Another Form of Torture

Who really likes Day Light Savings Time...
Teenagers
People without kids

I guess that is about it. For those of us with toddlers, infants, other kids that don't understand that we get an extra hour of sleep...this night is just torture.

Mackenzie went to bed around 9 (which is later than normal). I went to bed soon after because I knew it might be a very very early morning.

Then around 5 AM I hear little pitter patter footsteps in her room, a door open, and then a little girl showed up in my room telling mommy HAPPY GIRL WAKE UP!

What is this? 5 AM? She usually wakes up around 630 or 7. 5?!?!? There is just something about change, even if she doesn't know there is a change. She just never does what she is supposed to do!

But I guess I can't complain because she was really tired yesterday because I was trying to get her to take her nap a little later. She went to bed at 730 and then slept in this morning until 730. But 5 AM....IT WAS A LONG LONG LONG LONG MORNING yesterday!

At 2 Years Old

I am doing this kinda for me, but enjoy if you would like...


At 2 years old, Mackenzie is just doing so MUCH. She has such a personality and really is so funny.


- At night we go through a whole routine...watch cartoons with chocolate milk, go brush teeth, say prayers as a family, then she hugs daddy goodnight and gives kisses..over and over...and then gets daddy to help her pick out 2 books to read with mommy, gets in my lap and then does the funniest thing. As Adam leaves he says see you later alligator and then she replies crocodile (pokadile) and then over and over laughs saying alligator, crocadile, alligator, crocadile until he leaves.


-She likes to tell me what songs to sing a night
Night Night Song (A made up song about going to bed)
Prayer Song (I know Heavenly Father Loves Me, primary song)
Chocolate Milk Song (Another Made up song)
Church Song (any Primary song)
Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting...)

- I have to give all of her animals a hug and kiss at night or she won't go to bed.

-She repeats everything you say, and doesn't forget anything!! If you say something about going to the park after her nap...that is the first thing she asks when she wakes up.

-She loves riding in her stroller.

-She has to be involved in EVERYTHING...If I am cooking, doing the dishes, or unloading the dishwaser, etc. she wants to put on her apron, stand on a chair, and help.

-She loves to play hide and seek. When she hides she usually goes to her closet and hides in the corner and closes her eyes (If her eyes are closed you can't see her). SO we go around the room looking everywhere else for her and she loves it.

- Now she wants me and Adam to hide, so we close our eyes and she walks around the room saying things like "door? NOPE!", "under bed?, NOPE"! It is so funny.

-She knows our house when we are riding down the road. As we are driving she starts saying "this house?, NO, this house?, NO!" until we get to our house and then says HOME!

-She loves "talking" on the phone. She walks around with her play cell phone and talks to everyone.

-She doesn't like being dirty. If we are eating and her fingers get ANYTHING on them she has to have a napkin. It can be annoying when we are all trying to eat and every bite she wants to clean her hands.

-She is doing much better in her carseat. She loves looking out the window and telling us what she sees.

-She is just talking soooooo much. There isn't anything she doesn't talk about. And if we really don't understand what she is saying (which isn't very often), she will grab our hand and try to show us things to help us understand. SO SMART!

- She is ready to be potty trained, but I am waiting until January when we get back from all our traveling. She has to be in the bathroom whenever we are and she sits on our potty and even wants toilet paper to "Wipe" even though she is still fully dressed)

- She loves to brush her teeth. I brush them first and then she always wants to make sure she gets all the plaque off herself.

-She loves to sing especially the Wiggles. It is the funniest thing to watch in the car because she does the moves and everything. I am impressed with the amount of songs she knows.

-She loves to watch movies...everything from Snow White and Cinderella to Barney and Mickey Mouse and everything in between.

I can't really think anymore right now...but I will try to post some more if I can remember.

So there is a little more information about my big big 2 year old!

2 Years Old

I can't believe my little girl is already 2 years old. Except if you ask her, she replies "Almost 2". We have been working on changing this response with no success so far.

For her birthday this year, we didn't do a big party. We just celebrated with Mommy, Daddy, and Kenzie. We went to Red Robin for dinner because she loves the big bird in the restaurant. After dinner, we came home to have cake and presents. There will be pictures to come later.

Last Sunday after church we decided to take a drive up in the mountains. We also thought this would be a great time to take some 2 year pictures of Kenzie, so thanks Adam for the very cute shots! Here are just a few.








This is a signature look of our little girl. If she doesn't want to listen to what you have to say!

House Update

So I haven't put up any before and after pictures of some of the stuff we have done in our house. Ok, I don't even know if I put up before pics when we first bought the house...so I am going to try to start doing some. We have done a ton to the house, but still have SOOOOO much to do. So here we go....

Upstairs bathroom:

Before-

We painted the walls from the beautiful bright pink, took down the sliding door, refinished the tub, switched all the fixtures (except theh light) to bronze and cleaned a LOT!

We still want to tile the floor, and get a new vanity, mirror, and light fixture!

Our extra bedroom upstairs...which will be our new nursery whenever we have a second child.:

Before-

The Robins egg blue is now a cute purple (this was going to be the room we moved Mackenzie into once she got out of a crib, but we decided just to keep her in her nursery, so we might have to paint this room again at some point. We will just see...for now it is good.

We painted this room and put up a new fan.

(The dresser needs to be redone, I just haven't done it yet.)

The Master Bedroom:

Before-

We painted this room and put in a new fan.

Mackenzie's Room:

Before-

We Painted, and put in a new fan.

In all of the rooms we had to clean a ton, got the carpets cleaned (they were disgusting), built new closets, they were all a single closet with just one bar along the top, and we changed them all to a double closet to hang more clothes. We also had to paint all of the ceilings because they were the same tanish pink color as the walls were. So they are all white now. We also had to put new outlets and outlet covers everywhere because the people who left this house ripped them all ot of the walls so there were only wires hanging out of the walls. We also had to put new doors on everything because they took all of those too. We haven't put a ton of doors up yet, but we are doing that slowly.

We need to get new carpet in these bedrooms and then they will be completely done.

I will take pics of more of the house soon. THis is just a start!

Fun with Ethan

We haven't seen Etahn in a while, so the other morning his Mommy called me begging for my help. It was actually kinda funny...she called asking if I was doing anything because her baby girl wouldn't sleep and was crying and Ethan was not being happy...so I threw on some clothes and we left the house. Well, things were calmer when I got there, but it was fun for Kenz and Ethan to lay for a little while. The only bad thing is that these 2 fight about everything. They both always want what the other person has...so it is fun being a referee.

But here is a cute picture of them together.

Another craft

Making bows means I need a place to put them. One of my friends had a cute bow hanger that her sister had given her. So I took that idea and made my own...Here is the result!



And here it is hanging on the wall in Mackenzie's room.


Oh, and that dresser was one I found on Craigslist for bascally free. It was lime green and missing so knobs. Well, after a few coats of pant and cute new knobs...here is a new dresser for all of Mackenzie's clothes.

Hairbows

I am sick of not being crafty, so I have taken on a new habit.



I have started off slow, but am working up. I am making cute little girls hair bows! I am hoping to start making lots of them and begin to sale them....pray for me! I really hope that I can start selling them and then even do a craft show next year.



Here is a picture my vey first bows!





These first bunch are for piggy tail bows...YAY for craftiness!

Conversation with Kenzie

Yesterday Mackenzie was pretending to fly around our house. She finally stopped at the couch...
Kenz: Home now
Mom: Where did you go?
Kenz: The store
Mom: Oh, well what did you get?
Kenz: Yogurt YUMMY!!! (rubbing her tummy)

then she leaves and puts on her shoes

Kenz: Go to store
Mom: we aren't going to the store right now
Kenz: Yes! Kenzie's store
Mom: Where is your store?
Kenz: Right there (pointing towards her room)
Then she grabs her play grocery cart and takes off to her room to go shopping!

She cracks me up.

Beauty Salon

Tonight, Mackenzie really wanted to do Mommy's hair. She wanted to put my hair in piggy tails. So we got a comb and hair "thingys" and got to work. After Daddy helped Kenzie put Mommy's hair in piggy tails about 5 times, he couldn't handle it anymore. So then we played with Kenzie's hair and this was our result.

Big Girl Bed

So we found a cheap toddler bed on craigslist and were so excited. So we were just going to keep it in her room to get her used to the idea. Well for her nap she flipped when I put her in her crib. She kept crying "BIG GIRL BED BIG GIRL BED"!! SO finally I went and got her out of her crib and put her in her big girl bed. She passed out immediately. And here she is in her big girl bed. She hasn't wanted her crib since. She is just growing up so fast!

This is for Gigi

So because I talk to my mom often, Mackenzie thinks whenever you are on the phone it is Gigi on the other end. So here is Mackenzie holding the phone...and then a little video of her talking on the phone.

Singing ABCs

Here is Mackenzie singing her ABCs. This is the best I could do. When I pull out the camera she gets so distacted. And please excuse her appearance, she is just getting out of bed.

I had to help a little cause she was getting distracted.