Kids update

Maycie (2)-- Her vocabulary is constantly amazing us. The other day, she saw Collin's cold pills and said" Daddy's medicine. Daddy has bad cough." She can sing her ABC's all the way through and even has the ending too! Her counting is also getting better. Maycie also loves to play all day long with her new toys and books from Christmas. She can get sassy at times but it's really funny when she tells me to be quiet when I sing songs...is my voice really that bad? Maycie has regressed a little in the potty training department. She was really great at telling me when she had to go to the bathroom during the day and staying dry all day (except nap times) but with the holidays, she's back in pull-ups. Now that the holidays are over we are working on it again. She loves to get "Ms" (M&Ms) for going to the bathroom which makes me think that it won't be long before we are back in the right direction. Maycie also interested in spelling lately. She thinks it's great when I spell out her name.

Miles (6 months)--He is officially crawling and sitting up on his own. He started to sit up on his own in early December and sort of crawling the week before Christmas. Miles would get up on his knees and hands and rock back & forth, then lunge towards something. At Christmas Miles figured out that if he moved a knee and a hand together then he would move, even if it was backwards. Now he is moving in the army crawl sort of way when he really wants something fast but other than that he is using his hands and knees together. We also think that he is getting his first tooth. His poor gums have been red and swollen for a week now but today I saw a little white bump. He's such a big, happy, giggly baby!!! We can't get enough of him.



Miles has his 6 month check up in a week so we'll see if he has passed Maycie in weight. Girls get ready for the results to see who the winner is. (My girlfriends and I have placed a friendly wager on it.)

New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve this year was really special. Our friends, Ryan and Jessica got ENGAGED!! YEAH!! Congrats!!! We can't wait for the wedding!

Before I go on, I just wanted to mention how AMAZING my parents have been. My mom and dad had the kids most weekends in December due to the wedding that Collin and I were in and then New Year's. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!! I know it was SUCH a pain and you hated every moment-hehehe.

On New Year's, we met up with four other couples to celebrate. We went out to eat at Al Vento in South MPLS. They had the most amazing food! We all gathered at Jill and Nick's house to car pool and to toast to the engagement of Ryan and Jessica. Jessica was so adorable-Her hand was still shaking two hours later. (Ryan had proposed at 5:30 pm at his house). We went to dinner and went back to Jill and Nick's house to sing Happy Birthday to Nick. We had a fun night! Thank you Jill, Nick, Quinn, James, Jessica, Ryan, Jesse, and Niki for being there to ring in the New Year with us! We love you!

Christmas

This year we had quite the Christmas. Uncle Ben was in town for two weeks so the kids and I spent most of the two weeks with him (poor Collin had to work). Maycie and Miles loved having Uncle Ben around and boy did he spoil them.

We had Christmas Eve at the Kritzers'. Christmas morning we opened some presents from Santa and left for my parents' house. We opened more presents there (good thing we drove two cars!!) We loved all of the presents from everyone-Thank you!

One of the pictures that I wanted to send out for Christmas cards--I never made that happen. Maybe next year!

Miles was tuckered out from all of the pictures.

Uncle Ben with Maycie

Christmas Tree

So we have officially started to decorate for Christmas. On Saturday we bundled the kids up and went to a local boys scout tree "forest" to pick out our tree. Maycie was very excited to see the trees and said her famous "WOW". We walked around the lot for a few minutes, then Collin and Maycie found the perfect tree. Miles even smiled at it...I guess that meant he approved! We decorated it with Maycie's help. She put a decoration on and screamed "I did it! Yeah, me!" Miles just blew raspberries and giggled as we decorated. He must have thought we were hilarious!

Here they are getting ready to go get the tree.

Miles Update

Miles is now almost five months old and is so much fun. He's rolling over both ways (back to stomach and stomach to back), laughing up a storm, making bubbles/blowing raspberries, smiling, and grabbing for toys with his hands. He loves to play in his exercise saucer because he can grab at all of the toys there.

Like I have stated before, he is such a big boy that even he is wearing 6-9 month clothes now! It is so strange to have one child (Miles) off the charts and one child (Maycie) barely on them. Miles received the all clear for cereal and baby food at his last doctor's appointment. He wasn't too sure at first but now when he sees the spoon he opens his mouth up like a little bird.

We hope you are having a great day. Happy Thanksgiving early!

Maycie turns 2

Maycie turned two on Nov. 6th. We met up with the grandparents for dinner at Rainforest Cafe Thursday night (her actual birthday). She loves looking at the fish there and loved it when the waiters brought out birthday desserts for everyone. Once it was her turn to get a birthday sundae she wasn't so sure of the whole experience but loved blowing out her candle. Then on Sunday, we had some family over to watch the Vikings/Packers game. Maycie cheered the Vikings on to a victory! They must have seen their new cheerleader and thought that they couldn't let her down.

We tried to get a family picture..it's not the greatest but hey with two kids and a dog, I think that it's pretty darn good.

Maycie now knows that she is two so I thought that I would update you on all of the fun things she is doing.

** She can count to ten...sometimes she forgets a number here and there but it is still cute.

** She knows her ABC's and loves the letters LMNOP and W.

** Is potty trained during the day but needs a pull up for over night.

**She jumps, runs, and sometimes hops all around the house.

**She is very inquisitive and asks "What's that? or points to things and asks "this?"

**Maycie sings, plays Collin's guitar (with assistance of course) and dances all day!

**Knows all of her body parts

**Knows animals and their noises...ask her sometime what a horse says! We didn't teach her it but when you ask her what a horse says, she responds with "GO, GO, GO!" We must have gone to the horse races too many times this summer.

**She can dress and undress herself --this is wonderful when she needs to go to the bathroom & For some reason she needs to get naked to go to the bathroom.

**Maycie can scream at the top of her lungs--Grandma Schwartz might have permanent damage to her ears

**Can use three to four word sentences to describe what she wants.

**Her favorite words are "I do it", "Mine", "Yeah, Me!" and "Hug/Kiss!"

**Loves to give hugs and kisses to everyone especially at bedtime. She has already grasped the concept of stalling.

We hope you all have a great week!

Doctor's Appointments

Hi all. Just a few quick items of interest for you.
Maycie turned two on Thursday Nov. 6th and had a great day...more on that later.
We had Maycie's 2 year appointment on Tuesday along with Miles's 4 month well check. Here are the stats.

Miles
17lbs 11 oz
27 inches long

Maycie
21 lbs 6 oz
33 1/4 inches


Needless to say we are taking bets on how long it is going to be before Miles passes his BIG sister in weight.