our latest adventures

Isy and I have been playing Rock Band together some. Maggie happened to be up with us the other night when we decided to play. Luckily, Isy just happens to have an extra set of drum sticks. She LOVES the drums and the sticks. She totes the sticks around all night and drums on random things or claps with them to hear them make a noise. Maggie's become quite the busy child. She climbs on the couch and lays over on me-for all of 1 second, then she's off to the drums that are at the end of the couch. They are just high enough that she can reach them. Isy let her play with him the other day and you could see the happiness in her face.















Tonight, she got to spend some time in the pool. We haven't gotten it out yet this year until tonight. I knew she'd love it because she absolutely loves the tub. I was going to get some pictures, but my phone's not waterproof and she was determined to get me as wet as possible. The pools just low enough that she can crawl in and out of it on her own. She did that for about 5 minutes straight.

practice cake 1

I decided a couple months ago that I wanted to make the cake for Maggie's first birthday. I wanted to make a butterfly cake and have a pink and purple party. As Maggie's birthday approaches, I have decided that I should make a practice cake. Today was my fist attempt at this. I don't like to leave things to the last minute, so I've reserved the park we are going to have it at, ordered the goody bag things, and began preparing invitations. I've never been a very creative person, but the thought of making her cake really appealed to me. I began my cake and cooked it in the wonderful butterfly shaped pan I had bought at Easter. The cake smelled so yummy when I took it out of the oven. As I released the cake onto the pan, I made Isy come join me for its unveiling. It was nothing I expected it to be. It fell apart in every possible way! I don't think a super moist cake is the route to go with this type of cake making. That's not blood. It's a strawberry banana glaze i made to frost it with. It taste great but looks horrible. Too bad I need both.

Vist with a special friend

I have a very special friend who moved to Canada about 4 years ago. I haven't seen her since then. We've managed to keep in touch through Facebook and on the phone though. I found out she was in the state to visit family and I managed to get some time with her too. Maggie and I were very eager to meet her husband and beautiful baby Micah. We even got to meet her brother's family. I was surprised at how well she interacted with Micah whose a couple months younger than she is. She played pretty well with him and only tried to sneak a few bites of his dinner, but he shared his puffs with her. Maggie seemed to really like her husband Aaron. Isy shaved all of his facial hair off Saturday night and when Maggie saw him Sunday morning she seemed to be having a difficult time adjusting the the change. She always liked to play with his beard. Aaron has a beard and I think it was comforting to her during her time of loss. Hopefully I'll be able to get a copy of a couple of pictures that we took while we were together to put on here.

Watching her with Isy Sunday morning was fun. She'd just sit in the middle of the bed and follow every move he would make. She could not take her eyes off of him. She's such a daddy's girl. We got to spend all day Saturday together since I didn't have to work. She was extremely fussy all day. She's got a couple teeth still trying to come in at the same time so some days are rough. She fussed all day and nothing would make her happy for more than a couple minutes. I played and did everything I knew to do that she normally likes, but it never worked. When her daddy got home, she was a completely different baby. She was so happy. She played peak a boo with him and would just laugh and laugh. I guess she had more of me than she wanted.