Fun With Maggie

People ask me from time to time "What do you do all day?"  I am going to go ahead and say that this is one of the most annoying questions.  Being a mom, maid, accountant, etc is a full time job.  Thankfully I do have some help.

Meet my housekeeping assistant - Maggie.  She is a wonderful  help and the best part is...she loves to clean and wants the house to be tidy.  Cleaning the house is fun to her!  Maggie is great at dusting, moping, spritzing (she sprays the cleaner or windex) and mopping.  One thing Maggie doesn't like is having her picture taken unless she asks for you to take it.  Below are two pictures of her mopping.

Maggie is also very good with Harold.  Sometimes a little too good and he has bitten her.  She likes to get in his face and Harold is against that 110%.  Today, he gave in and let her put Minnie Mouse bow lights on him.  Does he look happy or what?  I love Maggie's smile in this picture - needless to say this was a time she wanted her picture taken.

First Day at In-Sync Exotics

Today was my first day to volunteer at In-Sync.  I was assisgned to work with Melissa Baker in "Chuffin Park."  This is a large encloser with Tigers on each end.  One end houses two sister and a brother - Pepsi, Athena, and Ukidi. The other end houses Stryker, Cinncinnati, Serena, Mystery, and Salem.  Our job was the clean each encloser and the walkways. What does that entail?

1- make sure there is no dried meat on the fences or top of their houses

2- pick up all poop and if it has stained the concrete use bleach to get it up

3- look under all toys to make sure there aren't bone fragments on top of their houses or on the floor

4 - pressure wash the inside of their houses and the remainder of the encloser

5 - replinish water if it is nasty and get out any grass or dead bugs

6- spray the inside of their houses to prevent mosquitos

7- clean the walkways and make sure they are free of debree

A lot goes into cleaning the encloses for this amazing animals.  I had a wonderful time and can't wait to go back.  I will say sometimes it stinks (literally), but I can deal with that.

Here is a picture of Cincinnati on the playground.  You can't help but fall in love with his sweet face.

Another pic of Cincinnati just hanging out in his "room."

These pictures are of Salem.  He was picking up this huge disk and dragging it.  

This is his stop staring at me and taking pictures of me look.

Plano Balloon Festival

The Plano Balloon Festival was this weekend and the girls really wanted to see hot air balloons.  I won't pay to go to this festival because the two times we have the balloons never launched due to wind.  Earlier in the week, I let Mallory and Maggie know that hopefully we could some balloons from the neighbors backyard.  (Before the houses were built to the west of us we could see the ballons.)

Now let's fast forward to this weekend.  The girls and I were up early Saturday morning and had on Fox news.  The reporter stated that the balloons were heading back to the park.  I thought the drive is 10 minutes down the road, let's go!!!  We all went to the bathroom, ran out to get in the Tahoe, and hurried down to the park.  As we arrived the balloons were just coming back.  I pulled off onto a side street and we had a great time.

This balloon flew right over us and was pretty low to the ground. We got to see them pull the fire string (or whatever it is called) to give it some more gas (so to speak).

I wanted to take a picture of the girls with the balloons in the background and this is the best I could get.  Mallory decided it was funny face day.

Three Years Old

Oh Maggie!  Let me start this post off by telling you that I am sorry.  I am sorry that I am just now getting around to doing this blog post and it is now September 3rd.  We have had a lot of fun since May and I can't remember tons of stuff that happened closer to you turning three.   I'm going to tell you about yourself right now.

You LOVE your sister!  You want to be everywhere she is and last week was so hard for you.  Mallory went to kindergarten and you had a very hard time adjusting.  This week is much better.

You have the sweetest smile and most of the time you have the sweetest spirit.  I have noticed in the past month you are starting to really test your limits and see if you can get away with not obeying.  I won't lie, I have been lax this summer, but not anymore.  You know that it is your job to obey your parents and we discuss Ephesians 6:1 often.

You want to do many things by yourself unlike Mallory at your age - bathe, brush teeth, dress, lock up your car seat.

You love your family so much and want to be with us all the time.  Your favorite little friends are Lilah and Violet Collins.

Your favorites:

color - blue

thing - the moon (you love to find it and point it out. You go crazy when you can see it during the day and you always say "we saw that moon if roar-ida aka florida)

show- paw patrol

words you mispronounce that are so cute: de-wish-ous (delicious), why-cycle (tricycle)

Your stats:

weight: 32 lbs, 12 oz (71st percentile)

height: 36.75 inches (43rd percentile)

First Day of Preschool

These pictures say it all.  Maggie did not want anything to do with going to preschool today. She did not want her picture taken and she kept saying she wanted to stay home with me.  

I obviously took her to school and she cried a little bit when I left.  Her teachers said she had a great day and I am looking forward to her learning and having a great year.