Sorry...

I am a horrible blogger! I'm sorry it has been so long since I posted last... Mackenzie and I have been in Colorado visiting my family. Of course, I remembered to pack my camera but forgot the cord to put the pics on the computer here, but I will post a bunch when we get home.

We have had a great time, and have been really busy! We have seen a lot of family, done a lot of shopping :), and been to Starbucks several times! Mackenzie is just charming everyone. She is getting less shy around "strangers", and loves to flirt with people. She is crawling all over the place, still not sleeping very well, and cutting four teeth on top - one just popped through yesterday. She also said "doggy" clear as day, and Grandma heard it too! She loves the dogs, and gets really excited every time they come in the house.

Kenz did really well on the way out here. She slept through the whole first flight, and was great on the second, so I am hopeful for the trip home. We leave on Monday, really early in the morning. I promise I will post lots of Colorado pictures as soon as we get home (after I take a nap!).

Have a great weekend everybody!

9 Month Pictures

Here are a few of Mackenzie's 9 month/Fall pictures. I didn't even get one of her just looking at the camera and smiling because she was too busy playing with the pumpkins and trying to pick the flowers. But they still turned out cute!

Our Little Butterfly!

Finally, here is a few pictures of Mackenzie in her costume. She was an adorable butterfly!

Crawling

I have been trying to post Mackenzie's halloween pictures since last night, and blogger is not letting me! She looked adorable, and I promise I will keep trying to post them. I want you all to see her cute costume since she was sick last wednesday and didn't get to go to the Harvest Festival at the church. So the only ones who saw her were Matt and I!

Kenz is slowly getting over this cold, I hope. She is still congested and coughing a little, but no fever. She is officially crawling on hands and knees. I thought she was fast and busy before, but it was nothing compared to now! She has zero interest in her toys, for the most part, and wants to play with leaves that have blown in our front door, the cat bowls, electrical cords, and our shoes. And of course her favorite place to be is on the hard kitchen floor. She has fallen and hit her head more in the past three days than in the entire first nine months of her life - and I have a feeling it's only going to get worse! But it is also a ton of fun - she is so much more interactive than before, and can actually come to us when we call her.

Matt will be out of town this weekend for a high school retreat, and then Mackenzie and I will be leaving on Tuesday to go to Colorado for our annual "Pre-Thanksgiving" visit. Please pray for us! We are flying and have a layover!

In The Big Tub

Last night Mackenzie took her first bath in the big bathtub. She had a great time kicking and splashing, and she looked like a little prune because we let her play for so long. She is still not feeling very well, and was up about every hour last night because the cold medicine we gave her made her hyper and wide awake. So hopefully tonight will be more restful for everyone!

Sweet Girl

This is a picture of Mackenzie on Sunday - she looked so sweet! She is actually having kind of a rough week, though. On Tuesday she had a fever all day, and since she already had a check up scheduled for Friday, they went ahead and moved it to Wednesday. The doctor thinks it is just a virus, but she was still running a little bit of a fever today, and she is coughing and all stuffed up. He said everything else looks good, but he wants her to come in for a weight check in about a month because she has dropped to the 25% for height and the 10% for weight. She is now 26 1/4" tall and 16 lbs 4 oz. He isn't too concerned, but just wants to be sure. Hopefully she will be feeling better in the next day or two!

Play Time

Mackenzie having a little play time after her bath yesterday.

Bath Time!

Some pictures of Mackenzie being goofy in the tub the other night. She is such a ham. The middle picture is of her staring lovingly at her lotion. She LOVES lotion bottles - it's kind of strange. :)

5 Things Meme

Deb tagged me for a fun meme! 5 Things...

Five minutes to yourself. How would you spend them?
Drinking my latte that I'm going to buy with the next question, and reading a magazine. Five minutes isn't enough for anything good!

Five dollars to spend right now. How or where would you spend it?
Grande Vanilla Latte from STARBUCKS! Then I would spend the rest at garage sales.

Five items in your house you could part with right now.
Oh, this one's hard. Matt's guns (I hope he doesn't read this!), all the diapers in Mackenzie's trash can (ewwwww), I don't know, I could part with a lot of things. I wouldn't mind parting with this entire duplex if I could move in to a real house!

Five items in your house you absolutely, positively could never part with.
Okay, not counting Mackenzie, Matt, and the cats... All our pictures, the computer, even though its not technically mine, the camera, Mackenzie's baby book, I couldn't think of another one, so Matt said my coffee pot. :) Oh, maybe all my beads and craft stuff.

Five words you love.
ba ba/da da/hiya/diddy/ah ya ya ya - pretty much anything Mackenzie says, or from Matt, "I picked up the house" or "Go ahead and buy that." :) Sorry, that's totally not sentimental at all. Of course I love the words "I love you" and "Thank you". I'm sure my very favorite will be mommy!

Okay, I will tag Kacie if she reads this!

Kitties and Cousins

Greyson and Chloe were all cuddled up last night in the basket of Mackenzie's stroller.
About 2 seconds before I took this picture Chloe was jumping, spread eagle, on top of Kenzie's Nemo ball. It would roll and she would fall off. It was hilarious. Of course as soon as I grabbed the camera she sat down next to it like a little angel. "Who me, jump on top of the ball?!"


Monday was Donell's birthday, so Gary, Donell, Becky, and all the kids came over for dinner. This is a picture we took of all the girl cousins - Karlee, Mackenzie, Madison, and Destiny. The pressure's on for a boy :)