She is a riot and a sweetheart and everything in between.
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
58-Months-Old!!!
This crazy footie-jammy-in-the-leaves girl is 2 months away from 5 and I can't even handle it.
Monday, October 20, 2014
God Bless Maya Leigh!
It is Maya's 1 year baptism anniversary today!
What a difference a year makes. We love you little Squish!
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| God Bless Maya! |
Sunday, October 19, 2014
Weekend Wrap-Up
We had SUCH a great weekend. We had some fun plans, the weather was beautiful, and the girls were awesome.
Saturday
We started out Saturday with some playtime at home. There is a lot of parallel play happening these days. Maya wants to be wherever Callie is, but Callie gets annoyed when Maya tries to take her toys. So she has learned to give Maya something she doesn't want to play with to distract her, and it works pretty well. Most of the time.
Since it was so gorgeous out, we checked out a park that is not too far from our house on Saturday afternoon.
On Saturday evening G-ma and G-pa came over to babysit so we could go to an Oktoberfest party at the Suurmeyer's place. It was fun to get out for a couple hours after bedtime on a Saturday night!
The only bummer of the weekend happened shortly before we left for the Oktoberfest party. Remember when I mentioned on Friday how Maya is pretty unstable and likely to take a coffee table to her forehead? Well, that sort of happened. It wasn't a coffee table...instead it was a headfirst dive off the couch onto the hardwood floor. She got a little gash and a big goose egg. She was pretty freaked out at first, but was able to recover pretty quickly.
Sunday
While Chris and Callie were at Sunday School, Maya napped. Then we took a beautiful fall walk.
I went to Chris' cousin Sarah's baby shower this afternoon with Mary. Sarah is due with a baby boy on Christmas day. They also have another cousin due around Christmas. Yay for Christmas babies!
Later this afternoon we did some raking, which of course meant FUN for our 4-year-old.
We ended the weekend by going out to dinner, just us and our two goofy girls.
We have another busy week ahead of us and Callie is anxiously awaiting Halloween.
I'll leave you with a couple of cute videos. Have a great week!
Video #1: Callie dancing to "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" soundtrack. It was a soundtrack my sisters and I grew up listening and dancing to. It is amazing how I still have the entire CD memorized after not hearing it for YEARS.
IMG 0480 from Baby Goose on Vimeo.
Video #2: And then we have Maya playing peek-a-boo and showing off her high five skills after bath time tonight.
IMG 0506 from Baby Goose on Vimeo.
Saturday
We started out Saturday with some playtime at home. There is a lot of parallel play happening these days. Maya wants to be wherever Callie is, but Callie gets annoyed when Maya tries to take her toys. So she has learned to give Maya something she doesn't want to play with to distract her, and it works pretty well. Most of the time.
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| See that tire swing in the upper right corner? It is most definitely NOT a tire. It is a big hunk of red plastic shaped like a tire. But Callie LOVED it. |
The only bummer of the weekend happened shortly before we left for the Oktoberfest party. Remember when I mentioned on Friday how Maya is pretty unstable and likely to take a coffee table to her forehead? Well, that sort of happened. It wasn't a coffee table...instead it was a headfirst dive off the couch onto the hardwood floor. She got a little gash and a big goose egg. She was pretty freaked out at first, but was able to recover pretty quickly.
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| Last night (picture taken in the mirror); this morning. |
While Chris and Callie were at Sunday School, Maya napped. Then we took a beautiful fall walk.
I went to Chris' cousin Sarah's baby shower this afternoon with Mary. Sarah is due with a baby boy on Christmas day. They also have another cousin due around Christmas. Yay for Christmas babies!
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| Sarah's sister Beth made the adorable elephant on a motorcycle. The motorcycle was made of diapers, burp clothes, bibs, and bottles. |
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| "Mom! This is like a dream come TRUE!" |
We have another busy week ahead of us and Callie is anxiously awaiting Halloween.
I'll leave you with a couple of cute videos. Have a great week!
Video #1: Callie dancing to "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" soundtrack. It was a soundtrack my sisters and I grew up listening and dancing to. It is amazing how I still have the entire CD memorized after not hearing it for YEARS.
