ROCKTOBER!

I love October.  I love September because of football, the start of fall, and my birthday, but October.  OOOO October.

October brings the real true fall.

It brings the birthdays of two of my favorite people -- Johnny boy and Mags.

It brings our annual off roading trip.

It brings more football.

My baby girl is walking.  Yup, that's right WALKING.

This month is also ridiculously busy.  This past weekend, we went to the apple fest, and had a christening. Next weekend, we'll be off roading.  The weekend after that is Maggie's birthday party, John's birthday and the Bears/Vikings game.  The weekend after that is celebrating John's birthday.  And the weekend after THAT is Halloween weekend.

However, the HIGHLIGHT of the weekend was Maggie's one year pics.  My ridiculously talented friend Katie Ryan is also my fantastic photographer.  She captures pictures of my kids (as well as many others) that are just amazing.  She is also amazing because she posts teaser pics so you get to see some of the beauty right away.  If you're in the Chicago area, please consider using her because she is fantastic.

And now, I present -- Maggie is 1!!! (Almost)

And of course, can't forget about Big Brother PJ

These next two might be my two favorite pictures of all time.

I love the expression on Maggie's face.  Yup, that's my brother.  Sigh.

But, at least he makes up for it. :)

And finally, so the whole world knows.  Maggie is (almost) one.  :)

Words. Rolling. Birthday.

Maggie rolls from back to tummy now.  Yay!  And let me tell you, girl does NOT stay on her back okay?  The moment I put her down on her back, by the time I turn around, she's on her tummy.  She's trying to move.  I think she wants to play with her big brother.  I should enjoy this while it lasts, because I have a feeling in a year the love and happiness between them is going to be replaced with whining, crying, and yelling.

PJ.  That kid learns a new word every day I swear.  Grandma, duck, stuck, uck, ick, not to mention all the other words he's saying that we can't understand yet.  Did I mention my happiness will be two in LESS THAN ONE MONTH??? DID I?  Well he is.  Shrek invites ready to be mailed on Monday.  Cake ordered. It's insane.  He's been having nightmares so almost every night for the last 3 hours of the sleepytime he's in our bed.  Which on one hand works out because then I don't have to worry about Mags waking him up, then trying to deal with both of them and get them back to sleep.  We did order him a BCM though so this weekend we're going to try to keep him in his bed.  Though I do love when he cuddles with me. :)

We're going to dinner Tuesday at Ruth's Chris to celebrate what would have been Pop's 57th birthday.  A big crew of us going -- about 15.  We are actually taking the kiddies because the wonderful people at Ruth's gave us a private room.  So if PJ starts throwing goldfish, at least he'll only be hitting family.  I'm making a little keepsake for John, Jenny and Aly that hopefully I will have some time to do when Johnny boy isn't around.

Sidebar.  I love quotes.  I have a quote book I bought my senior year of high school, and went through and highlighted all the quotes I loved.  In college, I'd write a different one on my dry erase board every day.  I recently discovered this book again, and decided I will post a daily quote on my blog -- even if I post nothing else, there will be a quote.  So today's quote is one of my all time favorites.

"To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world."   - Anonymous.

Go be the world to that person.

EDD: October 16. Yup, Johnny Boy's birthday

Twig looks great.  Heartbeat of 128 bpm, measuring 6 weeks 5 days (so I was a couple days off).   Which makes me due on Johnny's birthday!!! Which is great, because (and this is according to John) the baby won't be born that day.  He doesn't  mind sharing his birthday with our son/daughter, but wants he/she to have his/her own special day.  (Sidenote:  cannot WAIT till I can just say "he" or "she" instead of this he/she business).

First prenatal appointment is March 11.  Hopefully it's with Dr. Axelrod.  I feel like we know him well since he delivered PJ and all.  Of course, any of the others is great too (except the flaky one, who's name I won't even attempt to spell).

Such a relief to know all is good with the little one inside.   I bet October is gonna be here in no time!