Maggie will surely die if you don’t come down this instant to eat our breakfast!!!!!
—Text message from Sarah this morning
PS: Yeah, we text each other across the house.
Category Archives: Maggie
Oliver’s First Flight
Travel with three is definitely harder with three than with two. Even though Griffin and Maggie are great travelers at this point, they still need a fair amount of guidance and support, especially around luggage handling: “Don’t run over that lady’s toes!” “Your bag is tipping over!” “Your coat is dragging on the floor.” And then, of course, they simply don’t have the muscle power yet to get bags onto shuttles or sometimes even escalators. Add Oliver to the mix and at least one parent is relatively hamstrung. He comes with additional supplies too. We ended up traveling “light” with merely five suitcases, five backpacks and diaper bags, two booster seats, one full car seat, and the seemingly infinite writhing tentacles of our winter coats. There were a few moments when we were entirely beholden to the kindness of strangers.
But we made it, unscathed, and the flight itself was largely peaceful. Let the mayhem of a seven cousin holiday begin!
Modern Fashion
We’re immersed in madcap packing for our holiday trip to visit Andrew’s family in Maryland. Kids are asleep. Adults are exhausted, going over checklists.
Sarah: “Did you check on Maggie’s clothes in her suitcase?”
Andrew: “Well, she seemed pretty organized about it…”
Sarah checks the suitcase and finds the following items, very neatly packed:
- 7 pairs of pants
- 2 skirts
- 1 shirt
- 4 pajama tops
- 0 pajama bottoms
Mountain Climbers
Pairs of Skin
Maggie, after scratching a scab this morning:
Maggie: Luckily I have another pair of skin!
Daddy: What?
M: I had another pair of skin under my scab, so it’s not bleeding.
D: Oh.
M: I have three pairs of skin.
D: Three? Pairs of skin?
M: Yes. If I scratch off one pair, then there’s another pair. If I scratch off that one, then there’s a third pair. But under the third pair is my blood.
Notepad Tale, Chapters 3-5
Griffin’s story continues. He composed this on the notepad app on an old iPhone. The first two chapters are here.
Chapter three
When the Maggie’s attack
When all the Maggie’s came they had a fight with the bogeys the Maggie’s won! Sarah untied the rope that was holding Maggie to a tree 🌲. I’m hungry 😋 mama. i want to eat an ice cream cone 🍦.
Chapter four
Finding the house 🏡
Now that Maggie was here Sarah didn’t have to worry about Maggie ,being captured but she had to worry about getting her house 🏡. they looked everywhere. they decided that they would go to their property .they looked at the ground and saw a lump when they looked closer. they could see that it was their own house It somehow shrank.
Chapter five
The house is back to normal !
They decided to go to the hardware store to buy some new tools.but when they got there they saw the store was closed so they decided to go back to their house 🏡. But when they got there there house was big again! They decided to celebrate 🎉. They got a little cake and they ate it all.
And they lived happily ever after.
Book 2 coming soon!🙂😉😊.
Peace and Loudness
Maggie, musing about why she loves the cabin:
I love the cabin.
When we want someone to come out,
we don’t have to go find them…We can just yell!
Amnesia
Conversation this afternoon:
Me: Did Mama talk to you about the rules?
Maggie: Yes!
Me: What were the rules?
Maggie: Um… I forgot. <shrugs> I forget things very quickly.
Road Trip, Destination: McMinnville
It was just a short jaunt up the coast to McMinnville, Oregon, where we stayed with Sarah’s friends, Jordan and Megan, on their incredible farm. Their kids were generous and welcoming to ours, inviting Griffin and Maggie to have a slumber party with them in their epic loft (with passages into multiple rooms upstairs… top-of-the-line cool). That was fun, but it turns out that five kids in a loft can generate a lot of heat. On the following night they all elected to sleep under the stars on a second floor deck. Other highlights of the visit included lots of time in their amazing garden, candle-making, churning butter, cookie baking, and cherry picking.
Road Trip, Destination: Florence, Oregon
After Seattle (for days 8-12 if anyone is counting), we headed along the coast to Florence, Oregon to rendezvous with Andrew’s brothers and their families. They drove up from the Bay Area, meeting us as far south as we could get on this trip. Click below to see larger versions of the pictures in a slide show. It was a great visit!
Seattle to Florence
Rocket launch
July 4th pyrotechnics
Angry faces all ’round, including Oliver!