Oh, that's right...the holidays happened!
Shortly after the last blog, Mom moved in to our house temporarily. She was having some work done at the house, and it turns out that she needed to have surgery at the same time. All is well now, but it was a crazy December!
MacKenzie is loving having her Grammy here at the house with her. I like it too...Mom is very helpful with her. She watches her sometimes while I get stuff done around the house. It's very convenient!
We had a great Christmas with Mom here. We had Christmas morning in her room (the living room + her bed and stuff!). MacKenzie got lots of stuff from Santa, and family across the country in several directions!
Santa brought MacKenzie a snow suit and a ball pit...and lots of little goodies too.
We got to spend time with family and friends, which was great. Boy, can those girls run around! Ava got a Thomas riding train from Santa, and MacKenzie got to ride on it. The girls are getting so big!!!!! They can ride all by themselves.
We even made cookies with Ava...guess how long it took MacKenzie to sneeze all over a whole tray of cookies?
MacKenzie got the chance to wear her snowsuit once already. How cute was she, falling all over the place in her powder blue marshmallow snowsuit?!? She even went down her sliding board into the snow. So much winter fun!
MacKenzie's vocabulary is growing. Both signing and verbally. She repeats ANYTHING! She's said Grammy, Jack (Uncle Jack will be so happy!) horse, hot, juice, teeth, ball; she even said "Daddy, I love you" the other day! Now if I could just get her to call me Mommy instead of Daddy! She does call me Mom, but often says Daddy instead. She can sign mom & dad, mouse, cracker, please, bear, and her favorite is monkey!
MacKenzie gets her teeth brushed now. We do the first part, and then she finishes up with the brushing by herself. Such a smart young lady!
She builds with her Megablocks, but she really prefers to pull them apart after Mommy puts them together. Ava has introduced her to Care Bears, and now we don't go very far without one. Ava also introduced her to Strawberry Shortcake...those movies are so very sweet! (Almost too sweet!)
MacKenzie eats with a fork and spoon. Sometimes more effectively than others! She hardly ever lets us help her eat her dinner, after she has gotten her utensils moving. Luckily for Mommy, she lets me help her over breakfast, as long as Sesame Street is on to keep her distracted. Otherwise, she surely wouldn't get enough to eat...the utensils are just not quite effective yet!
We are looking forward to Ava's second birthday in a couple of weeks. I can't believe that it has already been two years since I became pregnant with MacKenzie...time has been speeding by so fast...I hope I don't miss anything!
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