What a year brings

Last year, Daniel and I went to Mark's Melon patch to get pumkins to carve and just to hang out. I was seven mos pregnant and I took a picture right here to show my 7 mos belly. A whole year later, we are back again with a 10 mos old. I cannot believe what a year brings. A very funny, very smart little girl with some major facial expressions. She is like a sponge, soaking everything up. She is talking and the speech therapist I am, I am counting the words and even writing some things out phonetically. Silly mama!
In this picture, the band had started playing and she was trying to go dance. What did we ever do before her?

The guys and their babies

Brian with his little one, Anna Kate/ Daniel with Max Milligan/ Chandler with the little man, Walt

and one last post for the evening

This is what I found when I walked in to get her from her nap. So funny. such a big girl.

A Few of Our Trips Lately

This weekend, I had a conference in Atlanta. Mama, Noah, Max Milligan and I made the trek and staid with Meg. Thank you Meggie for letting us stay and being my chauffeur.

Last weekend we were in Atlanta for a quick weekend and we were lucky enough to have lunch with my best friend and Max Milligan's godmother, Jamie. Such a blessing! And I got to see the wedding dress!!!! (said in a very sing songy voice). We miss you Aunt Jamie, all the time.

First Football game

Now, before everyone gets in a Tizzy because Max Milligan's first football game was Georgia Tech and not UGA, let me just quote my father... "Trust Fund" She will be like me and love all her teams. But, hopefully, she will head to Athens soon for a real football game!

Cheehaw Park

A few weeks ago, daniel and I took Max Milligan to Cheehaw park. It was a beautiful day and we had such a fun time. I don't have a picture of the bison, but they were definately her favorite. If I didn't have such a good grip, she would have jumped right down there. I guess she thought it was a very very large horse!

Quick updates

Lately I have had the "poor pitiful me" "miss my friends" blues. It's the little things that Max Milligan does that can pull me out of any funk, espiecially when it's a new trick. It's funny when she does something that is imitating me, but when she initiates something... it just blows my mind. For instance, this morning Max Milligan dropped her bottle. I looked over at her and she was signing "milk". Like I said, she has imitated me, but this was her- knowing that she had dropped her bottle and she was asking me for milk. She signed it again tonight around the time we give her her bedtime bottle. CRAZY. The other thing she did was "patty cake, roll em up roll em up." Let me explaing. She claps (at everything) and lately when I am doing patty cake, she will "roll em up roll em up" with me. This evening while we were at dinner, Max Milligan (on her own) started clapping and then started rolling her arms around. It was so funny and so great that Daniel and I were both there to see her. She is just the thing to make me smile and pull me out of my funk.