Saturday, July 26, 2008

maggie musings

I have been really loving this age with our girl. She has this incredible personality and we often look at eachother and say, "where did that come from?" in relation to a funny response she has or a silly thing she says. One of my favorite stories as of late has been Aron catching her talking to herself in her full-length closet mirror telling herself to, "Obey" over and over again. This is a key phrase we use with her as we are training her heart. Too sweet! She also often attempts to share her sippy cup with her mirror image (something I once did with my orange juice when I was a child, except it was to my shadow and there was no lid on!). She loves to read our theological books and often can be found sitting in front of the bookshelf, flipping from cover to cover multiple time. In fact this week, she insisted I, "Read book," and procured some Francis Schaffer and Jonathan Edwards, to which I obliged and read a paragraph or so of each, to which she quietly listened. Amazing! :) Lots of things are "silly" to her these days, including "silly dada," "silly mama," and "silly Maggie." We have taught her to "rock out" in the car to music and she is working on throwing out her rock n roll sign with her fingers, though for now, it's only holding up the index finger. She also can, believe it or not, sing "do, ra, me, fa, so, la, ti, do." On several occasions she has perfectly done it out of the blue! Mostly, it's just a few notes on the scale, but still, it's delightful!

4 comments:

  1. That sounds delightful! :) Zoe will not sit and listen to me reading to her for longer than 20 seconds, but Angelina would at that age. :) Zoe wants to go go go! LOL. I love that Maggie tells the mirror to obey! So cute!!! Zoe has begun to sing the ABC's! She can sing quite of few of the letters - thanks in part to her ABC Caterpillar. Isn't it fun? ;)

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  2. what a ham! such a fun girl! love her. i still remember when she was teeny-tiny when we came for a visit. & mia was in my belly, remember?:) that was a fun. xo

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  3. That girl is just unbelievable. Such wit and spirit. I love the mental picture I got of her pulling out some of your more "mature" reading materials and looking at the pages - and listening to you read it to her too! - amazing. It's so fun to see how much she's growing into her own little person.

    xoxo

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  4. Love all the descriptions of Maggie's current activities. She sounds like a really fun kid and wish we could have playtime with you guys!! :)

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