4 Month Pictures

I took Maggie to Portrait Innovations while Gene kept Mena at home. Maggie really didn't like the photographer, but luckily he brought in a woman who got some really good smiles out of Maggie. We got a package of the head and shoulders shot and bought one print each of the other two pictures.

Chuck E. Cheese

Our first visit to Chuck E Cheese.  Mena was mesmerized by the "band" on stage.  She started dancing after awhile.  She enjoyed the rides that just rocked her gently back and forth, but freaked out in the ladybug, on the horse, and on the roller coaster rides.  Jake will definitely be more of a roller coaster person than Mena; he took it all in stride while she was trying to figure out how to get off before the ride was done.

Smiles!

Just more pictures of Maggie being her cute self!

4 Months Old

Maggie is 4 months old! My how the time has flown! She's now old enough to be in the exersaucer but she only likes to be in it for a couple minutes at a time. Our home scale shows that Maggie weighs 16 pounds. We've moved her to her crib and sold the bassinet so there's no coming back to our room now! We've also stopped swaddling her because she kept wiggling out of it at night. She's now in a sleep sack to stay warm. She's sleeping about 9:30 pm to 5 am, but we're having to go into her room a couple times a night to give her back the binkie. I'm guessing she's drinking around 25 ounces a day but believe it or not, I actually quit writing everything down. First, I stopped writing down every diaper I changed; then I quit writing down her naps and then I quit writing down what she ate. She's still alive so I'm guessing I don't need to be so anal in keeping track of everything! Gene laughed and said he was proud of me! Maggie is still in 3-6 month clothes. Maggie rolled over that one time, but we're still waiting to see her do it again.

Flower from Church

March 20th, St. Paul UMC recognized all the babies born in November, December, January, and February. This is Maggie's flower that we got to bring home. Unfortunately, we think Maggie has my allergies. Right around the time we brought this flower home, we'd also been spending a lot of time in the backyard. Maggie, Mena, and I were all stuffed up from the spring weather. Mena's allergies seem less than mine, but Maggie's seem about as bad as mine. She took the longest to get back to breathing nicely. We'll see how her nose does the rest of this spring. The flower is currently in the garage since we weren't breathing very well and I thought it might be adding to our troubles. I think I'll dry the rose petals for her to keep.

Sweet and Innocent? Ha!

Little Miss Mena may be cute and adorable, but she's also got an onery side. On March 17th, Gene gave her his cell phone to play with. He'd locked it so she couldn't do anything, or so we thought. Somehow she dialed 911. Gene heard the phone start dialing so without looking at it, he pressed end. 911 called back to make sure everything was ok. Nice job, Mena! Then on March 18th, I was sitting at the table doing some work while Mena sat at the table with me using her scissors, glue, and paper. I stepped into the kitchen to look at the calendar and heard the snip of the scissors. It some how sounded different. I came back into the room to find a pile of hair on the table. My guess is that the hair that had come out of her ponytail was in her face so she just cut it off. Luckily, it isn't very noticable since she cut right above her right ear and the hair above it covers the short hairs up.

Choo Choo!

Mena is ready to drive the train in the dress up clothes that Ruth brought to our house during one of her visits. Her favorite pieces were the walkie talkie and the watch.