IMG 0480 from Baby Goose on Vimeo.
Video #2: And then we have Maya playing peek-a-boo and showing off her high five skills after bath time tonight.
IMG 0506 from Baby Goose on Vimeo.
Friday, October 17, 2014
FTPDF
Happy Weekend! It has been a long week for me with 2 nights of conferences, but I got today off. Whew.
I feel like I haven't done a girls update for a couple weeks. Let's see...they have both been passing their snotty cold back and forth for the past month now, and this week they both had it at the same time. So that was fun.
Callie is frustratingly emotional and freak-outish at times, and heartbreakingly sweet and hilarious at times. Typical 4-year-old stuff (I hope). She would wear footie pajamas all day every day if she could. She fights putting on coats and socks pretty often. I'm not sure if she is just trying to hang on to summer that much longer or if she is trying to get used to all the layers again. She continues to love preschool (and her friend Henrick, who we have a play date set up with next weekend). It is fun to hear stories from her teachers about when she is social with the other kids and initiating interactions with them.
Maya is on the move...occasionally. She seems to forget sometimes that she can walk independently and still seems to prefer crawling if she wants to get somewhere fast. But she is so proud of herself when she remembers, stands up, claps for herself, and then takes a dozen steps across the room before wiping out. It is so fun to watch, but can get stressful because we have to watch her like a hawk now more than ever so she doesn't take a corner of a coffee table to her forehead (or something like that). The other thing that is hilarious about her is when she is holding something she really likes, she will sit there and literally shake her whole body with excitement.
On to the pictures...
Have a great weekend!
I feel like I haven't done a girls update for a couple weeks. Let's see...they have both been passing their snotty cold back and forth for the past month now, and this week they both had it at the same time. So that was fun.
Callie is frustratingly emotional and freak-outish at times, and heartbreakingly sweet and hilarious at times. Typical 4-year-old stuff (I hope). She would wear footie pajamas all day every day if she could. She fights putting on coats and socks pretty often. I'm not sure if she is just trying to hang on to summer that much longer or if she is trying to get used to all the layers again. She continues to love preschool (and her friend Henrick, who we have a play date set up with next weekend). It is fun to hear stories from her teachers about when she is social with the other kids and initiating interactions with them.
Maya is on the move...occasionally. She seems to forget sometimes that she can walk independently and still seems to prefer crawling if she wants to get somewhere fast. But she is so proud of herself when she remembers, stands up, claps for herself, and then takes a dozen steps across the room before wiping out. It is so fun to watch, but can get stressful because we have to watch her like a hawk now more than ever so she doesn't take a corner of a coffee table to her forehead (or something like that). The other thing that is hilarious about her is when she is holding something she really likes, she will sit there and literally shake her whole body with excitement.
On to the pictures...
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| Favorite Thing #1: Fun at Boom's house (See something funny in the bottom right picture? Maya is enthralled with the window washer outside) |
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| Favorite thing #2: I got a couple of visitors during one of my conference nights. Also, I straightened my hair (I usually wear it up and curly), and one of my students looked at me and said, "Wait, are you Mrs. Gosselin???" |
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| Favorite Thing #3: 2nd Annual Preschool Apple Orchard Trip |
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| Favorite Thing #4: Hanging out at G-ma and G-pa's house |
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| Favorite Thing #5: Lunch with Boom, Bops and Auntie Yoda, Playing at home |
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| Favorite Thing #6: Hanging out at Josh, Alison and Avery's new house (and finding out that Avery is going to get a little brother in February)! |
Thursday, October 16, 2014
TBT
Happy Throwback Thursday!
Here we go:
This week Callie and I went on her preschool field trip to the apple orchard for the 2nd year in a row. It was a beautiful day (MUCH nicer than last year) and was such a fun thing to do together.
I have some video today again- walking babies!
Here is Callie at 13 months:
Pretty Much Walking from Baby Goose on Vimeo.
Here is Maya at 14.5 months:
IMG 0285 from Baby Goose on Vimeo.
I guess now that Maya is walking I should stop referring to them as babies and start calling them toddlers.
