Cooking helper

We made some awesome cookies for Santa :)

Shopping buddies

This is the first time I've EVER taken both kids shopping by myself. Sam's double buggies seemed ideal :)

Monkey/puppy dog

This monkey is ALWAYS pretending to be a puppy dog lately. They're watching Handy Manny here, which Hank tells me is the puppy dog's favorite show.

One more ornament

"The monkey is pretending to be an ornament."
-Hank

Maggie can hold her own

Bottle, that is. She just fed herself 5oz like this watching Sesame Street.

Maggie's 9 Month Checkup

She's clapping at herself here :)


Maggie weighed in at 20lbs even (despite a recent stomach bug she still gained!) and was up to 27.5 inches tall with a head circumference of 17.75 inches. All good and normal and bigger than last time. And she's got FOUR new teeth coming in on top. Looks like they decided to come in as a group. Poor Maggs. At least she'll be able to use them to eat some more delicious foods soon.

Now she's got the green light to use a sippy cup and have up to 4oz of juice per day.

No vaccinations this time but she did get a flu shot which is just as mean. But she got over it pretty quickly.

Oh, and Dr. Cush-John declared her perfect once again :)

Christmas Tree Fun

We decided to use James's one night to not work two jobs this week and put up the Christmas tree. Hank was excited about it all day and kept asking if Santa Claus was coming too. "In a few weeks" is hard to grasp I suppose.

So we gave the kids an early bath (before supper) and set to work after we ate. Hank was awesome at hanging ornaments and put the topper on like a pro. Maggie just tried to eat every little "needle" in sight and loved playing with and tearing up all the newsprint we had used for packing.

It looks a little sparse with all of our fragile ornaments missing. And we had to spread out all the ones Hank hung at the very bottom, but I still think it's totally awesome. Now it's fenced off for everyone's safety :)

And yes, those ARE adult sized footed pajamas that James is wearing. Everyone got to wear Monkey themed pj's (or in my case house shoes). Maggie promptly overturned a pitcher of water in the bathroom right after I had put on her new Christmas pj's and got them soaking wet. So, I put her in Hank's jammers from two years ago to keep the theme going.