on demand : maggie's birthday, part 1

Yikes! You better give my sister-in-law what she wants…from instant messaging her yesterday, I’ve come to realize that my life is in danger if I do not post some birthday pictures RIGHT NOW. So, to keep my children from being motherless, we will begin now with a crazy amount of presents.

Aunt Nancy came for Maggie’s birthday this year and gave her this doll. While Maggie loves the doll, she seems to love it’s shoes the most and walks around with them on her hands…she even sings a song to “her kids” about how they should wear shoes on their hands.



Uncle Herbert and Aunt Stuffy sent two dvd’s for Mags which she is dying to watch - The Velveteen Rabbit and Veggie Tales. I used to say that our kids would never watch Veggie Tales…I also used to say that we’d never have Elmo stuff, and we probably have around 15 Elmo things - some of which I actually purchased. I am, however, holding fast to the ban on Barney.


Grandma sent lots of fun stuff - a cute sweater, an elephant card, animal books, a set of magnetic princess paper dolls and the most recent publication in her series of Maggie books, “Maggie Remembers Grandpa Higgins”. Maggie was sure to show everyone all the pictures of her and Grandpa, telling us how she remembered each one - even when she was three months old.



Bop and Geet (this is what Maggie is calling Boppa and GG right now) not only gave accessories for Maggie’s bike, but her very own real set of golf clubs (pink, of course). The picture cracks me up. Maggie has a tendency to close her eyes when she thinks your photography involves a flash (“it too bwight!”), so I’m always telling her to open her eyes and look at me, and recently that has produced the face pictured here. It is also impossible to get my dad to look at the camera, so the two of them together always end up looking funny.



Without any further delay, here is Maggie showing off her gifts from Annie Grook. Not only did she get a birthday sweater, but birthday t-shirts and jeans to match!


Here is a better picture of the sweater…