Please tell me how this is comfortable?

I went into Mackenzie's room to make sure I had all of her dirty clothes and this is how I found her.

Please explain to me how they get in these positions and sleep comfortably?

Online Scrapbooking

I really want to start scrapbooking all of my digital prints. I have so many and I don't want to scrapbook everything by hand. I want to be able to print things out also and make like a bound book that can be just sent to me when I am finished with my pages. If anyone out there has any ideas would you please let me know what you have heard about, what you use, etc. Please let me know so I can start!!!

THANKS

Having Fun with a Friend

Last week I got to watch little Derek who is 13 months old. He is so much fun. Mackenzie enjoyed his company as well. For a while, Mackenzie just watched him and was trying to figure out why he was at our house and not just at church. They followed each other around and it was so cute to watch them together.

Here are some pictures and videos.

These feet are made for walking!

I finally got a few videos of Mackenzie walking...so here you go.








She also has 2 teeth on the bottom and I think she is starting to get one on the top also. We finally got a picture where you can see her teeth.






This is what Mackenzie does when she is tired. She is so funny. She doesn't cry when she is tired, she just lays down and kinda looks at me every so often.

Cute pictures

We had a church activity on Saturday night. We got to go to a water park and it was really a lot of fun. The only problem is the party was at 6:45 and a storm was blowing in, so it was a little chilly. The babies weren't really interested in being in the water. Mackenzie sat down in the baby pool and her little lips were quivering, so we got out pretty early.


Mackenzie in her precious robe!


This is Mackenzie with her little friend Ethan. He is about 1 1/2 months younger than she is.


Ethan in his hoodie. He hated the water.


The babies hanging out while we watched all the daddies go down the water slides.


Mackenzie standing at my feet.


She really loves that binky.


When I got Mackenzie up this morning I found her trying to undress herself.


Her arm is completely out of her shirt. What was she doing in her sleep?


Mackenzie has been taking steps for a little while now, but she knows she can get anywhere quicker by crawling. It has been really hard to catch her on camera, but here are a few baby steps.

A little more

Some things I forgot to mention...



Mackenzie gives high 5's whenever you put your hand out or even when you ask her.



She also loves to give kisses again. I just say give Mommy kisses, and she leans over with an open mouth and "kisses" me.



She still loves her bath, and no matter how mad she is at night because she is tired, she lights up when we put her in the bathtub.

She is also into EVERYTHING! She loves the trash, toilet paper, cabinets in the kitchen, etc. She wants to get her hands on anything and everything.

10 Months Old

I can't believe she has hit the double digits already! I feel like she was born only a few months ago.

Mackenzie is now

17 pounds

28 inches ish...

She is standing on her own and trying to start walking. Yesterday, she actually took 6 steps at a friends house, so we didn't have our video camera with us. I will have to get her on tape next time. I also have decided on a new nickname. She will now be called Monkey! Yesterday at church she wanted to get to the people who were sitting behind us so she climbed just as hard as she could over me. She used every surface to climb and step(my lap, stomach, chest, shoulders). She also has started throwing a fit when she doesn't get her way.

The other day, she was playing with our entertainment center. She was opening the doors (they have a glass inlay and also spring loaded hinges) and letting go of the door so that it would close hard. Well, I pulled her away from it and kinda popped her hand to let her no that was a bad thing. She decided she didn't want to stop or to have her hand popped so she threw herself on the floor (sitting up) and pouted her lips and screamed while throwing her arms in her lap. She was seriously mad at me the rest of the day.

Oh the joys of starting toddlerhood.

She loves to read books. She brings me books to read and hands them to me numerous times until I read the book about 10 times. She also likes to sit on the floor and "read" books by herself for a while.

She can give high fives and loves to clap her hands when she is happy or when she sees/hears people clap.

We do have a problem with her eating. She isn't interested. She really doesn't like to eat. It doesn't matter what we feed her. She does not like sitting in her high chair. We have gotten up to eating about and half cup of oatmeal and cinnamon applesauce for breakfast, 1 chicken nugget for lunch, and a size 2 baby food of a "meal".

No this isn't what I feed her everyday, but that is about the most she eats. She still nurses about 3-5 times a day, but she that doesn't last very long. I doubt it helps with any weight gain. As you can tell, she hasn't really gained wait in a while.

If anyone has any ideas, they would be appreciated. When she is done eating she gets really upset and won't open her mouth when food comes near it. When she is feeding herself she will put the food in her mouth and then reach in and pull it out over and over when she is done.

The only way she will eat for real is when she eats off of mine and Adam's plates when she is walking around and out of her high chair. I don't want to teach her that she can eat wherever she wants to.

Also, she isn't a great sleepers still. She wakes up once or twice a night. I am exhausted still, but I wake up with her and feed her because I feel like she is starving. When she is hardly eating during the day, she needs to eat if she is willing during the night.

She loves talking on the phone and will actually take the phone from me and put it up to her ear and say HI HI HI HI HI.

She now says Hi, Bye, Dada, and then lots of other babble.

She is getting so big and loves being around lots of people. She really hasn't gone through stranger anxiety which is wonderful. She loves it when people pay attention to her, and works hard to get your attention if you aren't watching her.

I had lots of fun videos to put up here, but they aren't working, so I will work on that later.