Maggie @ 9 weeks

What a perfect Birthday for Gina! We brought Maggie home today. She is so stinkin' cute. She has grown since the first time we saw her. She is almost 2 pounds now. See those tiles on the floor of the kitchen? They are 12x12 tiles. You can see how she measures up ! We feel like we have a newborn in the house. Chuck was very on top of things and typed up a schedule for her so we would know when to feed her and take her out to go potty. We are training her with the bell method, to try to teach her to ring it when she needs to go out. On her second day home she actually rang the bell with her little nose and when we took her out she went pee pee. Probably a flook, but none the less exciting. She was super cute playing with her lil. puppy toys. Her favorite by far is the tiny monkey she carts around(bottom left). Like I told Sarah, I have friends having babies, but I took the easy way out, and got a puppy. ( I have to say though, diapers are sure sounding appealing instead of puppy pads and accidents!)

Maggie Annabelle @ 5 weeks

This is our newest addition to the Lasley family. Santa asked us to come meet Maggie in Middlebury at the breeder. We immediately fell in love with her. She was the runt of the litter. Santa couldn't bring her to us on Christmas you see, but we were all very excited to get her on New Year's Eve.

Those Silly Reindeer

Grandma Linda gave us a super fun gift this year for Christmas. Tickets to see this cute play in Chicago the day after Christmas. It was called "Those Silly Reindeer". The beauty in the bottom picture was the Snow Princess(Morgan of course too cool to join in). So of course we had to make a day of it and visit Michigan Ave. Meg wanted to visit "American Girl" and the other two had to go to "Apple" to spend some Christmas $. It was a super fun day, that we have Grandma to thank for.

Christmas 2009

"All Meg wants for Christmas is Her Two Front Teeth".... We had a very quiet, wonderful "jammie"Day. Just the 5 of us. We missed Grandma here with us, but she is coming in just a few days to be here for Madeline's B-day in January. One of the girls favorite gifts they received were their new hat's. Mom gave Madeline and Morgan there's, and Grandma Rudy sent Meg her's that came with matching mittens. All three girls wore them literally all day long. By far their very favorite thing they got is the letter that you see Madeline holding on the far left little picture. It is a letter from Santa you see explaining that he had arranged for the Lasley's to get a puppy. On Christmas little Maggie Annabelle was only 8 weeks old though and not quite 1 1/2 lbs. (too little to leave her Mommy). We had to wait until New Year's Eve to pick her up. - pictures to follow in an upcoming post.

Practice, Practice, Practice

Not any exciting trips for the Lasley's this Christmas break. Just gymnastics practice 6 days a week. Getting ready for a busy January. We have 4 meets -Wow! Here's a sneek peek of the girls. Morgan- level 8, Madeline- level 5, and Meg- level 3.