ABOUT TIME... SLOW POKE

I'm only halfway kidding. Mac is just like his daddy, which I love in everyway and am very thankful for. Heaven knows that I couldn't handle two Maggie's. Maggie was walking before she was 10 months old. Mac is so laid back that he really didn't have a desire to even try. In November, when he was around 14 months old, he took his first few steps. The week of Christmas, he just took off. He's all over the place now and it's just too cute. He's such a little doll. Also, the speach is much slower. I've heard that it's a boy/girl thing. So far, his vocabulary consists of "Mama", "Dada", and his very favorite, "Gunk." And, a cow says, "mmmmmm." (12/31/09)

MORE ATTITUDE FROM MAGPIE

-"My daddy was just impossible during church. He just wouldn't cooperate." (December 2009)
-Maggie asked daddy where I went during dinner. Brett told her that I went to get Mac b/c he was heading down the hall. She said,"Yep, that's what she does. That's women." (December 2009)
-Mommy, I need to tell you the truth again b/c you didn't cooperate the first time but I want to say that you crack me up!" (December 2009)
-We were laying in bed watching the news when someone on the footage fell. Maggie whispered, "sh*t." Brett said, "What did you say?" She replied, "I didn't say anything." Brett said, "I heard that word." She said, "You didn't hear a word. That was just a funny little noise that came out of my mouth." He said, "I know what you said and I want to know where you heard that." She said, "Oh! Mommy." Thanks Mag for throwing me under the bus. (December 2009)
-Before going to sleep, Brett and I were trying to prepare Maggie for the possibility of #3 being a boy. She said, "It's going to be a girl." Brett said, "Maggie, we don't have control over that. God has decided whether it's a girl or boy." She sat straight up, looked him right in the eye and said, "Did you not hear me? I said...it's a girl!" (12/26/09)
-Brett told me that Maggie needed me in the bedroom. When I got in there, she said, " 'Bout time, Big 'Un!" I alsmost skinned them both. (12/27/09)
-I started to correct Maggie about something and she said, "Hey, I'm not being a butt." (December 2009)

CHRISTMAS 2009

Well, this Christmas season was jammed packed. We had such a wonderful time! Brett was on vacation the week before Christmas so we were able to do tons of family activities. We looked at lights so many times that we would get in the car and Mag would say, "I don't want to see any more lights!"
The Santa issue. Wow. We went to see him in the mall and he was indeed a little creepy. He scared the snot out of her. She did not want him coming to her house. She said, "Call Santa and tell him to send Mrs. Claus but tell her to not wear her earringS because I don't like them." Later, she said, "I don't want Santa, Mrs. Claus, or Rudolph coming at all." On December 23rd, "Santa" called. I answered the phone and told her it was him. She said, "Tell him that I have plenty of presents and don't even come next year."
On December 22nd, the Jimmy Hale Mission commercial came on t.v. Maggie asked what it was about and I tried to explain that some people do not have a house to live in or enough food to eat. I had no idea it would effect her the way it did. She started sobbing, tears rolling down her little face. "I don't want that man to be sad!" It took a good 30 minutes to calm her down. By that point, she just wanted her daddy to come home and help that man. A week later, we stopped to give a homeless man some food. Maggie asked what we were doing and then remembered, "That man is like the sad man on the commercial."

LOOK HOW LONG HER HAIR IS!

On the way to church. (picture date 12/27/09)

39 WEEKS AND 1 DAY

Yes, you know I'm anal. The day after Christmas, I had to have all of the Christmas decorations taken down and the house back in order. We worked all day long! Brett's Facebook status read, "My back is really hurting b/c of the whip my wife has been cracking all day." (picture date 12/26/09)

CHRISTMAS DAY

I did so well about having their Christmas pj's washed every single night since before Thanksgiving. But, I goofed and didn't have them clean one Christmas Eve! So, I washed them that night so they were able to wear them later on Christmas morning.

Maggie got a new bible. It's so her. It has a sparkly butterfly cover.

One of Mac's presents was a mason jar lid. He opened it & went straight to the kitchen floor to roll it. Definitely his favorite.

One thing she asked for over and over were the "Superwhy" characters.

He's still holding his jar lid. Maggie got a large and small Magnadoodle. She had a small one that broke. She thinks it's a "Maggie-doodle."

After opening presents at our house, we went and had a huge breakfast at mom and daddy's. This year, while preparing dinner, daddy was taking the ham out of the oven when the foil ripped and poured boiling ham grease all over his feet. Christmas dinner wouldn't be complete w/o some kind of disaster. He was ok after soaking his feet in the bathtub.

He's such a little doll.

He is really good at this!

Mac & Maggie got Grandpaw a Saban hat.

He looks funny here.

Mac is trying out his new Elmo airplane from Aunt DeJuana.

I look rather large.

Watching "A Christmas Story."

Mac looks very busy back there.

Her face is covered with the suckers that Aunt Terrie put on her presents.

CHRISTMAS EVE

Last year, on Christmas Eve, we had a tornado warning while at church. This year, we had 40 mile an hour wind gusts and rain. This was our lights when we were leaving for Christmas Eve service.

Our tree, before the damage was done to the presents. I always have matching wrapping paper. This year was no different. That is, until I started feeling guilty. So, I bought Maggie "Hello Kitty" paper and Mac "Frosty" paper and rewrapped the presents that I had already done. I did try to get it as close to matching my ornaments as possible though.

Happy girl

Maggie is rocking on her new princess piano/vanity from Granna and Papa. She picked this out of a magazine months ago.

Now, she's getting down to business. She had to loose some clothes.

Mag showing Mac how to use his "loin in the box."

Uncle Chad and his baby girl

Granna and Alexa

CHRISTMAS SHANANIGANS 2009

Maggie made some pictures to go on Mac's door. He has a little tree but I neglected to get a picture of it. He has snowmen ornaments.

Maggie wanted blue snowflakes this year. She didn't like my silver ones in the kitchen. She decorated her tree all by herself. I had it on the floor so she could reach it easier but she still managed to put most ornaments on the bottom.

Her little room looks so cozy.

Dale came by so we could swap our presents. We are two and a half weeks apart. I'm 38 1/2 weeks & she's 36 weeks.

I think he's precious in his little undershirt. He looks like a little bruiser.

Relaxing, watching "A Year Without Santa Claus." I love hearing Maggie sing, "Snow Miser."

Mac thought that she needed some help.

Maggie is all ready for her Christmas party at school.