They are such cutebabies toddlers.
Um...nope. I don't think I'm ready for that yet.
Here we go:
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| Babies playing |
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| Babies' sweet faces |
I have some video today again- walking babies!
Here is Callie at 13 months:
Pretty Much Walking from Baby Goose on Vimeo.
Here is Maya at 14.5 months:
IMG 0285 from Baby Goose on Vimeo.
I guess now that Maya is walking I should stop referring to them as babies and start calling them toddlers.
They are such cute
Um...nope. I don't think I'm ready for that yet.
Sunday, October 12, 2014
Weekend Wrap-Up: The WALKING Edition!!!!
Yes, as the title conveys, we officially have a walker in our house.
She took her first real solo steps on Saturday. By Saturday night she was getting pretty good.
IMG 0285 from Baby Goose on Vimeo.
And then by today she was all over! Like this:
IMG 0303 from Baby Goose on Vimeo.
and this!
IMG 0306 from Baby Goose on Vimeo.
So now it is a whole new ballgame!
Besides the walking, the rest of the weekend was also fun.
My friend (and college roommate) Melissa flew in from New York and we drove down to Luther for the day on Saturday. It was our 10 YEAR COLLEGE REUNION. Like, we haven't been in college for over a decade. That made us feel a little old (that, and the 18-year-olds that we saw around campus), but we had a really fun day going back to all of our favorite places.
We even snuck in the dorm that we spent 2 years living in and took a picture in front of one of our old rooms. It is amazing how all the buildings smelled the same. It was so great to see Melissa again and wander around the place we spent four years of our life.
While we were gone, the girls spent time with Daddy, G-ma, G-pa and Auntie Cat.
This morning the girls and I let Daddy sleep in and we went on a wagon ride walk to the park.
Then later, we dropped the girls off at Boom and Bops' house so we could see a movie. They also got to play with Auntie Yoda and Auntie Mari.
We had a good dance party and playtime tonight. I got them to sit still for a couple seconds to snap a picture, otherwise they were both off doing their own crazy things.
Gosh, they are sweet.
Hope you had a great weekend!
She took her first real solo steps on Saturday. By Saturday night she was getting pretty good.
IMG 0285 from Baby Goose on Vimeo.
And then by today she was all over! Like this:
IMG 0303 from Baby Goose on Vimeo.
and this!
IMG 0306 from Baby Goose on Vimeo.
So now it is a whole new ballgame!
Besides the walking, the rest of the weekend was also fun.
My friend (and college roommate) Melissa flew in from New York and we drove down to Luther for the day on Saturday. It was our 10 YEAR COLLEGE REUNION. Like, we haven't been in college for over a decade. That made us feel a little old (that, and the 18-year-olds that we saw around campus), but we had a really fun day going back to all of our favorite places.
We even snuck in the dorm that we spent 2 years living in and took a picture in front of one of our old rooms. It is amazing how all the buildings smelled the same. It was so great to see Melissa again and wander around the place we spent four years of our life.
While we were gone, the girls spent time with Daddy, G-ma, G-pa and Auntie Cat.
This morning the girls and I let Daddy sleep in and we went on a wagon ride walk to the park.
Then later, we dropped the girls off at Boom and Bops' house so we could see a movie. They also got to play with Auntie Yoda and Auntie Mari.
We had a good dance party and playtime tonight. I got them to sit still for a couple seconds to snap a picture, otherwise they were both off doing their own crazy things.
Gosh, they are sweet.
Hope you had a great weekend!
Friday, October 10, 2014
FTPDF
Happy weekend!
I'm doing this post on my phone so it will be nice and brief. :)
Favorite things about Monday:
*A day at home with Maya
*An impromptu lunch date with Josh
*Dinner with G-ma and Pa
Favorite things about Tuesday:
*Snuggles
*Mom's night at preschool
Favorite things about Wednesday:
*Beautiful fall weather
*New glasses
Favorite thing about Thursday:
*This girl loves shoes
Favorite things about Friday:
*My lunch dates (though they don't look too enthused)
Have a great weekend!
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