SHE WALKS!

MAGGIE WALKS!

 

Up, up, and...

 Away!

 Here she comes!

 Whew! Walking is hard work!

 Cookie break!

The details: The weekend of 11/10 we went camping and Maggie stayed with the grandparents - she had been taking a step here and there (maybe 2-3 in between pieces of furniture) always falling into what she was walking towards at the end. That weekend she took several strides - so sayeth the grandparents. I guess that weekend will go down in the books as the official start to real walking, but in the last two weeks she's become a professional. Crawling to get to something to pull up on and then walking until a fall forced her to do that again lasted for about a week. And now (2 weeks after the start) she walks everywhere. She can even stand up from being seated without pulling up on something. I am proud...and my back feels so much better! :)

 A few more pictures of our girl on the move. She started really really playing on Nana's riding toys a few weeks ago but now that she's walking she's all over them.

 Yep, she's carrying a fork with a big ol' breakfast sausage on the end.

 Yum!

In other Maggie news:

• 16 month stats (yep - back in mid October): 90-95% for height, 50-75% for weight (can that be right at 31.5 lbs?)
• Loves to play catch - sitting down a few feet from you - giggles giggles giggles
• We're actually having to discipline her! We've found ourselves having to tell Maggie to be gentle with Rebecca more often than the other way around! Crazy! (She loves to pull on her sister's hairs and sort of growl.)
• She has her own place on our little brown couch in the playroom. If you're looking at it - Rebecca has "her spot" on the right side. Owen has "his spot" on the left side. And Maggie has made herself perfectly comfortable right in the middle. She steps up on a little chest we have next to it and crawls/dives over Rebecca to get to her middle spot. Striking out on her own!
• Along with WALKING came TALKING! She's been noisy for a while (remember my description of her siren noise in the car that would go on and on and on and on?)...now she has added all sorts of other gibberish but her favorites are 1) a very clear bye bye (accompanied by what I think is the cutest wave ever), 2) a clear to us "nigh nigh", 3) a "I'm eating noise" - nom nom nom nom nom, and...
• 4) a very clear "bahbay" - she LOVES her (and Rebecca's) baby dolls, especially a plush one that our special Auntie Joycie gave her a while back - it's definitely a favorite - thank you AJ! (I'll try to get a picture soon). 
• 5) She LOVES to wave - she waves at anything and everything passing by. She waves when she hears someone (even in another room) say bye. Bah Bah. :)

Well, that's our big girl! It seriously feels like she went from giant baby to spunky toddler in a matter of 2 weeks. Fun times!

(Showing us she's ONE - Owen's birthday morning.)