Birthday Girl

So as of this past Saturday, Maggie is 1!  Man was that ever fast!  If you haven't already seen it, these are the pictures from her party invite.

Her party isn't until this weekend, but we had a special birthday dinner for her.  She loves black beans, particularly the ones from Chipotle. 

And, it's not your birthday unless you get cake.

Molly agrees.

Last week we went to Laguna with the Morris family for a few days.  It was nice to get out of Yuma for a little bit although I hear the weather wasn't as bad while we were gone.  Not that it's not nice to get away regardless, but during the summer when you leave, I think everyone hopes that they'll miss the really horrid days.

We went to the "baby beach" at the Harbor which was nice since you don't have to worry about some giant wave coming and knocking them over.  Also it's shark week, so that's of course we're thinking about that.

Maggie practicing her boogie board moves.

Molly was in love with the boogie boards, her and Grayson had a great time pulling each other around on them.

We also went fishing and Jonny caught Molly's 1st fish for her.  When he caught it, Molly's mind was somewhere else, and she didn't want to come down and pose for the picture.  As she was running away from me, I asked Jonny, "do you really want to push the issue?"  Well, you can see that yes, he did.

Thanks to the Morris family and of course the Hannons for letting us crash with them!

Baby Breath

Maggie is a decent eater, so long as you give her what she wants to eat.  Molly used to plow through avocados which was awesome since they're easy to transport.  Maggie is a little pickier though.  She's really great with finger foods so I figured I could just cut it up and let her go to town, but mostly she just liked to smear it around.  She does like guacamole though, but I always feel like they're too salty (not for me, but for her).  So I made her a little baby guac with just the avocado and a tiny bit of chopped garlic and she devoured it.  It might have helped that Molly was feeding her.  Jonny was making fun of her the rest of the day though because she had baby garlic breath.  

You're doing it wrong.

Better.

Right after dinner, we always go straight to the bath.  Maggie really into it and walks to the bathroom by herself while saying "BA! BA! BA!"  and trying to tear off her shirt.  I helped her out.

Made it! 

They always fight for the good seat in the bath by the faucet.  Yay for Maggie!

2nd Day of School

The1st day of school is totally overrated.  Mostly because I was a flake and didn't take pictures of Molly's 1st day of school.  So here are some pictures of Molly before her 2nd day of (pre)school.  She wasn't exactly cooperative for me and wasn't going to stand, obediently smiling for me.  She's also sporting one of her "princess" crowns that I'm always having to make.  Fortunately she's done really great the past two days.  She won't tell me too much about her days so far, but she hasn't cried and she says she likes it.  Her teacher says that she's doing good and seems to play well and follow directions.  I know two days isn't a huge history, but I'm relieved we're off to a good start.

Here are some little sis pictures

Almost 1 year old! That can't be right...

In other big news, Papa bought a sailboat!  It's pretty nifty.  I'm sure someday Molly and Maggie will get to head out with him on it, but for now they enjoyed their time parking lot sailing.

Molly's schedule is starting to fill up.  In addition to school, I also have her signed up for gymnastics, which she starts tomorrow.  I was thinking we might skip dance for awhile, but now I'm thinking that as long as she enjoys everything she's doing, we'll just stick with it, and I know she loves dance class.  What's 1 more hour a week that she's NOT watching TV. Yep, I'm that mom.