.  One day, hopefully soon, you will learn about the peace that loving and following Him means.  Jesus LOVES you more than you will ever know and I am so very thankful that you now live in a country where you can get to know Him freely.  I am extremely privileged to be your mom and I love you with every fiber of my being and everything I am capable of.

So what is Maggie doing now?

• Weighs 20 lbs - lost 1/2 lbs
• Had her first ear infection
• Says HI - to everyone and I mean everyone - at the store, daycare, restaurant, me, etc...
• Says Bye-Bye to the same people as we leave
• Loves to say good girl or "goot url" - I must say that a lot
• Blows kisses without  having to prompt her - so sweet
• Calls herself - "Baggie" instead of Maggie and calls me Momma (taps my chest as she says it like I do hers)
• Does not like icing or anything sweet - can this girl really be mine????
• Loves food (but not sweets or fruit) and no snacks
• Loves to dance
• Has started to sing in the car with the 101 Bible Songs - really cute!  Yesterday we were coming home from work and Crown Him was playing - at the end of the song they shout Crown Him very loud to end it - when it got to that part all of a sudden I heard Maggie shout something like Crown Him - she knows these songs and it is hilarious - she claps after every song too
• Dances to the Auburn fight song (keychain plays song) and knows how to do War Eagle, Hey at the end - fist pumps and all
• LOVES the outside
• Rolls the ball to you
• Kicks the ball - sometimes
• Runs to her daycare room every morning - then remembers that I am leaving her so she cries  LOL
• Can sorta count to four - there are four scoops of formula in her bottle - I say one then she says the sweetest two, three and four
• Feeds herself - well some food gets in her mouth but needless to say, Izzy is getting fatter!
• Knows  how to blow (or I call it spit) on her food to cool it down
• Knows the word HOT
• Plays this game with me by cowering up to me and putting her finger in front of her mouth and going "shhhhh"  I do it back and we just laugh and giggle - so precious
• Kisses me every night before bed and every morning when I get  her out of bed - my love tank is full with this child!
• Learning how to WHINE - Yuck I wish she hadn't learned this one!
• We are working on the word Please so maybe she wont whine too much (I know BTDT parents - they still will!  LOL)
• Got her first haircut - a little short but cute

  Overall day at daycare - Mom don't look (my mother  HATES overalls and jeans on Maggie LOL) - I think she looks precious!

  Don't tell Maggie but she has a hair bow in her hair!

 At the hair salon about to get my first hair cut


  I love this picture - good shot of her double crown!

 Being very still!

OK I dont really like this anymore

All done!  The sweet hair stylist, Stephanie, was awesome - she even thought to give me the first lock of hair to save.  How sweet!  Here Maggie is with my neighbor, Barbara, who babysat while mom got her hair done too.  Thanks Barb!