Maggie-fest

OK, OK, I know I've been bad about uploading pictures of Maggie. So here's a whole bunch of Maggie pictures and videos:

This is what happens when I ask ViVi which bow she wants in her hair:

Maggie's awake!

Maggie's starting to wake up for more of the day, so I finally got some pictures of her awake!

Here are some recent photos:

Check out what I found Genevieve doing. Now, you might look at this and think, "Yuk. She let her keep doing that while she went to take a picture?"

Yup.

Beautiful girl:

Margaret Joan and Margaret Joan:

"Look, mommy, I found a pocket!"

Dancing Queen:

My beautiful girls

Yes, I know, I need to post more often. But now that I have a newborn, it feels like there aren't enough hours in the day to do everything I'd like to do! I'll keep trying.

Here is Genevieve in our flower bed. She loves to sneak outside and pick all the flowers even though we tell her not to. I think this is the first time she's actually smiled for the camera. She's usually not into that.



Baby Maggie. I like to take a picture of her whenever she's in a really cute outfit.



Or when I just can't stop admiring her.

Helping nana make monkey bread. She thought this was SO fun.

Maggie's first week at church:

I STILL had someone ask if she was a boy or girl. Really? Really?

Music time fun:

My princess:

Every Tuesday I take Vivi to Tot Time at the library. The bean bag song is one of her favorite parts. She's kind of awesome at it:

More stuff

And now, for all of the random extra stuff I have:

Isn't this picture sweet?

And isn't this picture beautiful?

I MADE this dress! It's my first sewing project I've ever done by myself.

My Maggie.

There were never such devoted sisters...

Genevieve unwrapped that cadbury egg WAY too quickly.

This is in the middle of Genevieve signing "baby," for her baby sister.

Dark hair

Maggie and grandma

Daddy daughter #1

Daddy daughter #2

Gorgeous Genevieve

Yes, she still has beautiful eyelashes

Vivi's new shopping cart. She LOVES this thing. When she took it to the grocery store, two employees stopped to take her picture:

Look for "Sony Bravia paint" on YouTube. Your kids will LOVE it:

Yes, this hot tub was in my hospital room. It rocked:

Easter Fun

First, let's play a round of "Name That Baby." Can you name which is which?






And, just because I love this picture:



Maggie was born on Easter, so Genevieve had her egg hunt a little late. Actually, she had several egg hunts because she was so darn cute.

"If you think I'm sharing with you, you're crazy."

I was stupid enough to think she wouldn't immediately rip off the wrapper and stuff this whole chocolate egg in her mouth:

Margaret Joan Sweetwood

Our little Maggie was born on Easter. Compared to how Genevieve was as a newborn, Maggie has been a little angel. The delivery went well, and the recovery was 26 times easier than last time. My mother came for 2 weeks, my dad came for almost a week, and my mother-in-law is here until Tuesday. I've had so much help, and it's been great! My insanely long to-do list is now sanely long because I've had time to work on it, and Vivi has had lots of play buddies to help her adjust to mommy's new distraction.

Here are some pictures:



Vivi loves kissing Maggie:

Oh yeah, that's a good face:

Update

I know I'm skipping stuff, and I'll have to post more later that's out of order. But I'm just going to post the pictures and videos that are easiest to find because I'm lazy. :)

Family Home Evening last week. (Dani - there's a shout out to James)

You can tell we are not afraid of getting dirty in this family:





At least she helps clean up:




Lately I've been hosting a few play groups every couple of weeks. This last one I did was on April Fools Day, so we had a "silly" theme. I sent out Christmas e-vites, and we dressed up silly. We ate inside-out sandwiches (cheese on the outside, bread on the inside) and apples cut into funny shapes. Then we talked about how April Fools Day started, and how in France they try to stick a paper fish on someone's back without them noticing, and then they point and say "April Fish!" when they find it. So we decorated paper fish. It was a fun day:





I think mommy's silliest of all.



More signing:





My mom tells me that when I was a little girl, and they'd ask if they should have more kids, I would say, "No! I'm the baby!" I wonder if I'm gonna have a similar problem...



By the way, she climbed into these by herself. I was pulling baby stuff out of the garage, turned around, and there she was just happy as a clam. It was pretty adorable.



Fun with bubbles: