6 Months

I love the shadow effect here!

Smile!!

March 23, 2010

I love the side profile of you, Miss Margo

"Mommy, where's my bib?"

Miss Amanda had you painting today! What a great surprise. You really like her; she's the best!! I love how she does little things with you because when you are little they really are big things to you!!!

6 MONTHS OLD

Margo! You are 6 months old today. It feels like was just yesterday when we brought you home. You are such a good baby. Your big sisters absolutely adore you. Tessa loves to read you books. Charlotte tries to sit in your lap!! Most of all, you love watching them. Tessa dances for you and you giggle and coo. It's neat that you've been sitting up for over a month now. Soon you'll be crawling; I know you'll be trying to keep up with your sisters. You've been on cereal for a few weeks now. Soon you get to eat regular baby food!! You still love your baths and you seem to love waking up several times a night. Yes, you enjoy sleeping by Mommy and Daddy for part of the night. Margo, you love to grab things around you and chew on them. You have two teeth on the bottom and I think you're getting more!! We feel so blessed since you joined our family. We love you, Margo Elizabeth!!!

Blankets

When Addison and her family came to visit, I found out about Taggie Blankets. On Sunday we made Taggie Blankets. Charlotte is so attached to her blankets we made last year.She drags it everywhere. Now, thanks to Aunt Mary, Margo has one too. There is more to this story, but we can't share it because it's a surprise!!!However, this is what I also invisioned a child doing with the taggie blanket...sucking her thumb and twirling rubbing the ribbon. Margo does it right away....bliss. Night, night Miss Margo.

Pictured below (left to right):
The supervisor, the manager, the assistant manager, and the owner.

She's a big girl now!!!

Congratulations, Charlotte!! We're so proud of you!!!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

We love it when it's in the 60's. We love going for bike rides!!

YES!!!!

Ms. Annette, Charlotte's day care teacher, happily reported that Charlotte did go potty on the potty yesterday!!! Awesome Char!!!  1, 2, 3, 4, who are we a rooting for?  Charlotte.  Charlotte went pee pee on the potty, Charlotte went pee pee on the potty, Charlotte went pee pee on the potty, she's a big girl now!!  WOO HOO!  (Come on, you know you want to sing it).  We certainly did......

Sitting Up!

I thought I posted this earlier but I guess not. Margo has been sitting up for several weeks. I can't believe how early she's sitting up. Her teacher, Ms. Amanda, says she wants to crawl! She does that pushing up.... She also cut her second tooth on Thursday (March 11th). Go Margo!

Circus

First time at the CIRCUS. They girls had a blast. Margo slept through some of it but really enjoyed the lights.
Tessa loved the pony ride. Charlotte loved, well, the food. Thanks for going with us Laura, Kendall, and Kaitlyn (and cousins!).

Movie Night

We had a really fun movie night. Charlotte LOVED the popcorn. The candy was a big hit too.
Thanks, Misty!!!

What does your name mean??

Tessa has created a practical, responsible, stable nature, and you desire to direct the efforts of others rather than to take order or ask permission.

Charlotte you have always been a happy person, and, desiring to see others happy as well, you strive to inspire others, which you do most effectively through an engaging sense of humor.

Margo has given you inspirational, idealistic, and dramatic qualities.  You have a clever, deep mind and the talent to excel in highly inspirational lines of endeavour as a dramatist, musician, writer, or artist.

The Real Sleeping Beauty (times 3)!!

There's something so precious about a sleeping child.
I also love that Charlotte now loves to sleep with a book, too.

Little Things

All of a sudden she (Charlotte) stopped, I have no idea why . . . she was cooperative then.  I walked her around a little. She was a butsy from the getgo today. Tess was great. She was sitting by Margo and asked why Margo came out of your tummy so pretty. I said I didn’t know and then she said, “God must’ve said, hmmm . . . I think Tessa and Charlotte should have a pretty sister.”

Love

Sisterly love. So glad the girls love to read (and listen to books)!!!

POTTY

We finally put the potty in the bathroom. Charlotte's been interested in the one at day care. She sat on it and tried to go. Then, a few minutes later, Jeff put her on and she went. Tessa sings this song at Ms. Sandy's house: Charlotte went potty on the potty! Charlotte went potty on the potty. Charlotte went potty on the potty. She's a big girl now--woot, woot!!!

Um, why is your finger in my mouth???
Margo cut her first tooth on February 20th, 2010

Funny, Tessa!

Sometimes Tessa says the funniest things. Yesterday, as we were going through some wonderful clothes from Amanda, Tessa made an interesting observation. Back up. I'm guessing that some of the clothes were from Rachelle because they were from H&M. I said to Tessa, "Oh Rachelle got this for Jessica. It was made in Bangladesh where Shala is from." Tessa kindly tells me that those pants wouldn't fit Rachelle. She's right. They were for a 2 year old!!
Prior to this, we were in Charlotte's room cleaning. Tessa was reading a book in her crib. They love to play in the crib. She kindly said, "Can you be quiet, I can't concentrate." Jeff and I just started to laugh.

Fairies

Aunt Tami (thank you!) sent the girls wonderful Fairy outfits. Tessa claims she's a permanent fairy (you'll have to read the book Alice the Fairy to get that one). Charlotte loved it. Tessa believed it.

And the magic happened. Charlotte was able to do the dishes and Tessa could fly. She's wanted to fly ever since she saw Peter Pan. She finally got her wings but still needed the help from Daddy.

Charlotte

Sweet!

I love how Tessa would crawl in bed with Margo in the mornings. Often, she'd read to her as well.

When Uncle John was here, he read to Tessa and Charlotte a lot. No, really--a lot! Tessa would say, "Read it one more time." He'd smile and say, "Okay." This continued even when he was hoarse :)