17 Months!!!

We have had a GREAT summer! We are sad to see it end but can't wait for the fall! Mom and Dad had a quick visit to our alma mater (U of M) for Andrew's and Maggie's NICU check-up with the neurologist. They passed with flying colors and no longer have to continue to be monitored...yea! Andrew is cruising around the house and has gotten quite quick - he makes a beeline for the bathroom to play in the toilet or heads for our laundry room to play with Bella's food and water. We guess he is our future swimmer! Maggie also has finally started walking...though it took Gaga Rudy and Mom quite a long time to find good tennis shoes to fit her size 2 feet. It's amazing that she can balance on those things! It's so fun as Maggie and Andrew get older and more interactive and independent. Maggie, for some reason, loves Burt from Sesame Street and likes to find him in her toys/books and point him out. Andrew likes our cactus and while he has learned "one finger touch" it doesn't last long...poor cactus!

While Andrew has always been quite bigger in size (we call him Bubba), we have decided that Maggie is going to be our future football player...she is quite the bully and actually throws her whole body at Andrew and tackles him. Poor Andrew is too nice to retalitate back!

We hope everyone has a great last couple days of summer! Please think of Andrew on Sept. 8th as he is having ear tube surgery! Enjoy the pictures!

16 Months

Well, we haven't been so good at updating...surprise, surprise. Maggie and Andrew have had quite the busy summer. Unfortunately, they have had some ear infections so we have an upcoming appointment with an ENT doctor. Besides that, life has been good! Andrew is taking many steps by himself now, though he resembles a drunk sailor. He now likes to walk over crawling. Maggie, our sometimes unmotivated child, still favors crawling - though she does this crab-like crawl over tough surfaces. In the last couple days, she has begun to take a few steps by herself. She also is amazing us with her vocabulary - she mimics anything we say. Her favorite thing though is to drop food off her tray and then say "uh oh". She also says hi non-stop. We hope everyone is having a good summer! Here are some pictures from the past month...