Maggie loves to eat!

Maggie loves her food and hasn't turned up her nose at any of them!

Her first food was squash, chosen by brother Aaron!


Yummy!

Moving on to carrots!

And now some apples!

Nanny feeding Maggie some oatmeal. She likes that better than rice cereal!

Ahhhh....

Go Packers!

The kids and I dressed up in our Packer gear to cheer them on yesterday in their game against the Bears. Unfortunately, our team pride didn't help them to a victory last night. Bummer, but the pictures are cute anyway and there's plenty of the season left!

Maggie's new bath seat

Maggie was getting really hard to bathe in her baby tub, so she upgraded to a bath seat a few weeks ago. She is much happier in this and loves to play with Aaron in the tub and splash around!

Marker train by Aaron Gregory Coenen

Aaron let me know that he was going to make a train of his markers. He's a funny guy!




Another funny Aaron story- yesterday morning he came downstairs with his stuffed giraffe between his legs like he was riding it. He told me, "Mom- I'm going on a safari Come on- we need to hurry up before that elephant over there comes to get us!" He is really into pretend play right now and is just hilarious with all of the things that he comes up with!

Teething

Maggie is working on her first two teeth! She is chewing on EVERYTHING! I found her chewing on the corner of the tile on the fireplace the other day and had to take a picture before I stopped her! (Since she is pulling herself up on everything, especially the fireplace, this corner now has one of those padded things on it.)

Maggie crawling- 5 1/2 months & almost 6 months

Maggie has been crawling for about 6 weeks now and she's getting faster and faster everyday! Have a look....

Here is a video of Maggie crawling at 5 1/2 months.



Here is a video of Maggie crawling at almost 6 months.




Bonus video of Aaron crawling! After I took the video of Maggie crawling, Aaron decided that he should get some time crawling on the camera too!

Two Coenens in a tub!

I had lots of tubs of clothes out this past weekend, sorting through all of the things that are too small and getting out the fall clothes. Aaron decided that he'd like to sit in one of the tubs and asked if I could put Maggie in with him. So cute!







Cute Aaron stories to share.....

In the morning when he sees Maggie for the first time, he uses this really high pitched voice and says, "Good morning Baby Maggie Lynn!" It is absolutely one of the most heart warming things you have ever seen!

We sometimes call Maggie "Big Girl" these days and Aaron has been saying, "I want to hold that big girl. Can you put her in my lap, Mommy?" I love it! He's such a funny little guy!

Maggie's new trick

At 5 1/2 months, Maggie is now pulling herself to standing! She started this past weekend and will get herself up on anything that is low enough for her to get both of her hands on. She likes to use the fireplace (I'm so afraid that she's going to bash her head on the edge- need to get some padding on the edges) and the bottom 2 stairs.

She's crawling a little faster everyday! I will work on getting a little video soon.

I think we've got a go-getter on our hands here!!!

Buddies

Aaron & Connor are enjoying some time playing in the sand table. (This picture was taken from the deck above!)

A girl and her veggies!

Maggie started eating veggies about a week ago and she LOVES them! We let Aaron pick the veggie she would start with and he chose squash. She didn't make any crazy faces at all, just gobbled it up! This girl is born to eat!








Next veggie on the docket.... green beans! Also love at first bite!

Stay tuned for more of Maggie's adventures with veggies and fruits!

Mickey Clubhouse

Aaron loves to watch Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and gets to watch an episode or two most days. He usually watches while Maggie is sleeping, but if she's not, she can be caught watching too! Here are our two little Mickey fans!

Maggie's pre-reading skills

Maggie is showing off her pre-reading skills. Do you think that we should worry that all she wants to do with book and magazines is tear them up and eat them?!

Fancy dress

As I've mentioned before, Maggie has a ton of darling hand-me-down clothes. She has clothes from Amy's daughter, Claire, Tony & Angie's daughters, Emmy & Olivia, and Tabitha's daughters, Lilly & Ella. She has so many cute things that she often wears things only once before they don't fit anymore!

This dress was a hand-me-down from Claire and was a gift from my friend Tanya's mom, Marlene. I love this dress and have been thinking that I needed to get it on Maggie before it wouldn't fit anymore. The problem is that we haven't really had any occasions for Maggie to need a fancy dress. I put the dress on Maggie and it barely buttoned, so she wore this fancy dress on a normal week day. I figured that I could at least take pictures! Check out her fancy party dress....

Our brown eyed girl....

Maggie has her dad to thank for these beautiful brown eyes and long, dark eyelashes that curl up on the ends all on their own! (As does Aaron!)