Moments with Maisie

Hedbanz

2012-02-19T23:32:00.001-05:00

Brooke, Maisie & Cole playing Hedbanz. This photo is a “lost” one from a week ago Friday as I don’t think that I’ve taken a photo of Maisie in a week. With both of us being sick I just haven’t bothered pulling out my camera even though she has had some fun times and activities. Today I completed my course of antibiotics for my pneumonia but I’m still really dragging…and coughing, so I guess

Chani’s Mane Event

2012-02-16T20:43:00.001-05:00

Between Maisie and I both being sick and all the various doctor appointments and tests, I’m way behind on blogging, cleaning, laundry and I can’t even remember what else but I’m now working on catching up and personally I think catching up on blogging is a lot more fun than laundry or the dishes. So this post is a little late but last Saturday afternoon, one of the coldest days of the year (with

CAT scan update

2012-02-15T22:15:00.000-05:00

We have been on quite the medical merry-go-round lately trying to figure out what’s going on with Maisie and all her congestion. Her pediatrician sent us to an ENT to get her adenoids checked out but those were fine. The ENT suggested that there may be additional allergies and that we should see an allergist. The allergist ran further allergy tests which thankfully showed no additional

Cubbie Maisie

2012-02-13T22:15:00.001-05:00

Just a cutie-patootie iPhone picture of Maisie in one of the cubbies at her gym. Maisie was waiting for her friends to get dressed after practice so that they could get to school. Maisie’s always speedy getting dressed for school…the other two, well not so much. I posted a new recipe over on Cook Lisa Cook but it comes with a warning NOT to make it. Just like my Spicy Brown Sugar Bacon this

Valentine’s House

2012-02-10T13:57:00.000-05:00

Maisie is not really a crafty girl as she often doesn’t have the patience to sit for long periods of time coloring, painting or crafting as she much prefers to be moving but one thing she does love is decorating foam holiday houses. In the past Maisie has made a few different foam projects. She made a sweet Valentine’s house (February 2009) Her next project was an Easter house (April 2009)

Almost

2012-02-08T22:05:00.001-05:00

Yesterday when I dropped Maisie at school, her teacher Miss Lisa was putting up a new cork board display showing a graph of how many deciduous teeth each child in the class has lost and when I arrived today to teach sign language the board was complete. Maisie is 2 years younger than some of her classmates so it’s no wonder that she’s not up there with the number of teeth lost but it’s

Pizza with Tia

2012-02-05T18:13:00.001-05:00

This has been a long, long week as Maisie hasn’t been feeling great, I’ve been sick and Eammon was away in Germany on business. Then to finish the week, on Saturday I had to work at Maisie’s gym as there was a meet. So by Saturday afternoon there was no way that I was going to cook dinner. With Maisie’s allergies it’s difficult to just go out to a restaurant so it was nice to find a new pizza

Allergy testing

2012-02-01T17:54:00.001-05:00

Maisie has still been suffering with major congestion, so-much-so that she wakes multiple times each night because she’s completely stuffed up and can’t breathe. After a recent visit to her primary care doc it was suggested that we get her adenoids checked out so last Friday we visited the ENT. He checked Maisie out, scoped her nose and said her adenoids (and tonsils) were small and looked

Gym Dogs vs. LSU

2012-01-28T22:01:00.001-05:00

This has been a rough week as I managed to come down with a wicked head cold which is doing me in and Maisie has been having some major congestion problems and may now also have a bit of my cold. Even though we were both under the weather and dragging, today was fun as Sophie and I took Brooke & Maisie out to Athens to watch gymnastics as the Gym Dogs hosted LSU. It was good fun, the gymnasts

Giveaway! How would you like a Ponderosa Lemon?

2012-01-24T10:11:00.001-05:00

Do you remember this amazing Ponderosa Lemon which bloggy pals Alyson & Ford sent? And then do also remember the absolutely delicious Ponderosa Lemon & Sour Cream Tart which I made using some of the juice? Well now you have the opportunity to try one, well not the tart unless YOU make it (you can find the recipe over on Cook Lisa Cook) but to have one ponderous Ponderosa Lemon sent right to

Gung Hay Fat Choy!!! 新年快樂 Happy Year of the Dragon!!!

2012-01-22T22:04:00.001-05:00

Maisie celebrating CNY in 2011 We don’t really have anything planned this year for Chinese New Year as we have been crazy busy with Maisie’s new gymnastics schedule & school, Eammon’s been busy with work and we’ve all had a bit of the lurg. So this year it’s going to be a quiet family celebration with some of our favorite foods, hot pot and dumplings. Poor little Maisie though with her food

The ponderous Ponderosa

2012-01-19T21:19:00.001-05:00

About two weeks ago I posted about the wonderful surprise Ponderosa Lemon that Alyson & Ford sent to us and I said that their timing was perfect as I had an upcoming cooking challenge for which I needed lemons and this one baby would provide all the juice that I needed and more. I can now reveal what I did with some of the two cups worth of juice that I extracted from the lemon as today is

