11 Months

Maggie is now 11 months and 2 weeks old. It seems so hard to believe. It has been so much fun watching her grow and learn. It really is the coolest thing. This week she has started trying to walk. She is becoming more adventurous and loves to stand on her own. She has even ventured out with a couple of steps here and there and it's the cutest thing. She'll let go of the couch and toddle a couple of steps to where I'm sitting in the chair and then back. It's just so much fun watching her realize what she just did and seeing how proud she looks when we make a big deal of it. Then she wants to do it over and over again to get the same reaction. She just loves it when we make a big deal over her. And we do. Alot.

I have to admit that even though Maggie is almost a year old we had yet to venture far down the path of introducing table foods to her - aside from the occasional bites of macaroni and cheese, spaghetti and mashed potatoes. But we spent this weekend at Michael's grandmothers and were treated to a bounty of fresh vegetables from her garden. Since this is a rare find in the Krenek house, we took the opportunity to let Maggie eat her fill of good-for-you foods and she loved it. The child could not get enough green beans and black-eyes peas and squash. And now, since she got a taste of what we eat, she thinks she is entitled to anything we are eating. And she is not patient about it. Don't even think about trying to cut it into bite-sized pieces. See demonstration below:

(By the way - this video drove me to join Weight Watchers on Monday. Yikes. )

Maggie still enjoys chasing Toby. Here are a few pictures from a recent pursuit:

This is how Maggie crawls when she has a dress on: And Apparently it's exhausting (or perhaps she's "playing dead" in an attempt to trick Toby):

Or not. This appears to be a stare-off...


Not much else is going on here. We had a fun Memorial Day weekend with family and friends. Here are a few pictures from the weekend:

We spent Saturday at Mimi & Papa's with the cousins. Here are some shots of the cousins playing in the sprinkler.

Then we went to church on Sunday. Here is Mags before church. This first picture cracks me up. It looks like it should have been taken around 100 years ago when people didn't smile because photographs took so darn long.

Then on Monday we went to the McCoy's for some excellent food and fun. Maggie quite enjoyed playing with the letter magnets on the Fridge.

...and chewing on them too...

Here she hangs out with the menfolk on the porch:

This post is getting long so I will wrap things up with a video of Maggie at bath time. She enjoys splashing around in the tub.

Love to all!