Baby on Wheels!

Well, the day has come. My baby is mobile on wheels! She got a bicycle with training wheels for Easter, and we finally got a helmet for her. She rode her bike for the first time on Sunday. Daddy was in charge, and Mommy and Grammy stood by and watched her on her first ride down the block. I didn't know whether to cry or shout "hooray"! I did fine until she wobbled...Daddy caught her...she didn't have far to go because the training wheels do their job quite well. I just know that concrete is VERY hard. I didn't want there to be blood on her first day in the saddle!

MacKenzie has a great vocabulary now. She tries to say everything we say. Her favorite thing to do is take a bath, and she is VERY vocal about it! She says so many words verbally and in ASL that I can't even keep up with it. We are saying sentences with ASL to her, and she is doing great with that. She uses two signs together a lot now. Her best one..."more please"!
MacKenzie has found a love of all sorts of food. Well, except strawberry shortcake! She's turned her nose up at that twice now. That's ok by me...all the more for me! She loves hummus, green beans, asparagus, pizza, cheeseburgers, tea, blueberries, onions, black olives, tomatoes, and a lot more. She will dip any food into ANY kind of sauce! Catsup, mustard, Ranch dressing, you name it!
We have been gardening a bit this year. MacKenzie likes to dig in the dirt and she loves to move rocks around! She loves rocks! She tried to get in the pond on Mothers' Day, in her pretty shoes and dress (she got her foot all wet), so we decided to take out the pond for a while. In its place (hopefully) will be a raised bed for sunflowers and other pretties.


My mom has moved in to our house now, and MacKenzie loves spending time with her. We end each night in Grammy's bedroom, watching Fraggle Rock and other favorites. MacKenzie asks for Fraggle Rock by name...it sounds a bit like "wah-wah"!

She also asks to wear her fairy wings a lot. She puts them on and says "whee!" and spins in circles and pretends to fly all over the house. Too cute! We have been to two fairie festivals this year already, and she has had some serious fun. Two of her favorite friends, Sydney and Katie, played with her at the Maryland Fairie Festival for HOURS! MacKenzie even got to dance to the music of one of our favorite performers, Jenna Greene. It was beautiful! I am still trying to find out if anyone got video of it...it was adorable!

I am looking forward to this summer...I wonder what adventures it will bring?