Maisie no-bakes safe

2012-01-16T19:01:00.001-05:00

Yesterday morning Maisie and I switched up her Math Book and Nutella No Bake Cookies recipes so to make the “safe” for Maisie and her allergies and to also add some extra healthy calories to them because with her gymnastics workout schedule she can use all the extra calories I can get into her. Click on the picture below to be taken to the Maisie “safe” No Bake Cookies recipe. Other recipes

Upside down

2012-01-14T23:12:00.001-05:00

Maisie seems to spend half her life upside down as she’s always doing cartwheels, handstands or walking through the house on her hands. Her new favorite activity is handstands on the beam and she’s always asking me to time her as she practices how long she can hold the handstand. Her current record for holding a handstand on the beam is eleven seconds, pretty A-Maisie-ing!! Also pretty

Maisie “safe” with April

2012-01-11T21:29:00.001-05:00

Sunday we met up with friends Ilene, Michael & April at zpizza where Maisie and those with many food allergies can enjoy “safe” pizza and salads. Since we first found out about Maisie’s allergies back in November, we’ve only twice taken her out to restaurants and those were both in Aruba where I brought her meal with us. So Sunday was the first time that she got to feel “normal” and enjoy

Check this baby out

2012-01-08T21:32:00.001-05:00

Yes my A-Maisie-ing Maisie Miao Miao AND what she’s holding. That is NOT a grapefruit, that is a lemon! It’s like a lemon on steroids weighing in at just shy of 2 1/2 pounds and I can’t wait to slice into it…which I have plans to do very soon. Thursday when I arrived home I was surprised to see a package at my door because I knew we weren’t expecting anything. It was a small square box and

Conditioning

2012-01-07T19:17:00.001-05:00

I love watching Maisie at the gym. Friday morning Maisie did two hours of intense conditioning followed by three hours of practice and more conditioning later in the afternoon. So what did she do in-between and after her practices? She demonstrated and practiced all the exercises she had just done done at the gym. Maisie not only loves learning skills but she adores conditioning. If you’ve

Maisie and her mats have taken over

2012-01-05T21:10:00.001-05:00

Maisie adores her panel mats and uses them every day for all sorts of activities. Yesterday I showed a picture of Maisie using her mats to turn my dining room into an animal corral and dining fort but most of the time they're used for gymnastics as she lays them out running through the dining and living room and does what she loves best. This video was taken back on December 2 but I was so busy

Second play date of the year

2012-01-04T19:20:00.001-05:00

We’re trying to pack in the play dates before Maisie returns to school next Tuesday. Don’t even ask why we’re still out on break, it’s just crazy the way the county messed around with the school calendar this year. Even though Maisie’s at a private school, it tends to pretty much follow what the county does for the school year. Needless to say, Maisie started her Christmas break on Wednesday,

First play date of the year

2012-01-02T21:20:00.001-05:00

Maisie was a happy girl today as she had a “perfect” Maisie day, practice time at the gym followed by a play date with friends. We haven’t seen our friends Lisa & Briana and Kathy & Chani since back in October when we last got together for our annual day at the maize maze and we’ve been missing them so it was great fun today to spend the day at Lisa & Briana’s home for a play date. As usual

2011 ~ A year of Maisie

2011-12-31T23:59:00.000-05:00

January brought a lot of snow here in the south and Maisie and her friends enjoyed an extended snowcation as Atlanta was essentially shut down for over a week because the roads were impassable with built up ice and snow. During the snow break Maisie had fun painting & baking, throwing snowballs, playing in igloos, warming up with loaded hot cocoa, dressing up and playing Wii. Maisie also have a

Maisie & Brooke, busy & strong girls

2011-12-29T23:44:00.001-05:00

Maisie’s classmate and fellow gymnast Brooke came to play today. Five and a half hours and the two of them barely stopped their gymnastics and running around, they had so much fun together. This picture proves that they did stop and sit for a couple of minutes…and trust me, it was only a couple of minutes before they were up and moving again. They barely made a dent in their popcorn before

Christmas 2011

2011-12-25T12:58:00.001-05:00

Maisie awoke very excited this morning hoping that Santa brought her the one and only gift that she asked for and wanted, a locked diary. Maisie really never asks for anything and in her mind thought that she would get her diary from Santa and that would be her gift so she was surprised to see, what to her, seemed like so many gifts under the tree. Maisie was delighted with what Santa

Christmas Eve with Maya

2011-12-24T22:58:00.001-05:00

This afternoon Maya and her parents picked up Maisie and they headed down to their Church for a Christmas service and concert. They then came back to our home where we all enjoyed a delicious Christmas Eve dinner together. Maisie and Maya had a blast playing together, running around and being silly. After dinner they each opened a little gift and then ran off to play some more. The girls

Fun times with friends on the beach

2011-12-21T19:07:00.000-05:00

This is my final Aruba post for this year. Even though they’ve been light on words and truly not that many pictures either, it’s taken me weeks to get them all done but I had to get the pictures and posts all up because they’re such great memories and this is my scrap book for Maisie. Every year we look forward to seeing our friends Sandy, Alan and Carl on the beach and it’s lonely and doesn’