Stork Rental

My wonderful and incredibly talented friend Rebecca has started a new business. She is renting this precious stork to announce the birth of your new baby! When Maggie was born I was so surprised and THRILLED to have this in my yard when we arrived home. You too can rent the stork to annouce the birth of a special baby in your life! The stork stays for 4 days or a week (you choose) and the parents get to keep the keepsake bundle for their baby! We LOVE ours and it looks great in Maggie's nursery!
Contact Rebecca at rcs713@hotmail.com if you would like more information!

Lots going on around here

Well here is what has been going on around the Perez household:

1. Not a lot of sleep. We go tomorrow to the ENT (Ear/nose/throat) to see about getting tubes in Maggie's ears. She has had 6 ear infections since November..or maybe she's just had one that has never gone away. Either way we've had a lot of sleepless nights, a lot of hurting ears (hers from infection, mine from the crying), and way too many rounds of antibiotics for an 8 month old. Oh yes and to make things worse she had a really bad cough and wheezing so we had to do breathing treatments with a baby nebulizer for awhile. AWFUL. Hoping to get this precious, sweet baby feeling better real soon!
2. A Balancing Act- Balancing grad school, two little kids, several snow storms (which means preschool has been cancelled a LOT), trying to be a good wife, sister, daughter, grandaughter, and friend is HARD. I don't do a very good job most days but dang I'm trying! I really am.
3. Swimming - Sweet Caroline has only had three swim lessons and she is already going under! We are thrilled! Just tonight we were throwing coins in our deep bathtub and she was going under to get them. Goggles really helped with her fear of going all the way under! She will be swimming like a fish in no time. I give her another lesson or two and she'll be a little mermaid! (If anyone needs a fabulous swim instructor...call me..shes the best!)
4. Working- Tony is busier than ever at work! Wow...I don't know how he manages to do so much at the office and come home and be THE BEST Dad I've EVER seen. He amazes me. These little girls sure are lucky.
5. Progress-Caroline is starting to write her name, knows most of her letters, and is growing like a weed. She is full of energy and is a fantastic big sister. Maggie will be 9 months old in about a week. She is still so sweet natured even though she's had a rough go at it this winter. She's standing and pulling up and saying MaMa and DaDa. I seriously could eat her with a spoon!

GO WOLFPACK!

Proud to be Wolfpack fans (well this week at least...ha!)

getting BIG

This morning as we were sitting around doing our normal "morning" things (breakfast, getting dressed, etc) I looked around at these two girls and thought to myself.."they are growing up way too fast!" Maggie is sitting up, trying to crawl, loving baby food, and chuckles like a 300 lb woman....she is too precious. But what happened to my 6 lb newborn? The past 8 months have flown by! AND CAROLINE...my goodness...she wants to do EVERYTHING by herself. She can tell you just what she wants and how she wants it...of course communication has never been a problem for her. She is like talking to an adult. She is doing GREAT in preschool. She is the youngest in her class by far but it keeping up with the other kids very well. She is also going to gymnastics and LOVES that! The child needed some physical activity b/c she likes movies (yes full length movies) way too much! She asks me if she can watch Alvin and the chipmunks at least three times a day. And the strict mother that I am...I usually only let her watch it twice....ha:) JK! WE just signed her up for swim lessons so that is our next big hurdle. We want to toss those swimmies in time for summer. Never too early to learn to swim when there is a pool in the backyard! I tell her everyday I'm going to put a brick on her head and she always says "no Mommy I want to grow up just like you" so sweet!

2010

Well, I kind of hate to see 2009 go...it's been a great year! As I think back on our year, the birth of our precious Maggie was definitely the highlight(May 16, 2009). We are so blessed and thankful that her delivery turned out the way it did (it sure wasn't looking good for a while there for either of us). Her smile and laughter has added so much to our family...you really should see the way both she and Caroline light up when they see each other. The bond b/w sisters is not one that I had anticipated when we had another child. What a special, surprising gift that is everyday!
I can't wait to see what this year has in store. Our little family unit (me, Tony, and the girls) has become so strong and brings me such happiness! My soulmate and I team up and work together to try to raise these precious children to be good, sweet, loving little girls. We may not get to see our friends as often as we like but we know when they have a child or two they will understand. In a few years they won't want anything to do with us and we will have plenty of "friend" time then. Bittersweet isn't it.
Happy New Year to you all. I hope God Blesses you this year and always! Thanks for keeping up with us this year through my blog. Would love to see you soon. xoxo
Love,
Mollie

Mags first snow

We took a boat (from the pool) and tied a rope to the end of it. Tony acted as the horse, the raft was the sleigh. Tony and I took the girls on a ride around the neighborhood in the middle of the snow storm (note the umbrella). Maggie fell asleep. I imagine it was pretty peaceful. Fun was had by all!

Now this grin makes me smile

Maggie Moo - 7 months old