Thanksgiving

So many great pictures but this captures everyone that was there.

Happy Halloween

Tonight was our ward Trunk-or-Treat. I was super excited to dress Maggie up as a Ballerina this year. My sister Tasha made her tutu and the rest of her ensemble we had around the house. Maggie loved her tutu and was having the best time playing with it while I was dressing her. She had a great time checking out all the other Halloween costumes at the Trunk-or-Treat too. I can't wait for Halloween night to be able to dress her up again! Happy Halloween!!

Reflection

Sara is reading a book. I am learning Facebook, PHP, SQL and Wordpress. Meanwhile, Maggie is crawling around the kitchen, under tables and chewing up any loose paper. Ironically with all the social networking I am exposing my brain to... I don't have time to post Maggie's latest discoveries.

Yes, Maggie is crawling! She loves to follow me around, which is nice because I worry about what paper product she is consuming while contently playing out of sight, but usually she will follow me into the kitchen and play quietly until she bumps her head... at least this way I know what is getting into.

Maggie is standing! Soon I will need to lower the crib because she enjoys standing up and reaching over at things. She also uses this new leveraged point of view to get at unsuspecting paper products, magazines and books. Suddenly the house is full of hostile objects.

Maggie is developing taste. She loves her squashes, sweet potatoes, rice cereal, oatmeal, pears and books, of course. She is finicky about avocados, peas and carrots. She starts blowing food out if she doesn't like it... hopefully this is just a phase.

A little tutorial: To Add Banner

Thanks to anyone who wants to add my banner. Here are some simple instructions:

Step 1) Under Layout, add gadget
Step 2) Select HTML/Java Script
Step 3) Cut and Paste the Code below in content box and save!!!



<br /><!doctype transitional//en 1.0 -//w3c//dtd public html xhtml http://www.w3.org/tr/xhtml1/dtd/xhtml1-transitional.dtd><br /><a href="http://www.stanfordrichins.com"><img width="100%" alt="Stanford Richins Photography" src="http://www.stanfordrichins.com/graphics/logo_banner.png" /></a><br /><br /></!doctype>

Customize it! If you have wide side banner change the above value [width="250px"].

Let me know if you add the banner. Thanks:)

The Upside of Website Up!

I finally published my new website. It's clean. I like it! Because I am crazy and refuse to use a template site or hire it out... these things take more time than I care to admit. Now hopefully I will have time to post on Maggie and Sara. Anyhow, I would love to hear your feedback, especially if something is upside-down or if you think there is room for improvement.

Music or No-Music?

6.5 M

Maggie is starting to scoot around on her belly. She is also starting to get attached to objects, mainly the ones you have in your hand like cell-phones, calculators, forks and bills... I pretty much let her chew up everything, except the forks of course. Anyway, here is the latest photos of her discoveries.

6 months

15 lbs. 3 oz. - 50th percentile

27 inches - 95th percentile

Maggie is getting to be such a big girl! She loves to play with her toys and put everything in her mouth. Her first tooth came in on Tuesday. We have started her on rice cereal and will soon be making her way towards fruits & veges once we start making her baby food. Maggie is just starting to sit up on her own and we are always close by to catch her when she falls over. Maggie loves attention and loves to be held. She fully recognizes her mom and dad and will smile with delight when she sees us. Maggie just started to say "ma ma " although I don't think she really knows what it means. She is so much fun to be around and we are loving the stage she's in!