Visit to Ohio

We spent a week in Ohio visiting friends and family. It was great to see everyone, especially Kathy, the best massage therapist in Cincy! We celebrated Deanna's birthday with a girl's brunch and a group dinner at Don Pablos. We ended up extending the trip due to a death in the family. Peg's aunt Marie passed away, ending her 18 month battle with cancer. We were very glad that we were in town and able to say goodbye and support Grandma in the loss of her sister.
Deanna's birthday brunch

Baby bumps, 34 and 20 weeks respectively

Visiting friends Charlie and Lauren

32 weeks

Here's a recent belly shot of Peg. Only 8 weeks to go...or less if this one comes a little early like Maggie. We're keeping our fingers crossed!

Be Mine

Happy Valentine's Day from Maggie! How much our little love bug has changed in one year...

Zane and Lia's Birthday Bash

Jim had a last minute business trip to Missouri come up at the beginning of February. So all of us hopped on the plane and joined in the celebration of Zane and Lia's birthdays...8 and 5 respectively. It was great to be able to celebrate with them since we aren't usually able to. Jim went to work down south in Cape while Peg and Maggie got some quality girl time with Maw Maw. Maggie took a tumble and gave herself a nice shiner on her left eye which is just starting to disappear. It won't be her last childhood injury I suppose.

Birthday celebrations

Maw Maw and Paw Paw with the grandkids

Loves Music, Loves to Dance

This just keeps getting more fun! Maggie is at such a cute stage right now. She is so engaged in her play and the littlest things bring her the biggest delight. She is obsessed with babies and loves to look at pictures of them. Perhaps because it's the word she's most proficient at saying? Whatever the reason, hopefully she'll be just as excited about the baby who'll be here to stay in April. Here's a great picture taken while Maggie was dancing with her babydoll. She loves to shake her hips and dance to the music!

15 months!

Maggie is quite the busy toddler these days! Here's a little update on our 15 month old. Maggie checks in at 2' 9" tall and continues to be in the 95th percentile for height and weight. I wonder where she gets that? She loves running in circles around the kitchen island and especially likes it when mommy chases her. Her books hold her attention longer than any toy. Maggie's favorite thing in all the world is "purple dolly" who she carries everywhere. Her vocabulary is growing more each day; she can say mama, daddy, kitty, up, bye-bye, belly, and baby. Maggie has really taken to sign language lately. She uses the baby signs for more, all-done, brush teeth, milk, fan and gentle. Taking after mom, Maggie still loves her sleep. It doesn't seem that she'll be dropping the morning nap anytime soon. If only mom got to nap twice a day!

Princess Margaret wields the royal toothbrush

New Year, New Kitchen

Happy New Year! It's hard to believe that it's 2008. We've come to realize that Baby Farwig #2 will be here before we know it and we've got a lot on our "to do" list before then. Jim spent the New Year's holiday painting the kitchen. His goal was to get it finished before he returned to work and he succeeded. So it seemed like a good time to show some "before" and "after" pictures of our house. Hopefully it's obvious which ones are the "after."

Dining room




Kitchen