I'm Ready for My Own Napmat

Meagan has decided that she likes to lay on Matthew's nap mat which we had out for him to take his nap on today. Obviously it didn't work, but Meagan thought she might like to try sleeping or playing on it.

Where's Meagan?

Can you tell which things are toys and which one is Meagan?

She has discovered how to climb up on Matthew's bed and decided to climb up there while we were cleaning their room and had put all the toys on Matthew's bed for the purpose of vacuuming. What a cutie and already so precocious.

Christmas Pictures

Well, we've been trying to find time and energy to get a family picture for our Christmas picture. With everyone being sick off an on, though, it's been kinda difficult. Well, I finally gave up and decided to just take one of just the kids myself in front of the tree. The other night when it was cold and we had a fire going, I decided it was the right time. It took several tries and a lot of coaxing and patience. The results were actually quite hilarious in my opinion. Below are a few of the resulting pictures I managed to get and in some cases clean up a little.

This was the first try...hmmm...someone's missing.

Oh, wait, there she is. Or should we say, there she goes. Not sure what Mattie was looking at, the TV maybe. Bubba's doing his best to keep everyone in place.

Try number 3. Everyone's there, sorta. They're just not all looking the right direction.

We thought maybe adding in the chair would help keep them in one place. Somehow, I don't think it's working. What's your opinion?

Well, we're a little closer. They're all in the picture, looking the same way, sorta. If we could just get Maggie closer to the chair and her brothers, we might actually have a great picture.

Yah, we got it. If only Maggie would look at the camera. I guess her brother was just more interesting than Mommy.

Merry Christmas to one and all!!!!!

Bubba's Train & Super Matthew

Our favorite thing of late is to play in Logan's room with his trains. Or more accurately to tear up the track of Bubba's train. A few weeks ago, we set up Logan's GeoTrax train set in his room. He loves to play with it and watch the trains go around the track. Matthew and Meagan like it too, but they spend more time tearing up the track and making a mess with it than watching the trains go around. And of course, Mommy spends the time putting the train track back together again. They're a lot of fun to watch as they play in Bubba's room. Matthew and Meagan love their big brother and his toys.

Matthew's new thing is to wrap his burp cloth around his neck and run around the room. I caught him doing it the other day and had to take a picture. He used to love to fly around the room in Daddy's arms and we called him Super Mattie. When he was a little older, Logan would turn his bib around when Matthew was done eating and call him Super Mattie. So, now Matthew does it to himself. Here are the pictures of our Super Mattie.

Just a Little Bit of Fun

Well, we've had a fun week and more fun to come with grandparents coming for Thanksgiving. Meagan is now a year old as of last Monday, and she is growing just as she should be. She had her one year check up on Friday and weighed in at 19 lbs. 2 oz. with a height of 28 1/2 in. She is most definitely catching up to her big brother, Matthew. She's eating and drinking just like a big girl most of the time. This weekend has really seen an improvement in that area. She suddenly seems to like table food much better and the cup is becoming more fun as well, as long as we can keep her from throwing it on the floor that is. Walking is her new favorite pasttime. She wants to walk everywhere including outside. This is such a fun age. Her smile is my favorite trait of hers.

We Have a Walker

Yes, folks, you read that correctly. We now have officially 3 walking children in our family. I have always heard or read that the subsequent children do not usually walk or develop other gross motor skills as early as the first one. I think it has something to do with lack of time to work with the other children due to the first one(s). My daughter has proved them all wrong. She started walking before both of the boys did when they were her age. She will not be one until next week, so this week she decided to really start walking. She is not crusing, she is full blown walking across the room even while holding objects sometimes as long as she is. She's a hoot and so proud of herself. It's so much fun to watch her and how excited she gets. In fact, she just came walking out of her room smiling at me. What a cutie! So here are some pictures of her walking. I swear she was walking across the room not just standing there.

Halloween and BU Homecoming Parade

Well, the weekend is over, and I have to say I am kind of glad. Friday night was Fall Festival at our church, and we all went and luckily met the grandparents there. Without them, we wouldn't have been able to handle all three of the kids. They were a big help especially when Matthew refused to go anywhere near the bounce houses. He and Daddy and Gigi ended up in the toddler area while Logan, Mommy, Meagan, and Grandpa stayed in the worship center to enjoy the bounce houses. Thank you Grandpa and Gigi for helping wrangle these three little trick-or-treaters.

Meagan's first Halloween. Isn't she a cute little Tigger?

My cute little Elmo freak. By the end of the evening, he was out of the outfit and actually running a fever.

Gigi and the little ones. Too cute.

Logan, aka King Peter, with one of his best friends showing off their costumes.

Sliding down the huge slide was lots of fun but what a line.

Saturday morning we actually got up and made it to the Homecoming parade at Baylor. It wasn't as good as years past, but we did enjoy ourselves. The band actually stopped to play right in front of us with the drumline standing right in front of Logan. He was in heaven. He loves the drumline and still insists that one day he is going to learn to play the drums. He definitely has the rhythm to do it. Mommy didn't get that many pictures because Meagan wanted to be held especially after the band stopped in front of us. She wasn't very trusting of the rest of the parade. Here are a couple of pictures I did manage to get.

After all that, we went to a birthday party for one of Logan's friends. We were there a couple of hours in the afternoon. It was a lot of fun and a chance for the kids to run out any energy they had left. Once we got home, everyone went down for a nap. Yaaahhhh! Whew, what a weekend. I'm tired now, so I'm going to bed. Goodnight!