Finally, we have a crawling baby! She takes a few steps with her hands, then pulls both her legs in at the same time, it cracks us up!
Maggie wants more control over eating. For some reason, she will let me feed her lunch without any problem, but at dinner, she absolutely has to have a spoon in her hand and dip it into the food... she isn't concerned with putting her spoon in her mouth, she just needs to help stir up her food. It's pretty funny, just a lot more cleanup than before!
Oh, hey you
Maggie loves standing and looking
out the window
I wish I was a little bit taller, I wish a baller...
If we hold her hands, Maggie does a great job of walking on her own. I can tell that her brace is really starting to annoy her now that she's more mobile. I think we need to start putting it on/off for naps throughout the day to add up to 16 hours total... it'll be a pain, but I think she'll be a lot happier.
We went to Brady's 1st birthday party today, though Maggie was being a bit of a diva. She's been a little off these past two days, and she was really irritated most of the time. She really enjoyed the ball pit though!
Time flies when you're having fun! Maggie is an awesome 10-month old! She's pulling herself up, taking little steps with her walker, semi-crawling and rolling, eating most foods, and has her front eight teeth.
We had a good weekend so far - homecoming at Bishop Foley was on Friday and they won! Saturday we hung around the house and did some shopping, then Uncle Jason stayed with Maggie while we went to check out my cousin's new restaurant, Huerto! Everything was so good (especially the margaritas), we had an awesome time! We'll definitely be going back!
We went to check out day care this week, and Maggie absolutely loved having all the kids around. We are planning to start sending her one day a week, hopefully it works out well!
This weekend was great - we got to see my brother John and his family on Saturday and then my college roomie Lauren and her family this morning!
We have a bunch of fall birthdays on the Rabine side, so my parents had the family over for a 6-person birthday celebration! We got to play with all the kids and sing our long-winded version of the birthday song! Here's my neice Katy ready for her first big high school dance:
My gorgeous niece, Katy
ready for homecoming!
Today we went to one of our fave breakfast spots to see Lauren and Ben and their adorable little Henry. They recently moved from Hawii to Minnesota... quite a change, but it sounds like they are really happy with their new home.
Lauren and Henry @ 18 months
Maggie is pulling herself up much more often now, and is more vocal everyday. We've heard a few new syllables, but it's pretty much always "da-da" for now.
(sorry for the annoying squeal)
Maggie's been holding her bottle for a long time, but I'm trying to get her more into eating independently. She's does really well as long as she's leaning backward enough. We're still working on learning to tip the bottle up when she's sitting up. We let her have little tastes of whatever we're eating, and so far nothing seems to bug her. I'm trying to make sure she's not snacking all day long though, just getting a few nibbles at her feed times.
Jamie left Maggie for a minute...
Playing with our socks
Good one, Mommy!
Waking up after our 2.5 hour nap...
Mommy and Maggie were pooped today!
Jamie made me post this to commemorate the end of
Breaking Bad. Note - I would most likely not leave
our daughter in the hands of a meth-man.
Not much to report this week, Maggie just continues being her cute self. She gave us an extra hour of sleep on Saturday morning, which was much appreciated! She does an awesome job of feeding herself finger food... and paper when we're not looking... I think she has aspirations to become an office recycling bin. She continues to twist and grunt and squirm to get where she wants... she performed some sort of half crawl movement, but I wouldn't say she's crawling yet. She loves to pass balls by rolling them.
We went to Cuz Lauren's 30th birthday party on Saturday... I made sure Maggie had a late nap, but it did no good. By 7pm she was ready to sleep for the night - her schedule will not be compromised! Unfortunately we had to leave before ice cream cake, and I was even going to let her have a little!
Happy Birthday, Miss Cuz!
I definitely need to do some shopping for warmer clothes. Maggie has a few outfits for fall, but I struggled to find something that looked a little dressier for church today. So it looks like we're going shopping!
The day Daddy has been waiting for – Maggie’s first Tigers game! We got her bundled up and went to see the boys play this afternoon. Thanks to cousin Donna for the tickets, so awesome! She even left a swag bag for Maggie with her first baseball cap and a cute stuffed Tiger! Maggie was pretty good, and we ended up staying for all 9 innings, which was totally unexpected. We didn't even leave the seats! Tigers won, so of course Daddy thinks he has a new good luck charm.
Ready to go!
'sup
Go Tigers!
Family Photo
It's not a hotdog, but it'll do
Scherzer's looking good today, Daddy
We had a few cool things happen this week. Maggie is finally saying “da-da!” I’ve been waiting so long to hear something other than “ah!” Maggie also managed to pull herself up to her feet this week by dangerously grabbing onto a drawer. She hasn’t repeated it yet, but she definitely keeps trying. She’ll figure it out soon. We went to Maggie's first football game on Friday at Foley. It was pretty chilly, so we only stayed for a little while.
We went to St. Thecla’s mom-to-mom sale on Saturday. I had no idea that these things were so intense! We got some good stuff though, including a new car seat! We also went to the Laneway festival at Meadowbrook, and Jamie got to meet the bass player of his favorite band, The National. It was a really cool festival, way more chill than I thought it would be.
Here’s a few other photos of our girl from the week:
This outfit was cute on the hanger... but she kind of looks like a baby hooker.... so we changed outfits!
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