Happy 1st Birthday, Miller!

I cannot BELIEVE our baby turns one today! We are so thankful for Miller. He is SUCH a blessing and so precious to us! Below is a video of our baby boy's first year!

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A Trip to the Park!

After a week of being in the house, we took our first fun outing today! We went to the park for a picnic and some playground time. Here are some pictures from our field trip. :-)

Miller Walking...

As mentioned in yesterday's post, this little boy is walking everywhere!

Walking, My Little Pony...and Swine Flu

We have had an eventful past week here at the Norris house. Good things first...

Miller has started walking everywhere! He has been walking here and there for a few weeks, but he has just in the past week chosen walking as his primary mode of transportation. The sight of his wobbling around is pretty much the funniest thing ever! SO precious.
Maggie has decided she loves "My Little Ponies." She has somehow managed to collect three in the past couple of weeks. A few days ago, she begged Daddy to help her fix her ponies' hair. She then requested that he fix her hair the same way. :-)

In other news, both of our sweet babies are recovering from the swine flu. At the beginning of last week, they were acting "sickly," and by Wednesday, they were both running 103 temperatures. We went to the doctor and came home with two prescriptions for tamiflu. The poor babies were pitiful, pitiful, pitiful for a few days, but they are feeling much better now. Thank you to our family and friends who have prayed us through this past week! Whew! Maybe we'll all be healthy for a while now...

Miller's Walking!

My Favorite Things

I've been meaning to write this post for a while, as the kids are doing new things every day that make me laugh or smile. Here are a few of my favorite things Miller and Maggie are doing these days...


Miller...

• points at everything and everyone. Today, he pointed to an airplane in the sky. He pointed at a neighbor walking by our house. He pointed at me while I was feeding him breakfast. He pointed at his bottle after he threw it on the floor. (You get the point.)
• waves every time anyone says "hey" or "bye-bye" and claps when anyone says "yea." He even clapped for the girls in Maggie's ballet class last week--a lot! Such a polite little boy...
• says "Mama" a lot these days. Brings a smile to my face and my heart every time!
• is starting to take a couple of steps here and there. He's getting really sturdy, so I think he'll be walking soon!
• crawls away as fast as he can when he gets caught getting into something he shouldn't be into. I caught him with one of Maggie's crayons yesterday, and he threw it on the floor and speed-crawled away before I could even say anything. He always grins from ear to ear while doing this, too.
• puts his head on my shoulder (or Jeff's) when we pick him up. SO sweet.

Maggie...

• tells stories (both true and fiction) ;-) with amazing detail. Last night, she told Jeff that she got her orange bracelet from Susie and then ate Chickfila with Pop and Yaya and saw Nanny. She wrapped up her story with, "Then, I went to Nana and Granddaddy's." (This all happened a couple of weeks ago.)
• loves to wear and play with make-up. She mixed all my eyeshadow and blush together so that it made some strange mixture of pink and blue (which, by the way, does NOT flatter my face!).
• loves story time (We hop from library to library trying to catch ALL the local story times!). She always wants to sit closest to the "teacher"...wonder where she got that one....
• has FINALLY learned to ride her tricycle without saying "I not good at this." She does tell me frequently, though, that her "leg is broken off." (I'm guessing this is code language for "My legs hurt and I want to go home.")
• loves to "imaginary play"...She cooks us all kinds of fun creations on her toy stove, and she always pretends to wash her hands, saying "wash wash." She also pretends to change her babies' diapers, saying "change change," and pretends to brush her teeth, saying "brush brush."
• loves to cuddle. She has not always been a cuddlebug, so I am loving this new development!

Jeff and I are SO blessed to get to watch these sweet babies grow and learn new things every day!

Two hams...