Share Day

I went to visit Maggie at school today. We were able to spend time watching her Speech Center Time and her Share Day. It was so much fun to watch Maggie doing her thing in school. Her classroom is so rich in activities, language and learning. I am so thankful for the experiences she is having... she is doing GREAT!

Whenever it's Share Day, the student that is sharing gets to choose a song for the whole class to sing. Then they get to be a part of it by using whatever puppet goes along with the song. Maggie picked a song about Ducks... and she got to be the mother duck! It was so cute:) She was supposed to wait until the song said, "Mama Duck called Quack, Quack, Quack, Quack" before she made the puppet quack, but she was having too much fun!

Here's a little montage of our visit today...

Preschool Pictures

Today was Picture Day at Maggie's Preschool.
Call me crazy, but I just don't think I will ever pay for school portraits...
with the digital age, and the ability to take and print pictures at home,
why would I pay for pictures that might not turn out that great anyway.

Since today was picture day at Maggie's school,
I decided to take my own, and send her to school all dressed up,
since the pictures will be in the yearbook anyway.

So Many Words...

... I can't even post them all.

It is truly unbelievable how Maggie is beginning to talk.
Have I said how much I LOVE TO HEAR MAGGIE SPEAK??!!!

I don't know if it is that I really didn't believe it would ever happen,
or if I just didn't want to be sad if Maggie never spoke.
It was a wait-and-see type of feeling.

No expectations, no worries, just Maggie being Maggie!

There was a while there where I had finally decided that I would truly surrender all of my desires for Maggie to God. I really did. And it was at that point that I was at peace with life, whether or not Maggie ever spoke.

But, I can tell you now, that I am ecstatic over all the news words that Maggie is saying. Here is a short video I did, trying to capture all her new words. But, is is short as I couldn't think of anymore words and feared Maggie would soon get bored with me... and even though she doesn't quite say all of the words correctly, the fact that she is even close is AWESOME!
here's a little love from Maggie sweet and tender voice!