Under quarantine!

Well, it turns out that the "illness" I developed while traveling was shingles! I am slowly starting to heal and feel better (and look human again), however, Maggie now has chicken pox. (She was scheduled to get the chicken pox vaccine in a month, so the good news is that now she will have one less shot to get.) Luckily, she doesn't seem to be bothered too much by them at this point...she actually seems oblivious to the fact that she has red, itchy spots all over herself.
-Heather

Maggie's 1st Christmas

Maggie and I went to stay with my folks in TN for a week before Christmas while Will installed hardwood floors in our house. It was a good trip, despite a few unexpected "surprises" (an early winter snowstorm, a 48 hour power outage, Maggie starting to cut another tooth, and me getting sick). Here are a few photos from the trip, along with a couple from when we returned home (including one of our beautiful new floors...Will did a great job!).

Just a general update...Maggie is almost 11 months old and she's starting to get around fairly well these days. She's "military crawling" (basically pulling herself forward on her elbows), and she's now deciding that this may be better than rolling, which was her preferred method of moving up until this point. (In fact, I was beginning to think she was never going to crawl because she was so content to just roll wherever she wanted to go.) She is also learning that when you stick your hand out with a Cheerio in it, a beagle will usually find it. :-)

Happy Hoppers!

For some reason, this video that Will took the other evening really cracks me up. I think it is the look of concern on her face. Or maybe it is just the penguin jammies.

Maggie's travels

We spent Thanksgiving week traveling to see my parents in east Tennessee and Will's family in north Georgia. Maggie did very well, and really enjoyed seeing her grandparents and cousins, but she was also happy to be back in her own crib when we returned home. I realized once we got back home that I hadn't taken enough pictures, but here are a few that I did manage to get, including Maggie's 1st Christmas present (a month early) and swinging with her aunt Katie.

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Southern Magnolia

The weather has been fantastic for the past few days, so Maggie and I have been relaxing outside and catching up on some light reading. 

And what's more refreshing than a lazy afternoon in the yard?

A warm bath!

play date and more random photos

Here are a couple of photos from a recent playdate with Maggie's friend, Eli.


And a few random photos for anyone in need of some cuteness to brighten their day.

flower child

Our camera finally bit the dust today, so I apologize for the poor quality of these pictures. But I just couldn't resist posting these anyways. Maggie loves the swamp sunflowers that I grow, and she points at them every time we walk by them in the yard. She'll even point to them when we get out of the car, and whenever I cut some to bring in the house, she points and smiles at them. Here she is showing off one of them and looking so proud!

smile, you're on candid camera!

This picture is specifically for Maggie's Granddad! :-) This is probably the messiest food Maggie has eaten yet...cherry applesauce. (And no, I didn't intentionally color-coordinate her outfit with her meal!)

Maggie's hooptie

Well, we have officially "sold out", thanks to Fisher Price. Maggie now has a jumperoo, the most ridiculous toy you have ever seen. We really wanted to avoid giant plastic toys with lots of lights and music, but what do you see in our living room right now? A giant plastic toy with lots of lights and music! Go figure. But as you can see, Maggie loves it! And I'm a sucker for that drooly, dimply smile.
-Heather

Fun with mom & dad

One of these days we'll get a photo with all 3 of us together.  :-) 
For now, here are a couple of cute ones.

Mealtime adventures

Mealtimes are becoming more like entertainment for Maggie these days. She's easily distracted by everything from the beagles to her feet to the hummingbirds outside the kitchen window. And this morning after she finished her breakfast, she decided that there might be just a little more flavor left on the spoon so she grabbed it from me.

Colors 101

Here are some cute pictures of Maggie learning her colors. Who knew blue was so tasty?

Maggie's first tooth!

Maggie cut her first tooth this week! She screamed bloody murder (which she never does, so I knew something was up) for about 30 minutes on Monday morning, so I was expecting a tooth to pop up shortly thereafter. She's been happy since then, but sure enough, on Wednesday morning I felt the sharp edge of her first tooth poking through. You can barely see it in these pictures.
-Heather

Squash, carrots, zucchini, oh my!!

Maggie is now 6 months old and over the last couple of weeks we've been introducing her to "solid" food. For the first couple of days she thought we were trying to poison her, but now she's starting to enjoy these new meals. So far, she's tried rice cereal, applesauce, bananas, carrots, peaches, zucchini, and yellow squash. Thanks to our awesome BabyCook from Will's aunt Kathy (thanks so much Kathy!!), I've been making homemade purees. Surprisingly, her favorites so far have been the zucchini and carrots (maybe we'll have one of those kids that loves her veggies).
-Heather


"Wait a minute...this isn't ice cream!!"


"Nope, no carrots here...haven't seen them! Maybe the beagles ate them."

A busy day at the office

Maggie's been putting in long hours at the office these days...so many e-mails to read, so many important business meetings to attend.


Luckily, she managed to find some time in her busy schedule to "pencil in" some quilt time with her buddy Eli.