Pray for us...

...our children are gifted! Ha ha!

Ashlyn--our Dancing Queen--is now a YouTube girl :) Here's the link to her dancing video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onPV0xwbR-k It's hilarious! We burned it to a DVD for my mom for her birthday and watched it on their huge TV last night. Ashlyn was watching herself dancing on the video and dancing at the same time. When the video was done, she'd say "Uh-oh!" until we started it over again. After about 10 times we tried not starting the video again, but she grabbed the remote and started pushing buttons until we started it again. We taped her dancing to the video...I'll have to upload that one to YouTube and post that link too. She's such a crack-up!!

At six weeks old, Maguire is actually rolling over! I think he just gets frustrated enough being on his tummy that he tries anything he can to get back onto his back. We, of course, videotaped this too, so I'll upload that when I can.

Oh yeah...we hit another big milestone yesterday (which Kyle, of course, videotaped. We will NOT be posting this one on YouTube!). Ashlyn went poo-poo on the big potty :) She was SO proud! We aren't really all that close to potty training, but we occasionally ask if she wants to go wee-wee on the potty. She thinks it's pretty cool and always tries so hard to go poo-poo too. She finally succeeded yesterday at Great Grandpa and Great Grandma's. You never saw so many adults get so excited about a few little poo pellets ;)

Last night Kyle and I took the kids to the mall for an early Valentine's Day outing. We got pizza at the food court and then went to play on the breakfast food in the play area. Ashlyn loves to walk up the banana and then slide down it :)

It was a perfect time/night for us to go...there were hardly any people there!

Abby's 28th Birthday

My birthday lasted several days this year :) I went out for drinks to a deuling pianos bar with my friend Tina on Wednesday night, my mom came into town on Thursday (my actual birthday) and we went to the mall for lunch, and then I went out to dinner with Kristi, Tami, Anna, and Heather (Kyle's sister) Thursday night. We had a blast! It was 3 hours of straight laughing :) Saturday night my parents took Kyle and the kids and me out for dinner and then we came back to our house to play cards--my favorite--POUNCE! Kyle got me this really cool silver bracelet that has "Kyle" "Abby" "Christ" "Ashlyn" and "Maguire" engraved on it. So special!! I can't believe I'm 28 already...I know this year is going to be a great one!

Props to Melissa!

I just got this picture and wanted to--again--give major props to Melissa who took the fabulous pics of Maguire in the hospital. She has some MAD TALENT!! Check out her amazing stuff... www.melissadiekemaphotography.com

Thanks Melissa, we love you!!

Doctor appointments

I took the kids to their doctor appointments yesterday. Ashlyn had her very belated 18 month well child visit (3 months late!) and Mac had his--also late--2 week check up. It was my first outing with both kids...all by myself. And I survived!

Ashlyn is now 24lbs 14oz and 32" tall. She's up from the 25th percentile to a more "average" 40th percentile for both height and weight. She got one shot, but was more concerned about "Baby" crying than the pain from the needle in her thigh :)

Mac is growing like a weed! But a cute weed...like maybe a dandelion... He was 9lbs 7 oz at birth, 8lbs 12oz when we left the hospital. At 3-1/2 weeks he's already 10lbs 12oz! He's gained a whole 2 lbs in 3 weeks! Ashlyn didn't reach that weight until she was about 2 months old. The funny thing, though, is that he "shrunk" in height and is now 1/4" shorter than he was when he was born...not that making marks on the "butcher paper" to measure a wiggly baby is all that accurate ;)

In the last day or so Maguire has started to smile...and mean it! I'll get a picture posted of his adorable smile soon. Poor second child...when Ashlyn started smiling, I couldn't get the camera ready fast enough. Poor Mac will get his "first" smiles captured when I "get a minute" :)