Maggie and her Hee Hiles

***Before I write about Maggie...I just want to let you know Miss Amy that there will be no minivans in the Herzog household!  Sorry to disappoint but I just cannot do it!  I know people who love them and I am sorry if it is any of my readers but nope not going to do it!  :)  I love my Expedition and this is as big as it gets before I start to downsize...***

Ok back to Maggie.  This girl seriously cracks me up on a daily basis.  Lately, she is ALL about princesses and dress up and spells and anything that is girly.  And she wants to do everything Matthew does (soccer, baseball, play in the dirt) as long as she can do it in her princess clothes.  I was at Michael's the other day and saw these dress up shoes.  I brought them home and you have thought I bought her a diamond necklace!  She loves them and wears them around everywhere.  She calls them her hee hiles (instead of high heels)!  It is awesome.  Yesterday, we rode bikes with the neighbors after school and she insisted on wearing her full princess get up while riding her trike.  She couldn't pedal really well but man she wasn't giving up! 

She is getting to be quite the little tap dancer.  She talks about it all the time and she dances around all the time.  Her balance has improved dramatically and she can do 90% of what the teacher asks.  I think her glasses have helped a lot too but watching her is really exciting!

The most recent development is that she no longer needs pull ups at night.  I am going to admit that I was a bed wetter so I was very careful not to make a big deal out of the at night potty thing.  Matthew told me about 6 months after he was fully trained that he didn't need pull ups at night and he was great.  Well Maggie has been trained for about a year (granted she was a whole year younger than Matthew when she was trained) and she still woke up with a wet pull up.  Then I started to notice that in the time we put them on after bath and went to bed (which is about an hour in between) she would have had peed in them...I asked her one time and she was like "yeah, I peed in my pull up!"  This is when I realized that she was just lazy and why not pee in them right?!  So I cut her off cold turkey and amazingly enough we haven't had an accident in 5 nights!   I figured I wasn't sleeping that well at night and getting up 14 times to pee anyway so why not try and see what happened to her.  Well she is my cold turkey kid.  So different than Matthew!  I am very proud of her though being 3 1/2 and not only potty trained but at night too.  She seems like such a big girl now and we have come so far with her.  She is so independent and says the funniest things.   The other day we were walking hand and hand and she said "Mom, isn't it great that we are best friends"  Seriously she melts my heart!