35 weeks!

Just being goofy.

Mackenzie helping fill up the bird feeder.
I love this picture - my mom taught her how to put her sunglasses on top of her head, and now she has been doing it all the time.
Playing the drum she painted.

So today we went to the doctor and found out the baby is breech. They aren't going to get too worried until my next appointment at 36 weeks. But, I would rather try some things to turn her rather than have them try. Any advice? I have heard some crazy things already, but I am willing to try anything! Deb, I know one or two of those babies had to have been breech! :)

This week my mom, dad, and Tris came out for spring break and helped Matt build us a fence!!!!! His dad came out one day and helped, also. I forgot to get after pictures of the finished fence, but I will do that this week. It looks GREAT! I am so excited. Thank you again Aunt Martha, Kurt, Annamarie, Grandpa, and Grandma for the Christmas gift that helped out so much, too. :)

Easter Pictures!

Mackenzie doing yoga! She loves doing the "stretching movie" with mamma.
We met Matt over at the park the other day for a picnic lunch. It was so nice, we are ready for spring!
30 (!) weeks! Only a little more than 2 months to go, I can't believe it.

Mackenzie obviously doesn't share her mommy's feelings about balloons.
Here's her new shades. She wears them all the time - in the house, to the park, to walmart - people get such a kick out of her. She thinks she's a little rock star or something :)
Here she is getting ready to watch Happy Feet. All those toys she is holding are penguins. The kid LOVES penguins. The three little ones are named Bill, Ted, and Other Bill. Then she also has baby penguin, which Grammy and Peepaw got her for her birthday. We think maybe she will grow up to study penguins or something.

So, I haven't ever really taken Mackenzie out to play in the snow. I'm a bad mommy, it takes forever to get her ready and then we are out there for 20 minutes. Oh, and it has only snowed her a couple of times this winter. But, we did get a little snow last night, so this morning I asked her if she wanted to go out. She had a great time. She wanted to wear her "mits" at first, but once we got out there she wanted them off so she could scoop the snow.

Mackenzie loves "playing" memory. We lay half of them out and give her the other card and let her find the match. She is really fast! One of these days she is going to be ready to take on her uncle Tristan :) .

Here are some pictures of Mackenzie playing in the yard the other day. We have been enjoying any warm weather we get! She could play outside all day long, she just loves it. She had a great time loading sticks in her wagon, picking weeds (oops, I mean flowers!), and collecting walnut shells (which she tried once to bite - goof). Anyway, we had a good time.

And I guess I haven't posted about the new baby for a long time! She is getting big, I can tell. Kicks a lot, her feet are way over on the right side. We did have an ultrasound and we are pretty much positive it is a girl. I am excited for Mackenzie to have a sister, and Matt is getting used to the idea of having a bunch of girls in the house! I was teasing him because even our cats are girls - I told him we will have to get him a boy dog in a few years or something.

Here is a video of Mackenzie doing a puzzle this morning - only she calls it making a puzzle :) . Please excuse her unbuttoned onesie and messy hair, it was before we got dressed today!

Well, it took a lot of work, but I finally convinced Matt that we needed another cat. I really do love having two cats, they just seem so much happier with another furry friend. Especially when we are out of town or something like that. So, we have been looking, and last week I saw this little black kitty at Petsmart. She was found as a stray when she was tiny and then spent a few weeks at the animal shelter. She was scheduled to be euthenized when a foster home took her in. She spent a month there and they decided to feature her at Petsmart, where I saw her. She was SO sweet, and I knew right away I wanted her! So I took Matt to meet her (of course he adores her), and we brought her home last weekend! She looks so much like Chloe, it is funny. We have to look twice to see which cat it is. And Mackenzie gets them mixed up all the time! Oh, her name is Maya. And she is just great with Mackenzie, lets her pet her and will actually stay on our laps when Kenz is up there, too.
We had one wonderful, short day of beautiful weather. Matt took Mackenzie outside to play when he got home from work, and she had a blast - she did not want to come in even after the sun went down and her hands were ice cold. We are so ready for spring!
Mackenzie picked me some flowers while they were outside - it was really sweet!