Maggie is nearing her 27th month birthday.  She still is 20 to 21 lbs, depending on which way the wind is blowing!  She is very healthy and is eating more every day.  She is learning so much now and has a lot of words in her vocabulary.  She is still only using 1 word but I believe will be putting 2 words together soon.  Some of her favorites:

• Uh-oh
• otter - water
• bush - brush
• Bye-Bye (even says it like a flight attendant)
• Tank u - Thank you - says it anytime I give her something - good manners already!
• Gooot - stands for Good as in "Maggie, how are you? Gooot
• peas - for Please
• Up for please pick me up
• Down for I want to get down
• bat - bath
• Boo - Moo
• Hay -  Hay - this one is in one of her books
• Baaaaa - for sound sheep make
• boom boom - sound trucks make - should be vroom vroom
• Amen
• Ah-uus - Jesus
• na-na - night night
• bottle - pronounced perfectly - LOL
• ite - bite
• Momma
• Maggie
• Wheeeeee - when I take a curve too fast in the car  LOL
  
  UH UH UH for everything else!  LOL

One of the funniest things Maggie is doing now is pretending and mocking.  She mocks me on EVERYTHING!  Scary, I know.  We are in the car and she all of a sudden throws her hand to her ear and says Hello?  She then proceeds to have a conversation with someone on the phone - including knee slapping laughter and then will say Bye.  It is hysterical.  She loves to sing still and knows the tunes (not the words yet) to most of our Bible Songs for Kids CD's.  She cracks me up as she sings to the top of her lungs and it is so off key - now that is MY daughter!!!  LOL

Maggie doesn't walk - she RUNS everywhere.  She has scrapes on her knees from falling all the time.  I just can't catch her quick enough.   She also does the weirdest thing at home.  I have hardwood floors and she walks around the house then all of a sudden will jump up and plop right down on her rear on the hard wood.  It is like doing a seat drop on a trampoline.  I don't know why and it is so funny to watch.  It hurts me but I guess she has diaper padding!

She also loves to jump.  Any time the flooring changes - like from tile to hardwood or grass to concrete, she will jump.  She even skips some too - don't know how she learned that one.

Daycare has also taught her some not so good things.  She says NO to everything, whether it is Yes or No.  But it is all in her tone.   Sometimes she will say, No, then OK - that means YES.  Being an instructor and conscious of my words, I know that I say OK a lot.  She has picked it up too.  Yesterday I was on the phone with my mom and mom said to tell Maggie she loves her.  I said, Maggie, Gran loves you.  Tell her you love her?  She said NO just matter of factly.  It was pretty funny on my end - mom didn't think so.  LOL

I used to work at my church's nursery to sharpen my "toddler" skills.  I worked there throughout the past 4 years.  The sweet ladies there threw us a shower this past Sunday and gave us some awesome gifts.  Thank you all!!!!!  It was so much fun and Maggie was the star, as she should be!  One of the ladies gave Maggie a little baby doll that cries when you remove her bottle.  Well Maggie just loved this doll but she loved taking the bottle out of the baby's mouth more so it would cry.  That just cracked me up.  I guess compassion is a skill we will need to work on.

Enjoy the pictures - the good ones were taken by my cousin, Leigh.:


  I love my shakers







  Wheeeee




  First time in the sprinkler

  This is so much fun!!!!









  Dinner with Hannah and Sadie - my friend, DeEtte's kids