Mid-November Update

Just a quick update before we head off, again, to Wisconsin for Thanksgiving. Maggie is finally back on schedule just in time to get messed up again. Oh well, it should be a good time. Since we got back, we've experienced two milestones in Maggie's life. 1. She started to actually crawl (no more army crawl on her belly), and 2. she started to pull herself up to a stand. It's pretty amazing to see her grow and change. After seeing Owen, and watching his blog, I can't believe that Maggie has accomplished so much in just 6 short months. This is going to be a great adventure!

Here you can see Maggie showing off her standing skills (and her Ripon Pride). This also one of the few times she managed to sit back down. Usually she finds her way back to the floor by throwing herself backwards, head first!

The weekend after we got back, John's brother, Jim, came to visit. The four of us went to the Concordia football game in Hastings about an hour away.

The rest of these are just random pictures from the last two weeks.

Maggie, the couch potato. Would you believe her favorite toy right now is the remote?

Now that she's on the move, I find her the strangest places. Here, for example, she crawled in between the wall and the couch and got frustrated because she couldn't turn around.

When she turned 6 months, we introduced yogurt. It was obviously not a texture she was happy with, but after the first week or so, we now get her to swallow more than she let's ooze out.
She's already learning to pose for the camera. Do you think maybe I have it out too often?