I can hardly believe that our little Maggie is almost 6 weeks old! We had her 1-month check-up last Tuesday (at about 5 weeks old, because everything we do takes longer now). As her pediatrician said, "she doesn't miss a meal"! She weighed in at 10 lbs 12 oz putting her in the 90-97% range. For a girl who hadn't reached birth weight at two weeks...she has surely caught up! She is also tall - 22 3/4 in (90-97%).
As far as personality and activity - right now she's just starting to have a lot more awake/alert periods where you can tell she's intently checking out her surroundings - fans, faces, movement. But she still sleeps a lot. We're still not on much of a schedule, although she's given me some good long stretches at night (one was over 7 hours)! She handles all the attention from brother and sister like a champ; and she seems to give me some grace when it comes to not meeting her needs immediately when I'm tending to one of the older ones - at least that's what I tell myself! She has just started to enjoy her "jungle chair" (bouncy) instead of always being held...but if I want to get anything done, the Ergo is the way to go - even around the house.
All in all, she's a sweet baby and we're looking forward to the next month as she starts to interact with us more and more!
Here are a few shots from last week (I think these were while she was contently sleeping in the shade at the pool while O & R did their swim lessons). She's suffering from that horrible baby acne that both the others had...but even today I'm noticing that it's starting to improve. Yea!
Maggie will never have known life without her two big siblings. She'll always be used to having to share. And that goes for blog posts too. One of these days we'll have more to say about her than the others, but today isn't that day.
Bee & JoJo headed to Colorado (for a month!) on Friday but on her way out, Bee had to stop by and give Rebecca a much needed pedicure.
Unbelievable how still she sits for this...
Blowing on her toes.
Later that morning we went to a little 2-year old birthday party at our local Chick Fil A. It happened to be "National Cow Appreciation Day" so we donned our best cow attire (homemade in a jiffy with an old black t-shirt and a glue gun) so we could get our free food!
All three little Moo Cows. (Maggie is a strawberry milk cow.)
Okay, here are all the other things I've been meaning to "mention"...
Owen
- Some of Owen's favorite new words/phrases: No way Jose; You betcha; Now you're talkin'; Exactly (ezatly); Interesting...everything is interesting. Like - let's read the most interesting book; Momma- look at this interesting train I made; I picked out an interesting shirt to wear...He is also a big fan of pointing out when others are right or wrong - something we're working to restrain.
- Kyle took Owen to Longhorn Caverns week before last for his first cave tour. If you see Owen, be sure to ask him about it. He'd love to tell you ALL about how 1) it's not a bear cave, 2) they have "staladatites" (stalactites) and you shouldn't touch them because they'll stop growing.
- Owen has become a BIG fan of knock-knock jokes. The problem is we haven't exactly taken the time to teach him how a knock knock joke should actually work so most of his sound something like this...
- Knock knock - who's there? - banana - banana who? - aren't you glad I didn't say dump truck again?
- Knock knock - who's there? - fire truck - fire truck who? - aren't you glad I didn't say mopac train again?
- Knock knock - who's there? - baby sister - baby sister who? - aren't you glad I didn't say fork again?
- When he told a knock knock joke involving poop the other day (his first "dirty" joke) I told him not to tell "poop jokes" and he quickly informed me that it wasn't a "poop joke," it was a knock knock joke!
Rebecca
- Rebecca (and Owen) are going to a little mother's day out program at a neighborhood church - this is R's first school experience. (Owen calls it "summer school".) She's doing pretty well although I was honestly a little surprised that my little extrovert actually cried a few times at drop off. They tell me she is very clingy with her backpack and lunch box. I think they're bribing her with cookies to get her to give them up - one at a time. Then she plays and has a great time!
- New words/phrases? Where to start!? I'm constantly realizing that Rebecca just said something that I didn't realize she could say (and has probably been saying for a while, I just couldn't totally understand). Here are some of my favorites right now...
- no ma'am (she's heard this one a time or two)
- doe (for go) - whenever I get her dressed she looks up at me and asks Doe? to ask if/where we're going
- poo, wah-wah? (going to the pool?)
- wedy! (ready)
- adin! (again)
- moe (mole) - likes to point mine out (at least she doesn't think they're boo boo's anymore)
- ho ho (how she asks - more like demands - to hold Maggie)
- and some two syllable ones: money (as she digs through Bee's purse), dinner
- No biting/body/party/potty...we're not exactly sure which one she's saying when. For a while she would walk around the house saying "no bity, no ma'am" and I thought she was saying "biting" and Owen thought she was saying "body" and then we started to think she was saying "party" or "potty". She's probably saying all of them (depending on the context) - it's just hard to tell the difference. These are Owen's favorite things to get her to say.
- And my favorite: wa-u (Love you). Melt a momma's heart.
- She knows her right and left. And we did not teach her that. One day she just showed us - right hand, left hand. How awesome is that?
- Rebecca is in to knock knock jokes too. She knows one and here's how it goes.
- Not not - who's there? Nana - Nana who? [No answer - just lots of giggling]. We have some work to do with both of them...
- Rebecca is very concerned with other people's boo boo's? Although she has learned that moles aren't boo boo's, she will point out a week-old bruise and frown and say boo boo in the saddest most compassionate voice you've ever heard - very very sad until you tell her it's all okay. Then she'll kiss it anyways. She gets VERY upset when she sees a cartoon character on TV get a boo boo (even if they didn't really get one) - I'm talking tears people, real tears!
- She loves flowers. She smells them even when they're not real. If you have a flower printed on your shirt or drawn on a piece of paper, Rebecca wants to smell it.
- She and Owen had a sleepover at Bee and JoJo's before they left for Colorado. It was a comedy of errors that culminated in my mom relaxing in the other room after she has put O & R to bed and thinking to herself...do I hear water? When she went in to check on them, O told her that he couldn't sleep because R was making too much noise. And that she was. Becuase she was in the attached bathroom, fully clothed, in the shower, with the water running, just having a grand ol' time. No wonder my mom had to get away for a month!
- Even though we try to keep the bedtime routines simple, I can't help but want to sit and sing with both these kiddos (still my babies, right?). Well, R's favorite song as of late has been "Jesus loves the little children"...but it makes her laugh! She giggles through the whole thing - especially the "red and yellow, black and white" part. Why is this so amusing to her?
Whew. I feel all caught up now. Be sure to check out the other new posts below...
