her parents

this is me and c when we first met. can you see where she gets her eyes from? {this picture of us is really really old and dark, click it to make it bigger}

feeding the horses with ob {grandpa}

getting her horses bucket so she can get her some feed



















carrying the bucket with ob



















getting hay with ob



















the hay is bigger than she is!































giving the hay to ginger, mags horse

mags rides her horse for the 1st time :)

so i finally figured out how to make a video a little more interesting. thanks to one of my coworkers i made an imovie :) yeah me.

watch my bug on her horse for the first time!

climbing

when she was just a little bug, i wondered when she would be able to do this by herself :)

random pics

here are a few random pics from my bug over the last month or so:















crazy static hair. i wish we had a better pic bc it was sticking up all over the place!













from christmas...anything else in here!!













where i found her, trying to wash her own hands. look at the balance in her legs. she amazes me!

pictures in the park with mommy

a friend of mine is learning about photography and took these of me and my bug a few weeks ago! enjoy!!













get mommy!













the baby on the bus goes wawawa!













this is such a perfect picture of her personality!













is she beautiful or what! wow, i sure do love this baby girl.













mommy and mags looking at lights on the tree.













look how big and serious she is!













laughing!













just mommy













fun!



















love the piggies!

making her daddy proud

some of you know that my hubby, christian, mags daddy, played basketball for nc state. he still likes to say he is making a comeback! well maybe so but it looks like someone is following in his footsteps!!

more sybil

so i am not sure what is up with my sweet babe lately but she has been very sensitive:

sybil

all of these were taken in sequence, back to back

halloween

so i finally am getting around to posting the pics from halloween!

look at this cutie!!













look you can see the crinoline under her dress!!













so serious!!













look at her pony!













what did i get??













we went to a carnival that night. here she is hugging a little tiny black bunny! it was the cutest thing, i wanted to put it in my pocket and take it home!!













her 1st pony ride.

just because

just chillin like a big girl!!

whats an amazing thing your child has done?

so tonight my 19 month old blew me away and i wondered about all the other kiddos out there. what is that thing that your babe has done that freaked you out ~ in a good way ~ where you thought no way you did that or know that?

tonight mags found a random bag of cheezits. she picked up the bag and looked at me and said cheezits open. the amazing thing about this is, we dont really eat cheezits, at least not enough that she would know the bag and remember the word from the last time she did see them :)

a few other things that she has done lately that i was in awe over: the other day we were walking, holding hands and she sort of swung my hand and said 1, 2, 3 up.

she was reading a book with me that has shapes in it and she pointed to the diamond and said diiimond, she also knows a triangle and a circle.

yesterday she was writing on a piece of paper with an ink pen ~ HER FAVORITE ~ and said to herself, 6, 7, 8, 9 as she was writing.

the other day just at random while she was playing she said a, b, c.

love this baby girl!!

here are some random pics from lately, she is so busy i cant get a pic of her face!













grandmas glasses













reading in her big girl chair













playing with a beach ball during grandmas garage sale last weekend

mud puddle

tonight we got out of the car, i put mags down, turned around to get a bag and saw her walk to the swing. so no big deal i thought i will just go get her and go in...well this is what i found :)

dance dance revolution

well...not really but she has potential. check these out!! hilarious :)

anna

so besides me and her daddy and her gma and ob of course. my daughter has a FAVORITE PERSON!!!

her teacher anna. anna was her teacher when she was in the baby room. mags got promoted to the toddler room a few months ago so she does not get to see her as much. however she loves her. mags finally learned how to say her name so now at night sometimes or in the car on the way home she will say, anna, anna, anna, over and over again.










last thursday night when we went to see george michael anna came over to hang with mags so we could go. as soon as anna pulled in the driveway mags was excited. when anna walked in the doors she walked over to her and hugged her for like 5 minutes. i am glad that they love each other!!!

curly Q

just had to share this pic of my little girls beautiful curls!!

16 months old. really?

is my baby REALLY 16 months old? how is that possible? she was just a little peanut not so long ago. now she is walking, talking, letting me know what she wants. it is amazing.

her milestones for now are:

• she can do a somersault by herself now.
• she can reach behind herself with her hands and lift her hiney off the ground. sort of like if you were doing a butt toning exercise. she seems to have a lot of arm strength.
• she went up a set of steps on a slide the other day and lifted herself up on her arms and pulled her legs through to sit on her bottom to slide down.
  
• she can almost jump and get her feet off the ground.
• her vocabulary is up to about 50 words now. i will post another day about all of those.
• she sleeps until about 7am most days. big change from 5:30-6:00.
• she signs: more, please, and thank you regularly. AND she made up her own sign for thank you. instead of this:

she makes two fists and hits her tummy 2 times. it is so cute. i dont know where that came from :)

• she is adding syllables to words now. pa for paci went to paci! she says doggy and mommy.
  
• i trimmed her bangs for the 1st time. she wont let me do her little ponytails anymore so i had to trim the shaggy hair so she could see.
• this one isnt so cute but she loves the tv. she will run up to it and do the please sign and say tv tv. it is so hard to not give in when she asks for it!
• she still loves loves loves black beans and now sweet peas. she gets so excited when i make these things. she will say over and over again: beans, beans, beans or peas, peas, peas! she would rather eat those 2 things than ANYTHING else! crazy :)

anyway that is all for now. stay tuned for a vocabulary list of her words to date.